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You can update the title of your post to reflect the updated title of the article. One of the distinct advantages of Lemmy.

By design, I’m sure. Can’t have those poors even thinking about saving money.

I was listening to a Jim Gaffigan bit he wrote during the first Trump admin which is even more true these days. Short version, he compares having Trump as President to having a parent who’s a raging alcoholic: what he does isn’t directly your fault but you still know you should apologize.

Passport proper is still kinda expensive, but you can get a passport card for $65 for a first-time applicant. Good for a decade, Real ID compliant, works for all US land border crossings and domestic flights. That’s not exactly cheap, but it’s not that much more than a License in California.

whereas previously all states kinda did their own thing

This can’t be emphasized enough. Different states had (and still have) wildly different standards for what is required to get a basic Driver’s License or ID Card. Making a unified standard needed to happen, even if the way Real ID was implemented was… let’s say “problematic”.

AFAIK you can still get a non-Real ID compliant license in almost every state, though for some the difference in documentation requirements are all but nonexistent. Here in Nevada the only difference in required documents is that you can’t use a Prison Identification Card to get a Real ID.

I love how the UK’s supposedly left leadership aggressively, insistently opened with “let’s cut off the heating for old people in winter” and kept doubling down on it.

Full-sized trash cans don’t fit in a car very well. But they fit nicely in a truck. This truck can “haul”…all kinds of bulky, awkward shit that doesn’t weigh much. I’ve got a lot of that in my life.

Yep, furniture especially. A Queen-size bed is bad enough, but at least you can tie that onto the roof of most sedans. A table and some chairs? Some dressers? Doesn’t matter how light they are, you run out of space real quick, and that’s assuming you’ve got your Luggage Tetris skill maxed so you can cram everything in perfectly.

…or you could just set it all in the bed and put a net over it if you really wanna make sure it won’t go anywhere. I know which one I prefer.

Ironically, a large portion of that industry is owned by the Timeshare industry. You can imagine that they aren’t always the most effective at getting people out of those contracts.

Unfortunately, Sony seems to be really hostile towards allowing most any video player apps on the PS5. They specifically went out of their way to remove DLNA support, and they only just allowed a DLNA-enabled video player on the store 7 months ago… and it’s subscription based.

Yep. Underwood Ranches. You can buy it from their site directly or on Amazon. It’s good stuff.

Most of them have gone to BlueSky. A few are on Mastodon but rarely as their primary (sadly). A lot of artists have gone to places like FurAffinity, Pixiv, and to a lesser extent DeviantArt.

Unfortunately a lot of them have just resorted to being on Patreon, which is unfortunate.

Even the porn creators and erotic artists have left.

When you’ve lost the porn it’s game over man.

Oh no doubt, but they thought they could appease him somehow. Now they’re realizing that once you’re on his list there’s no getting back in his good graces. Peace was never an option.

Let’s not forget the embedded racism in the original quote from Terry: “CIA n*ggers glow in the dark.”

I’ll take “Streisand Effect” for $2000, Alex.

Technically they aren’t lying: their subjective experience is much better when they don’t have to deal with customers.

If you prevent the FDA from reporting on the bird flu then that means the bird flu doesn’t exist. Easy peasy.

Yeah, even though this is obviously politically motivated, the claim that they’re effectively running commercials isn’t that off base. It was one thing when they’d say “we receive funding from Company X: Their Slogan”, but now they’re reading sometimes paragraphs of ad copy, back-to-back.

Justice Department attorney Daniel Schwei argued that the freeze shouldn’t be put on hold because the plaintiffs hadn’t specified anyone who would immediately lose funding if it does go into effect.

I’m imagining the plaintiffs countered by motioning vaguely at the entire country.

Also fuck this guy. “It doesn’t count unless you specifically identify all the people we’d be victimizing,” is straight up bully logic.

There was that family in NJ that literally named their kid “Adolph Hitler”, so I gotta figure there may be some parents that have given their kids even worse names that aren’t any sort of Scunthorpe problem.