Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family.
The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California. The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges, and less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.
Biden, who time and again pledged to Americans that he would restore norms and respect for the rule of law after Trump’s first term in office, ultimately used his position to help his son, breaking his public pledge to Americans that he would do no such thing.
President Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to
President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence and reversing promises not to use the powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members.ZEKE MILLER (AP News)
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Lutris v0.5.18 released
Release v0.5.18 · lutris/lutris
Lutris downloads the latest GE-Proton build for Wine if any Wine version is installed Use dark theme by default Display cover-art rather than banners by default Add 'Uncategorized' view to sidebar ...GitHub
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Use dark theme by default?
Wow, how ableist, a lot of people cannot see with dark themes well due to no fault of their own and they're expected to change it when that will be difficult because they cannot see anything suddenly? Sigh.
Why not just let people choose what they want at startup or keep people's choices based on what they had before or the system theme?
Software devs need to seriously start consulting people about their needs and not just making choices for them.
Wow, how ableist
How so? There has to be a default, and with many applications it's white rather than black. Personally, I like the dark themes that some applications now offer as it doesn't offend my ageing eyes so much.
Or you know, people are knowledgeable about such things, genuinely care and want to reduce harm.
[Sarcasm] But no, it's all down to some imagined 'identity' people are going to lose based on arguing for more care and a little bit of awareness.
What about the people that can't move their hands properly and it would be hard to select stuff on a new menu on startup? What about the people that can see better on dark themes? It's ableist for you to suggest a menu or light theme as the default!
The thing is that defaults will never accomodate everyone. The only possible thing you can do is provide options. Just because you have a "solution" that is better for you, does not mean that that is better for everyone. All you're doing is trying to make something perfect for you, which is selfish, and not an improvement.
You're assuming a lot. This isn't actually about me I prefer dark themes too a lot of the time. I just know people who have that particular need and so I'd forgo some initial discomfort if it made things easier for them.
Also, nice whataboutism there, but to answer your question, yes things in general should be as accessible as possible to as many people as possible. I get that it might not ever be perfect, but your inane points seek to hold us back instead of considering others and their accessibility needs which software and computer based technology is severely lacking, especially in spaces like open source.
Thank you for asking!
One that I know about (though I am sure there are others) is that many people have an astigmatism in their eyes and so it is very difficult to see anything in dark conditions as the light blurs across their vision when put on a black/dark background (this has other effects like making it awful to drive at night, for example).
The correct solution is to not have any theme as a default, either base it on what folks already have it set at a system level or ask on startup.
I am sorry to hear about your eyes. However, hopefully either of the solutions can be implimented instead of developers making a choice or impliment both a light theme and dark theme, with imo light being the default being the currently 'best' option, can be implimented with the option to change it in apps that don't follow system theming nor ask, so hopefully the most amount of people can see it well enough to change it.
Lutris v0.5.18 released
Release v0.5.18 · lutris/lutris
Lutris downloads the latest GE-Proton build for Wine if any Wine version is installed Use dark theme by default Display cover-art rather than banners by default Add 'Uncategorized' view to sidebar ...GitHub
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Yes, this is a good solution too.
If they're going to insist on a 'default' though, they shouldn't and should ask instead.
Get Certified for Less With The Linux Foundation's Cyber Monday Offer [60% Off]
Get Certified for Less With The Linux Foundation's Cyber Monday Offer [60% Off]
Discounts up to 65% on all types of certifications, bundles, courses, and mentor-led IT professional programs by The Linux Foundation.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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I'd assume you're more likely to get an interview, and it would probably be viewed higher than someone without.
Not essential, but advantageous.
Well, in tech, if you have experience, that tends to be the biggest deal by far and can often do all the lifting on its own. But hiring managers also appreciate certs and formal education, especially if you don't yet have much experience.
It would likely give you an advantage Vs some other person they're considering with your level of experience.
To take that a little further, I recruit on enthusiasm, experience then certs last.
There's too many “experts” out there that I might not be able to fire due to employment laws.
Certs are what I'd train my team for, to show to our clients.
I recently passed my Sys Admin cert from Linux Foundation and 50% of things by me were done on the fly:
- View to what website the cerficate has been issued
- Git commiting and pushing
- Smart finding and deleting / moving
- NFS and SSHFS mounting
- Firewall redirection probably using iptables
- Overall user management
- Docker container management
- Sysctl kernel parameters persistence
- Systemctl server managing
- AppArmor which I failed
- LVM disk extending
- From source compilation using make
- NTP time synchronisation
that's all I remember. Overall I find that typicall Linux Desktop differs from these certs and the job.
Syrian Dirty War's Secret Origins [Kit Klarenberg]
Syrian Dirty War's Secret Origins
All my investigations are free to access, thanks to the generosity of my readers.Kit Klarenberg (Global Delinquents)
Hahaha, they're just now noticing? Rich.
And how will Bkuesky be any different? It won't.
‘Moana 2’ Achieves Demigod Status: All the Box Office Records Broken
'Moana 2': All the Records Broken by the Box Office Demigod
The Walt Disney Animation sequel sailed into history with a Thanksgiving haul of $221 million, the biggest five-day opening of all time, among numerous other milestones.Pamela McClintock (The Hollywood Reporter)
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China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom | Truthout
China is pushing a flawed peace process while deepening economic ties with Israel.Samantha Borek (Truthout)
Israel Bombs Another World Central Kitchen Vehicle in Gaza, Killing 5
Israel Bombs Another World Central Kitchen Vehicle in Gaza, Killing 5
The strike continues Israel’s pattern of blocking and targeting humanitarian aid.Jon Queally (Truthout)
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Nick
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to Nick • • •Biden is proving he is willing to violate the norms to bail out their criminal family. But not use those powers for the average American.
It is certainly impressive Democrats are willing to waive this away as a minor thing. Wasn't their entire point that they are not the fascistic party but committed to law and order?
.Donuts
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •No, the Republicans are the self proclaimed Law & Order party.
I love how pearls get clutched when a Dem does it. Where were you the last 8 years?
IndustryStandard
in reply to .Donuts • • •Republicans have been pulling these blatant violations for ages. Trump pardoned Blackwater criminals on his way out.
Supposedly however Biden couldn't load the courts or achieve anything because "norms and values".
Democrats achieved nothing and at the end took a steaming dump on those values they used as the excuse for doing nothing
geneva_convenience
in reply to .Donuts • • •RememberTheApollo_
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Grapho
in reply to RememberTheApollo_ • • •RememberTheApollo_
in reply to Grapho • • •“All over this thread…”? Two comments and I really got under your skin. You deliberately avoid understanding me or my position, are devoid of nuance, and just make shit up to suit your narrative.
Fuck off back to your troll farm.
Grapho
in reply to RememberTheApollo_ • • •MarxMadness
in reply to RememberTheApollo_ • • •lol
amanneedsamaid
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to amanneedsamaid • • •krashmo
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •freagle
in reply to RememberTheApollo_ • • •I don't think you understand the critique. The Supreme Court literally gave the office of the president immunity for crimes committed in execution of the duty of the office. Biden promised to not use that new power because he was deeply principled. That means that even though he and the entire DNC are operating on rhetoric that says DJT is literally an enemy of democracy and freedom and America, they won't do anything about it even though he's a convicted felon. No action whatsoever.
But he will break his own promises to pardon his son. So he's really not principled.
So if he's not that principled, and he has the power to stop the fascism, but he doesn't, and he has the power to stop putting infants in solitary, but he doesn't, and he has the power to stop putting asylum seekers in solitary, but he doesn't, and he has the power to stop sending military surplus to cops, but he doesn't, and so so so many other things....
If it's not his principles, then what is it? It must be desire. Either he desires expediency over saving the country and ending torture, or he des
... show moreI don't think you understand the critique. The Supreme Court literally gave the office of the president immunity for crimes committed in execution of the duty of the office. Biden promised to not use that new power because he was deeply principled. That means that even though he and the entire DNC are operating on rhetoric that says DJT is literally an enemy of democracy and freedom and America, they won't do anything about it even though he's a convicted felon. No action whatsoever.
But he will break his own promises to pardon his son. So he's really not principled.
So if he's not that principled, and he has the power to stop the fascism, but he doesn't, and he has the power to stop putting infants in solitary, but he doesn't, and he has the power to stop putting asylum seekers in solitary, but he doesn't, and he has the power to stop sending military surplus to cops, but he doesn't, and so so so many other things....
If it's not his principles, then what is it? It must be desire. Either he desires expediency over saving the country and ending torture, or he desires what the right is bringing and he desires torture.
There is no actual way to have the power to stop these things, to say you're too principled to do anything about it, and then violate those principles for personal gain a few months later without the conclusion being that you never wanted the good things in the first place you just campaigned on lies and you're in support of the outcomes.
Ahrotahntee
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Sterile_Technique
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •We've spent the last decade seeing repeatedly that the law doesn't mean shit for the red team; is anyone actually surprised that blue is saying 'fuck it' now, too?
...but since we're just openly abusing presidential power now, any chance he'll use it to get something actually useful done, or we stopping at individual favors?
unexposedhazard
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in reply to unexposedhazard • • •ShellMonkey
in reply to Jack • • •Are they charged or convicted of a federal crime where a pardon is even relevant? It's not a power to grant citizenships or a genie wish.
Now, the whole 'president can down whatever they like as an official act' that the SCOTUS gave recently is another matter...
Reddfugee42
in reply to Jack • • •Jack
in reply to Reddfugee42 • • •Grapho
in reply to unexposedhazard • • •Default_Defect
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I can't believe a PRESIDENT would LIE like that!
-Fox, probably
TranscendentalEmpire
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in reply to Amju Wolf • • •Grapho
in reply to lepinkainen • • •Ok, and? How does that have any bearing on what Biden did?
The author of the crime bill, responsible for the massive incarceration and enslavement of poor people in the US who spoke to congress about not giving a single shit about the circumstances of people who committed crimes, lock em up first ask questions later, just pardoned his son before sentencing because he's a poor widdle misunderstood boi who didn't know any better and his circumstances were so tough, what with having a senator dad with a lot of money.
Fucking blue MAGA I stg
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •My wife read this to me last night.
Wife: So apparently Biden pardoned his son
Me: Cool. Can’t blame him.
Wife: Of course people are say…
Me: Fuck ‘em.
Wife: You know because he promised…
Me: Fuck ‘em.
geneva_convenience
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in reply to lzfm • • •I think about this sometimes but the challenges for direct democracy are very hard to overcome. To vote right now, you go to a place and someone verifies your identity and then you vote on a machine that should theoretically have not just your vote but some form of backup to ensure your vote is counted.
Obviously this would get really obnoxious if you were voting constantly. So something like change.org maybe where people can propose things and others can vote on them. But now how do we handle identity verification, and ensuring only one vote per person? On something connected to the Internet, how do we verify security? This needs to be even more secure than a bank, as every hacker and government in the world will want to sway the results.
We could maybe distribute something like a USB key to cryptographically ensure everyone's identity, but then you will need to handle people losing theirs, or theft, and it wouldn't work great with cell phones. There's other identity solutions like scanning documents or facial ID but they have their own security issues and also are a
... show moreI think about this sometimes but the challenges for direct democracy are very hard to overcome. To vote right now, you go to a place and someone verifies your identity and then you vote on a machine that should theoretically have not just your vote but some form of backup to ensure your vote is counted.
Obviously this would get really obnoxious if you were voting constantly. So something like change.org maybe where people can propose things and others can vote on them. But now how do we handle identity verification, and ensuring only one vote per person? On something connected to the Internet, how do we verify security? This needs to be even more secure than a bank, as every hacker and government in the world will want to sway the results.
We could maybe distribute something like a USB key to cryptographically ensure everyone's identity, but then you will need to handle people losing theirs, or theft, and it wouldn't work great with cell phones. There's other identity solutions like scanning documents or facial ID but they have their own security issues and also are a nightmare for privacy.
I dunno. There's probably a solution out there that might work, but it would take a lot of work to make it trustworthy and that work would largely be overseen by people the system is meant to replace so they aren't exactly incentivized to get it right.
queermunist she/her
in reply to lzfm • • •Legislation is still pretty complicated, having professional legislators makes sense just as a technical profession.
We could certainly stand to have more direct input though!
lepinkainen
in reply to lzfm • • •We don’t build bridges by committee, why would politics be better?
It’s a specific skill set to understand legalese and the processes
belated_frog_pants
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Reddfugee42
in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • • •The Constitution is set up so that a single representative civilian citizen is elected by all the other citizens to oversee the nation. That person occupies the Executive Office.
Constitutionally speaking, the representative of the people decided that the Justice System was being used punitively. The Constitution grants the Executive Office the power of pardons explicitly in case the Justice System is being used punitively.
This isn't a bug, it's a feature.
MarxMadness
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in reply to Cyclohexane • • •True. Further, being from the rest of the world, I really couldn't care less and would likely do similar as Biden. The US people have dropped the ball, fucked the country and sent him packing.
May as well, you've got nothing to lose at that point.
Insert shocked Pikachu meme
NeuronautML
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I mean, i can see why. What are a few drugs, tax fraud and gun felony next to being cumplicit in the genocide of an entire people.
I bet Biden is proud of his son, for being a little better than him. Hopefully, Hunter's son will only get speeding tickets.
barrbaric [he/him]
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •MarxMadness
in reply to barrbaric [he/him] • • •He still can, he's not out of office for another six weeks!
Bonus question: if Biden actually cared about a potential mass deportation under Trump, how many millions of immigrants could he pardon of crossing the border unlawfully? It's a federal crime, after all.
banshee
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •TheWolfOfSouthEnd
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •samus12345
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •...after Americans voted that norms and respect for the rule of law don't mean shit. Fuck 'em, I would have done the same thing.