EndOfLine

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[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Only US citizens can vote in US federal elections. That is a federal restriction which is not impacted by this.

This is adding an additional requirement to show proof of citizenship before even being allowed to cast a vote.

According to this, people cannot vote for local or state level issues if they do not show a passport, birth certificate, certificate of citizenship, or other such document. Pretty sure drivers licenses and state issues IDs are not proof of citizenship, so a lot of people are probably going to be surprised when they show up and are not allowed to vote for governor, state legislature, etc because they don't have the right documentation.

This makes voting more restrictive, not less.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Darn it. That is disappointing.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It then ruled that the First Amendment does not apply “where a defendant creates unreasonably dangerous conditions, and where his creation of those conditions causes a plaintiff to sustain injuries.”

Did they just make it easier for Trump to be held accountable for Jan 6?

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's this generation that is the problem and not a systemic issue of employers wanting slaves instead of employees.

Which generation exactly is supposed to be the "workshy" one?

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not sure if this better direcribes introverts or just men in general.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Why I never trust anything that brags about being the "fastest growing" anything.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get that it started 60 years ago with white flight and was exasperated 40 years ago with the consolidation of major changes, but why has their been no progress in correcting this? Why are zoning laws not being updated? Why do grocery store chains think inner cities are riskier? Why are new stores, like the referenced Whole Foods, not lasting? Why the focus on supermarkets instead of smaller neighborhood grocery stores that don't have the same logistic issues?

Those questions are not directed at you. They are more a representation my disappointment and disillusionment. Thank you for the reply.

I guess that I was hoping that there would be more current information and not just an article about how nobody cares so nothing has been done in more than half a century.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Can somebody help me out? The title of the article suggests it will provide insight into the cause of large grocery retailers avoiding certain communities but all I am seeing is talk about the what and nothing about the why. Did I miss it or did I just fall for clickbait?

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Several hours? Those people are parked and charging their car while they are doing something else. It takes about 15 minutes to get 200 miles of range at a Tesla charging station. People sitting in their cars, waiting will be there for far shorter periods of time.

A vast majority of charging also takes place at the drivers destination (such as the drivers home), saving on the time it takes to go to a gas station to refuel (not to mention the time saved from not needing oil changes, smog checks, etc).

As for what to do while waiting, I'll either use the time to grab snack, go to the bathroom, or watch something on on of the streaming services available from the console.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, but they would be separate accounts (comments, subscribed y communities, messages, etc). I have an account on lemm.ee and lemmy.world which I actively use. It can get a bit annoying making sure that I stay subscribed to the same communities on both, but it's also nice to get different feeds.

Another option would be to stand up your own closed instance, so your account is the only one. That way storage and bandwidth should be minimal enough that you can host at home and also have full control over settings on your instance.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not lost, but inactive / isolated. As I understand it, when a user on insurance A subscribes to a community, votes, or comments on a community on instance B, that content is copied to insurance A and the two instances will sync their changes together. If instance B shuts down or the two instances defederate, then the content on instance A stays intact, but it no longer syncs with the source of truth.

[–] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Is each instance like another person with a server?

Yeah. I would assume that most, if not all, open instances are going through a 3rd party hosting service, but nothing stopping them from being hosted on hardware in somebodies home.

Could that person just shut it down whenever they wanted to?

Yup. Anytime and for any reason. It might cause a moment of disruption, but the beauty of federation is that you can always setup an account on a new instance or create your own.

Are there any companies that have invested in hosting Lemmy/ other fediverse servers?

Yes. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Facebook federating their Threads services. I'm sure that there are others.

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