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Lemmy dev suggestions: Remove all downvotes. User blocks should keep the blockee from seeing the blocker.

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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • “This arrangement, now in place for 236 years, has served the country well,” Roberts wrote in the report, which was released by the Supreme Court hours before the start of the new year.

    “It was only when I started giving Trump all of the power that is supposed to lie in the Supreme Court that the arrangement started to fail,” Roberts continued. “I thought I could get an even greater position of power by kowtowing to the demands of Trump, but now he says that my ass isn’t as supple as it used to be, and that I keep losing concentration when I’m servicing him. But what can I do? He keeps falling asleep in the middle. Justice Thomas said the same thing. I knew people had said that with Trump, loyalty is a one-way street, but it’s shocking to experience it myself. I used to have all the power in the world, but now I just really feel used by this whole ordeal.”








  • I’ll level with you. A car wash mode is a great idea. It makes sure the windows, mirrors, wipers, and various sensors on the outside of the car like the opener for the charging door are in a good state for a car wash. I think every modern car should have a car wash mode.

    What’s not smart is that the Cybertruck is vulnerable to completely dying from garden-hose-based attacks, in general, and that they “fixed” it by using car wash mode, as if water never gets sprayed at a car at any other time. They’re abusing the car wash mode.

    To summarize, car wash mode: good idea. Abusing car wash mode to hide glaring design/implementation defects: shitty idea.








  • I think “mediocre” in this context would be mediocre to most people.

    I think you cannot ask about something subjective without getting people’s personal opinions. If you ask about an aspect of a mediocre thing, then you can expect at least some debate about what counts as mediocre, and probably none of the people’s answers will be correct.

    For me, a “mediocre” movie would be something that I would only watch again if a friend wanted to watch it, but if it was just an option and I got to choose, I’d never choose it. But if it was just “on”, I might not change the channel. Let’s see, like The Rock directed by Michael Bay.

    And then there are “bad” movies that I wouldn’t watch even if I had a friend who wanted to see it, like any other Michael Bay movie that I’ve seen. Armageddon had pretty good music, but it wasn’t mediocre. It was bad.