I buy this US$6 bottle from Aldi for the label, but it’s a decent pinot grigio too.

You’re almost certainly right, they will be fired if they disobey the would-be autocrat. That’s basically what happened in Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” when he wanted to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot Richadson refused and resigned immediately. So too did Deputy AG William Ruckelshaus. Then loyal fascism supporter Robert Bork did as instructed, and the story of the resignations became bigger than the firing of Cox, leading to the impeachment proceedings and a new special prosecutor.

I don’t really disagree with you, the system needs significant reform, and losing good career professionals is bad for everyone. But it’s worth it to fight like hell at every stage, it slows them down and sometimes the opposition shifts public sentiment.

These defeats in court are good—necessary, even—but the protestors are still being prosecuted, put in jail, subjected to cash bond requirements and required to hire defense counsel. Yes, the Trump Admin loses a lot, but it doesn’t have to win every case to chill and deter opposition. The power imbalance is still a huge threat when a would-be autocrat can bring the full force of the federal government to bear on individual citizens. I want to see more AUSAs declining to prosecute at all, they have independent obligations as officers of the court to follow the constitution.

Portal 1 & 2 were the first to my mind as well. I really like this list, actually.

Wait until you hear about the Gran Colombia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Colombia

How much did it cost them, what’s the going rate right now?

CMs are cowards that capitulate to a minority of loud retirees with time to show up to community meetings.

… . and Tesla stock is somehow STILL over-valued.

No problem!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Kle4KE2fY

Radio Free Ubanism talked about this last week, and they said that Amtrak has already ordered cars to replace these, but they won’t be delivered for another 18 months, so it’s going to be a long period of disruption. There was some talk about Amtrak leasing cars from regional transit agencies (Sound Transit, possibly) to fill the gaps for a while.

Would you feel better if it said “stop heavily subsidizing driving” instead?

That’s probably a fair assessment, but still a rather damning indictment of the industry writ large.

There are definitely better versions of cryptocurrency that I think could be more useful, but the industry is definitely not headed in that direction. Instead, it’s all pump-and-dumps, rug-pulls, and other schemes that render them nothing more than highly speculative asset classes in which the underlying asset has no intrinsic value.

It’s just grift all the way down with crypto, isn’t it? Scams layered on scams layered on scams.

Squirrels in North America and parts of Europe are the chaos gremlins, but the result is the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_disruptions_caused_by_squirrels

Love this shitty reporting:

A man was forced to climb out of an overturned car which flipped after hitting a bollard in Coventry city centre.

Yeah, the car just flipped. On its own. The man who “was forced to climb out” didn’t have anything to do with it, he wasn’t a shitty driver who hit a stationary object, it just happened to him.

That’s okay, I’m definitely more of a SuperbOwl guy myself.

https://lemmy.world/c/superbowl

Also, it should have had Super Mario Galaxy 2, it was crappy that they went from 4 games down to 3 for that All Star collection.

Tubi is owned by Fox Corp, and can absolutely fuck off.

Truly superb!