Now I really want it officially announced on April 1. It would be a perfect moment.

They’re ignoring the courts. What will suing do when there’s nobody enforcing the ruling when you “win”?

Desert Shield/Storm and Panama were overwhelmingly sucessful military operations because they had clear, achievable objectives. George HW Bush was a bastard, but his team could execute a military mission.

Ragebait here is saying you like Windows for its open design.

Rober is definitely a businessman out to make money and is very self-promoting and will accept just about anybody as a sponsor, but I can’t think of anything he’s done that’s been out-and-out deceitful or political. And he really does have some engineering chops.

I think he’s a good voice for this because he’s been so intentionally apolotical, and even my right-wing family likes his stuff.

Though my YouTube crazy engineer of choice is Stuff Made Here. He spends months between videos, but the stuff he makes is awesome, and he shows off a lot more of the actual creative process. And his fabrication tool collection is insane for a home shop.

There’s no way he’d annex Canada then give them the right to vote. It would be 2 more Democratic Senators, a massive leftward shift in the House, and would have more electoral college votes than any other state - all going to the Dems.

Edit: The more I think about it the more I like the idea. Can we annex them for like 1 election cycle, clean house, then de-annex them. We just need them to be American for like 3-4 years.

Another great option is to buy and return products from a brand and say they’re broken. Most get sent back to the manufacturer at their expense or destroyed (especially if they’re a physically large product), and it damages their relationship with the retailer.

If you want to be really evil, return for an exchange, then return THAT one for a refund, so you’ve removed 2 items from the shelves and hurt the manufacturer.

That’s why lots of products have a warning not to take back to the store for an exchange/refund when you open the box, but to reach out to the manufacturer.

If people have to follow breadcrumbs to find which of the dozen groups is active, if any, very few people are going to join.

On reddit, if you wanted to find a sub for airbrushing, you would type in /r/airbrush. That was it.

On Lemmy, there’s no central location for communities, but even worse is that most of the big instances WILL have a community with that name - it’ll just be a dead community that someone started but never took off, so there’s a bunch of false leads.

No, but there’s fragmentation of communities. Instead of one central place for the community to form, you have to look at dozens of locations, where there may be a sub, but it may have 1 post in the last 4 months.

Depends on the store. Some big store like Walmart and even smaller ones like gas stations operate essentially on consignment for large sections of the store.

They’ll have a Coca-Cola section on the shelves that’s reserved for Coke products and are even stocked by Coca-Cola employees, and Coke is paid when the store sells the product.

There are also brands that pay for their products specifically to be separated from the competition. For instance, if you go to the chip aisle, and you’ll find Tostito’s queso with the Tostidos chips. That queso isn’t located with the other cheese dips on the condiment aisle, because they pay for the stores not to have their impulse-buy products located where a customer can easily look and see that the other brand is 1/2 the price.

I think this is an artifact of what’s oddly the biggest weakness of the fediverse: decentralization.

When I used reddit back pre-api stuff, my front page was 100% niche subs I’d subscribed to, but those niches have trouble le growing here because there’s so many instances.

I was super active in the scuba subreddit. Here on Lemmy, there’s several scuba groups that tried to form, but none of them stuck because they were all on different instances instead of one central location where everyone could work together to make the community.

As a result, most of us haven’t been filtering out 99% of Lemmy because the 1% where we’d be active doesn’t exist. It’s like joining reddit and having your frontpage be /r/all. It’s a shitty experience that g9ves a lot of weight to political posts.

Shamefully.

Mozilla outage going to take a 90% hit to their income without going all-in on ads and user tracking.

Look up “depraved-heart murder.”

It’s when someone knowingly does something that’s so obviously likely to cause death or injury that that indifference to life can essentially be treated as intent, and if someone does as a result it isn’t manslaughter or wrongful death, but murder.

Classic examples would be arson or knowingly selling tainted medicine.

Obama had full control of both houses for 133 days, including the Holiday break.

He needed 60 seats in the Senate to stop Republican fillibusters. Ted Kennedy had a seizure during Obama’s inauguration dinner and never returned to vote, but didn’t step down. He eventually died, and was temporarily replaced by Paul Kirk on September 24, 2009, but in the Special Election for Kennedy’s seat, the Tea Party won and the Senate majority was no longer fillibuster-proof as of February 4, 2010.

Prior presidents had their assets placed in blind trusts, and they didn’t know where they were invested. They didn’t even know how wealthy they were until they left office.

I love how they wake up in my backpack so they can overheat AND drain the battery at the same time.

That’s efficiency.

I work for a city where the stupid-rich live. Their houses are NUTS. I recently approved construction of a 5,000sft guest house with a rooftop tennis court. We have over a dozen houses in active construction that cost over 15 million dollars, and no new structures being built under 4 million.

We actually have standards in our development code regarding servant’s quarters. And the most important thing to know about those standards is that they’re required to be smaller than the minimum allowable size for guest quarters. Can’t have the Servant’s getting all uppity.

But the thing is, they pay very little in taxes as a portion of their wealth. They have enough political power that they founded a 4mi^2 enclave as its own city entirely surrounded by a major city. They also managed to get their own school district. As a result, they have some of the lowest taxes in the state. Someone with a 7 million dollar house here will pay the same amount of money in property taxes as someone with a half-million dollar condo 2 miles away, because the rates for the school district and city for the wealthy are so low.

For utility districys, they get out of paying property tax by having the city provide it directly without a WCID by contracting to the major city next door that gives them the utilities at a loss to keep the rich assholes happy and supplying campaign donations.

All that to say, then people that are hurt by property taxes aren’t the rich. It’s people living in areas where the value of homes go up faster than income can keep up with the taxes. My parents eventually had to sell and move. And yeah, they made a nice profit off their house, but they still had to move away from the city they’d lived in for 60 years, and now live 30 minutes from the nearest gas station even though they used to be solidly urbanites.

When the insane Emperor Caligula was killed by his Praetorian guards and they installed Claudius in his place, the first thing the new Emperor did was execute the guards involved in the assassination.

The can’t legally make allowing the merger to be a conditionon a settlement agreement. So there’d be nothing to keep his petty ass from stopping it either way.

They’re greedy and would do anything for the merger, but Trump doesn’t honor his deals.