chiliedogg @ chiliedogg @lemmy.world

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He shouldn't be letting those attorneys leave the courtroom free men. Hold them in contempt and issue bench warrants for administration officials and anyone carrying out these illegal orders.

They're ignoring the courts. What will suing do when there's nobody enforcing the ruling when you "win"?

I still find it amazing that everyone heard that story before the internet had really taken off for most people.

Desert Shield/Storm and Panama were overwhelmingly sucessful military operations because they had clear, achievable objectives. George HW Bush was a bastard, but his team could execute a military mission.

Trains specifically are bad on shared lielnes because passenger trains are lowest-priority rail traffic, so you can get delayed for days at a time.

Ragebait here is saying you like Windows for its open design.

I like Forgotten Weapons quite a bit.

If people have to follow breadcrumbs to find which of the dozen groups is active, if any, very few people are going to join.

On reddit, if you wanted to find a sub for airbrushing, you would type in /r/airbrush. That was it.

On Lemmy, there's no central location for communities, but even worse is that most of the big instances WILL have a community with that name - it'll just be a dead community that someone started but never took off, so there's a bunch of false leads.

No, but there's fragmentation of communities. Instead of one central place for the community to form, you have to look at dozens of locations, where there may be a sub, but it may have 1 post in the last 4 months.

I think this is an artifact of what's oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I'd subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there's so many instances.

I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there's several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

As a result, most of us haven't been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we'd be active doesn't exist. It's like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It's a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

You want a fun read look up the official ATF inquiry letters about the "tactical fleshlight" where they're asking if it counts as a stock or a brace, making it either a short-barreled rifle or a pistol.

So the cost of like one class in the US.

Shamefully.

I'm a white, Christian, male firearms enthusiast from Texas.

That's a tough combination when I'm also extremely leftist.

Mozilla outage going to take a 90% hit to their income without going all-in on ads and user tracking.

Prior presidents had their assets placed in blind trusts, and they didn't know where they were invested. They didn't even know how wealthy they were until they left office.

Wasn't he in both Spiderverse films?

I love how they wake up in my backpack so they can overheat AND drain the battery at the same time.

That's efficiency.

I work for a city where the stupid-rich live. Their houses are NUTS. I recently approved construction of a 5,000sft guest house with a rooftop tennis court. We have over a dozen houses in active construction that cost over 15 million dollars, and no new structures being built under 4 million.

We actually have standards in our development code regarding servant's quarters. And the most important thing to know about those standards is that they're required to be smaller than the minimum allowable size for guest quarters. Can't have the Servant's getting all uppity.

But the thing is, they pay very little in taxes as a portion of their wealth. They have enough political power that they founded a 4mi^2 enclave as its own city entirely surrounded by a major city. They also managed to get their own school district. As a result, they have some of the lowest taxes in the state. Someone with a 7 million dollar house here will pay the same amount of money in property taxes as someone with a half-million dollar condo 2 miles away, because the rates for the school district and city for the wealthy are so low.

For utility districys, they get out of paying property tax by having the city provide it directly without a WCID by contracting to the major city next door that gives them the utilities at a loss to keep the rich assholes happy and supplying campaign donations.

All that to say, then people that are hurt by property taxes aren't the rich. It's people living in areas where the value of homes go up faster than income can keep up with the taxes. My parents eventually had to sell and move. And yeah, they made a nice profit off their house, but they still had to move away from the city they'd lived in for 60 years, and now live 30 minutes from the nearest gas station even though they used to be solidly urbanites.

When the insane Emperor Caligula was killed by his Praetorian guards and they installed Claudius in his place, the first thing the new Emperor did was execute the guards involved in the assassination.