I will be interested to see the angle the prosecution takes. I think there’s a real sense of embarrassment from the authorities on this one, and they’re trying to make sure they don’t look like they’re sweeping it under the rug to mollify the Hollywood people, but it’s a case with pretty big holes. Since it’s “only” involuntary manslaughter, I wonder if the angle they’ll take is that there’s a legitimate question of fact that even an actor could see that the armorer was a disaffected nepobaby who was bad at her job, and the production wasa chaotic mess, and that all this raised the bar for how Baldwin should have proceeded.
I’m using Cricut Infusible Ink markers. They were pretty much made for this, using heat to dye polyester-based materials, like PBT. I just have a 5w diode laser, and I do it “low and slow,” 2% power and 45mm/minute. Black and blue still work best, but the red (pink) and green can be nice too.
I have done two entire keyboards worth. The gray DSA i did in black are holding up great, but the legends went on wonky because I hadn’t refined my workflow. The next batch I did was on this same type of white XDA but while alignment was vastly improved, the ink didn’t go on as well. The only thing I did differently with these two was make sure to clean the caps with IPA first.
Steve Earle’s entire career posits the question: What if that slightly cringey try-hard kid that kept coming around were actually a world-class talent in his own right?...
In 2010, ahead of the decennial redistricting process, Minnesota’s legislature considered adopting a bold reform: It would stop counting state prisoners as residents of the districts where they were incarcerated, and instead count them as residents of the districts from which they hailed before prison. At the time, this was a...
If Townes Van Zandt is the Bob Dylan of highly literate country-adjacent songwriters, his buddy Guy Clark is the Springsteen. Maybe a little less transcendently brilliant, but more straightforward about the human condition, you might say “efficiently poetic” maybe, and with a better ear for what will sell and a less publicly...
If you do it right, you end up with sugar in supersaturation…
and with diabetes.
Tea is mostly pointless pigeon sweat though, so using it to add the faintest hint of color and flavor to make sugar water into caramel water is fine by me.
The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to bolster the GOP’s chances....
Even with the demotivation caused by gerrymandering, the 2020 only election broke about 5:4 in favor of Republicans. In the 2022 midterms, it was 2:1, but only 3:2 when you take out the two districts where the Republican was unopposed.
A huge part of America’s problem right now comes from worshipping “Constitutional Democracy v2.0” when many other countries are running version 4 or 5.
First Past the Post, no ranked choice voting, an imbalanced legislature, an Electoral College based on the numbers from that legislature, and contemplating no constitutional role for parties, all that has ossified the political culture. You get parties locking in temporary gains and pushing advantages to the hilt because after all there’s no parties in MUH CONSTITUTION. Even if we assume the remaining 9% of voters in SC are all embarrassed republicans, that’s still 5:4, like the presidential numbers tend to break. In what fucking world should that result in a 6:1 ratio in the house delegation?
I get that maybe you have to consider letting some people be a bit overrepresented to get them to buy-in, that’s at the heart of many federal systems, but the degree and the manner in the US has become full-on toxic.
For the non-Americans in the thread, it’s worth pointing out that the 3/5 compromise didn’t give slaves representation at 3/5 the normal level, it gave the slaveowners overrepresentation in congress based on counting every 5 slaves as 3 additional people for apportioning the House of Representatives by population. The southern states wanted full “representation”, while the northern states wanted zero, but the latter would have been better – allowing that abolition was not on the table – because it would have diluted southern influence in the lower house of Congress.
Well, it certainly doesn’t help, and to your point, it means there are fewer incentives to overcome it, whatever is driving it.
One of the issues specifically related to your conundrum is that First Past the Post (and I’m speaking pretty generously here and trying to keep a lid on my cynicism) requires that the parties make appeals to very different constituencies in advance, and try to cobble together coalitions that are at least not ideologically ludicrous bedfellows. Serious policy debates do happen in America, but they happen before there is an elected voice advocating for them (which causes its own problems, looking at you, Dems relying on Roe v. Wade to keep the issue settled).
If there are conflicts within your big tent, you have to either accept the cognitive dissonance and hang together to avoid hanging separately, or you simply shout over and over that there’s no cognitive dissonance at all, and all these things are part of a cohesive single platform, possibly divinely inspired. Both parties engage in both strategies, though I daresay the Republicans have skewed quite far to the latter, and as their natural power base has aged they’ve invited people into the tent whom they were previously content to ignore or at least quietly take for granted.
When you declare loudly that all your issues are important, they tend to seep between interest groups, because after all, relatively few people are truly single-issue voters. You can end up with, for example, people who may have little sympathy for LGBTQ+ rights, but no particularly strong animus, actively leaning into opposition they should barely care about, because it is part of “being a Republican,” even though what they really fear is the economic anxiety of stagnant wages and perceived inefficient use of government resources, which leads them to think they’d be better off paying less in taxes. Wouldn’t it be less bad if they could be part of a right-leaning party with less strident social views who would vote for (unwise, IMHO) tax breaks for the rich but not against gay marriage?
No ranked choice voting, however, means third-party votes are either meaningless or dangerous to your preferred out of the two practical options, and that has the linked effects of directly discouraging your voting for them in general elections, and encouraging the two big parties to find or create or imagine such serious differences between themsleves that anything that helps the other would be disastrous. There are people who, not without some merit, blame Ross Perot for Bush Sr.'s loss to Clinton or blame Ralph Nader for Gore’s loss to Bush Jr. in Florida. The system is a mess. People should be allowed to vote for whoever they want without feeling like doing so will result in their worst possible option winning out. Shit, that’s basically what I’m dealing with this cycle. I’m personally comfortable enough with the Biden platform, given the realpolitik of the US, to vote for him again, but I’m not enthusiastic about supporting him. Still, I’m more passionate than ever that it’s the right choice; I’d be a hell of a lot more understanding of people staying home or voting for other candidates if it were Mitt Romney or John McCain on the other side, rather than Donald fucking Trump.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has questioned his biological origins, asserting that he is “convinced” of being a godsend, introducing the idea of “immaculate conception” in the electoral arena as voting enters the final phases.
“Pehle jab tak maa zinda thi mujhe lagta tha shayad mujhe biologically janm diya gaya hai. Maa ke jaane ke baad, een saare anubhavon ko mai jod kar dekhta hoon toh mai convince ho chukka hoon ki parmatma ne mujhe bheja hai (Till my mother was alive, I had the impression that perhaps my birth was a biological one. After her demise when I view after assimilating all the experiences, I am convinced that God has sent me),” Modi is heard saying in an interview to News 18 last week.
I’m not a Hindi speaker or familiar with if/when Modi likes to dabble in metaphor, but this seems straight up delusional and cult-like. The opposition certainly seems to think it was worth mentioning.
After the more serious concerns about the destruction of American civil society and all, I’m also super annoyed that the MAGA idiots are also claiming all our cool Revolutionary War iconography. We’re a long way from Nike and US Soccer thinking the Gadsden Flag would work as a half-edgy/half-cheeky bit of branding.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom begins with an action sequence that’s almost exactly 20 minutes long, starting with a show-stopping east-meets-west rendition of Anything Goes at a Shanghai nightclub in 1935 and ending in the whitewater rapids at the foot of the Himalayas. For the director Steven Spielberg, whose Raiders...
I don’t hate it, but I don’t go back to it either. Kate Capshaw really is obnoxious and exists largely to make Indy’s coded racism more palatable by comparison, and the character has aged particularly poorly as an audience stand-in. Short Round is a bundle of cliches, but at least Ke Huy Quan has undeniable charm. The violence is egregious too, partly because it’s less over the top than the face melting from RotLA.
Still, there are good set pieces, some nice moments like subverting the gun vs. sword scene from Raiders (though this being a prequel makes it more fun as an audience joke than as an insight for Indy), and it continues the theme that there is magic in the world that is tied to religious traditions. That last one is an overlooked part of what made the original three so great as a unit; anyone who is brought up in a religious home has basically been told since childhood that this shit can happen, and it grounds them in a way that “it was Aliens” or “Archimedes was Star Trek smart” simply can’t match. Indeed, from an overthinking perspective, Crystal Skull in particular sort of reframes the entire series and invites the question, “Was it ALL just aliens and shit?”
So, I have some fondness for ToD, but man… so much cringe too.
Casual live performance from an old documentary. A few minor lyrical tweaks for those who know the song well, but a lovely performance from probably the iconic Texas troubadour.
Yeah, that old west Texas warble (from when Fort Worth was still west Texas) is not for everybody. If you want to go with it for just one full session, do the Live at the Old Quarter album. Good sound, good point in his career, and enough patter and announcements that it feels like an organic experience, which it was, just a bit more curated than the final experience implies.
For Pancho and Lefty, there’s always Merle and Willie (with a TVZ cameo in the saloon), though I find Townes Van Zandt songs tend not to benefit from “luxurious” production. If you just want the same song, or indeed, a lot of TVZ songs, through a traditionally beautiful voice but one who knew Townes and his sensibilities, Emmylou Harris is always there.
A little poking around spotify/youtube/etc., you can usually find some decent cross-genre covers too, to the extent you consider the originals country at all.
Some other good TVZ songs, maybe more outside the Western milieu:
Judge Orders Alec Baldwin to Face Trial for ‘Rust’ Shooting (www.thedailybeast.com)
ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down (www.pcmag.com)
ICQ will stop working on June 26. It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company....
Kiddo wanted Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur keycaps. Kiddo got them. (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15779428...
Cascade Studio: web based Code to CAD using OpenCASCADE kernel (zalo.github.io)
Github: github.com/zalo/CascadeStudio
Alt-Country/Americana ("Roots Rock" if you want to drill down even more): Steve Earle - Guitar Town (www.youtube.com)
Steve Earle’s entire career posits the question: What if that slightly cringey try-hard kid that kept coming around were actually a world-class talent in his own right?...
Every tech thread on Lemmy (lemmy.world)
Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering (boltsmag.org)
In 2010, ahead of the decennial redistricting process, Minnesota’s legislature considered adopting a bold reform: It would stop counting state prisoners as residents of the districts where they were incarcerated, and instead count them as residents of the districts from which they hailed before prison. At the time, this was a...
Kabosu, the Dog Behind the ‘Doge’ Meme, Has Died (www.ign.com)
Not sure if this counts as “world news”, but RIP Doge :(...
Google's AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza (www.businessinsider.com)
Alt-Country/Americana: Dublin Blues. Guy Clark. (www.youtube.com)
If Townes Van Zandt is the Bob Dylan of highly literate country-adjacent songwriters, his buddy Guy Clark is the Springsteen. Maybe a little less transcendently brilliant, but more straightforward about the human condition, you might say “efficiently poetic” maybe, and with a better ear for what will sell and a less publicly...
Simultaneously offending the British actor and the French character. (lemmy.world)
Supreme Court approves South Carolina congressional map previously found to dilute Black voting power (www.cnn.com)
The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to bolster the GOP’s chances....
Indian PM Narendra Modi convinced to be 'emissary of God', questions his biological origins (www.telegraphindia.com)
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at 40: Spielberg’s hit-and-miss relic (www.theguardian.com)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom begins with an action sequence that’s almost exactly 20 minutes long, starting with a show-stopping east-meets-west rendition of Anything Goes at a Shanghai nightclub in 1935 and ending in the whitewater rapids at the foot of the Himalayas. For the director Steven Spielberg, whose Raiders...
Alt-Country/Americana: Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty (Live in Austin, 1975) (www.youtube.com)
Casual live performance from an old documentary. A few minor lyrical tweaks for those who know the song well, but a lovely performance from probably the iconic Texas troubadour.
Some peak Midwestern energy (lemmy.world)