baronvonj

baronvonj, 9 days ago

I thought the Democractic committee members and/or Pelosi said that Congress no longer has a “jail” in which the Sergeant at Arms could hold an arrestee.

baronvonj, 16 days ago

I suspect we’re generally in agreement about all this, but … Trump was, in fact, also indicted in federal court (in DC) over his role in the insurrection. And his recent conviction in NY was related to his campaign finance violations (the payments to Michale Cohen for Stormy Daniels were to benefit his campaign but not reported to the FEC as such, making the alteration of business records the cover-up of a crime).

baronvonj, 16 days ago

I use MKVtoolnix for reboxing files (naturally it outputs MKV). I would assume ffmpeg can do the slicing that you want but it’s just a library with a CLI. So if you search for ffmpeg GUIs you can probably find one to your liking.

baronvonj, 16 days ago

The president does not have authority to just add more judges. The size of the court is set by federal law and requires an act of Congress to change it.

baronvonj, 17 days ago

I hear you, but these are the judges he’ll be appealing to

www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/

https://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/images/First-all-African-American-bench.png

baronvonj, 20 days ago

I don’t think a Republican governor helping Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012 would have been quietly accepted.

baronvonj, 19 days ago

Yeah I was referring to the hemming and hawing from the sidelines, especially from the birther crowd in Congress and right-wing media.

baronvonj, 19 days ago

Right, but the fact that it was noteworthy in the news cycle then that McCain had that level of decorum against his own voting base is what I was speaking to. DeWine came out with tact and decorum to handle this non-issue, too. Voters back then were hanging and burning Obama in effigy.

baronvonj, 26 days ago

Third parties in the US will never be a reality without election reform. That in turn will have to be preceded by high voter turnout to push state legislatures more progressive.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Fuck yeah.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Is finally doing what we should have done a long time ago better that not doing it? Absolutely

So … it quite literally is progress. Not enough progress, but progress none-the-less.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

I know, dude. I agree with you that it’s not enough, and the media needs to do better. I’m just saying let’s give him due credit for what he has done, because the opposition will almost certainly regress if given the chance.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Has anyone in this family even seen a chicken?

A scene from Arrested Development with multiple characters doing horribly inaccurate chicken impressions

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Chaw! Chee-chaw! Chee-chaw!

baronvonj, 1 month ago

There were two viral outbreaks during Biden’s term as VP: H1N1 in 2009 and Ebola in 2014. At no point does the article quote Biden as mentioning COVID. The article doesn’t even attribute what event they’re quoting from.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

But doctor, I am Scaramucci.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Butthole lifestyle

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Yes. 😕 They were originally coated on the interior so there wasn’t direct exposure of the lead to the water. But lack of funding (in some cases deliberate, see Flint, MI) for maintenance leads to the coating wearing away, resulting in contamination of the water. There’s plenty of Starving The Beast going on with things like this (also see bridges collapsing and public schools failing) by conservatives to try and grift on replacing public infrastructure with private ownership. Pretty disgusting.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Appreciate the clarification/correction.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Same underlying deliberate underfunding problem.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Low turnout will never steer a party away from the status quo. The only message it sends is that you don’t vote, so there’s no point spending any effort trying to connect with you.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Yeah if it wasn’t for Trump and Project 2025 literally out there saying they want to end democracy, I would be saying go vote and just leave blank every race where you don’t like any of the candidates. Then it’s public record that you will vote so suddenly your opinion matters. Have to win the state legislatures to get election reform. Then we will see viable third parties at the local level and grow to national.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

I’ve run ChromeOS Flex on an old Surface Pro 3 and it was pretty good. However Flex doesn’t support the Linux containers or Android apps. I was tempted to try Fedora on it, but ended up trading it in as that battery wasn’t that reliable anymore. I think the Surface line is best option in the 2-in-1 space anymore. When I was looking at options last fall no other vendor really had anything under 13", which is just ridiculous to ever use as s tablet.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

And in the 1994 MTV video music awards Sandra Bullock read Adam Sandler’s lines off the teleprompter.

baronvonj, 1 month ago

For anybody curious, www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQWhdjIaWR4

baronvonj, 1 month ago

Just trying to help you realize that i’s a pretty innocuous error that isn’t really indicative of what you want it to be.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

Letting it all burn down won’t usher in an utopic constitutional convention of the people where we right all the wrongs.

Sitting out the election process is exactly what the pro-status-quo representatives and governors want, because that makes it easier to manipulate a desired election result. We’ve seen quite plainly over the decades that low voter turnout does not motivate the parties themselves to push electoral reform or different candidates. Those will only come with high turnout in the party primaries to get progressives nominated and elected at the state level where the authority lies to set the election rules (such as getting away from first-past-the-post). It may even require voting in Republican primaries depending on the district.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

I would love that. But only if it comes along with other things like all races have a “none of the above” option, some variety of ranked choice, and the winner must get 50%+1 of the eligible voters to win.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

I don’t think someone whose tax filings are criminally incriminating should be allowed to hold any public office until after they’ve already been prosecuting and paid their debt to society.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

The ruling concerned a law that was on the books long before Arizona achieved statehood.

What the shit?! Seriously how is it not automatic the these laws are removed from legal code when a court ruling deems it unconstitutional?

baronvonj, 2 months ago

It’s just a perfect example of why Roe should have been codified. and Lawrence and Obergfell and all the other ones Thomass wants to revisit, so all those unconstitutional laws left in place in regressive states can suddenly come back in effect.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

Fucking Gold.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

The Republicans already removed the filibuster for SCOTUS appointments during Trump’s term. Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed with a vote of 53 to 47 and the Democratic majority in the Senate is bigger now than it was then.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

It’s ridiculous that this would be an economical business plan.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

No it goes all the way back to the Puritans coming over because the Catholics weren’t repressing and persecuting enough for them ("they weren’t hurting the people they needed to be).

baronvonj, 2 months ago

Slackware. 3.x. I was studying computer science and wanted to have a similar system at home as in the lab.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

But then I look down ballot and its mostly a bunch of judges and like one department seat that had something to do with water.

You in Texas too? League of Women Voters, vote411.org, and ballotpedia.org are my first spots to go to find information. When I can’t find anything there, then I hit up Google. The reality is, though, that if I have to go to that effort to find out about a candidate, they’re probably not going to win anyway. At least where I am, thanks to gerrymandered districts, there are a lot of seats in the legislature where only one of the major parties runs a candidate. So it’s really in the primaries for those local positions that my vote has the most impact.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

For sure, yeah. I voted in the Republican primary this year. I’m fortunately in an urban area so at least for the most executive and legislative races I have a Democratic option in the general. There are a lot of judicial races though where I don’t.

baronvonj, 2 months ago

Which actual candidate was either running in the Democratic Primary or has any statistical chance of winning the presidency without being either the Democratic or Republican nominee?

baronvonj, 3 months ago

Overturning Roe took decades of targeted appointments to the federal judiciary and legal teams across multiple states refining their statutes and challenges.

baronvonj, 3 months ago

One will pardon every convicted felon from January 6th.

I doubt that. Trump will only pardon people for whom there is an economic advantage for him to do so.

baronvonj, 3 months ago

But he already played that up and left people out to dry in his 2016 campaign

• theweek.com/…/trump-vows-pay-legal-fees-supporter…
• washingtonpost.com/…/trump-once-said-he-would-pay…

J6 insurrectionists already hoped/expected Trump to issue pardons before he left office

• apnews.com/…/joe-biden-donald-trump-capitol-siege…
• businessinsider.com/proud-boys-leader-furious-tru…

But the same crowd still support him. So he knows already knows he doesn’t have to protect them. He pardoned a bunch of 2016 campaign insiders because they were a liability to him if the decided to turn on him. So I genuinely don’t think he will pardon anybody where there’s not a clear quid pro quo of how it directly benefits him.

baronvonj, 3 months ago

I’ve read this guy also says African Americans should pay reparations to whites for bringing them to the Americas.

baronvonj, 3 months ago

Depends on how they’re moving to Italy. They have generous repatriation laws if you are descended from an Italian who emigrated. So by following that repatriation process to reclaim Italian citizenship opens up the whole EU.

baronvonj, 3 months ago

Trump yesterday basically called for the extermination of Palestinians by Israel. They aren’t even remotely close.

This is the part I can’t wrap my brain around with the bloc saying they can’t vote for Biden due to his handling of Israel/Palestine. If that is their single-issue to base their vote on, it’s clear which one of the only two candidates who will win the presidency is better for the Palestinians, and not voting for the better of the two is just enabling the success of the worst of them.

baronvonj, 7 months ago

Dockable handhelds.

baronvonj, 7 months ago

Oh man that’s disappointing.

baronvonj, 8 months ago

Little Big Planet. Every level’s music track brilliantly fit both the aesthetic and tempo. The sequels never cam close to capturing that same magic as the first one.