Reyali

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It comes from OP: “We met in January and have been dating since last month.” (Emphasis mine.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Pedantry warning, but I think this distinction is useful: The phrase “civil crime” doesn’t really exist. You can have a crime, you can have a civil case, or you can have both; but they are separate things.

Criminal court is where the government prosecutes someone for allegedly breaking the law (committing a crime). A pardon wipes out the government-imposed consequences of that crime.

Civil court is for legal disputes between parties. It’s not about punishing crimes but about one party seeking restitution from another. Sometimes that stems from a crime, but the civil case stands on its own.

So even if a crime is pardoned, the door stays open for civil lawsuits over the same event. (This is repeating your point. My beef was just the “civil crimes” phrase!)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Dang. Thank you for posting this; most informative shitpost ever! (I missed the official announcement.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

If you need to get a cell phone plan in your name, US Mobile has a 2-gig/mo cell phone plan for $10/mo. My partner and I moved to them a couple months ago and are spending $28 for 2 lines at 10gb/mo, down from $144 for an unlimited plan with T-Mobile. USM is very upfront with their pricing and I’m a fan. (I do have a promo code I can share, but I’m honestly not recommending it for the kickback.)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do I win something for achieving it all a few years early?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

That was one of my favorite moments in the show because her acting was so spectacular!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would you even call it…. uplifting?

^(I’ll see myself out.)^

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Route as well. Depends largely on if I’m talking about routing Internet traffic or Route 66, though.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Also got pressured in the sub…

(I’m sorry. That was terrible. I also feel for the kid but I couldn’t pass on the pun.)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I haven’t seen this meme in a couple years but I referenced it to my partner just yesterday but didn’t feel like looking it up. So big surprise when I opened Lemmy and it was the second thing in my feed. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Even without attribution or ever reading this quote before, I just knew it had to be Sir Terry Pratchett and I was right.

That man was unmatchable in his wit and wisdom and how he packaged life lessons on simply being good people into entertaining stories. The world is lesser without him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably because they realized everyone still called it that because no one thinks of what “Max” is without the “HBO” label. I just wonder how their user research failed so badly in the rebrand to “Max.”

 

I’ve seen several people claim that their state’s vote for the US presidential election doesn’t matter because their district is gerrymandered, which does not matter for most states.

Most states use the state’s popular vote to determine who the entire state’s electoral college votes go to. No matter how gerrymandered your district is*, every individual vote matters for assigning the electoral vote. [ETA: Nearly] Every single district in a state could go red but the state goes blue for president because of the popular vote.

*Maine and Nebraska are the notable differences who allot individual electors based on the popular vote within their congressional districts and the overall popular vote. ~~It’s possible there are other exceptions and I’m sure commenters will happily point them out.~~

Edit: added strikethrough to my last statement because now I have confirmed it.

Of the 50 states, all but two award all of their presidential electors to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in the state (Maine and Nebraska each award two of their electors to the candidate who wins a plurality of the statewide vote; the remaining electors are allocated to the winners of the plurality vote in the states' congressional districts). (source)

 

I haven’t finished painting a mini in many years after vision problems made the hobby hard, but I started and finished this one in just two sessions. I also tried Stuart Semple’s glow powder for the first time and holy shit. (If you don’t know that name, I suggest googling it and reading about his ongoing battle against Anish Kapoor. It’s a fun read about making art accessible to everyone and not just rich pricks.)

Size reference and not in the dark pics for comparison.

It may not be my best or most complicated mini, but I’m thrilled with how it came out!

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