RickRussell_CA

joined 1 year ago
[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

While I'm not naive enough to think there will be any meaningful reduction in personal car usage in my remaining lifetime (~20-30 years), I'd like us to START making infrastructure investments that will at least point us in the right direction. But no, it's endless stroads and sprawl and retail development and single family housing as far as the eye can see.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That auto-drive-ready car will be ready for auto-drive any time now, we swear!

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Can you explain it to dipshits like me? As I read the Constitution, impeachment is the only remedy to remove a Federal judge, and success requires a supermajority of the Senate.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, here's the problem. Alito is correct, that Congress can't impose "ethics rules" on the court.

The sole remedy given to the people is impeachment, and Bribery is explicitly listed as a valid basis for impeachment under Article 1.

We would never get an impeachment through the Senate, of course.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would do well to either sign up for an instance relating to your interests

Is that essential, though? As long as everybody is federated, it shouldn't matter, except maybe it will take longer to see some posts.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most orgs have an internal SMTP server that will accept and send mail to other internal addresses without any special authentication or validation. It's almost essential for automatic monitoring software and that sort of thing.

Where the barriers go up is at the border to the Internet. And thank goodness, just a couple decades ago it was sheer chaos.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mastodon:

Pick a Mastodon instance.

Open it in your web browser, follow the prompts to sign up.

Search for people you want to follow, and add them. Maybe search for subject matter that interests you, and follow people who post about that.

PixelFed:

Pick a PixelFed instance.

Open it in your web browser, follow the prompts to sign up.

Search for people you want to follow, and add them. Maybe search for subject matter that interests you, and follow people who post about that.

[–] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

kbin is a different code base than Lemmy and doesn't support the same API. At least not yet. But they use the same ActivityPub protocols and so can communicate with each other, and with other Fediverse applications.

The good news is that you can subscribe to communities on kbin servers via Lemmy. And once they're in a Lemmy instance you can use Lemmy apps.