That would be interesting to find out.

How long before people abuse the text feature?

Well there’s my surprising fact of the day.

Looks like it’s just one officer, but it seems like they could do outreach and intelligence sharing without someone permanently stationed there.

Even if that assumption were correct, the mayor of NYC cannot meaningfully aid or hinder Israel’s actions. A politician’s position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they’re seeking doesn’t usually influence my vote.

But Cuomo tried very hard to turn it into a referendum on Mamdani’s views on Israel and Palestine—and the media establishment took the bait.

It’s weird this is an issue in a mayoral campaign in the USA. The role has no foreign policy authority whatsoever, and Palestine/Israel is 5700 miles from NYC.

tHeRe ArE nO gAs ChAmBeRs! (yet)

Oh but there are.

Unsolicited photography tip: your phone camera’s sensor is 4:3. Setting the aspect ratio to anything else crops the image and can make fitting subjects that aren’t tall and skinny in the frame difficult.

This is true even if the phone calls a different aspect ratio “full”.

I don’t think vindictiveness is a major factor. This is about power.

Trump is trying to grab as much power to deport people as he can. He will fight every challenge to it until the legal options are exhausted. He will attack the legitimacy of the courts when he loses. He cares about the precedent and saving face with his base, not Garcia himself.

I think Samsung put out a couple smartphones about a decade ago with 16:9 sensors, but otherwise phone cameras are almost universally 4:3. Nothing wrong with cropping intentionally of course, but I see a whole lot of images that appear to be cropped accidentally.

Random unsolicited photography tip: your phone camera’s aspect ratio is 4:3. Setting it to something else crops the image, even if that something else is misleadingly called “full”.

It looks like you had to back up to fit the whole poster in the frame, thereby including a bunch of carpet and ceiling. It would be easier to frame uncropped.

I reloaded the article, scrolled past the ad wall and found the rest of the text

That explains the confusion. Do you need a recommendation for an ad blocker?

According to the reports I’ve read, including in the toplevel article here, the sequence of events is:

1. The rifleman separated from the crowd
2. The rifleman pulled a rifle out of a bag
3. The rifleman ran toward the crowd with the rifle in a firing posiition and pointed toward people
4. The security volunteer fired three shots with a pistol, striking the rifleman and a bystander
5. The rifleman dropped his rifle and fled

It’s easy to conflate running with fleeing, but running toward a group of people with a rifle pointed at them is charging, not fleeing.

Volunteers were told not to carry a weapon because of outcomes like this.

Let’s try out the counterfactual: the assailant pulls out a rifle, aims it into the crowd, and nobody else in the immediate vicinity is armed. What happens next?

There’s a small chance he was just trying to scare people and disrupt the protest, but that sounds like the prelude to a mass shooting to me. It’s likely many more people would have died in that case. We can’t know of course and neither could the security volunteer; he had to make a hard decision in a split second in an emergency. He had to weigh the risk of shooting when he did against the risk of waiting, and he had the disadvantage of fighting a rifle with a pistol; it’s much easier to shoot accurately with a rifle, and the ammunition is more deadly.

He heard Trump describing migrants as criminals and asylum seekers as frauds and thought that couldn’t possibly be describing his workers, who are not criminals or frauds.

He didn’t stop to consider that the characterization was a lie.

If a result like this was found in a swing state, I’d be sure it was malicious. In New York, that seems improbable. Someone clever enough to conduct the attack is unlikely to be stupid enough to employ it in a way that creates an obvious anomaly without changing the result.

OP is actually using Pixelfed.

This comment implies DOGE is for what it says it’s for.

DOGE is a political purge and fiscal responsibility is its smokescreen.

Certainty of punishment is much more likely to help here than severity. Severe punishments are even likely to lead to an increase in police enforcing it selectively, not citing or arresting people they decide don’t deserve it.

So you want to abolish time zones

Are two infamous grifters grifting?