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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • “Culley and Sutton’s argument for a separate preliminary hearing appears in many respects to be a backdoor argument for a more timely hearing so that a property owner with a good defense against forfeiture can recover her property more quickly,” he wrote. “But the court’s precedents already require a timely hearing.”
    Alabama has since amended its forfeiture law to allow owners of seized property to request expedited hearings.
    “Our decision today does not preclude those legislatively prescribed innovations,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote. “Rather, our decision simply addresses the base-line protection of the due process clause.”
    

    Seems like it’s less about civil forfeiture and more about how quickly can they get their property back when civil forfeiture happens





  •  “USDA is confident that the meat supply is safe.  USDA has a rigorous meat inspection process” and “multiple safeguards in place to protect consumers,” the agency said in a statement sent to media outlets on Monday.
    
    “We recommend consumers properly handle raw meats and cook to a safe internal temperature,” which kills bacteria and viruses in meat, the agency added. 
    

    Can you get avian flue from handling or consuming raw meat





  • They have a cardboard/paper alternative but I bet it takes time, money, and training to replace the old plastic machines and if the old FCs are growing and doing more volume faster than Amazon it’s replacing them you’d get both Amazon being able to say they’re eliminating them AND their total plastic use going up

    I hope they can eliminate them sooner rather than later but there are so many Climate impacts for a company that large I’m not sure it’s even the most important thing I I’d want to see from them


  • I bet the constraint here isn’t what’s serving the website but either an external dependency that they don’t have control over so that can’t scale or a relational database that they didn’t have the budget or expertise to scale

    Edit: or just that humans have to actually look at it and you’re waiting to talk to one

    My local government does it all async to avoid that issue


  • This article just feels like rage bait to me

    I’m not sceptical of the premise, because clearly the strong feelings people have towards Elon will turn some people off, but that kind of effect is hard to quantity

    As the article, and others, note Tesla sales are down. That could be for any number of reasons and it doesn’t make a convincing case that it’s because of Elon

    Tesla sales have been strong for so long despite Elon’s continued crazy behavior that I find it hard to attribute the cause to the effect. Why now? Why not any of the other crazy stuff he’s done?





  • Pick any point in the last hundred years and you’ll have the world coming apart because of global conflict, assassinations and bombings, or the threat of nuclear catastrophe, all under a backdrop of environmental destruction and pollution. Despite all this the previous generation is reported to be happier

    Everything you listed is legit, but it’s our ability to serve up fresh horrors at all hours of the day that has changed.

    What’s worse, is that social media gives us the feeling that we’re well informed when we’re actually not. Think of all the people you know who you think are well informed. Journalists, experts, even some bloggers. They didn’t get that way by scrolling for content on social media all the time.

    All that to say that I think anyone who uses social media should consider how their media diet effects them

    On a personal level it’s one of the reasons I try to use things like reddit (or Lemmy) less and fill my life with things that are more enriching, like books and music




  • Tldr: Higher resolutions afford greater screen sizes and closer viewing distances

    There’s a treadmill effect when it comes to higher resolutions

    You don’t mind the resolution you’re used to. When you upgrade the higher resolution will be nicer but then you’ll get used to it again and it doesn’t really improve the experience

    The reason to upgrade to a higher resolution is because you want bigger screens

    If you want a TV for a monitor, for instance, you’ll want 4k because you’re close enough that you’ll be and to SEE the pixels otherwise.