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Public execution would solve a lot of problems.

You people are all humorless.

Aaaah the old "shout 'roads' at them" tactic, I bet there's a lot of horsepower up there.

That's the point I'm making. Give me a government that I can see the taxes I pay benefitting myself and the others I share a government with and I won't mind paying.

War and dad joke websites aren't my idea of money well spent.

Take a wild guess the name of the bill that this was funded in. It's funnier than any joke on the site.

I'll take keeping my money over any of it.

You want to know a good joke? The funding for this site was approved by congress in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 section 7103: Grants for Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood

And people wonder why we don't want to pay taxes.

Lol everyone knows about job corps. It's a shit program it's like voluntarily going to jail. Bunch of people stealing each other's shit and selling drugs and cigarettes to each other and fighting. They don't teach you shit and use you as cheap labor.

I'm being facetious. It doesn't matter whether he takes it or not, people claiming he has no integrity will not see refusal as a sign of integrity. So the whole circus surrounding this offer is nothing more than a circle jerk sham. It's a show for the congregation, like speaking in tongues.

Good, now let's watch this supposedly corrupt bribe taking devoid of integrity man turn down a million dollars a year for every reason in the book other than his legacy and integrity which he does not have or so I've heard.

If I like it I download it, save the whole album or discography. Archive everything. Never delete. Same for books and movies and shows, though I find myself watching less of those lately.

Yes.

These laws are not new. Almost every state has some law on the books that directs state authorities to refuse to assist federal authorities under certain circumstances. In California and Colorado, state, county and local police are not allowed to assist the federal government in the enforcement of marijuana laws. Many cities and even states have the same for immigration enforcement as you said. In Texas and Florida state, county and local police are not allowed to enforce federal gun laws or assist the federal government in doing so.

The way this is framed by CNN with the "supremacy clause" thing is disingenuous, it has been long established that state authorities do not have the power to block federal actions within the state but are not required to assist them or enforce their laws. The supremacy clause exists to prevent States from violating treaties that the federal government has signed, infringing on enumerated powers of the federal government (such as the power to regulate cross border commerce and movement), and directly violating constitutional federal laws that apply to the States directly. The only way this Utah legislation differs from all these other state laws regarding marijuana, migrant asylum or gun regulstion is that they're not specific to any set of Utah laws that conflict with federal law, it's basically an open ended "the state can direct state and local authorities at any time not to assist the feds for any reason."

So, when Hollywood first began to build what we know today as the modern film industry, they faced a dilemma: talent is scarce, but for people to see the same face in more than one story they'll have to suspend their disbelief quite a bit. Using new actors for every movie doesn't scale because most people suck at acting, and you can't grow your industry as much as you want with this model. What to do?

Their solution was to turn this into a selling point rather than a downside: they invented celebrity. They created this industry cornerstone of allure and mystery and a whole swath of papers to talk about these individuals that appear in movies. Now, it's not ridiculous to see the same face in a 10th movie, it's part of the joy. The movie star as an object was created, fabricated, in order to have a rich film industry at all.

The fact that you like this actor and that actor, that you know who they married and divorced and who they fucked, is deliberate, the industry needs you to care about these things even though they have no impact on your life at all. The truth is humans only knew of people we knew in real life, some historical figures, maybe the emperor's name. Most people didn't even know what George Washington looked like while he was president. Most people around the world didn't even know he existed. The relevance if celebrities isn't real and they only are relevant because we follow the noise. Their lavish lives only exist because we give them our attention, their names are in our minds for no reason benefitting us, but to them it's their bread and butter. Bear that in mind next time you see one of them complaining about their feature in the national inquirer.

Subscription lol is someone going to tell him?

I thought we already did authorship in alphabetical order so as to avoid any implied hierarchy?

Oh boy are they late. Same sex marriage is so last week. Don't they know that sex isn't even real anymore?

Listen... Libraries are dying. I have a library of Alexandria in my pocket. Nobody needs to go to them anymore. In order to justify their continued existence they have to find a new product market fit. They have to cater to people who would use them. Those people happen to be stay at home soccer moms and their kids.

So you have to suffer. I like my libraries quiet as well, but I understand what they're doing. And honestly, I don't want all the places people can still go for free to be kid hostile. I'm kind of OK with it all in all, as opposed to them shutting down.

That your local feed is one community, that users can't create any communities, that the landing page for the server is like HN or some other single community link aggregator site.

Single community mode.

So with federation, each server being able to host an arbitrary number of communities can be a bit much. It makes sense for a site like reddit where it's just one site. But for a network of sites, hosting multiple communities is really a niche thing, but people do it because why not? The feature is there. But most people spin up a server for a single community and the communities on that server become dead, save for a couple of bigger sites. Having and making known the ability for an admin to spin up a Lemmy instance that's just one community makes a lot of sense. The server I'm currently using for example is for a diaspora from a single subreddit. Sites like that only really need a single community on them.

You can act like a cult member and stop talking to them, or you can realize what's important in life, real human connection, and just agree to disagree. As long as you guys aren't going to call each other names, talk about it. But don't go into it with the aim of convincing, go into it with the aim of learning. If both of you do this, you'll come to clearer conclusions.