spongebue @ spongebue @lemmy.world

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At first I thought it was Instacart with fewer things available. After reading the press release "news article" it looks like it's a way for people to buy things (no doubt at inflated gig economy app prices) for a party they aren't necessarily hosting. Basically chipping in however many dollars but with a thing "attached" to it.

Yeah, if I'm hosting a party I'm not making people use that.

Her district is red enough to support her batshit insanity. Georgia as a state as a whole, especially one that goes into a runoff, probably not. They did reject weirdos like Kelly Loefler, after all.

But I'm usually very bad at calling things like this.

“Due process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.”

Even if that were true, a deported person is generally sent back to their country a free (wo)man. Unless the destination country has other business with them, they're free to return to life as usual. When you are paying someone else to imprison them, it's not deportation. When you do it without due process, it's a concentration camp.

$5 says they used an LLM to make that response

I'm not Canadian, but I've previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you're representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.

HCR 1013, which would proclaim in Oklahoma that “Christ is King,” arguing that it excludes Oklahomans who identify with other religions as well as Oklahomans who are not religious

So... Christ is who Christians worship. Glad the legislature could clear that up for us.

Different fonts would be a characteristic of art. Can't have that!

Basic geography could go a long ways, if people believe you. At this point people were exploring the world trying to find the spice Islands, but didn't know WTF they were doing. Magellan navigating the strait that would be named after him was impressive at its time, but now we know the best way from Europe to Asia (and spices and stuff) by sea without any modern canals is by going around Africa. Like, it still sucks and it's a long trip but it's doable compared to going to damn near Antarctica.

This assumes I don't die, can communicate, and am not in the then-unpopulated (and quite landlocked) current location of Denver, Colorado.

Edit: bonus fact: if a sailor managed to smuggle a knapsack full of cloves back, it was worth about as much a house

I think you'd sometimes see it as "rapeseed oil" - still not great, but better.

That oil is more commonly called canola, by the way. Canadian Oil, Low Acid. Used for the same reason the motto was changed.

It's all about having multiple ways to control things, smart and dumb. For example, in my house:

• When I turn off the hallway lights at night, it turns all the lights off in the house. They're still controllable by physical switch, and that one light I turn off is just a trigger for that automation
• I have a ton of windows, most of which face east. This is wonderful in winter, but turns my house into an oven early in the morning on a sunny summer day. I also like my privacy at night. So I have an automation to open the motorized shades at sunrise (fully on a cold/cloudy day, otherwise only partially) and close them at sunset. But there's still a little button on the shades if I need to open or close one (rare)
• My wife would always forget to turn on the bathroom fan when she showered, so the bedroom turned into a sauna. So naturally I got a humidity monitor and made an automation to turn that fan on when it gets too humid (and another to kill that fan when it's run for 10 minutes)

All of this runs on Home Assistant, which is on a Raspberry Pi I have at home. The only connection to the outside world is my weather checks

Automation doesn't mean it has to have zero human interaction to work, just that things happen automatically somehow. My oven automatically maintains a temperature, but that doesn't mean I didn't set that temperature first

Totally with you there (probably a big selection bias on Lemmy, of course). Especially the draft. It's... Announcements of people getting job offers. Yay?

That said, look up some of Jon Bois's videos on YouTube if you have some time. I only learned about him because he's a delight on Bluesky, and he has a kind of interesting/entertaining way to tell stories about sports. At least, the couple videos I just started watching have been!

That said, it may not be the best for current events.

The original is blocked in the US, but I found this and it seems to work: https://youtu.be/tDYjZ36IGfE

Definitely a pretty good representation! You know, as good as you can get when your instrument is grooved asphalt and rubber

It's a different song that I don't recognize, but it does sound correct for whatever it's trying to be, if that makes sense

Congratulations. You did a great job ignoring the rest of what I had to say.

If he were capable of embarrassment that might do it, but apparently that's not happening here

And tying it to the Bluesky system? Not sure the cost of that (I swear I saw it was a potential monetization they were looking into) but also the time to figure it out isn't practical for everyone.

Because the headline is kinda shit: they're no longer doing international shipments direct to consumer worth more than $1000, because US customs is making things so screwy.

Must be 4/20 somewhere...

For what it's worth on the voice thing, assuming that's what "he sounds like that" refers to: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279176/rfk-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia

That's the result of a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, which has afflicted Kennedy for decades.

If you've got any evidence that it was heroin that caused that neurological condition I'm all ears, but we have a pretty reliable source on this one.