HCR 1013, which would proclaim in Oklahoma that “Christ is King,” arguing that it excludes Oklahomans who identify with other religions as well as Oklahomans who are not religious
So… Christ is who Christians worship. Glad the legislature could clear that up for us.
Basic geography could go a long ways, if people believe you. At this point people were exploring the world trying to find the spice Islands, but didn’t know WTF they were doing. Magellan navigating the strait that would be named after him was impressive at its time, but now we know the best way from Europe to Asia (and spices and stuff) by sea without any modern canals is by going around Africa. Like, it still sucks and it’s a long trip but it’s doable compared to going to damn near Antarctica.
This assumes I don’t die, can communicate, and am not in the then-unpopulated (and quite landlocked) current location of Denver, Colorado.
Edit: bonus fact: if a sailor managed to smuggle a knapsack full of cloves back, it was worth about as much a house
I think you’d sometimes see it as “rapeseed oil” - still not great, but better.
That oil is more commonly called canola, by the way. Canadian Oil, Low Acid. Used for the same reason the motto was changed.
It’s all about having multiple ways to control things, smart and dumb. For example, in my house:
When I turn off the hallway lights at night, it turns all the lights off in the house. They’re still controllable by physical switch, and that one light I turn off is just a trigger for that automation
I have a ton of windows, most of which face east. This is wonderful in winter, but turns my house into an oven early in the morning on a sunny summer day. I also like my privacy at night. So I have an automation to open the motorized shades at sunrise (fully on a cold/cloudy day, otherwise only partially) and close them at sunset. But there’s still a little button on the shades if I need to open or close one (rare)
My wife would always forget to turn on the bathroom fan when she showered, so the bedroom turned into a sauna. So naturally I got a humidity monitor and made an automation to turn that fan on when it gets too humid (and another to kill that fan when it’s run for 10 minutes)
All of this runs on Home Assistant, which is on a Raspberry Pi I have at home. The only connection to the outside world is my weather checks
Automation doesn’t mean it has to have zero human interaction to work, just that things happen automatically somehow. My oven automatically maintains a temperature, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t set that temperature first
Totally with you there (probably a big selection bias on Lemmy, of course). Especially the draft. It’s… Announcements of people getting job offers. Yay?
That said, look up some of Jon Bois’s videos on YouTube if you have some time. I only learned about him because he’s a delight on Bluesky, and he has a kind of interesting/entertaining way to tell stories about sports. At least, the couple videos I just started watching have been!
That said, it may not be the best for current events.
The original is blocked in the US, but I found this and it seems to work: https://youtu.be/tDYjZ36IGfE
Definitely a pretty good representation! You know, as good as you can get when your instrument is grooved asphalt and rubber
It’s a different song that I don’t recognize, but it does sound correct for whatever it’s trying to be, if that makes sense
Congratulations. You did a great job ignoring the rest of what I had to say.
If he were capable of embarrassment that might do it, but apparently that’s not happening here
And tying it to the Bluesky system? Not sure the cost of that (I swear I saw it was a potential monetization they were looking into) but also the time to figure it out isn’t practical for everyone.
Because the headline is kinda shit: they’re no longer doing international shipments direct to consumer worth more than $1000, because US customs is making things so screwy.
For what it’s worth on the voice thing, assuming that’s what “he sounds like that” refers to: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279176/rfk-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia
That’s the result of a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, which has afflicted Kennedy for decades.
If you’ve got any evidence that it was heroin that caused that neurological condition I’m all ears, but we have a pretty reliable source on this one.
That’s great for an organization like NPR which may have the resources to tie its own domain name into Bluesky. For some freelance reporter or otherwise verifiable person, I’m not sure it’s quite so practical.
Colorado’s Supreme Court found that he engaged in an insurrection and was therefore ineligible. Then SCOTUS basically said “uh, this gives me the federal feelsies because it’s a federal office, so Congress has to do it”
Feels like all Congress has to do is say that the first term didn’t count. But to be honest I can see poor health catching up to him first anyway.
If they are, and there isn’t anything to display it, how are we to know what’s been vetted and what’s slipped through the cracks? Especially on a new account?
I made it on the fly, but the point is that the clout goes away when 1) you’re not my senator, 2) you’re not a legislator in my country and 3) you go against everything I stand for - what kind of clout am I supposed to feel from someone like that?
In my broken mind, it has been for years!
I’m not Canadian, but I’ve previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you’re representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.