The street was presumably designed to the standards adopted by the city and state. We probably shouldn’t update the street design standards by punishing engineers who follow the existing standards; a legislative or regulatory approach is suitable here.

The speed limit was 45 mph (72 km/h) and there was no crosswalk at that location; there are trees in the median obscuring the driver’s view. A map is helpful: Google | OSM.

From context, the kids probably lived in the neighborhood to the southeast. The driver would have been eastbound, and would have just passed the Lyon street intersection, which has traffic lights and crosswalks. There is no sidewalk on the south side of Hudson boulevard at this location, so it’s reasonable she wouldn’t have been expecting pedestrians.

I can’t see assigning criminal liability to anybody here. The infrastructure sucks.

The high bail seems particularly cruel in this case. The purpose of bail is to ensure the defendant comes to court to answer for the charge, which these parents seemed inclined to do given they want to regain custody of their other children.

Same on Lineage, so that’s presumably an Android default. It’s slow.

No. Most banks have websites, and most of them do most of the the things most people do with their bank. The only thing I think my bank’s app does that the website doesn’t is deposit a check by taking a picture of it. I use that feature about once a year.

I’m sure some people need banking apps, but I would bet it’s fewer than think they need banking apps.

I’m very experienced with desktop Linux, and I recently installed PostmarketOS on an older phone. It and Ubuntu Touch are derived from traditional desktop Linux and have the potential to run the same apps.

It’s not there yet for people asking questions like the ones you are. I wouldn’t even say it’s there yet for people like me as a primary phone. The set of apps designed for mobile is minimal and not necessarily feature-complete. Hardware support is partial on most supported phones. Apps not specifically designed for a phone screen are not a good experience at all. Sometimes parts of the OS crash.

LineageOS, on the other hand is Android. It’s designed for phones, and it will work pretty much like the Android your phone came with. It does not come with Google apps and services by default, which reduces the selection of third-party apps that work out of the box. You can add MicroG for an open source implementation of most of those Google services, which will make most third-party apps work while still keeping your phone Google-free.

The feature I want is a specific fingerprint that triggers a lockdown, perhaps requiring a long password rather than a short PIN to exit.

It created a massive black market which greatly increased the profitability of organized crime. That lead to a substantial increase in policing, often conducted with little regard for civil rights.

According to this LA Times article, they weren’t testing everyone; they tested this woman because she skipped her prenatal visits. She did that because she lived with people who were at high risk from COVID-19. It also says she provided a urine sample voluntarily, but wasn’t told it was for drug testing.

It does seem reasonable to me that if a hospital had good reason to believe a woman was using opioids while pregnant, they would get child protective services involved. It does not seem to me that missing some appointments with as good an explanation as she gave here should be grounds to perform a drug test without the patient’s consent. Child protective services also shouldn’t be relying on a test with such poor specificity.

You’re not surprised. I’m not surprised. People who end up with this feature enabled without having fully understood it or intending to turn it on are surprised.

I’m not sure how much of this is people not thinking things through and how much is Meta being scumbags. There’s probably a little of both.

There was a time Facebook chat would share precise locations with every message by default. None of the people who sent me their location along with a message knew they were doing that when I told them.

This is an ass-covering response to school shootings, because some of the shooters have expressed their intent before.

A strip search obviously isn’t necessary even if it’s a credible threat; a metal detector wand and basic pat down is more than enough to ensure someone doesn’t have a gun. This wasn’t a credible threat though, and a chat with the school counselor would have been the right way to handle this.

Snapchat’s automated detection software picked up the comment, the company alerted the FBI, and the girl was arrested on school grounds within hours.

Someone should tell the kids about Signal.

As for monitoring on school computers, that seems OK to me if it’s disclosed to the students and parents in advance. What’s problematic is the responses, which seem much more focused on ass-covering than student welfare. I imagine most 13 year olds have made jokes about killing people once or twice and any adult with common sense would be able to tell they’re jokes.

Not Lemmy, unless the post tags a community.

And they learned that the left is bad rather than that authoritarianism is bad. Wrong lesson.

Not to diminish the harms of alcohol, but the USA tried that once and it went pretty badly. Prohibition of other drugs has also led to considerable harm. The cure may be worse than the disease here.

There’s an argument for labeling so people can make an informed choice; I would actively seek it put for ethical reasons while som might avoid it.

I can only think of bad reasons for an outright ban.

No. States can ban local sales of products that are legal in other states. A common example is that some states ban guns with certain features.

Often vibrate-only, but when not, voice/video calls are on defaults. I received them rarely and haven’t bothered to set it.

My default for messages is a honk from Untitled Goose Game. Specific contacts get custom notifications, usually bird calls, though one who likes cats more than most has a meow.

I didn’t find that exact wording, but there’s this:

https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/migrant-crime