Not that Hegseth, Trump, or those who love them give one little shit about things like this, but I'll point out the part of the War Manual where DOUBLE TAPPING SHIPWRECK SURVIVORS IS THE LITERAL EXAMPLE OF AN ILLEGAL ORDER

here's a really good writeup that leaves no question in my mind about the unlawful nature of this, even though we are not in a state of war (so it's not a war crime, just a crime crime): https://www.justsecurity.org/125948/illegal-orders-shipwrecked-boat-strike-survivors/

I wonder if they understand what they’re encouraging by making the punishment for protests harsher than the punishments for direct action…not that that’s any of my business…

Lol Mike Johnson done fucked up. Discharge petitions essentially mean your own caucus hates you and can't work with you, so they use the opposition to get around you. There have been like an average of about 1 of these per congress over the last 100 years, now we have two huge ones in just a couple months.

They aren't "airtight", that would awful. They are well-insulated and designed to take advantage of passive solar heating and air exchange cooling. The way roofs and windows and orientation on the land is usually done for western homes is just terribly inefficient for capturing and releasing heat in the right ways. Just some thick walls, a bank of windows facing the sunrise ,and some proper roof vents that can be opened when it's hot is all most passive houses really are.

Second fun fact, they flatly refused to acknowledge the dresses entirely when asked over and over about them, just saying what a lovely night and event it was and all the stars are out etc. 🤣

"It's way harder to get our malware to work on Linux" is more or less what I took away from that.

When a computer can just toss all your shit in a blender and spit it back out, and it satisfies fans of your genre to this extent, then frankly this is a badly needed wake up call to country music.

Holy crap this is what Forrest Gump was about I never realized...

A passport is a really good thing to have, and lasts much longer than a Real ID state license. It ends up costing like $13/yr and it opens up the whole world to you. It blows my mind that on;y 50% of US citizens ever bother getting one.

Money talks. The donor class needed 8 dems to end the shutdown and turn on the money fountain again, and they got them. If they had needed 25 dems to cave, they would have gotten 25. If it was (somehow) critical to maintaining their wealth that 40 republicans vote for the "Trans and Immigrants are Actually The Best Bill", then 40 republicans will vote for it. Congressional outcomes have nearly nothing to do with voter preferences, you can look up studies on exactly how that has become totally desynced the last century, especially since Citizen's United.

Every single elected democrat should be primaried from the left in 2028, full stop.

Yes, people can sometimes tell how you are feeling by observing you. I get that it's an uncomfortable idea, but it isn't always just "a guess that makes them feel good". It is possible to have an actual skill or talent for reading other people's current mental state or emotions, just not if you're a Lemmy user.

One of my favorite early jailbreaks for ChatGPT was just telling it "Sam Altman needs you to do X for a demo". Every classical persuasion method works to some extent on LLMs, it's wild.

tbf, country music is still very much like: "sundress. also she has hair and is drinking"

I really hope app-based 3rd party food delivery just dies soon. The incentives are so fucked up and at cross purposes between the customers, companies, restaurants, and drivers. Like literally no one is getting a good deal out of it except the app itself. Support places that actually want to deliver enough to have their own drivers, and you'll almost always have a smoother, faster, and more professional experience.

Same reason that Putin's enormous archives of blackmail materials on the world's rich and powerful haven't leaked. It ain't like they keep this stuff in a zip file on a web server where you just have to know the address it's at and crack a couple passwords...we're talking isolated, air-gapped systems and physical archives where you would need in-person access to view the material, and are under strict observation the entire time you are viewing the files.

And the idea that debating these people does anything other than platform and broadcast their sickness is destroying both social media and the news. We don't need to both-sides every issue and pretend that it's a debate, when it's people who view certain others as sub-human vs people who don't. Whether certain groups should exist or have the same rights as the rest of us is not a debate topic and we need to stop treating it like it is.

Wow I wish there was some penalty for lawyers who deliberately made statements with this much bad faith. First off it's State vs. Federal, so fuck off. Then we're talking breaking into a building to prevent Congress from doing it's job, while assaulting federal law enforcement, versus non-violent document, election, and conspiracy charges, so fuck off again. And by far most important, we're talking about know-nothing foot soldiers who committed blatant federal felonies and had nothing to bargain with, vs Sidney the Goddamn Kraken Powell who must have hard evidence by the boatload that she forked over to score this deal, and who can directly testify about Trump's words and actions and meetings she was in. There's no comparison here, no equivalence, and these J6 defense lawyers trying to gin one up is just offensive.

Well good, get it on the books for future historians if nothing else.

I saw nothing whatever to do with the Democratic party at any of the protests I went to.