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Pepper spray is not all that safe. It can cause a pretty serious elevation in blood pressure and if you're prone, this can lead to a stroke. This stroke occurred hours after he was pepper sprayed.

The autopsy specifically stated that there is no evidence of bear spray contributing to the stroke that killed Sicknick.

No. It is not illegal to, for example, not make a monthly credit card payment (which violates the contract you signed with the credit card company). The company can, in turn, do various things (including sue you in civil court), but it can't have the local police arrest you.

The big problem in most of the coverage of the decision is the misguided notion that the *court* should be relying on science. It absolutely, utterly, should not.

The court should be relying on the law, and does not get to decide for itself what is "best," nor how to interpret it.

Correct. Which is why Brown v. Board of Education should have outlawed segregated schools based on the 14th Amendment, as opposed to citing psychological studies on the harms of segregation.

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At least in the USA, being in the country without proper permission is a civil not a legal infraction; thus the term "undocumented" is more correct.

"Illegal alien" is used in federal law.

So the only way Trump wins, acording to you, is if the election is "illegitimate". Any election Trump wins is illegitimate, and any election he loses is legitimate. Got it.

The linked video has subtitles for English and seven other languages.

China has enough different ethnic groups that they can order one to attack another.

91% of China is Han Chinese.

So except for all the differences, TMI and Chernobyl were the *exact same thing*!

I'm legitimately asking... why does the stock market need a granularity more than say... once a day?

You're not the first to have thought of this. I can't find it at the moment, but there has been a serious proposal to have the market be open for only 15 minutes a day.

Chinese spying in software? EVEN MORE UNPOSSIBLE!

Meant to say I barely use Siri because I use Google Assistant.

How do you use Google Assistant when the phone is locked? I don't want to have to unlock my phone every time I want to ask something.

Yes, Clinton won more popular votes than Trump. But neither won a majority of the popular vote.

As discussed elsewhere in this thread, Justin Trudeau's Liberals won fewer popular votes than the Conservatives in Canada. His party did win the most seats in Parliament (not a majority of seats), so he remained Prime Minister.

In the US, Trump did win a majority of electoral college votes, thus became President.

Clinton did not win a majority of the 2016 vote, either.