They still probably are violating plenty of state and local laws that the pardon won't do anything about.

That and there is an idea that the strength of pardons will be tested by the House Oversight Committee(assuming take back by Democrats).

IMO the pardon power was an absolute mistake and I’m totally fine with us just burning this bridge for good.

what happens if you are convicted in federal court before receiving the pardon. does double jeopardy come into play?

I feel like maybe you missed the point? The concept of the Purge movies is the government is using the Purge as a smoke screen to eliminate the people it considers undesirable. It's supposed to be like Kristallnacht with plausible deniability.

What I think everdrive is saying is that for it to be a smokescreen, there needs to be smoke: if it was only the government participating in the Purge to eliminate undesireables, it'd be extremely obvious and rallied against. But it's not, regular people are engaging with it in droves, which is what they believe to be the unrealistic part.

But most people don't participate, they just hunker down and wait it out. It's a small minority who are aligned with the government who do most of it. The prequel makes this very clear, where the government sent masked mercenaries to participate in the test purge to give them the results they wanted. The movies aren't high art or anything, but their message is pretty clear that they think the average person wouldn't be violent.

You need to consider that what regular people consider normal depends on little more then social consensus. Once you recognize this, the unrealistic part does not sound as unrealistic.

The AI agents didn't actually talk to anyone as the article lays out.

Do you think if a stalker found out about the AirTag silencer from an article they would decide not to use it because the article was critical? They made the choice that publicizing it would lead to harm, so didn't.

I live in a suburb and I know and talk to my neighbors way more than any of my coworkers who live in the city do.

But we don't know how to make a self sustaining fully sealed environment on Earth, let alone in space.

But to be real, does this really matter? Do any software engineers or other positions Microsoft is looking for in these examples look for jobs in the paper these days? Would they get more responses if they advertised in a larger paper?

Microsoft is banking on the fact that nobody looks for jobs in the paper. The point is to use the lack of response be able to write on paperwork that they've proven that no qualified jobseekers exist in the US. They are aware that advertising in the newspaper is not an effective way to fill a position; the goal is to lie about how much they tried.

It's compliance theater. They can claim they technically complied with the requirement to search locally for applicants first.

Henry the Eighth never allowed vernacular service, that was his son Edward the VI.

Also also hard to fake and easy to slip in. You throw in a Latin quote in your conversation and either the other person gets it and you both know you're the proper class, or they don't and you both know you're higher up the ladder than they are.

This is repeatedly used in Yes, Minister to demonstrate the large class gap between Sir Humphrey (and Bernard) and Jim Hacker.

Also see Count Binface (classics, Oxford) vs Sky News https://youtu.be/MCCVt8IhJkA?t=130

si tacuisses philosophus mansisses ;)

Are you saying all insults should be illegal? Or just any insult to anyone who is doing work at the time?