Regardless of whether any beatings occurred, when someone is imprisoned in your country, they are under your care, and you are responsible for them. It doesn't matter whether it's malnutrition, beatings, or if he just smacked his head against the wall on his own accord really hard: it is the responsibility of the custodian to ensure the good and proper health of those in their custody. That is the position of international human rights law. It doesn't even matter if a prisoner decides to kill themselves, a death in custody is always the responsibility of the custodian and in that case it'd still be the custodian's fault for allowing the creation of circumstances that allows prisoners to kill themselves.

It is not usual for a person to suddenly become comatose while in custody. And even if that did happen, it was North Korea's positive responsibility to notify consular officials and the family of that, and deliver proper medical care to them.

Fun fact, Reddit users probably had a hand in this.

But OP would still get something.

Unlike what most people seem to think, the US criminal court system is not broken in such a manner that would allow someone to go to prison for years for this. Trump prosecutors have a reputation for poor performance in court. All the competent prosecutors have quit or were pushed out for failing to prosecute obviously loser cases or sign legally unsound court filings. All that are left are the idiot Trump loyalists whose only experience in criminal law is being arrested for drink driving.

Grand juries refuse to indict these defendants for obviously trivial crimes, and trial juries will acquit.

They tried to charge someone with assaulting a federal agent for lobbing a sandwich at a Border Patrol goon during a protest. The Trump-appointed chief prosecutor in Washington made a TikTok about how they were coming down hard on protestors. It went to trial. The jury acquitted.

I remind that juries have to be drawn from the local area (i.e. Washington, DC) and the city hates Trump's guts. He lost by over 80 percentage points in the last election there.

Return Merchandise Authorisation. It means to return a product to the seller or to the manufacturer because it is defective, and ask for a replacement.

In Catholic theology, anyway, Satan is not the boss of hell. He is a prisoner in it just like everyone else, just more notorious than the rest.

In my setting I use Esperanto as an ancient common tongue and English as a modern one. That's because it's ridiculously easy to construct false etymologies to explain various features of the English language if you use Esperanto as a base.

Esperanto words also have somewhat guessable meanings if you know your Latin and Greek roots, even though the text is not comprehensible generally. So players can have hints at the meaning of a text without knowing what it really says.

When I need to obscure the meaning more, I mix up the words in a sentence. Because Esperanto has an accusative case, you can mix up the sentence order without loss of meaning. But it makes the sentence harder to read and obscures the relationship between the words.

Also, it sounds like an incomprehensible but distinctly European language when spoken. Players tell me it sounds like Spanish.

I am informed. I can see her activities. They range from very productive performatism to useless but mostly inert lip service.

For example her Gaza aid ship stunt I believe falls in the category of "very productive performatism". Obviously she is a kind of international political celebrity, and by forcing Israeli authorities to either arrest her (and cause a diplomatic incident) or allow a hole in their Gaza blockade, she's forcing the issue in a way that is both a good use of her infamy and also disproportionately impactful.

Perhaps this is an issue of grammar. I use the word "performative" to describe actions where more effort is paid to the publication of the process of performing the actions, rather than any effect of the actions themselves.

And, of course, I do think that being performative does not on its own make a behaviour socially useless. That's why I distinguish between "useful performatism" and "useless performatism", which is typically just done with the goal of generating the feeling of having done something, without actually making any significant effect.

As another example, most peaceful protests are inherently performative, but they can be usefully so if they actually provoke positive policy changes.

And of course, by "lip service", I mean speeches and declarations which merely talk about the existence of an issue and one's support/opposition of it without actually taking any concrete action towards achieving one's stated goal. For example (though not Thunberg-related), I consider a city council resolution condemning Israeli atrocities in occupied Palestine to be a form of useless lip service, unless it is paired with actual actions in furtherance of that view, such as sending aid to Palestine or cutting ties with Israeli companies.

US presidents ordering flags flown at half-mast after mass shootings without offering substantial policy changes is a notorious example of useless lip service.

Law enforcement shouldn't be able to get into someone's mobile phone without a warrant anyway. All this change does is frustrate attempts by police to evade going through the proper legal procedures and abridging the rights of the accused.

If it's not already the law, it needs to be. It should be required that paid advertising be disclosed in all contexts.

Pretty much anyone defending the postal worker here on the basis of what she did being "right" is missing the generalisation that must be made. If it's okay for postal workers to refuse to deliver mail containing viewpoints they disagree with, that means it's okay for bigoted postal workers to refuse to deliver mail from or to LGBT organisations. It means it would be okay for pro-life postal workers to refuse to deliver parcels containing birth control pills or flyers containing information about abortion services.

You cannot have it both ways. If you make a rule that there are cases when it is acceptable for postal workers to destroy or refuse to deliver mail, it will be used by the other side against you.

If you have used Reddit for some time, you'll have noticed an interesting trend: any large space where general content is allowed to be posted and which does not prohibit US politics, will generally become saturated with US politics.

This happens to some degree on Lemmy as well. It's because Americans are the largest national demographic group on the English-speaking portion of the Internet, and because American politics in general is extreme and garners a lot of attention from others. So if talking about it is allowed, it will usually become all that anyone ever wants to talk about, or at least it will appear that way in a space where popularity determines visibility.

Edit: I did not write this, but I cannot explain it better.

I think most of the complaints are that Microsoft Office doesn't work. Which is true. The web version of Microsoft Office is honestly kinda terrible.

And no, people don't want to use a product that does the same thing as Microsoft Office, they want to use a product called "Microsoft Office". No, it's not logical, and doesn't make any sense at all but it's how people are.

SystemD will consume the entirety of Linux, bit by bit.

• In 2032, SystemD announces they're going to be introducing a new way to manage software on Linux
• In 2035, SystemD will announce they're making a display system to replace the ageing Wayland
• In 2038, the SystemD team announces they're making their own desktop environment
• In 2039 SystemD's codebase has grown to sixteen times its size in the 2020s. SystemD's announces they're going to release replacements for most other packages and ship their own vanilla distro.
• In 2045 SystemD's distro has become the standard Linux distribution. Most other distros have quietly faded away.
• In 2047, SystemD announces they're going to incorporate most of GNU into SystemD. Outrage ensues from the Free Software Foundation, which vehemently opposes this move.
• In 2048, Richard Stallman dies of a heart attack after attempting to clone SystemD's git repo. SystemD engages in a hostile takeover and all resistance within the FSF crumbles
• In 2050, SystemD buys the struggling RedHat from IBM for $61 million.
• In 2053, most world governments have been pressured into using SystemD.
• In 2054, Linus Torvalds, fearing for his life, begins negotiations to merge kernel development into SystemD
• In 2056, the final message on the Linux kernel development mailing list is sent.
• In 2058, Torvalds dies under suspicious circumstances after his brand-new laptop battery explodes.
• In 2060, SystemD agents assassinate the CEO of Microsoft.
• In 2063, after immense pressure from SystemD-controlled human rights organisations, Arch developers discontinue development.
• In 2064, the remaining living Debian developers release the next stable version of their clandestine and highly illegal distro.

Pope Francis has the opportunity to do the funniest thing here

Can't believe Portugal is nearly the same size as Portugal

My friend, it seems like your anxiety is nicotine withdrawal. That explains why smoking makes your anxiety go away; you're getting another hit of nicotine to ease off the withdrawal.

Vaping isn't harmless. Especially since you're 18, it will inhibit your brain development and the chemicals in the vape are chronically toxic. Nicotine is extremely addictive. Many people get addicted after just a few goes.