Man I wish more politicians were godless. As it stands, atheists and “nones” are still grossly under represented at all levels, even relative to the number that exist in the county.

Average citizens won’t necessarily call themselves atheist, but even if you include agnostics and “nones” and other unaffiliated people, it’s somewhere around 30%. In Congress, it’s four people (which is better than last Congress when it was just mother fucking Kristen Sinema.). It’s worse than pretty much every other religious categorization.

Here’s an article on it: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/01/02/faith-on-the-hill-2025/

I was thinking Lemmy isn’t even a real drug. It’s that weird kid who hands you a paper bag to hyperventilate until you feel high.

Or maybe that shit with the whipped cream cans. Except it’s whipped beans.

There was talk about doing that officially, actually, before our world became collectively stupider in recent years. The argument is actually to get people to take them more seriously since they cause deaths just as much as any other climate crisis. Name and rating, similar to hurricanes.

I mean, unless you play the last four decades of games in emulation… or the couple hundred thousand indie games on steam… or the other few hundred thousand mobile games or…

Oh, you mean your company profits are in crisis. Yeah. Good.

When the dust settles, we’ll see. It’s unfortunately difficult to prove something like that, but if we ever overcome fascism (hopefully peacefully…) then the case can be revisited or they can be pardoned. At the very least, I can believe that was their intention, though.

I know you’re making the point that ICE murderers should be tried and convicted, but real talk, the Jan 6 convictions (mentioned in the article) are more in line with what a violent conviction would look like).

They, of course, got pardoned… but naturally if the system worked as intended, pardons wouldn’t exist or be needed and sentencing wouldn’t be politically motivated. Ironically at this point the only possibility for justice for these 9 are pardons, though…

You’re referring to this part?

“Prosecutors in the case charged and secured conviction of eight of the nine defendants for providing material support for terrorists. The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.”

I don’t know the details but it sounds like a concealment charge, which again isn’t much of a thing unless you’re falsely charged with terrorism. It’s not so much the zines as the association-- but 30 years is again, obviously bullshit.

I can’t look into specifics now, but is that one able to appeal? I recall it’s the odd case of the 9.

Reading the article, the guy who shot an officer with an AK probably should get time while the people who were just setting off fireworks and slashing tires, probably a misdemeanor, all things equal. (It being a government vehicle might count it as a felony, though IANAL).

The part that should disturb people isn’t their arrest, but the upcharge to terrorism, which frankly has been a potential problem we’ve had since Bush era politics but only now getting utilized in this way. That changes due process, and if they continue to push for those types of charges, that’s a problem and patriot act era laws absolutely need to get reversed if we’re to ever really be safe.

That said, just to clarify those who only read the headline: this isn’t the administration just targeting political opponents and calling them antifa to get them arrested. They got arrested for crimes like vandalism and assault and the antifa terrorism crap was tagged on. You’re still mostly safe to participate in peaceful protests, so continue putting on pressure.

I’m glad they’re doing ok. I actually didn’t mind their drama at all, they just had a bad string of things going on in their life. I recall them moving to Europe (or saying they were) at some point and then gone.

Rather a nothing burger of a story, glad to at least confirm that without paywall, lol.

With how his cult is, making them disappear is probably just too much trouble. His audience is gullible enough they likely don’t even need to make arrests, though.

Reading the article I can immediately tell this monument is going to stay fucked until the administration is out; they’re going to drain it, “fix it”, and have it happen again. Honestly, perfect metaphor for the administration, though.

Wow, the lies the spokespeople say on their side always piss me off most, maybe because that 30-something percent who believe that shit.

It very much exists, and I second the recommendations for Parsec (for anything) or the network modes in Retroarch, Dolphin, etc (for emulation). The emulators imo work better, and Dolphin even has support for GBA controllers for GameCube stuff like Crystal Chronicles.

Those have given me the best luck, although my friend used to have terrible lag from being half a world away. Seems to be a little better now, especially with Parsec, but since it’s not client side it’s never going to have perfect ping for very time sensitive things. You’re ultimately doing a low latency stream, so it’s about as good as games played off a stream.

Trump >= 0.37 Americas

However, the delta Trump is about -0.13 Americas over 1.7 months, with some margin of error.

I wonder if you can get it to auto run if you stick it on a USB and let someone find it…

I’m a little curious if this helps or hurts. Collins tries to pass herself off as the most moderate of Republicans, so it could chill her usual base… but, she also is disliked by MAGA folk, so this might give them marching orders.

My guess is it’s a net negative because she’s already done her homework and knows she needs to position herself a moderate to win Maine… especially if Platner struggles with them as I think he might.

Oh that’s fucking shady. It opens with retirement but you read more and it’s basically saying you can’t tax anyone who owns anything, including things like business or stocks.

Ugh I bet it passes, props are a mistake when the population is so ill informed.

Man, the juiciness of the mayoral race almost makes up for how the governor’s race was and went. Almost.

It’s already fun pissing off electoral deniers, as we do every election since mail in became the norm.