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  • What happened if the 5th attempt failed?

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  • Yeah but they didn't limit the buffer. You had to wait 15min for it to load but once it did you could watch a whole low quality video file straight through with no shuddering or stopping.

  • Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?

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  • That process is more dangerous because it's less constrictive. Going through the legislative branch limits it to one amendment and is a drawn out public process. At a constitutional convention the representatives can debate and pass anything they want to with the required 3/4 vote without public notice or input. I don't trust our current political system not to add corporate written amendments to the constitution if they have the chance to do so without public review.

  • $30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm

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  • The article indicates that the bid process for the wreaths is open to other vendors and administered by a third party. Yes the relationship is a red flag but the article says that they make all required disclosures and there aren't any indications that they're doing anything illegal or unethical. The guy founded the charity, it looks like he believes in the cause and is willing to provide the wreaths for the lowest price.

    As to your second point, I accept that you don't value the charity's cause. I don't either, I don't see dead bodies as having value beyond their usefulness for medical donation and research. I say harvest what's useful and compost the rest. We're in the minority though. Culturally, and emotionally for many families, graves have value and caring for graves is a way to remember the deceased individual. It's what the charity was founded to do and, according to the article, is the primary source of the charity's income. Having different values and priorities from the charity isn't really applicable to what's presented in the article.

  • $30M military wreath charity buys solely from its founders' farm

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  • I get that a close connection between a for-profit company and a charity is a red flag but I don't really see an issue in this situation based on the information in the article. They don't give same year numbers or how many wreaths are delivered so this quick math is definitely not correct but 21.5 million divided by 3 million (number of volunteers) is $7.17 per wreath. That incorrectly assumes that the charity's payment is the same year to year but it also assumes that each volunteer will only lay one wreath and that the for-profit is only providing wreaths. The number should be a ballpark. The company gets the majority of its income from the charity but it doesn't appear to be taking advantage of the charity. Is there more information that shows that there's a problem with how the charity operates?

  • Lemmy411 - Don't know where to find what you're looking for? @lemmy.ca
    can_you_change_your_username @fedia.io

    Is there a community where it's appropriate to post ttrpg character concepts and ask for feedback?

  • Do you cheat in video games?

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  • Absolutely. I usually do some gameplay straight to experience the game as intended and add cheats gradually to see how much difference they actually make but cheats are just part of customizing your experience to make the game as enjoyable for you as possible.

    You're younger than me, cheats weren't stigmatized when I was young. Warpzones in SMBros were basically required to call yourself an experienced player and mastering the Konami code was a basic gaming achievement. I've always viewed learning to use cheats and exploits to be one of the things that transitioned someone from a casual player to a gamer.

  • Laura Loomer Warns, ‘The GOP Has a Nazi Problem’

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  • They're still in the early stages when they go after the liberals, immigrants, gays, trans, and disabled. Don't worry, they'll get around to openly criminalizing racial and religious minorites. They just have to ease into the more controversial targets and tactics.

  • THC gummies and drinks face ban under provision in government spending bill

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  • Hemp derived THC was unintentionally made legal in a 2018 farm bill. These products have been available pretty much nationwide since then.

  • This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change

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  • I can see covid in that graph!

  • House Republicans Claim They Were Blindsided by MAGA Senators’ Cash Grab

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  • With line item vetoes we'd never pass another appropriations bill and we shouldn't. If the president can just mark out whatever he doesn't want in a budget and keep the rest then legislative negotiations are meaningless. Influencing the power of the purse is basically the only power that the minority party has in congress and with a line item veto the only real option they have for exercising that power is to shut it down completely.

  • Air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites

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  • He's pretty much directly responsible for the atc problems. Their union went on strike during his presidency and he did mass firings and union busting. It takes years to fully train and qualify an atc and the job has an incredible amount of stress. They aren't easy to recruit and train. We've had a national shortage of atc since his firings. If he had negotiated with them in good faith we wouldn't have had a sudden shortage that we couldn't catch up from then and their working conditions would have improved making them easier to recruit and train.

  • lemm.ee users, how well did the switch end for you?

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  • Switched a bit before it shut down. Lemme.ee felt like the best fit on lemmy for me. It was well run and the devs were mostly neutral on lemmy disputes and controversies. It was exactly what I think a general use instance should be. I'm happy on fedia. It's run in a similar way and the devs communicate with the users well and were responsive when I had an problem. I actually like fedia a little better just because I like kbin/mbin better.

    I'm a little concerned for fedia though. When I came from reddit I started with kbin.social then I went to lemm.ee now I'm on fedia. I hope the curse has run it's course.

  • Can anyone recommend some extremely comfortable men's shoes that come in at least an EE wide width for every day wear?

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  • I like Saucony. The have wide versions, are comfortable, and hold up well. I get shoes from their Cohesion series which is one of their less expensive lines. $60-$80 on Amazon.

  • "How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?"

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  • The US has one of the oldest living dialects of English. Linguists argue whether Appalachian English is a mostly preserved dialect of 16th century Elizabethan English or an unusually conservative dialect of 18th century Colonial English.

    Y'ont folks ta git back ta talkin right have em talk hillbilly.

  • John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump

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    1. There were thirteen colonies that declared independence and became the first thirteen states. Also George Washington predicted exactly that and tried to stop the formation of political parties and normalize the appointment of political rivals to cabinet positions to prevent it. Unfortunately he wasn't successful in either of those things.

  • John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump

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  • He used to be moderated at least somewhat by concern for his legacy. I think that the abortion ruling ended that. He knows that that ruling is going to be talked about in a similar manner to Dredd Scott and that it alone would nullify anything that could be argued as a restained and responsible exercise of judicial power. When you sign on to a partisan ruling that strips fundamental rights you give up on legacy. Now that that's not a concern anymore what he's protecting is his position in the conservative movement. He wants to make sure he stays in a position of power when the Nazis take over.

  • Jesus was a historical person. This doesn’t mean Christianity is correct, but there is sufficient historical evidence and most mainstream scholars of the era agree on this.

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  • The majority of scholars agree that while Josephus likely mentioned Jesus, the more explicit references to his divinity and resurrection are the product of later Christian interpolations, aimed at enhancing the narrative to align with Christian doctrine.

    https://www.bartehrman.com/josephus/

    Josephus was born shortly after a historical Jesus would have died. His mentions of Jesus in his writings was from more than sixty years later when christians were an active and growing cult in the region where he lived. I agree that Jesus was likely a historical person but Josephus is only a point of evidence for it. It's the easiest known mention of Jesus and not too much after he would have lived but Josephus's writings are far from proof of a historical Jesus.

  • Why are all "doctors" on youtube full of shit?

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  • Momma doctor Jones is an obgyn. Chubby emu is a pharmacist who is a professor in a doctorial program and biochemical researcher. Chubby emu is especially good, his videos are presentations of case studies which includes explanations of terminology and chemical processes.

  • Why are all "doctors" on youtube full of shit?

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  • Chubby emu is still making videos. I'm not familiar with medlife crisis but I'll look them up. I can also recommend DrMike and mamma doctor Jones.

  • Are you even old enough to remember number 1?

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  • For a long time I thought that a rotary phone was one of those old wall mounted phones with the horn that you had to crank to make a call because all of those "things people born after 19XX don't recognize" lists had rotary phones on them. I was born after 19XX and basically everyone I knew had one of these so it couldn't be a rotary phone.