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Thanksgiving 2024
  • That's the point where I'd politely ask them to come outside with me, then beat the shit out of them while repeating "Your body (punch), my choice (punch)" until I felt they got the point.

  • Wall Street Giddy Over Coming Merger Boom as Trump Expected to Fire Lina Khan
  • If this results in the Kroger Albertsons merger going through I'm going to be so pissed.

    Aside from that, we have far too many monopolistic companies that need to be brought down a peg. This is going to be miserable.

  • This can't be real can it?
  • I actually think you're wrong. Having MAGA family members, I tuink they are legitimately brainwashed. They are in a bubble where they don't hear the bad about Trump. They only hear good things about him and ad things about his enemies. Some of what they hear is true, much of it is lies, all of it is intended to scare.

    I think that, had these people heard the same things the rest of us did, at least some of them would be voting differently. Not all, but enough.

  • This can't be real can it?
  • As an American who follows this stuff pretty closely, a national abortion ban will be opposed in the courts by the states, but it will very quickly get to the Supreme Court to assess the constitutionality of the ban. When congress passes a law, the president signs it, and the Supreme Court rules that the law is constitutional, that is basically the end of it. Our current court will absolutely uphold a national abortion ban.

    I think that the only way we avoid a national abortion ban under a Trump presidency is if the House of Representatives refuses to pass the ban. There is a slim chance that would happen but it's possible.

  • Bank of America will (stop|continue to) Accept $1 bills
  • Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that’s a completely different post all together.

    What do you replace them with? Coins have been tried and rejected by consumers a few times now.

  • At least a dozen mailed ballots intercepted in Mesa County before Colorado voters received them
  • The problem is that Republicans are being told that there is proof. That the fraud is rampant and everyone knows it. It's just that "they" keep removing and hiding the information.

    My mom seriously believes that there is mountains of proof and that she has seen it in the past, but can't find it anymore because it has been deleted from the internet.

  • Scheme to cast votes on stolen mail ballots thwarted by Colorado election officials.
  • You're probably right but I don't really get it. Mesa County is so red that Trump won by 28 points in 2020. What was this person trying to achieve? For that matter, what was Tina Peters was trying to achieve? I just don't understand how either of them could have made a difference when, in 2020, Trump won by over 25K votes out of a total of 91K votes cast and 107K registered voters.

  • Justice Department warns Elon Musk that his $1 million giveaway to registered voters may be illegal
  • ... or imprisoned not more than 5 years ...

    That said, your point isn't wrong. $10,000 is nothing in this context. Criminal fines should be in direct proportion to a person's income. Also, statutes, when they mention monetary value, should peg that value to invlation, income, or some other metric that scales with time. We have SOOOOO many laws on the books that use ridiculous numbers by modern standards but were reasonable at the time they were enacted.

  • What would you have done? White guy observing anti-black racism.

    I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

    The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

    What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

    Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

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    Bald Eagle at my local City Park

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    Multiple closeups of a daisy

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    Make it more obvious which user you are currently

    I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

    • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
    • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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    What's this Bug? @lemmy.ml vortic @lemmy.world

    Who is this beautiful, damaged specimen (Colorado, USA)?

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    How do some podcasts have location-based ads when my podcast player doesn't have location permissions?

    I use Podcast Addict and have recently noticed location-based ads in my podcasts. Adds that are local to my large town / small city. The app doesn't have location permissions, so how are the podcasts embedding localized ads?

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    Some better shots of American White Pelicans from the nearby lake (June 2023, Colorado)

    They decided to give a show today. Six of them were hanging out on the dock, but when I stopped to take pictures, they all decided to take off and do circles over the lake.

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    Barn Swallow (Colorado, June 2023)

    I got lucky and this guy posed for me for about five minutes. I tried to get some in flight, but they're simply too fast for me!

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    Great Blue Heron

    This beautiful bird has been hanging out at our local lake for the last several weeks. I've been trying to get some pictures of him and he finally got close enough for my lenses.

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    American White Pelican

    Three or four of these guys have been hanging out in the lake near my house.

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