visak

joined 11 months ago
[–] visak 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Much as I like Avery Brooks, he never got a handle on the Sisko character until he shaved and went back to being Hawk but with a son. They should have let him do that from the beginning.

[–] visak 3 points 10 months ago

If you call them PanoPods you can probably get venture capital funding and then just go buy a train and paint it with a cool design.

[–] visak 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe there should be four buttons:

  • Upvote-good comment
  • Upvote-agree
  • Downvote-disagree
  • Downvote-unhelpful/rude

Which could be used for more filtering options.

Or maybe a separate agreement/disagree metric. I wouldn't mind seeing the consensus on a topic separate from the measure of usefulness.

[–] visak 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's just that it's boring. I'd rather have an interesting debate. Downvoting everything you simply disagree with just leads to groupthink forums.

[–] visak 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

And then getting downvoted by people who just disagree with your opinion. I'm one of the Reddit refugees so I don't know if we brought that with us or Lemmy was like that before but it's sad to see.

[–] visak 10 points 10 months ago

Florida Circuit Court Judges can be removed at the recommendation of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, and approved by the Florida Supreme Court. The FJQC has mixture of members appointed by the governor and voted in by other judges. I left Florida a long time ago so I don't know who are currently in the commission and court but the Florida political pipeline has always been extremely corrupt.

They'll most likely just appeal this ruling to at least stall it, but given that DeSantis has been outright removing prosecutors he doesn't like I would not be shocked if he started using the above system to remove judges next. This judge was appointed by Rick Scott by the way.

[–] visak 8 points 10 months ago

What. I was in the middle of something. What do you want? You know what? Nevermind, I'm just going to go back to what I was doing.

[–] visak 12 points 10 months ago

Holy crap. I have Tidal on my phone and Plex at home. I didnt know I could connect them. Thank you!

[–] visak 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's not true. You could also lose your ultra-demanding job, move back to the small town you grew up in, only to accidentally fall into the water and get pulled out by the rough but handsome former highschool classmate who never left.

[–] visak 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Reagan was the literal actor hired to play president by a group of Machiavellian assholes, many of whom were also behind the scenes of both Bushes, Nixon, and lots of Republican Congress members. Not disagreeing that Reagan is where they really got traction on their dreams of power, but Reagan wasn't the architect.

[–] visak -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I said "option" to retreat not "duty" which is an important distinction I think. And there's also the option of other reasonable force. I don't think killing to protect my TV is reasonable, but fighting back possibly even causing injury might be. If I lived in a place where the intruder wasn't likely to be armed, I'd probably whack his hand with broom handle, and I wouldn't even feel bad if I broke his wrist because some use of force to keep a stranger from entering my house is warranted. When it comes to lethal force though the standard should be higher, which is why I prefer the self-defense/defense of others test. Did the guy have good reason to think the person breaking in was an imminent danger, that he might be armed and therefore escalation to firing a gun was reasonable? I don't pretend to know, but I think that's the test that should be used. That test should take into account that it was his house being broken in to, and that there was another person present he might have wanted to protect, because that definitely affects your perception of danger. We don't need a set of principles that say you automatically get a pass when it's your house, I think it's better to look at each case individually.

[–] visak 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do Renaults often figure into your thinking? ;)

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