I think the judge gives him an extremely stern last-chance warning tomorrow and if he does it again, he gets cited for contempt. Doesn't have to be much, chuck him in a private cell in the Manhattan Detention Center for 1 night with Secret Service outside the door, but it seriously hurts the rule of law to have him able to get away with this sort of crap with no consequences.
There's legitimately not enough space for everyone to bring a carry-on, especially on smaller planes; until that changes, carry-on fees are as good a way to allocate that space as any.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust faction of hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain....
Vonnegut wasn't a Too Good For This recluse like Pynchon or Salinger or whoever, and the content of his books made him fairly well insulated against charges of being a sellout; they probably offered him a bunch of money and he shrugged and said sure.
Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
Ginsburg was worse; Feinstein at least was doing this in a situation where if she did keel over, a Democratic governor would replace her with somebody whose politics were broadly similar to her own, but Ginsburg knew perfectly well that her replacement might undo everything she accomplished and she refused to retire despite that.
They only said they'd do that if she took a leave of absence. The next 4 oldest Senators are Grassley (90) - who's on Judiciary, Bernie (82), McConnell (81), and Risch (80 - Republican from Idaho); if they start playing the "no committee replacements for dead senators" game it's likely to come back and bite them in the ass very quickly.
They very well might, but Biden has already had 3 years of appointing judges, and he's already gotten probably the only Supreme Court appointment he's going to get for this term. Refusing to let them replace Feinstein now gains them little - maybe a couple of extra unfilled district court slots - while if a Republican wins the White House and then Grassley dies in 2025/2026, the consequences for Republican judicial confirmations could be catastrophic.
I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.
(I think the reality is that they're mining that data to identify a small number of people susceptible to high-value scams - like getting addicted to an F2P mobile game and spending $1000s on it - and the rest of us just get generic infill)
Or - as many of us hope for - we manage to make the economics of the fediverse work (don't forget to support your instances, people) and the most valuable users move to blissful ad-free places like Lemmy and Mastodon.
Indeed, throw in open-source AI (thanks, weirdly, to Zuckerberg) and Wikipedia and you can start to see the contours of a post-advertising internet.
Connecticut is especially dicey because they have a 1:4 ratio right up to age 3; if you have 2 kids under 3, like one of the mothers in this article, you're effectively paying 1/2 of a full-time employee's salary plus your share of all of the other costs (rent, utilities, insurance, supplies, administration) associated with running a daycare.
Childcare is an absurdly labor-intensive business and I don't know how to make it work for non-wealthy people without massive subsidies.
With him, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, and Alan Rickman all gone, the only members of the Hogwarts Professor Tontine left are Maggie Smith and Warwick Davis.
I wouldn't discount Harris' innate advantages there too; he was 10 years older than Gambon, aged more poorly (having been an alcoholic hellraiser in his younger years), and his natural delivery - even when he was much younger - had that sort-of wizened wheezing sound to it; "old and physically frail but with incredible magic power" was sort of baked in even before he added any actual acting to the mix.
But I don't know if there's an alternative who would have been better in that regard; the three I'm aware of them talking about were Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, and Peter O'Toole, but the latter two would have played him very much like Gambon did, and I'm not sure if Lee could have pulled off "frail" either given his voice + physical stature.
I mean that was more-or-less Werner Herzog's natural delivery, they just had him go in and read a buncha lines; somebody decided that Basically Werner Herzog was the right fit for that character and then they went out and got him to do it.
(I imagine this is how Stephen Tobolowsky gets many of his acting jobs too)
The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
This seems kind of... cruel, honestly. I mean the kid is 4; I could imagine a 9 or 10 year old being mature enough to view this as an honor / thrill of a lifetime, but 4 is reallllly pushing it.
I still haven’t figured how to escape an ampersand in Lemmy post titles (which regards ‘&’ as a control character). So I chose as similar an alternative character as possible. \
When the "disagreement" is that your nosy Boomer Karen coworkers mis-gender you or disapprove of the way you live your life or think it's NBD that by the time you're their age we're going to be in the "find out" phase of the biggest disaster to hit Earth's biosphere in 65 million years, the problem isn't really with Gen Z.
One thing that would go a long way in helping with that would be if we improved the quality of urban schools / parks to the point where fewer people felt like they had to move to the suburbs to start families.
The Stardewification of everything continues - can't wait until Half-Life 3 finally comes out and it turns out that Black Mesa has purchased a dilapidated farm in the countryside that they've taken Gordon Freeman out of stasis to restore for them.
My headcanon is that in public / guest quarters the toilet stalls contain miniature holodeck emitters so that they can instantly change to accommodate the customs / biology of any species. Even assuming that, say, Klingons excrete waste from the same places that humans do, they might prefer to do so while dangling from a bar in the ceiling or something else torturous like that, and find the use of a regular sitting toilet unclean or dishonorable.
That all sounds great until the GOP decides to start banning antibiotics because you should be taking ivermectin to treat your syphilis infections instead.
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all counts at fraud trial over crypto exchange FTX (www.nbcnews.com)
Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
Geordie, er, Han shot first (media.tenor.com)
A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth (apnews.com)
Could airlines be forced to stop charging for carry-on bags? (www.euronews.com)
Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines (www.bbc.com)
McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the government open collapses, making a shutdown almost certain (apnews.com)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed in dramatic fashion Friday as a robust faction of hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain....
The Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic (news.artnet.com)
TIL they somehow convinced Kurt Vonnegut to make a very brief appearance in a coffee commercial (www.youtube.com)
The entire commercial is hilariously weird. I don’t think Heart primarily used coffee to keep themselves going when mixing their album....
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an 'icon for women in politics,' dies at 90, source confirms (abc7news.com)
Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....
Why the end of federal child care funding matters — whether or not you have young kids (www.nbcnews.com)
It’s Tuesday (i.imgur.com)
Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82 (www.bbc.co.uk)
The actor, a four-time Bafta award winner, was best known for playing Dumbledore in the hit film series.
It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (www.iflscience.com)
The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here
The most useful state comparison (startrek.website)
A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse (lemmy.ml)
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
The final boss of Chess (i.imgur.com)
My collection of ducks (i.imgur.com)
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...and Dungeons ₰ Dragons! And Rock-and-Roll! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I still haven’t figured how to escape an ampersand in Lemmy post titles (which regards ‘&’ as a control character). So I chose as similar an alternative character as possible. \
Coca-Cola's New AI-Generated Soda Flavor Falls Flat (gizmodo.com)
Some people crave the flat (startrek.website)
Gen Z can’t work alongside people with different views because they ‘haven’t got the skills to disagree’ says British TV boss (apple.news)
Russian Black Sea Fleet commander killed in strike, Ukraine says (www.nbcnews.com)
EVs (feddit.de)
The official Lord of the Rings special effects studio is making a cozy hobbit game (www.pcgamer.com)
#1 or #2? (i.imgflip.com)
CBC Says Canada Is “Canary In The Coal Mine” As The Pubcaster Predicts Meta and Alphabet Will Block News Content In Other Countries (deadline.com)
English lesson (lemmy.world)
Tensions are escalating (startrek.website)
Mississippi sees 10-fold increase in babies born with syphilis since 2016: Report (abcnews.go.com)
The number of babies born with syphilis in Mississippi has risen 10-fold over the last several years, according to a new report....
No love lost: AppLovin helpfully releases tool to switch from Unity to Godot or Unreal (www.pocketgamer.biz)
It's a problem (lemmy.zip)