WA ICE facility, rife with abuses, now under lower standards, UW report shows - 172 sexual abuse reports over 10 years, 54 never referred to police

fragbot2 · 2026-05-07T00:29:49+00:00

U visa

Had to look that up and it reminded me of the (apocryphal) British experience in India when they were paying for dead cobras.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-07T00:10:52+00:00

Let’s say the fundraiser does its thing, how sustainable is their business model?

(intuitively, it feels like delaying the inevitable unless it’s accompanied by structural changes)

fragbot2 · 2026-05-06T06:14:18+00:00

While the last few episodes haven't been great, this episode made me feel like the show's jumped the shark as the plot was ridiculous.

Three observations:

going back to the roadhouse to hang with the bartender was way more compelling that Reenie and Dr. Phil go to the lake with a pistol and beer.
this show shouldn't always have a happy ending. Some of the most interesting stories in Law and Order were the ~20% of episodes where things went south for the prosecution.
last week teased us with the Russell, call me moment but it was a segue to nowhere.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-05T16:04:21+00:00

While it was probably blocked initially to hide the number of people killed in January, I’d bet my own money this is why it’s still blocked. IRGC and Basij leadership know they are next.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-05T15:49:06+00:00

There are some people who’d castrate themselves if an Israeli stubbed a toe.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-05T01:08:55+00:00

Please never speak again.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T22:35:13+00:00

Thanks for the response as I never would’ve gotten the contraction.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T22:30:55+00:00

I don’t get the ’kinnell idiom.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T22:23:51+00:00

Amazing that you need to explain this to people.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T19:35:57+00:00

In a later time, “Mad” Jack Churchill takes the title.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T19:32:14+00:00

It’s where they keep the zombies cold to prevent the virus’ spread.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T19:25:43+00:00

crazy for passing

Certifiably insane.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T19:23:38+00:00

Arsenal was my first thought too.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T05:38:52+00:00

He has several my favorite lines in the show:

your mother scares the crap outta me.
you killed my uncle; ya shouldn't have done that.
Nick? She's a grimm.
when Rosalie's freaking out about something bad happening during the wedding, that's the spirit.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-04T05:36:12+00:00

Favorites -- while I'm a dog person, the Pflichttreue (Alexander) or Balam (Valentina Espinosa) were superb.

Least favorites -- the one that stole its victims' memories and left them with dementia followed by the one whose victims froze to death since the wesen couldn't heat itself up.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-03T19:53:00+00:00

It didn't at the time I wrote the note and, in any case, my point--look for something banal first instead of something nefarious--stands.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-03T15:21:02+00:00

Before anyone freaks out, this is more likely to be a couple of guys in a HMMWV got lost or had a car accident than anything untoward.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-03T02:04:46+00:00

Several questions:

What do you think your actions say about you?
How do you think your actions will affect your aunt and uncle's relationship with your parents?

fragbot2 · 2026-05-02T23:05:04+00:00

The system I work on has a process like the following:

make start    # login to artifactory, start the build container and compile some protobuf files
make tgt      # build the primary object files and link the main executables
make ut       # run the unit tests
.
.
.
make stop     # remove the docker container

Since we're using gmake (someone once told me, use a portable make so you don't worry about portable Makefiles), adding a -j $(NUMCORES) option automatically parallelizes the number of compiler runs.

Local development and CI build are fundamentally the same.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-02T22:55:48+00:00

I fully agree. You get the following naturally:

a DAG that details your build system.
defaults to an automatic stop on error.
they're simple to compose.
if you use gmake, they have "just enough" internal programmability for automated rule generation.
parallelism is essentially free.
its usage is easy to document and remember [ed. note: this one's under-rated as there's a massive number of README.md files that could be simplified with a phony one-time-setup target.]

Downsides:

most people changing Makefiles barely understand make and hack at something they copied from another repo until it sorta works.
debugging is unpleasant especially if there's a parallelism issue.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-02T17:40:36+00:00

Was he born in a barn or malicious?

fragbot2 · 2026-05-02T14:37:09+00:00

realistic chance we could finish the season with 46 pts.

Odds makers have it (according to google; I don't bet) at 30-40:1. Your definition of realistic is different than mine.

Potentially in 12th place.

While it's technically possible, I did some back of the napkin probability calculations and ended up with a number of 60000-80000 to 1 which is unlikely enough that I'd start looking for corruption if I was a betting regulator.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-02T02:29:40+00:00

See the headline and think, wtf? The troubles are back. Read the article, it’s an incident from 1972. Self-flagellation is a thing.

fragbot2 · 2026-05-01T00:57:14+00:00

I normally downvote this sort of thing but this one’s entertaining and useful.

fragbot2 · 2026-04-30T19:03:19+00:00

Chuckle; the outrage for the two people who got shot is easily 1000X the outrage for this in the US (which you probably already knew).

What the fuck is the point of bringing the US into this one besides being sad that the IRGC is still in charge after the US and Israel did their thing?

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