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  • As much as I hate this and want it not to be true, it sure as hell looks true to me.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-ground-zero-day-after-911/

    I mean, I dislike Biden pretty intensely but whatever alternative the Republicans are going to field is basically going to be using The Handmaid's Tale as a how-to guide, so I'll still be voting for him alas.

    We desperately need ranked voted for all elections, and we need it yesterday so we can start to get away from this stupid 2 party system where everyone can only vote for the guy they think might win the final election rather than being able to rank the candidates by who they like the most with "the guy that can win" as a safety backup to who they like the most so their vote isn't thrown away.

  • I mean… they shouldn’t be supporting Xitter anyway. And encouraging people to use IG and FB is just as bad basically.

    Ideally they should run their own Mastodon instance and provide announcements and support there.

  • Well that's just great. Now how do we walk back all the cases he weighed in on when he should have actually recused himself?

  • Foundation has been interesting so far and very pretty. For All Mankind is amazing.

  • The US can be a pretty boggling place to try and bike or walk, yes.

    He's talking about some pretty cool bike infrastructure that they're at least introducing in ABQ that is pretty sweet compared to when I grew up there in the 80s though. I remember biking down Lead or Lomas in the mornings with no bike lane at all and rush hour traffic trying to get around me non-stop, lol. I remember I felt slightly safer on Lomas even though it was 50mph+ traffic just because the lanes were really wide.

  • Cool! I didn't think of that, but it would do the trick, you're right.

    (I was hoping for it to be in the popup list of search engines, I guess.)

  • You mean DDG is better for programming or Brave Search is? I'm finding a lot more useful stuff via Brave for whatever reason currently.

    (I guess results may vary though if that's not the case for you!)

  • I mean… I've been using Firefox since Google silo'd all log-ins together.

    On the other hand, search.brave.com is freaking incredible. It's so much better than Google, Bing or DDG at this point, it's shocking. I switched a couple weeks ago and it's surreal to see so many usable, useful results on the first page again.

  • Well, when the award nominee lists come out, I jump on those if they sound like books I’d like. And of course, new books by past authors I like. And generally books that I start seeing a lot of people reviewing favorably or just getting a lot of buzz I will at least evaluate.

  • This brings up an interesting point. On Mastodon, besides Block User, there is also a Block Instance option. Will we ever see that on Lemmy? Seems like an easy way to resolve what has been a big issue for me (and obviously other people too).

    Aka, you don't really want to start over on another instance (hey, not migration tools yet!) but you also don't really want to see posts from a specific server any more. Rather than people having to lobby the server admins about whether or not to defederate, wouldn't it just be easier to allow user-level instance blocking? (I know I say "just" while knowing zip about how hard that as in the back end, but yes, from a logistics perspective, seems like you could make a lot of spam-level requests leave the admin's plates by implementing this.)

  • And yet what I really, really want is the ability to block instances… any idea if/when that is coming? I know it's a thing on Mastodon so it should be one here too, hopefully.

  • TLDR version is that Amendment 14 Section 3 says if you were involved in an attempt to overthrow the government you no longer are allowed to hold public office.

    Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

  • I feel like a Brother laser printer is a much better solution unless you specifically need color. Also, if you try and print with a laser printer after a couple months of disuse, it should fire right up and print. The same is not necessarily true of an ink jet, where things may have dried out and clogged.

  • eInteresting. I hadn't connected it quite like that. But still, the disparity in poll sizes to me suggests that a poll size of 1300 is very low and possibly fairly low accuracy—certainly much more dependent on where they poll, who they get from that location, etc.

  • Just uncheck the ones you don’t want to see on your settings. Should be available on the website version.

    EDIT: Settings->3 line menu->Other (By default it starts on Appearance I think)

  • And yet Siri is dumber than a bag of hammers…

    And I say that as someone who has been using Macs since the 512k in high school.