Yeah, for sure. When I did the overlay I noticed the hands didn't match up, so I had to look close at the pose to see it's 3 different images with 3 different real dresses. Sort of defeats the purpose of doing this entirely.
The kind of sad part is that it means that all the parents of Hogwarts kids he DID kill - NONE of them loved their children.
Only Lilly Potter loved her kid. .....OR..... The true nature of Gingers was the real evil-killer. And the deaths of Fred and George were done with guns, and the Prewetts (Molly Weasley nee Prewett) were not gingers and Molly got the recessive gene.
The irony of not able to be liberated from LIBERTYLIBERTYLIBERTY!LIBERTY!
What you're likely seeing as throwing you off is differences because this is an actual human wearing this - PLUS it's essentially an optical illusion. This isn't 3 versions of the same image with just the pattern changed. So yeah, these are actually not perfectly matching up if you overlay them on top of each other. I wouldn't say manipulated per se, just that they're 3 different images so they'll have some differences.
First, you gotta get ready for grub but being hungry for the kernel.
Then, you grab the butter and slather it on your keyboard.
I really wish this just said "Did you know corndogs?"
Yeah! I do! :)
To quote someone from HN:
There is nothing special about the Troubled Engineer's setup. It's mostly a matter of using open platforms. With Firefox on the desktop and Fennec on Android (Graphene), you get full uBlock Origin support and therefore never see any ads anywhere, even on Youtube. On Android, there is also NewPipe that offers "free Youtube Premium" (play in the background and download).
It's really just uBlock Origin, a DNS blocker, and a few other small tweaks for YT. I use NewPipe on Android and Invidious instances. At this point I only see ads when setting up a VM and open the browser for the first time and forget I need to install uBO.
Ages ago - they tried to make it all these flairs and sparkles and whatever. Maybe it's back lately?
The day they got rid of reddit gold and started cash grabbing hard was the day the writing was on the wall.
Among the greatest heists in US history so far
I expect this was in the terms of service, though
While I expect the same, there's also just a reasonablility standard. If Meta and Google updated their TOS to say that users agreed to become human chattle slaves to mine cobalt and forfeit their rights, no court (...right, SCOTUS?...right?) would uphold that. A TOS is a contract, but it's mostly for the protection of companies from liability. Takign active steps to brick someone's device over the device not connecting to it's C2 server (the company had zero evidence this was done intentionally and a router firewall misconfiguration could just have easily done the same thing), is IMO something that should result in a lawsuit.
Request from @Allero@lemmy.today...well, kinda. They asked for J-Law and got this. Put yer GD pitchforks away.
No AI used, ya snobs!
Credit to @Broadfern@lemmy.world for coming up with "MinTay" as an OS name.
Americans, I don’t need to tell you where we are as a country. We are currently operating outside the bounds of the Constitution. Quite a bit outside, in fact.
A lot of this is predicated on the use of the long-standing Unitary Executive Theory. Google it if you’re not familiar. If you are familiar, your cortisol level just jumped reading those words.
I have a bad feeling that 2028 is going to be more of the same. Even if it’s not, it’s not getting better. I’ve worked in a lot of developing countries, and even without a conflict to tear a functional country apart, it can take decades to recover from a period of prolonged corruption and survival for spoils. It's going to be a rough patch.
Also, it’s been 54 years since a Constitutional Amendment that mattered to Americans was passed, the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18. The longest gap between substantive Amendments was 61 years, between the 12th and 13th – that stagnation included the Civil War, you’ll recall. IMO, it’s inevitable that in the next 15-20 years, we end up at a place demanding a Constitutional Convention to unfuck all the fuckery that’s only just getting started now. Not some little band-aid stuff, I mean like a full-on gut-rehab.
So we must ask: How do you prevent an Executive ruling by EO fiat? How do you dismantle the Unitary Executive Theory once and for all so it never does this to the country again?
You revise Article 2 to make the Office of the President an Executive Council.
There’s two current examples of this in action at the national level: Switzerland and the UAE. Classic Examples also include the Venetian Republic, which was baller AF for the day. I’ll take the Swiss Example, which is that a seven-person council where everyone takes turns being the ceremonial head of state. No single person can go off the rails, no single person can flip out and jerk around tariffs, no single person can put their personal enrichment ahead of the nation and get away with it either. Not that the Swiss are immune from issues, but this is a single-issue fix.
How would Americans work this? Probably pretty easily.
We already segregate ourselves by geography: The Southwest, the PNW, The Plains, The Great Lakes, The South, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. It really depends on how many divisions you want. Governors already have conferences grouped by geography and culture as well. This is the natural progression.
And no, 12 districts is not the right number. Depending on if you want ties or tie breakers to enforce decision-making, six or seven regions would be the way to go. It’s not the mess of Congress, it’s a group small enough to arrive at decisions quickly. Maybe a super-majority of five out of seven so it doesn't turn into the Supreme Court right now where one swing vote ruins everyone's year.
So if we’ve revised Article 2, we’ve eliminated the Electoral College as well (praise be!). Depending on if we have an enlightened set of descendants and survivors rebuilding from the wreckage of the Thunderdome being erected now, what would make the most sense would be either rank-choice or direct 50%+1 wins in most counties in the region, which is how janky US elections are already organized anyway. As much as I don’t love the Electoral College, it stands to reason that something needs to prevent one major metropolitan area from just steamrolling the rest of the region. LA, NYC, and Chicago, yes I mean you.
The Council would take on some part-time duties of Cabinet positions, rather than adding a half dozen people to the room. Some of those roles might actually be better delegated to those sub-national levels anyway. DOT, HUD, HHS, and USDA come to mind as already being so on-the-ground as to benefit from decentralized leadership. Things like DOI or DOD or State stay at the national level. Questions like “Who does The Football follow?” are worth asking, and as much as the fun job of being Ceremonial Head of State rotates, so does “being on call” for Defense issues, Domestic Issues, etc. where a council member can make some decisions that can always be re-checked by the council as a whole, or push decisions to the full council if needed.
Thoughts? Come at me. Tell me I’m an idiot or whatever, then steal this idea for a PoliSci thesis.
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Sure, but ideological blindness shouldn't equate to other parents not saving their children the same way. Lily Potter didn't plan to use sacrificial magic, she jumped in front of a bullet. It's rare, but it happens IRL once in a while. It seems odd that a Wizarding World under siege would not see more noble sacrifices purely as a matter of statistics. (yes, I realize this would make the books a moot point and be no fun and it's fiction so just ignore it.)