Why is it when we pay for a phone, people (or AI entities) feel entitled to call us to sell us trinkets or give us messages? If we have a front door, the same thing happens, people we don’t know feel entitled to knock and attempt to sell us something.

We pay a lot of money for phones, even more for residence doors. Others view those as opportunities to harass. We’re on the Do Not Call list. Phone rings multiple times per day, robocallers who refuse to leave messages. We cannot answer the telephone any longer. Why are we paying monthly for the phone when we can no longer answer it?

Perhaps our system of trespass laws are not properly protecting us?

There have been a bunch of failed executions with the electric chair, it has also been characterized as “cruel and unusual”.

And when years later evidence comes out exonerating someone who was executed, how much are you willing to pay the surviving relatives?

My mom died multiple decades ago, which, if your statement was true, would make you a necrophiliac.

Preventing same sex marriage is the restriction on religious liberty. Religious liberty includes the right to not be religious and to not be committed to following religious rules.

I was insulted first but I’m the dickhead? Wrong.

Here’s what CNBC looks like in my browser.

https://i.postimg.cc/2y27s0pw/Screenshot-2026-10-06-at-09-01-39-Trump-allows-cheaper-diesel-on-highways-as-fuel-costs-surge.png

This is what the CNBC link looks like in my browser backing up my “batshit claim”.

Since we’re now insulting each other, I want you to know that shortly I will block you, as Lemmy is a much better place when we’re not interacting with people who make us want to insult each other. Goodbye.

There is no text in the article, it’s just a headline. I can take a screen shot to prove it, but you’re just a nobody.

Per search, red-dye diesel is untaxed.

It used to be, and inland areas still are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County

This is why there should be no billionaires.

There’s no olive branch.

Has anyone asked Ken Paxton about this in relation to his Senate campaign? I’d think it highly relevant. Does he support the First Amendment? Does he support these book bans?

The incident prompted Shelekhov Hospital to quarantine, soon followed by several others in the Irkutsk region, even as health authorities reassured residents everything was fine, the outlet reported. The Irkutsk Aluminum Smelter in Shelekhov also instituted a mask mandate for “preventative measures,” according to its director, Artem Fominykh.

Just like the authorities after 9/11. Nothing to worry about, no asbestos, go on about your day.

The benefits now accrue to the tops of pyramids. Rewriting the headline with that truism in mind, “Bad things due for the populace so CEOs and shareholders can profit from AI.”

These kids that are subjected to beatings and sexual abuse, when they grow up are they allowed to beat and sexually abuse others? If not, why are you teaching them this?

Mrs Khoo also highlighted conditions inside juvenile facilities. A September 2025 report by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation documents systemic abuse, including beatings, extortion and sexual assault by inmates given privileges by guards. The department that runs the prisons controls the complaints process, those who complain describe retaliation, and no independent international body can currently inspect these facilities.

Gonna be kinda hard to implement bans when the bible says to beat the crap out of your kids to save their souls from Sheol. Proverbs 13:24, 20:30, 23:13-14, (and more!).

… America’s attitude toward spanking in the school is very different than spanking in the home. 55% of Americans believe a child does need a good spanking sometimes. …

The original American dream was independence and self sufficiency which was realized through land grants and farming. At some point, the dream got switched to owning a house that is only a collection of monthly expenses, and without any income-producing potential which farming granted. I’m not sure how many other shifts occurred along the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream

Everyone’s incompetent, or execution system is working as intended?