[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 10 months ago

Without any crime to suspect you of, they might detain you and question you. It's not uncommon for people to turn themselves in for crimes, and there are legitimate reasons to do so especially with a lawyer, namely to get out on bail easier, avoid having the police raid your home or place of work, and perhaps used to sway the prosecution for a more favorable sentencing, but if the police have no clue what to even charge you for and they can't figure one out, they'll just be confused and frustrated, which is a dangerous combination for police

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 115 points 1 year ago

A doordash driver gets cornered by a large 6 foot 5 man who aggressively shoves a phone in his ear repeatedly calling them a dipshit who thinks about their "twinkle", tries to get away but is followed, explicitly asks the man to leave him alone 3 times but is ignored, and tries to brush the phone away? Yeah that sounds like a situation a reasonable person might fear for their life in, and before anyone goes "well why didn't they use a less lethal self defense method?", the prankster is 6 foot 5 and the victim likely only had his fists or his gun for self defense, one of those two is going to get you out of that situation alive

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 year ago

Countries have the right to expel foreign diplomats and embassies as long as they don't arrest them or go through their stuff when they leave. The newly couped Niger junta requested the French ambassador leave and revoked his visa, but the French are still refusing to leave, claiming that because they don't recognize the legitimacy of the new junta, they don't have to follow the junta's orders to leave. Regardless of your opinion of the new junta, in how does a former colonial power be in the right when they are blatantly ignoring the legal rights and sovereignty of their independent former colony's government that is doing things by the book? They stopped sending the ambassador food and are confining him to his embassy until he leaves, especially given the current junta that is extremely gentle treatment

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly surprised Valve hasn't made an open source de-Valved SteamOS similar to what Google does with Chromium for these other devices. Valve likely isn't making much from hardware sales alone, with most of the value for them coming from the Steam store being a mobile gaming storefront as well as moving users away from Windows where Microsoft is looking to compete with them. Getting competitors to run Linux distros with a user interface designed for mobile consoles would boost the amount of Linux gamers which would make Valve less dependent on their competitor Microsoft, make developers more keen to support Linux, and spurn further development for Linux gaming tools. These other manufacturers will without a doubt support Steam as a storefront since Steam is such a dominant force in the PC gaming market so users of these other devices would still be in Valve's ecosystem

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 year ago

The value of their investments is lower because they've been pulling out of Russia. The article you sent says they've slashed the value down by 90%, and they're still going. Liquidating hundreds of millions in stocks while getting a decent value out of them takes time, and so far they've done a pretty good job selling off 90% of their Russian holdings with just a few more millions to go

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 year ago

For decades, the Republican party has had the Baptist/Evangelical vote in the bag without having to actually do anything thanks to abortion. Republican politicians could rile up their base attacking abortion and be excused for not doing anything about it by their constituents as abortion was a constitutional right, and because abortion was a constitutional right that couldn't be taken away, those who cared about it could still be in good conscience when they vote for a Republican. The dog caught its tail when Roe was overturned, and now that abortion can be outlawed on every level of government, Republican inaction on abortion will see their support among Baptists/Evangelicals tank. Overturning Roe is the most self damaging thing the Republican party has ever done, and now they are forced to choose between catering to religious fanatics or normal people

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago

It's Starbucks so yeah. They're pretty paranoid about unions after a few locations unionized

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 year ago

Y'all are champs for suddenly taking on thousands of users at your own expense on what was meant to be a throwaway instance. It went from a small private server to hosting one of the most active communities on Lemmy in a short time, and you and your team of volunteer tech sorceresses have been doing the best you can to keep lemmy.blahaj.zone alive as it grows

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 1 year ago

You ever drive through Disney World property? They have hundreds of thousands of people on the property every single day, yet there's hardly ever any traffic on the property itself. They achieve this through free and robust public transportation that takes people between all of the hotels and the parks while penalizing drivers who don't want to take it with large parking fees. Especially with buses taking people between the airport and Disney property, there's hardly a reason for most people to rent a car. As a result, despite heavy traffic in the area surrounding Disney World, they've effectively beat traffic on the property itself, but clearly traffic is unbeatable with public transportation because the billionaire who owns a car company says it doesn't work

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[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago

The best thing to happen from the exodus regardless of it's size is that there is now an active, popular, and viable Reddit alternative with better mobile support than Reddit. Reddit will likely never die, but users who get sick of their BS now or in the future have legitimate options with enough active users to keep them busy

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago

They're going to start paying posters for highly awarded posts and comments, with people who receive the most getting a better rate. Reddit content bots are going to be profitable, and the entire site is going to be repost bots and AI generated content garbage soon enough

[-] Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 year ago

"I ignore infant mortality rates in the poorest states" "wow someone who shares my views"

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I usually just sneak straight through Quarry Junction right after leaving Doc Mitchell's and run past the guards at Camp McCarran to take the monorail to the Strip. When you start a new playthrough of New Vegas, where do you go after leaving Goodsprings and why?

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