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  • It was Mitch McConnell and the Republics that blocked Merrick Garland, not the Democrats.

  • the entire point of the court is to evaluate legislation against our constitution

    That is not the entire point of SCOTUS. That is not even in the constitution; it is a power the court gave itself in Marbury v. Madison.

    Most SCOTUS decisions are judging appeals against federal law (including the constitution). Occasionally they rule a federal law unconstitutional, but not usually.

  • Are you suggesting stones suffer psychological effects?

  • They probably know that if they put corn starch on Stonehenge they'll be in jail for a few days and get community service, but if they put spray paint on a billionaire's yacht, they'd get shot.

  • acab

  • There is no reason why the message sync that works from phone to phone could not be implemented on the desktop client as well.

  • I feel for the hundreds of engineers at Microsoft who have been yelling about these security issues since day one, but cannot say "I told you so" because they'd get fired.

  • To be clear, it is four times that pedestrians have to cross, not four times that drivers are encouraged to not slow down. Drivers are not explicitly encouraged to not slow down, but the point of the diverging diamond is to make drivers not have to slow down.

  • This is expensive to address because you have to separate cyclists out to the right before the right car lane splits for right turns before the crossover. And then you have to build a bridge or tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians. On each side.

    Really, any road busy enough to justify a diverging diamond probably already needed separated bike lanes. But in America (motto: "If you aren't in a car, you don't matter"), there almost certainly was not any cycling infrastructure there before.

    There is one of these near me. Their solution for pedestrians is to make them cross the high speed outer lanes four times (where drivers are encouraged to not slow down). Their solution for cyclists is take the lane and pray or get off and do what the pedestrians have to do.

    Edited for clarity: pedestrians cross four times, not drivers are encouraged to not slow down four times.

  • Diverging diamonds are great if your only consideration is car throughput.

    If you are considering people walking or riding bicycles, they are shit.

  • Get an A/V receiver, a computer monitor or dumb TV, and speakers. Then you can get a Roku streaming player and it cannot show you anything when you do not have its input selected on the receiver.

    Even an inexpensive pair of bookshelf speakers placed on either side of the TV will sound better than built-in TV speakers. Add a center speaker and a subwoofer drastically improved sound.

    Non-4k AV receivers are dirt cheap used.

  • You can turn off search-in-url-bar.

  • You do not want to stop getting security updates.

  • I will never understand why browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab = false is not the default, or why it is not an option in the Tab section of settings.

  • My complaint is no so much the requirement of a phone number as the requirement of an Android/iPhone app.

    The desktop app should be a first-class client.

  • The use case (as opposed to public transit and stationary grid batteries) is that rich people get to feel good about themselves while still being subsidized by and separated from the working class.

  • Democrats don't just want a pro-genocide corporate shill, they want an 80-year-old pro-genocide corporate shill.