heavyboots

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[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, when the award nominee lists come out, I jump on those if they sound like books I’d like. And of course, new books by past authors I like. And generally books that I start seeing a lot of people reviewing favorably or just getting a lot of buzz I will at least evaluate.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This brings up an interesting point. On Mastodon, besides Block User, there is also a Block Instance option. Will we ever see that on Lemmy? Seems like an easy way to resolve what has been a big issue for me (and obviously other people too).

Aka, you don't really want to start over on another instance (hey, not migration tools yet!) but you also don't really want to see posts from a specific server any more. Rather than people having to lobby the server admins about whether or not to defederate, wouldn't it just be easier to allow user-level instance blocking? (I know I say "just" while knowing zip about how hard that as in the back end, but yes, from a logistics perspective, seems like you could make a lot of spam-level requests leave the admin's plates by implementing this.)

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

And yet what I really, really want is the ability to block instances… any idea if/when that is coming? I know it's a thing on Mastodon so it should be one here too, hopefully.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 110 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TLDR version is that Amendment 14 Section 3 says if you were involved in an attempt to overthrow the government you no longer are allowed to hold public office.

Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Economic, environmental and health. It’s always going to be a ton cheaper not to own a car that needs gas, maintenance and insurance, plus you generate less pollution in a myriad of ways, and by biking or walking places you obviously increase your personal fitness and health levels.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is it just me or is this the wrong link? Here is one that goes to an actual article about it.

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-world-largest-asteroid-impact.html

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Cannot upvote this enough…

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I feel like a Brother laser printer is a much better solution unless you specifically need color. Also, if you try and print with a laser printer after a couple months of disuse, it should fire right up and print. The same is not necessarily true of an ink jet, where things may have dried out and clogged.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

eInteresting. I hadn't connected it quite like that. But still, the disparity in poll sizes to me suggests that a poll size of 1300 is very low and possibly fairly low accuracy—certainly much more dependent on where they poll, who they get from that location, etc.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If this poll is only of 1300 people, vs the recent Gallup poll of something like 80,000 then it's pretty inaccurate. This Gallup poll still had 62% supporting Ukraine's reclamation of territory.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/508037/americans-support-ukraine-war-effort.aspx

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just uncheck the ones you don’t want to see on your settings. Should be available on the website version.

EDIT: Settings->3 line menu->Other (By default it starts on Appearance I think)

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