Two of the court's conservative justices—Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito—are in their seventies, while Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal, will turn 70 next month.
So we need to replace Thomas and Alito with progressive justices and either keep Sotomayor or replace her with a progressive justice as well to get to 5 non-conservative justices.
That's a big IF. 4 years for 4 SCOTUS justices to retire? And the conservatives know this? I bet Alito and Thomas won't retire just to fuck the country up longer. Especially Thomas. He hates this country and every non-rich person in it.
Well the carboniferous period lasted 60 million years. If life takes even a fraction of that to figure out plastics, humans will be long, long dead by the time they do. But I'm sure it'll be something interesting for future non-human civilizations to ponder over.
Every state needs to have a rigorous and regular car inspection policy. Coal rolling (and all other exhaust modifications) need to be illegal at the federal level, or mandated to be illegal at the state level. They don't even purport to have an effect on efficiency or performance like some other exhaust modifications. They are objectively worse in every single metric beside looks, which is subjective besides. They are an attack on the environment, other motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, and people who live in the surrounding areas.
I've been behind a shit-stacker in a car and they blinded me when they chugged from a traffic light. I can't imagine how impossible and awful being around one on a bicycle would be.
Two Waller police officers arrived at the scene and, after taking some pictures, moved the broken bikes to the side of the road. When the cops told everyone that they could go home, Ferrell was aghast, “I was like, ‘Go home? These people need to go to jail.’” He told the cops he’d been coal rolled by the teenage driver, and it appeared the boy was attempting to coal roll the group of bike riders when he slammed into them.
Ferrell knew what professional police work looked like. His brother was a cop in Houston for 25 years and his dad worked at the prison unit in Sugarland. “Neither one of these cops were professionals at all,” he says.
Not to change the subject, but yeeeah that's about standard for cops. Asking them to do their jobs is too much.
You can be pro-choice and be a conservative. The divisions between conservative, progressive, etc. are not well-defined, strong boundaries but ideologies. In general if you profess a majority of political opinions that are opposed to your country's/locale's conservative policies then it might be hard for you to justify it. But there are pro-choice American Republicans. There are pro-LGBT American Republicans. There are even pro-democracy American Republicans (a shocker, I know).
But I'm contending that American Libertarians (as in the party, not the very vague ideological notion) are Conservatives and very close to American Republicans. They share, in effect if not in stated policy, the same stances as Republicans based on their support for bills and politicians. They are essentially just a slight white-washed versions of Republicans.
Did I say we need to keep fttp voting? Hell no. I advocate against it.
Good, me too. But you're not talking about something that will take years to decades. You're talking about November. Try to stay on the topic you yourself raised and try not to increase voter apathy with your pointless whining. You know who wants democrats and leftists to be disillusioned about voting for Biden? Trump supporters. So try not to sound like them.
It's a "no true scotsman" but those aren't leftists. Leftists don't praise and try to emulate autocrats. Those are people pretending to be leftists who are trying to co-opt, radicalize, or confuse leftists.
Leftism by definition is opposed to authoritarians.
Hmm. I wonder where Lemmy is on the social media virality train. I think the flow used to be (roughly, many years ago): twitter, reddit, instagram, facebook...............myspace.
Yeah. I had assumed they infused, soaked or injected the ethanol after cooking the hot dogs.
Also ethanol doesn't get entirely cooked out of food. It depends on the cooking method and how long. It can take hours for the majority to be cooked out. But unless your dish is mostly alcohol or you're eating an absolute ton of it, it probably won't matter for blood alcohol level. It will matter for any recovering alcoholics, though!
It's well known that generative AI cannot fucking spell. It doesn't know how to because it wasn't programmed with actual logic. It's trained to find patterns and fill results with things that match the pattern. So it somehow deduced "um" and "fruit" both needed to be in the results and searched for that, but then it doesn't know what actual fruits are and it doesn't actually know how to spell so when a result turned up "coconut" it couldn't tell it didn't end in "um".
Edit: I went and tested it with copilot. oddly enough it could do the spelling with fruits but NOT with prime numbers. It wasn't just a list of all primes, it just couldn't spell numbers.
Also you can put a steel crash bar on the front that completely bypasses the crumple zones and presents hazards to both pedestrians and passengers solely because it makes the owner feel "tough".
The Tesla inspectors who were there and even described that the vehicle "can be dangerous" panicked but helped.
No. This should never have been approved for sale. A consumer vehicle cannot be touted as "dangerous" by the customer representatives except as in ways accepted by all passenger vehicles. This isn't a work vehicle with special licensing or training needed. This thing is so dangerous, shoddy and badly built it should never have received certification to be sold as a new car.
I don't know what happens to hot dog meat if it's soaked/injected with ethanol to get it to 12% alc/vol (can you even legally have a solid food that specifies a liquid volume %?) but I can't expect it is anything good.
One thing that confuses me: Romulans rebelled against the Vulcan society and values. But they still have some of the basic bowl cut hair styles. I feel like they should have mohawks or spikes.
Ellis, who tearfully pleaded guilty in October to a felony in Georgia over her failed efforts to overturn Trump’s loss there
Ellis was sentenced to five years probation in the Georgia case and was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. She also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in their case against Trump and other co-defendants
Pleaded guilty to a felony and she gets probation and community service? I got community service for a drinking ticket in college. I should've tried to overthrow democracy instead. She should be kissing the court's feet she isn't in prison.
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So we need to replace Thomas and Alito with progressive justices and either keep Sotomayor or replace her with a progressive justice as well to get to 5 non-conservative justices.
That's a big IF. 4 years for 4 SCOTUS justices to retire? And the conservatives know this? I bet Alito and Thomas won't retire just to fuck the country up longer. Especially Thomas. He hates this country and every non-rich person in it.