thedirtyknapkin @ thedirtyknapkin @lemmy.world

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Oh it's a pretty common Internet thing these days. Hopium and copium.

Certainly not usable for legal precedent. I'm no expert, but this

A: didn't happen in a court

And

B: wouldn't be in the same jurisdiction as any other state that would want to do similar anyway.

Even if this had been decided by the courts, it wouldn't have been a federal court. Precedent doesn't jump state lines outside of federal court.

Yes, I would be very confused if you sent me one that way

Most of the sightings were just people saying that saw a thing. They can't know for certain what they saw. They weren't there.

Like, even if they know there was a test in the right area at the right time, the witness could easily be looking the other way and not remember which direction they were facing. How often do you know which way it's North?

Picture it as a conversation.

"I saw something round flying around all weird in the sky last night".

"Well, we were doing tests on a weird round flying thing yesterday, so it was probably that"

They can't give a more definitive answer. For all they know the person was drunk and saw a bat.

Why would you use literally the only lemmy client with ads, then complain about the ads?

On top of that, they pay these people so little that it's cheaper to hire 50 of them for a year than to hire one person to run an operation like that for the same time.

Randomly looked through comment history and found this, so....

Here's my favorite:

https://www.tasteatlas.com/chicatanas

Oh it totally happens. I think part of what makes a performer is whether you find that embarrassing (like me) or if that makes you want to sing them for others.

I'm not a musician, but I like coming up with my own silly little songs. Every once in s while I come up with something less silly that I actually like and it goes through my head for a little while.

I hope my cats likes my singing, because I would never show anyone else. I've got my creative outlet already. I don't need a new form of imposter syndrome

Yes, that was the ruling of the Colorado state Supreme Court. This is the federal Supreme Court saying "the courts can't do that, only congress can" which is a very very strange way to read that amendment.

The food kinda died

I once got food delivered to a work site and it took like 15 minutes of go the last mile. Slowly walking all the way up the entrance drive to this place (it was a museum on the waterfront with like 1/2 mile of driveway before the parking lot) turns or he blew a tire and decided to walk it the last mile because he was almost there.

I felt so bad. He should've just looked after himself... I'm guessing the app would've punished him with a suspension or something if he failed to deliver though. Wanted to tip more after all that, but there was no option to posthumously raise the tip in app and I wasn't carrying cash.

Guess that's what happens when your boss is a robot.

Piracy being easier is the only risk. Once again ruining the experience of legitimate customers to try and stop a thing that they have had no success at even slowing down.

Could probably do similar with Pakistan and India

What the hell is even a hegetsus post?

Do you have any idea how hard and expensive it is just to move out of the US without brining a company with you?

There's no way they could afford that, even if they found a country that would take them.

Lol, saruman was more or less a theocratic monarchist with highly authoritarian practices like killing any who opposed his will. He literally used magic to dominate the wills of others. If anyone was leftist in that series it was the Hobbits. They were outright Communist with no government. Though there was certainly still a class structure of sorts there. It's just tough to get a better look at Hobbit social politics. The books tend to just say "then they talked about their family history for 3 more hours" whenever it comes up.

Regardless, the stated intent of the story was to relay his experiences with war. Not with any political system. The forces of sauron and saruman just represented war itself. The feeling of its inevitable March towards you no matter how much you don't want it and dread it. It's very much how I've been feeling lately.

You're just changing the direction of that light with a mirror. Picture a light bulb vs a light bulb in a flashlight with that reflector dish behind it.

Walls also do this, but to a lesser extent. If your concern is wasting light then get a lamp with a reflective directional shade. You know, like the Pixar lamp.

too poor 😞

the desktop app is the only version on pc that allows higher bitrate playback

"i know you love sticking your dick in everything, but try not to fuck this one"

top 20 one liners for me. she was one of my favorites in that series.