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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldRIP
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    9 days ago

    Is the rabies vaccine still extremely painful and consisting of like 30 shots? Or is that outdated?

    The squirrel was gonna die no matter what. It couldn’t be sent back to the idiot taking wild animals and running an unlicensed online zoo. And it couldn’t be returned to the wild. And it had already shown signs of aggression, so it probably wouldn’t be accepted by a zoo.



  • Yep: but they can’t force you to give them the password because of 5th Amendment protections from self-incrimination.

    And even if they did have the right to tell you to give them the password, they don’t have access if you simply refuse to cooperate. They can get your fingerprints, face ID, or retina scan by force. They cannot extract information from your brain.

    BTW: Lots if phones also have a “lockout mode” that can be enabled that will give you the option to lock it down to password-only without turning it off. It can be good for recording police interactions, because it will continue to record them while they can’t access the contents of the phone if they swipe it from you.





  • I think the first, most realistic progress we can make is to get a few more states to sign the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. It’s a agreement between state legislature to assign their electors based on the national popular vote, and it automatically goes into effect once enough states have signed on to guarantee 270 electoral votes.

    It bypasses the need to pass a constitutional ammendment that is functionally impossible to get through.

    And it’s within grasp. Enough states have already signed on for 209 of the 270 threshold (Maine just signed it into law in April), with several states pending for another 50 (e.g. Nevada is waiting on governor’ssignature).

    We’re shockingly close to killing the electoral college, and nobody seems to know about it.