Evilcoleslaw @ Evilcoleslaw @lemmy.world

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Health care professionals recommending panhandling. Glad we've got the best healthcare in the world.

It ended basically as soon as they had a conservative majority locked in. Now he doesn't need to nap anymore.

The initial mapping of the local channels seemed to be when I did a trial. Despite having to put in my home address I was getting local channels from a TV market about 150mi away (coincidentally where my IP incorrectly geolocates to about half the time) even though I know other people that have used it and get our correct local channels.

Well that's another reason I'm glad I didn't go with Hulu with Live TV. The main reason being they solely rely on IP geolocation from what I can tell, which is generally trash. With YouTube TV if the location is incorrect at least I have the option of logging in to verify my actual location using my phone.

So? If they weren't both packaged together they were both going to be voted down. Republicans don't want the Ukraine funding and Republicans have decided for now that it's better politically to have a mess at the border to blame on Biden. They don't want either proposal to pass so splitting them does nothing.

IIRC it takes 4 of them to agree to take up a case. If they did they could decide to fast track it which who knows how much that would delay the trial. Weeks or a couple months.

If they tried to put it on their regular schedule who knows when you'd even have a ruling as the court typically goes into recess at the end of June and doesn't come back until October.

He can request it, but the good thing about those is the appeals court can deny the request. He can appeal to the Supreme Court and they could either deny it or take it up to smack down the argument. If they side with his argument the country is over (along with all of the court's own power) as they would have ruled that the President is functionally an absolute monarch.

Except they actually don't in this case. You're free to release a browser with any engine you choose on Android and distribute it through the Play Store.

I agree about the characters. It's my main problem with the series. It got a little better as time went on but so many of the bridge crew may have well been extras for the first couple seasons. It wouldn't have changed anything because it was The Michael Burnham Show.

The overarching season plots also keep getting more and more worn out as it goes. It's okay to have the stakes be lower than destruction on a galactic scale. It's okay to slow down and tell interesting stories and not feel like a panicked mess.

Worst? I hardly think that.

SNW is wonderful. It feels like old Star Trek in such a wonderful way that sets it apart from the weaknesses of Discovery, even though it was birthed out of Discovery.

Picard was at worst inoffensive. Slow in places, season 2 was weird, and season 3 was solid albeit looking back at it with a little time, a ton of it was nostalgia and finally wrapping up everything about TNG.

Those were police in the Dominican Republic. He's a Canadian national but was living there.

Somewhat, my comment got truncated by real life interruption, sorry. But I think we need things that are more community driven than they are profit driven. Things like the Fediverse where the goal isn't doing all these things to make bank but doing all these things because it's something people want and how people want to engage with each other.

Doctorow wants regulations to help stave off "loss leading" style behavior and then hopes unions will also somehow help. I'm thinking ultimately that any platform run as a capitalist enterprise is eventually going to enshitify.

The construction projects themselves also typically require upgrades to local infrastructure. I live near the failed nuclear project in SC and they had to upgrade rail infrastructure near my town, they had to build multiple new bridges over the railroad because the clearance wasn't high enough for some of the prefabricated components that had to be transported to the site by rail, etc.

Yeah the shipping is now what 2-3 days instead of guaranteed 2 day. So kinda pointless when you get 3-5 day shipping free as long as you spend $35. I only get Prime when they throw in a free trial to an order I already have.

I've barely used the video service. There are so many cheap/free ways to pirate and have everything from everywhere all in one place these days. And without the risk of ISP letters or lawsuits that torrents had in the old days.

That's cool and all, and maybe it will eliminate some of the worst bullshit, but it's not going to stop enshitification. Certainly not with big tech because it's driven by the profit motive in satisfying initial investors, going public, and then engaging in the quest to make the line always go up forever.

The only thing that's going to stop enshitification is to stop depending on that model for the platforms we want.

A couple years of not being able to buy them anywhere close to MSRP did enough damage I guess. Plus it exposed people to some alternatives.

They're also building quite a few in the heartland of the US. Although honestly I think they're one big scam by the people actually constructing them -- fully stocked luxury bunker for you, your family, friends, etc all on some billionaires' dime. If shit hits the fan and you don't let them in what're they gonna do -- sue you about it?

The billionaire doomsday prepper mindset is ridiculous when you think about it for 30 seconds. Physical control over the resources around would be all that mattered, not how much Monopoly money you had in the before times.

"My Homer is not a Communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a Communist, but he is NOT a porn star!"

Displaced as well. Many would be displaced into Jordan and Egypt and it will further inflame and destabilize the populations there. Just instead of Gaza and the West Bank it'll be more like the situation on the border with Lebanon.

You don't just get to sit around forever and wait to make an appeal. You have a window to give the court and other parties notice that you're appealing and then that opens another window in which you must initiate the appeal. We're talking somewhere on the order of a couple months.