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Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

For me, I have shortcuts on my Mac to change the wallpaper based on time of day (light or dark), but that's it. I'd maybe be interested in using more if I could think of a good use case, so share yours, if you have one

Fucking Religious Reich and this bullshit court...throw it into the fire.

Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.

I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I'll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you're careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It's useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.

This article on Ars (and if you're not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results

Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.

She has some criticisms for her past as an attorney, but I’m not sure why she’s so disliked now. What has she done to engender such distaste from the public?

Runs perfectly on my Steam Deck. And, at $40, it’s nearly half of what new AAA games are costing, a good buy for sure. Anyone playing this? I’m a sucker for the Alien franchise.

I’m not sure who the bigger clowns are here: Trump or the people who still support him

This poem was so, so good. I’ve never heard of this author before and I don’t normally read poetry, but I’m going to pick up a copy of his book now.

In case the paywall stops you:

was the same summer he met my mother. He and Uncle Max, home from college,

worked the family farm, drove cattle between fields, passed out by a fire

after trading swigs of Old Grand-Dad from Max’s flask, the night sky lit up

like a marquee, “Kashmir” playing softly on their portable radio. It was 1975.

On off days, he’d drive to Carbondale and see Dylan or Elton. He grew

his first beard, wore aviators and snap-button shirts, smashed a copperhead’s skull

with the heel of his boot. He met her, friend of a friend, on someone’s front porch.

Late July. He pulled a beer from a cooler and handed it to her. Overhead, carpenter bees

dug into the eaves, dropping a little wood dust that hung in the air, caught on the wind,

briefly softening the view, lightly obscuring it. At what point should I tell you

my father spent that summer on the farm, resigned from his job in Chicago,

because he abandoned his first marriage, washed his hands of a daughter, and hardly

looked back? And what to do with this? Knowing my existence depends

on these facts—the beer, the radio, my sister—every one of them.

Okay, but why do we care about polls as much now? Haven’t they been spectacularly wrong for the past few election cycles? Not all, but I definitely feel like the overall accuracy and reliability of most national and state polling has been exceptionally poor.

In any case, I’m not at all surprised that his supporters aren’t bothered by the indictments. It’s a cult. Like, actually.

Declaring oneself a constitutional county undermines the authority of officials authorized to act under the Constitution. I believe it ultimately subverts the authority of the Constitution itself.

When these resolutions instruct county police not to enforce certain laws, such as red flag laws that allow the confiscation of firearms from certain people, they violate Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution. Article 6 declares that the Constitution itself and federal laws are “the supreme Law of the Land” and cannot be overruled or superseded by state laws or laws at lower levels of government.

So any county that claims to nullify federal laws it finds objectionable raises constitutional problems. So, too, do assertions of a right to obstruct federal law or to impede the exercise of federally guaranteed rights and liberties.

In both scenarios, local authorities claim they are under no constitutional obligation to enforce, or to help state or federal officials enforce, laws and regulations that are, in their view, plainly unconstitutional. ... Notably absent were concerns about threats to reproductive autonomy, sexual and gender identities, or public safety endangered by firearms violence. Professions of constitutional fidelity by constitutional county advocates are more often about politics than real concern for the Constitution.

Note this last paragraph (emphasis mine). Clearly these people are not truly concerned about Constitutional rights--or at the very least not all of them.

But what about legitimate issues? Suppose, for example, a fascist were to get into power, and attempt to force federal law enforcement to override state's authority on the matter of abortion rights?

How do they even plan on enforcing this? What would possibly be the consequences for either parent or child if they violate?