Why is the NYPD helping ICE? Hasn’t the mayor banned them from doing so? If not I would hope the future mayor will issue a no-helpy-ice order to them.

Same. I cannot for the life of me understand why people have adopted phones as their computers - those shitty little screens and those shitty little fake keyboard and those shitty little toy CPUs. Why would anyone ever use one as their primary computer? For computing I use a real tricked-out desktop that I can upgrade and fix myself, with a 32" display and a real “ergonomic” keyboard. My phone is used for making phone calls, listening to music when I’m out of the house (I have a real audio system at home with real speakers and an amp and a real radio receiver), and reading websites and forums &etc when I’m at the gym. If I’m taking pictures I have a real DSLR for that as well as a couple of other casual-use digicams. Phones pretty much suck and I won’t be buying another until the one I have dies or becomes too much of a privacy/security risk.

I’ve got a “refurbished” Dell laptop that’s about 15yrs old. Some ex-corp model. 4C/8T, 16" 1900x1200-ish display, Nvidia GPU, 20G RAM, and it’s still going strong except for the battery which stopped holding a charge. I could get a new battery but I use the system rarely and just for browsing/email so running it off the AC brick is fine. It’s been running Linux Mint for as long as I can remember. My phone is a cheapo model from 2021 and it is also fine. The only reason I might replace it is if the battery tanks like with my other phones (planned obsolescence) or if I finally decide it’s mandatory to up my security/privacy game and need a phone that runs GrapheneOS, which means a Pixel. An old used one.

The debate over the city’s long-standing anti-discrimination rules started with a Facebook post, the Sandpoint Reader reported. In October, a YMCA lifeguard posted that she had seen “a man semi-dressed … as a woman” using the facility’s women’s locker room. The YMCA and the Sandpoint police told the lifeguard that this was permitted because the city’s ordinance allowed people to “use the locker room that aligns with their gender identity.”

The post unleashed a “torrent” of responses from the community, the Reader reported, about whether the rule was treating all members, including transgender individuals, fairly — or whether it was endangering cisgender women in shared changing-room spaces like the YMCA’s.

During Wednesday’s meeting, Grimm argued that deliberations over such issues are “complex civil rights questions that, in my opinion, belong to the state or federal law.”

“I believe it’s inappropriate for the city of Sandpoint to insert itself into intimate spaces where privacy norms, safety expectation and long-standing social boundaries already exist,” he said.

Many of those who supported the repeal spoke about their desire to protect women from sexual harassment or assault. City Council Member Kyle Schreiber said he takes those concerns “very seriously” — but that the focus on transgender individuals’ use of one locker room or another is misplaced.

“It seems like every other day there’s another article in our local paper about a sexual predator,” he said Wednesday. “Here’s the thing, though. None of those incidents involved a man dressed as a woman in order to gain access to his victims. I couldn’t find a single one.”

Does Putin have the pictures?