dave881

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[–] dave881@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

I think they mean that she is taking the fall for the "unknown" person she "bought" the gun from.

Implying that she was holding the weapon for someone

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, it's 34 district crimes. That's why it's 34 charges.

My understanding is that in white collar crimes like these, the number of charges does not bear on whether the sentence includes jail time for a defendant with no prior criminal history. Unless the dollar amount is exorbitant; but in this case I don't think anybody made any money.

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My understanding is that these sorts of white collar crimes don't normally result in jail time for defendants with no previous criminal record, in New York state courts.

I get the feeling that the number of counts doesn't really matter here, because they are not really unique crimes. My understanding is that they brought 34 charges because they had 34 documents they thought they could prove in court were fraudulent, but it is materialy the same crime (deliberately mischaracterizing the nature of the payment)

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I've also seen the top image blurred in my feed, but additional images on the post show unblurred

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It is just a public statement of support. There are only consequences to the extent that people care about/respect the opinion and judgment of the person giving the endorsement.

In this case, it's valuable to RFK Jr in so far as individuals listening to Joe Rogan either think Joe has good insights into who should be president, or just want to be like him and will vote the way they think he will vote

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think that "wipes out" here is referring to the lead that Trump had in the polls previously. All the states went from a clear lead for Trump over Biden, to basically even, with one exception showing a clear lead.

I think that it suggests a competitive race, rather than one side coasting to victory. It is hard to draw concrete conclusions still, but the clear lead is definitely gone

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't have any experience with this printer, but am similarly curious about it's viability as a "budget Voron"

Regarding upgradabilty, I saw this video recently with an attempt to turn it into a multi-tool head printer. It's a work in progress, but I thought it was interesting

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (8 children)

That may well be the point. Dell gets the head count reduction, improving the bottom line, without the headline about mass layoffs

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I think that the answer to this depends on the audience and the topic or nature of the discussion.

I prefer precise, technical language if the audience has experience in the topic. You can save a lot of time by not explaining things that the readers should, reasonably know.

I think simpler language is appropriate for a more general audience or higher level discussion.

It can be challenging to find the right balance on a forum, like this, where you don't necessarily know who the audience is.

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure that there needs to be a any grand cosmic reason for life to exist. Life could just be an accident of random events in our little corner of the universe.

Natural selection offers an explanation for how life changes across generations in response to challenges in the environment. It does not require a plan, just that the outcome of a chaotic process (reproduction) creates mutations that produce a slight edge, or at least no reduction in reproductive efficiency.

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Fountain pens are not a normal sight in US schools. I was an adult before I realized that they were a thing that still exist, and are even used.

[–] dave881@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dbus attempts to provide a standardized system for inter process communication (IPC) without the complexity of managing individual connections between each and every process that needs to share certain types of data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus

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