Does it make me a bad person to hope that the little shits setting off fireworks until 2am from mid-June through September blow at least one finger off?
Ask me anything.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
Does it make me a bad person to hope that the little shits setting off fireworks until 2am from mid-June through September blow at least one finger off?
Assuming that research is accurate, and also given that those 3 things make up a huge portion of my diet, then I’m probably mostly made of PFAS these days.
Whether it goes anywhere is a crapshoot.
I just type “Speak to a human” until it relents. Usually takes 3-4 times. Kind of the chatbot equivalent of mashing 0 on telephone IVRs. The only question of its that I answer, after it agrees to get a human, is when it asks what I need support with since that gets forwarded to the tech.
About as often as I have a conversation with my dishwasher: never.
Which time? (Sorry, couldn’t help myself. I need the small joys. )
There’s lots of good web-based apps. Definitely check out the community gedaliyah linked. I develop one of them, but I’m not here to plug it lol. If you see it and like it, great.
You’re on Lemmy World, and they do offer a few alternative web front-ends. Of the ones they offer, Photon is probably my favorite.
There’s also an app-directory at https://www.lemmyapps.com/ and you can filter by platform with web apps being a filter option.
This post is proof that comedy = tragedy + time is not always true.
Agreed. Instance blocking needs to be more granular. Blocking posts from one is great, but it doesn’t keep the peanut gallery there from brigading the comments.
Not sure if “CVS receipt layout” is a common term or not, but I’ve used it over the last 10 years or so.
It describes websites that have massive margins with the content displayed as a thin strip down the middle; everything on the side is just wasted space (or crammed with ads).
Receipts from the retailer CVS are a known joke where the smallest, single-item purchase will generate a receipt that’s 6 foot long because of all the ads, coupons, and other junk tacked on.
In the old days, it was a lazy way to make websites work on desktop and mobile. Now, it’s a lazy excuse for not doing responsive design and/or allocating massive amounts of space for ads. I hate it. lol.
Is Clarence Thomas okay, like upstairs? Does he just go around pointing at random things and screaming “Unconstitutional!” ? Is “unconstitutional” in the room with us right now?
Artist’s Rendition:
Yup. Same.
Though I only have 3x 1080p ones so I have to fudge it and size the browser window across multiple monitors lol.
Hey, I pay for those pixels along the sides, so I expect them to get used once in a while 😆
Are you being sarcastic? That looks terrible. I hate when websites go for the CVS receipt layout.
Or did you just zoom way, way out for the screenshot? I’m on mobile so it already looks CVS-receipty.
Edit: Oh, you did just zoom way out, so I take a lot of that back. Still don’t think it looks great though. Cluttered and just “too much”.
Basically they’re arguing that the case against him was built partly on evidence from his time as president. I have no idea why the prosecutors have agreed to go along with that. Best guess is to keep things in the same case rather than have it go to a different trial/appeal?
Although the Manhattan case does not center on Mr. Trump’s presidency or official acts — but rather on his personal activity during the 2016 campaign — his lawyers argued on Monday that prosecutors had built their case partly on evidence from his time in the White House. And under the Supreme Court’s new ruling, prosecutors not only cannot charge a president for any official acts, but also cannot cite evidence involving official acts to bolster other accusations.
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In response to the letter from Mr. Trump’s lawyers, the district attorney’s office wrote that prosecutors did not oppose Mr. Trump’s request to delay the sentencing. "Although we believe defendant’s arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion,” wrote Joshua Steinglass, one of the assistant district attorneys who tried the case against the former president.
Source: NY Times (Gift Article Link)
Definitely. But there’s also disproportionate representation at play.
Let’s say there’s a mass exodus from the shittiest of shithole states leaving only, say, 100 people. For sake of argument, that’s sufficient for the state to continue existing and with a state government.
That 100 person state still gets two US Senators and (at minimum) one House rep (technically, it retains as many reps as it had as of the last census up until the next census in 2030). It also qualifies to be one of the required 34/38 states to call for a constitutional convention as well as vote to ratify the proposed amendment.
So, the takeaway is that all elections matter. Get out and vote every opportunity, and vote for sane people who aren’t going to pull this kind of crap.
if voting wasn’t this important, why do you think they’re working so hard to disenfranchise so many people?
60% of the population disagrees, yes. However…
The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures
So, 34 red state legislatures can propose an amendment. To be ratified, it requires 3/4 of the states (38 out of 50) to ratify it.
For either of those steps, I’m not sure if the citizens of those states have any say in the matter or if the legislatures can do it all themselves (plus or minus any veto from the governor of those states or legislative overrides of those).
So, they need 34 states to propose an amendment and 38 to pass it. As some else in this thread said, they already have 28.
Yep, but I’d like to think they wouldn’t be as emboldened as they have been since 2016. That was 4 years of their worst impulses being coddled and, often, encouraged from the highest office in the country.
Lol, if not live forever then at least be preserved for eternity.