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Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce
  • My ex-wife and I filed the requisite paperwork and a month or so later met downtown at the courthouse to finalize our petition for a no-fault divorce. We had filled out some of the paperwork incorrectly, scooted over to the law library around the corner and returned less than an hour later to wrap things up, paying a fee so incidental I couldn't be bothered to remember the amount.

    No-fault is a near necessity for folks that want to take the high road out of a shitty situation. Going on to think of the massive cost savings, we're left not only with religion to blame for the curtailing of our rights under law, but also perhaps the legal profession that spawned many of these legislators. Fuck them all.

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  • "Mark as Spam" it is!

  • Flooding left behind from Tropical Storm Alberto in Surfside Beach, Texas
  • That is wild. Dodged us here in Houston, despite the warnings. At least the hill country got a little wet, I know y'all needed it out that way.

  • KDE login theme cannot be loaded. Please help I'm a Linux noob and just want my login screen to be pretty.
  • You can also install wallpaper plugins from the KDE store for your lock screen background. I'm a fan of City Grow.

  • Hillary Clinton celebrates Donald Trump verdict with 'She was right' merch
  • How many millions of votes did Bernie lose the primary to Clinton by? Five?

    I remember turning out for him, only to find reality drowned out by the online noise (read: misogyny) that still reverberates to this day. At the polling places? Crickets. The American public reaped what it sowed, and watching these conspiracy artists attempt to re-write history is little more than them climbing back into the hamster wheel. Vote.

  • Remote desktop for Wayland?
  • Sunshine/Moonlight works well for me also.

  • Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?
  • I have an 8 year old Acer aspire and it works great for coding. I've learned a lot about both of those languages with zero worries and recently moved the OS over to nix with excellent results.

  • A Polling Risk for Trump
  • Interjecting to add my two pennies. Gen z isn't as consequential here as millennials, (not that they answer unknown numbers.) Young people simply don't vote.

    Edit: For the record I'm a xennial and don't answer those calls either.

  • De-Google Your Life - Part 1 - YouTube LTT
  • Providing this statement is hardly doubling down and if anything moves in the other direction. Hiring a legit firm with a reputation of its own to defend is by all accounts the right thing to do, particularly after all the other fumbles that took place. Was waiting for an investigatory body to come along and do the legwork for free the more sensible option? No one was silenced here, and these allegations were made without proof. I tend to believe others, but this cuts both ways.

    I'd say that laying your own experiences out as germane is gross, but then I do appreciate those strong biases being highlighted. For my own part I'd have rather not defended a media outlet that I do not care for.

  • There's a big problem with McLaren's 'World's most powerful trail-legal' electric mountain bike
  • In the interest of click saving:

    "The only problem is that McLaren’s marketing line of being the “world’s most powerful trail-legal electric mountain bikes” is, at best, misleading, and at worst, patently false.

    The issue is that for European e-bikes, 250W is the legal limit for both on-road and trail usage. So if you’ve got a 250W e-bike, you’ve basically tied every single other e-bike on the market for highest power. Of course, none of the 250W e-bikes rolling around today actually put out only 250W of power. They all sneak by with higher peak power ratings, but the continuous power ratings are all identical. Thus, claiming to have the world’s most powerful trail-legal electric mountain bike is a bit like claiming to sell the world’s tallest 6-foot ladder.

    When you look at the US market, it’s even more problematic. E-bikes in the US fall under various regulations depending on the state, but most areas use a 3-class system. And to make things simple, all three classes allow up to 750 watts of power.

    If you’re on private property, it doesn’t really matter how much power your e-bike has. ‘Murica! But if you’re on public property, like public roads or trails on state land, you’re likely going to be limited to that 750W of power in most places. Thus, claiming that a 600W e-bike is the world’s most powerful trail-legal e-bike is obviously quite problematic in the land of 750W e-bikes."

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    Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester
  • Apologies for the repost, I see someone already shared a WaPo article. Feel free to yank this mods.

  • Trump: Jews should be ‘ashamed’ if they vote for Biden
  • "Dr." Dobson, I don't feel so good.

  • First Look: Riven Gameplay Reveal

    As an older, and increasingly jaded gamer, I'm having a hard time remembering when I've last been so excited over a release as this one. Riven is seemingly getting the gold-standard treatment with a ground-up remake that not only utilizes 3D (and VR) to give depth to the world but also adds new content while keeping the visuals near one-to-one. My favorite part of Riven personally is the excellent soundtrack, I can't wait to hear it while wandering around and exploring this space all over again. Cheers, Lemmy!

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    The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries
    apnews.com The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries

    The New York Police Department has been taking a more active role in trying to influence public policy through slick online videos and social media posts.

    The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries

    Michael Hallett, a professor of criminology at the University of North Florida who studied the effects of “Cops,” said he viewed the NYPD’s forays into social media as a natural response to a digital media ecosystem that rewards speed and sensationalism.

    The proliferation of body-camera footage and, increasingly, drones, have made it easy for police to create their own reality series, free of delays imposed by the TV gear and network schedules, he said.

    “They now have a proactive and sophisticated messaging system that is designed and intended to deliver messages on behalf of the police agenda,” Hallett added. “In the negotiation for control of the message, that gives them the upper hand.”

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    Fingerprint unlock for Pixel in-screen readers

    Not sure if this is a log that Android 14 exposed but when I first got my 7a I could not get fingerprint actions working. Anyway it works now.

    When setting a Logcat Entry event under Profiles, search for a "Biometrics/AuthenticationClient" Component in the log. Then try filtering for something like "onAuthenticated(true), ID:123456789", the individual finger ID. Tasks can then be fired off on unlock.

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