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But .. they don't mail the pills randomly. A person in the state where it is outlawed is requesting something from a state where it is not.

I don't see how the CA doctors are in any way colonizing anything.

The California Catholic Conference opposed the law, arguing the state is "engaging in ideological colonization against states and citizens that do not want abortion."

Are ... are they trying to say CA doctors are mailing abortion pills to people who didn't ask for them? What does this statement mean? Maybe what they meant was something like: "We do not believe women have a basic right to control their body, whether those women are Catholic or not, and that control should rest with the government of the state they reside in."

Since it seems we are covering personal opinions, I think this is like all pride: sometimes it can be good and sometimes it can be toxic, often depending on who the person feeling prideful is.

I made no value judgement on this. I just pointed out this is common and it is surprising if someone doesn't understand it.

You may not agree with it, but you understand it exists and that it is often tied to how someone is raised.

I don't condone it, but when will businesses realize reforming the police is good for them and will stop shit like this? Not to mention maybe less time spent on drugs and more time spent on theft would be welcome?

Not sure why businesses aren't pushing the cops to get their shit squared and stop killing so many people.

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Yes, many people are raised to have pride in the town, city, state, country or planet they are from. It's so common and cross-cultural that I am extremely surprised you would need an explanation by the time you're capable of writing comments on the Fediverse.

Now that we have the pedantry out of the way, how is your comment meant to be helpful or move us forward? If it's neither of those things, why are you doing it? All of this is rhetorical, of course. Just food for thought for us both.

At what point do we start to discuss how evil the Russian regime is? I mean, this is feeling like we are approaching the lines in the sand that we drew after WWII, if we haven't already blown past them.

I have no desire to lose more lives, but this is evil. How can any country support Russia in this?

FWIW: these types of password rules are discouraged by NIST -

1. Eliminate Periodic Resets

Many companies ask their users to reset their passwords every few months, thinking that any unauthorized person who obtained a user’s password will soon be locked out. However, frequent password changes can actually make security worse.

It’s difficult enough to remember one good password a year. And since users often have numerous passwords to remember already, they often resort to changing their passwords in predictable patterns, such as adding a single character to the end of their last password or replacing a letter with a symbol that looks like it (such as $ instead of S).

So if an attacker already knows a user’s previous password, it won’t be difficult to crack the new one. The NIST guidelines state that periodic password-change requirements should be removed for this reason.

If Evergrande even actually built it.

I wasn't prepared for that. The views. Wow.

I hear you.

Just remember that we know so much more about everything that happens on the earth than even just a few decades ago.

Things have always been bad everywhere, we just didn't all have to hear about it every single day.

I say this just so you can maybe temper some of your feelings to make sure you're accounting for that difference.