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NOTE: I just downloaded the game and on my first attempted launch, it complained that the port it wanted was not open. My only option was to close the game. I ran netstat and did not see the port listed, so I tried again. THAT time, it complained about my older video card :-/ The warning is clunky and there's a typo, too (within -> withing). It says (if I transcribed accurately):

You are using an: NVIDIA GEOFORCE GTX 1080. This video card is currently not recognized withing the recommended specs. We only support a limited amount of NVIDIA GTX graphics cards, all NVIDIA RTX graphics cards or all AMD RX graphics cards since the local AI requires a lot of performance.

So please note that the game might not work properly. Refer to the Steam guide for more information.

When I closed that warning, the game loaded.

In addition to the delay, the court asked for arguments to an over-broad question:

“Whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”

Note that they COULD have asked something more like, “Were Donald Trump’s actions on and surrounding the January 6th incidents official acts of a President and is Trump therefore immune from criminal prosecution because the conduct was both within his tenure in office and within the scope of his duties?” Of course, that is not what was asked. The actual question asks for long and careful considered speculation on all possible contingencies where the relevant case is about a specific set of actions that could be quickly assessed.

see also: https://www.salon.com/2024/02/28/the-is-indulging-immunity-claim-further-delaying-his-trial/

This Op/Ed expresses my sentiment better than I'd do: https://crooksandliars.com/2024/02/mitch-mcconnell-steps-down-senate

As gun control advocate Shannon Watts writes, "Sen. Mitch McConnell’s legacy will be that he purposefully undermined America’s first Black president, he broke the Supreme Court, he helped elect a fascist President, and he abetted up an insurrection on American soil."

(and)

Let's not pretend his successor will be any better. He is likely to be a Trump toady who will bow before the pressure and screw this country even more.

Msnbc's Alex Wagner pointed out on her show that, "After all, it took just 51 days from the time Trump was kicked off the ballot in Colorado on December 19th to when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for that case -- the 14th Amendment case -- on February 8th. Now on December 11th, 2023, Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to quickly weigh in on Trump's immunity appeal and to do so early , which the Court rejected! And now by the time we get to April 22nd, which is when the Court plans to hear arguments in this immunity case, it will have been 133 days since the Court was first asked to hear the appeal. So the pace is... curious? Around 50 days when it helps Donald Trump, and over 130 days when it doesn't."

@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me a queue of very British ants

style: victorianpunk

Skip any bit of Maggot Brain?!? Sacrilege!

“Free your mind and your ass will follow”

Go back. That was En Vogue's shout-out to this mind blowing album.

Sooo... more Jimi Hendrix, less Sousa Marching Band, eh? What about stuff like Kraftwerk? Their stuff is intentionally 'robotic' so I'm wondering if you find it either boring or disagreeable -- or if instead it becomes pleasing for achieving its goal. I am in the last camp for that, but I have to be in the mood.

Regardless, I think most musicians intuitively know audiences prefer variation (or just have that preference themselves). I mean, for decades now drum machines/software has had a "human drummer" option to make beats come in slightly off-beat (but don't tell that to the characters in "Whiplash").

If you are looking for more info, I see that 404 media has a podcast with the book author, Byron Tau (I've not yet listened): https://www.404media.co/interview/

For those who expect RTO == "Recovery time objective" (for data backups)... and who then wondered if this was going to be about Required Time Off -- because it couldn't make people unhappy if it was Requested Time Off, no, it is none of those. It's yet more junk jargon:

Return to Office

saved you a click

I'm thinking the ruling HAS to lead to conversations and demands to change the law. Yes, there's a religious right that wants women barefoot and pregnant, but this ruling is going to prevent rich white religious women from getting pregnant. They're going to complain.

Tonight's "Alex Wagner" show on MSNBC had guest Michelle Goldberg hypothesizing that even ultra-conservative Alabama politicians are probably going to back off this ruling. She supposed they might decide embryos don't count as a people unless they are attached to a uterus in a particular way ... but the rich white religious wives might still have a problem with that limit when such embryos spontaneously fail later on in the pregnancy and everyone is back to being a murderer. Of course, those women are unlikely to realize how likely that is until it happens to each one of them individually (if it happens to someone else, that other person is obviously a 'bad' person or it would not have happened -- so the only one who can be 'good' and still miscarry is oneself).

So how do we get the courts out of our bodies?

When trying to bring this sort of thing up with a mixed group of people, I use the term "Republican low-wage policies" to describe a whole set of policies, and now I'm going to have to add forced-births to the list. Decades ago, it was just an insistence on denying citizenship to migrant farm workers to suppress wages, then add to that 'no child left behind' making it harder to teach more to students that could achieve more, then the whole home-school/charter-school movement where funds that used to go to public schools getting split and diluted, and so on.

And yes, I can see how it'd be hard to get sterilized without the health care and career to provide and pay for it.

Wait: didn't the price of labor drop when the majority of women stopped staying home and started full time employment? As I understand it, decreasing the workforce raises wages, which should keep factories from moving in.

Further, if you're going to put restrictions on me when I am or MIGHT be pregnant, I've got a massive incentive to get sterilized before I have to worry about that.

Ooooh. I didn't consider if frozen kids are considered 'alive'. If they are frozen for 4 years, and you pay to keep them frozen for that time, does that mean you'd only have to worry about 14 more years of child support?

I prefer more casual games, but I do like Slay the Spire. I don't think I've tried to get past A4. I got bored with it a while back and downloaded expansions. I LOVE Downfall and kinda like PackMaster, too. If I am feeling lazy, I will do a custom run and pick my starting cards, and choose 'slow' and 'big game hunter' options as well. It makes me overpowered, but -- again -- is enjoyably casual for a change.

For English writing, this is wrong. I don't know enough about Japanese tenses to know how it worked in the original (before translation). Per the comment by apis, it may offer immediacy, but it made me cringe while reading. Caveat: my mother was an English teacher and would never let me submit anything in this state. She would tell you to rewrite and if a sentence isn't working, it is better to find another way to say it than keep struggling. Here, though, I would think it easier and less jarring to simply keep the past tense, like so :

It looked as though he meant to ride up. He didn't seem to be fooling around. He was quite a bit older than the other child-demons. Maybe a junior high student.

For the next line, you could go one of several ways:

If he couldn't tell the difference between an ascending and descending escalator, there must have been something seriously wrong with him.

Or (less authentic?):

I thought, "If he can't tell the difference between an ascending and descending escalator, there must be something seriously wrong with him."

Or (possibly clunky):

I thought that if he couldn't tell the difference between an ascending and descending escalator, there must be something seriously wrong with him.

(and so on)

This.

I don't see how they can cry, "States' Rights!" all this time and now try to say states DON'T have the right to set their ballots. They do. They keep various 3rd party candidates off ballots all the time for stuff like not having enough signatures to get them ON the ballot.

I heard Trump's lawyer argue that requiring candidates not-be-insurrectionists was adding a requirement not in the Constitution -- except it IS in the Constitution and even though 2/3 of Congress could give a pardon/waiver on that, the fact that they MIGHT do so in the future does not disqualify Trump in the now, which the Colorado lawyer brought up. Later, TV commentators brought up that after the Civil War, a bunch of guys DID preemptively ask Congress for waivers. If Trump got that through now, it sounds like Colorado would have to put him on the ballot.

The Supreme Court decided Bush V. Gore on just the state of Florida. It sounds like they are now deciding Trump V. [Constitution] and trying to blame it on Colorado. Sadly, they seem to want the Constitution to lose. My last hope is that they don't make this about letting 'one state decide the president' because that already happens just based on who each state allows to vote. I'm hoping their decision stems from something actually in the Constitution.

I'm sorry for your loss. That is quite a cautionary tale.

Please don't blame yourself for the Nursing home issues. They are supposed to be care givers and they failed both you and your dad. Be angry at them -- not at yourself. It sounds like you did the right thing in moving him. You DID look out for him. You DID care care work to make things better.

Thank you! I can ask around, but I believe he's already given power of attorney to his wife and filled out an advanced care directive with the hospital (I know he's filled out some form saying that if his breathing becomes so difficult that they need to intubate, then DON'T, but do give pain killers). I will check on the rest of the legal matters.

It didn't occur to me that an ambulance crew might be required to 'help', a quick search about that confirmed this might be an issue, and also brought up a New-Jersey-specific doc telling 1st responders in particular to not give care -- which is irrelevant for us, but was a interesting to find.

I doubt he'd go for assisted suicide, but he does seem to be gaining acceptance that this is terminal, so... that's good in a sad kind of way.

I'm learning that he probably misused the term "hospice" to include all kinds of extended/managed-care and nursing home facilities. I sent him this link to clarify some of what is and isn't available through Medicare (he also has secondary insurance, so he might not even have to pay the full 20% co-pay that Medicare never covers): https://www.medicare.gov/what-medicare-covers/what-part-a-covers/medicare-part-a-coverage-nursing-home-care

Thank you the delicate handling of the grim truth. We understand that he may die much sooner, but the part he worries about is the possibility of lingering so long that his wife is left with a pile of bills and no remaining funds. Whether home or in care, he will absolutely have oxygen.