Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modde

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You can be charged with anything at any time.

And yes, Obama himself said that Roe wasn't a priority

Yeah in 2009 when Roe was assumed to be the forever law of the land and things were fine...? Why would he make that a priority?

Obama had a supermajority for seven months during his presidency

Go read a promised land and see how much of a majority he actually had. We're lucky we got the ACA in the end.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act comes to mind

Which was a bipartisan bill OPPOSED by some democrats:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1151/vote_115_1_00303.htm

like forcing Congress to stay in session for example

Which would do nothing to solve the issue of abortion.

It was used to try and pass the National Civil Rights Act and emergency aid for Hurricane Katrina.

Which both had bi partisan support and were passed in less heated times.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182

even when we hand them the power to make change.

Here's the problem, WE DIDN'T.

You don't have power to make change unless you have a super majority or you can caucus with people across the aisle. If I put YOU in the Senate right now instead of Sherrod Brown it won't help. It might help if I put you in instead of J.D. Vance, but only if we don't lose Sherrod Brown.

This isn't just some "you work really hard at it and you can get anything done" situation. You need the votes, Democrats as a party agree on what the vote should be, but there are not enough representatives from the Democratic party that agree with the party platform to take the vote.

It's not some conspiracy, it's just how it works. It sucks, but the only way to fix it is to get more people to vote and just keep voting. Vote in primaries for people you think can win. Vote for ranked choice initiatives that might allow us to get away from two party voting. Vote for Democrats that agree the filibuster should be done away with.

Do not just go around making up stories about how the Democrats have super powers they don't have though. It's simply false information that ultimately hurts Democrats.

I thought that said Waffle House... And I was very impressed that Waffle House was taking such a strong stand on this issue 😂

I mean, it's also illegal to try and kill yourself, or do various other dangerous stuff. So... Maybe?

Plus, it's not so much about the pedestrian safety as it is keeping traffic moving by stopping pedestrians from just walking out in front of cars wherever they please. I'm not sure how that precedent is set, since I assume most other countries also give pedestrians the right of way (in the places they're supposed to cross).

No democratic president has had a super majority in decades. If you think they have, you're sorely mistaken.

Manchin and Sennima (a flimsy senate majority of 1) were not going to get it done.

It's not excuses, it's reality and you should pay more attention to it before spreading propaganda.

Plenty of sites operate on advertising or paywall based methods or additional services beyond what they publicly offer.

The web is a lot of things not just free "journalism" and personal blogs.

This argument that all websites should just be free content that the author not only takes the time to write but actively loses money to host is just not realistic.

while Dems were in power, and the Democrats did nothing to stop it

This is straight up misinformation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Legislature

The Idaho Legislature is controlled by Republicans via a super majority.

The United States Legislature is half controlled by Republicans.

The bigger problem could become selective enforcement to target and harass people.

Yeah, deep packet inspection really doesn't work without breaking https security via man in the middling everything.

Totally fine. That website does not at all benefit from your presence if you're not paying them in any way (unless it's a social media website).

Surely there's some sort of "you can't just jump out in the middle of traffic" law though? That's basically what our jaywalking laws "do" (in the limited cases where they're enforced).

There are of course the exceptions where someone gets a bit power trippy.

I just don't have carpeted areas ;)

Yeah, I went to Germany ... we need to fix this. It could be so much better, we should copy the German's and use full doors.

I found it weird that alcohol seemed to be sold only in liquor stores. But you can buy a machine gun in Walmart.

That might be a Florida thing(?) Definitely not an Ohio thing.

The food. Don’t get me wrong it’s nice and all but the quantity. Take sizzlers, you go in order your main meal then get an endless buffet for free. Like I couldn’t eat my steak when it arrived as I was full from the buffet.

Yeah buffets aren't all that common... But they're probably more common here (especially in touristy spots) than other countries.

• syrup all over breakfast items and people bigger than id ever seen were gorging and then taking a box home too.
• enthusiasm: grown ass adults whooping and hollering as we were queuing for rides. I’m a man child myself but it was startling.

Fair.

• Jaywalking. Wtf

Yeah... Especially in touristy spots and very urban spots some people don't care. I'm assuming you've witnessed Florida man that cuts across 6 lanes of busy traffic.

I think the average American normally only jaywalks if the street is pretty much empty and they don't feel like waiting 3 minutes for the light to change.

That is divisive even within the country.

I was raised in small town Ohio and taking your shoes off, especially in a strangers home (occasionally not in your own because of practicalities like going back and forth to unload the car), was considered part of common etiquette along with not wearing hats indoors.

Both of those things really depend on your family though as I've definitely met people that just don't care.

I didn't watch it, I've used simplex... Yeah that's an awful argument, but the tool is interesting.

What I find most interesting about it is, it's kind of like signal but with a random and rotatable phone number. If you hypothetically had your "phone number" leaked or started getting spammed on it, you just regenerate it, your existing conversations get the updated phone number and continue to work while new conversations can't be started with the number you just threw out.

You can also create different profiles for different situations (these have different phone numbers, names, and photos associated with them), e.g. you could have one for people you meet online vs in person vs in your job.

There was another model of sorts in "scroll" but they got acquired by Twitter and ... Who knows if that technology will ever get used again.

The scroll model was that you pay $5/mo or so and the Internet becomes ad free (at least for sites that had a relationship with scroll). The money you paid got shared with the sites you visited based on your relative usage (and of course scroll kept some for themselves too).

If Mozilla brought something like that back to the table, I could get on board.

Consider this: every website where you block ads is now inaccessible to you. How did that belief work out?

This is why you use fish shell and just type something vaguely similar to what you remember and hit the up arrow key.