Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Theoretically, yes. It happens all the time. X/Twitter did something like this with Brazil a couple years ago.

The two governments would negotiate the grievance. They could also go after other related businesses: When Xitter pulled out of Brazil, Brazil assessed Xitter's fines against Starlink.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? Look how close they are to the top!

(/s)

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

The hard working warehouse employees will be receiving unemployment. They just got several weeks of PTO.

The demolition and reconstruction is new work that will be going on for the next few years.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that the insurance industry is the underlying problem?

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

That was a late-stage enshittification; it's only been that way for a few years, and it was primarily used to suppress dissent.

It is absolutely not something we should be porting over to the fediverse.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago

Where do you get this idea?

Where do you get the idea that it is at all possible to stand up on your soapbox in the town square, addressing every Tom, Dick, and Harry, yet keeping certain members of the public from hearing your speech?

When I logout of my instance, you can't distinguish me from any other anonymous user. I'm part of the anonymous masses. If you want to keep me from seeing your content, you can't post it for the anonymous masses to see.

Facebook (and other proprietary, centralized services) give the impression that this can be done, but the way they are doing it is by refusing to show content to anonymous users. You can't do that with federated services.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Who insures the insurers?

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

About 11 meters.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Child Rapist Orders Taco, news at 11.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Flavor causes cancer.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Term limits in SCOTUS would increase the current president's power to exert influence in the court. That sounds great, until we realize that about half the time, the president is a complete asshole who shouldn't be in charge of a McDonald's franchise, let alone the country.

To reduce a president's undue influence on the court, we need to strictly limit the number of justices they can add per term. If three justices reach their term limits, and two others die or retire, the president is flipping five justices. That's a terrible idea.

What we could do is eliminate the fixed size of the court. Eliminate the requirement that the court must consist of 9 people. Instead, the president appoints two justices per term, shortly after their first and third years in office. The court's size will likely fluctuate between 10 and 15 justices.

To further remove political influence, we could introduce a means of replenishing the court without political grandstanding. Should the court membership fall below 5 members due to some kind of disaster or tragedy, (or should the president fail to appoint or the Senate confirm a presidential appointment, or should too many members of the current court have a conflict of interest and not be eligible to hear a case) appellate court justices are elevated to the supreme court in order of seniority.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

The meme isn't about committing genocide with nuclear weapons. The meme is about having made a ridiculous and obscene ultimatum. It's about his intimidation tactics. He tries to bluff his way through negotiations with outlandish threats, and looks like an idiot when anyone calls his bluffs.

 

I do steady, part time work as a blacksmith, because I love it.

I also work for a hot air balloon ride company, again, because I love it. But, the balloon business is seasonal and weather dependent. We fly about 8 months out of the year, and about half our scheduled flights are canceled due to weather.

I'm looking for one more hobby/gig to do in the off-season or when it's just not flyable.

Something more interesting than DoorDash... I really don't want to go back to that.

 

The Outrageous: Homeowner Lannie Fentress was beaten and arrested for trying to put out a fire in his own home.

The Interesting: A special grand jury assembled to investigate the charges refused to indict Mr. Fentress.

The Amusing: That same grand jury turned around and indicted Police Sgt. DJ Newton, the arresting officer.

 

Gripe #1: From inbox, replying directly to a comment, I get the error "Could not determine post to comment to". I don't have this problem when I am viewing a comment in a post's, thread, only when viewing it from the inbox.

Gripe #2: Tapping the comment in the inbox takes me to the comment thread for the post, but does not take me to the specific comment within that thread. In a long thread, I can't always find the specific comment I am trying to reply to.

Edit: version 0.2.4

Edit2: Gripe #3: haven't figured out how to edit posts within Thunder; had to switch to Connect to make these edits...

 

I am getting this error pretty regularly. I'll see a message in my inbox, and when I tap through to view it in context, it's missing. Can't find a cause or a workaround.

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