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makeshiftreaper @lemmy.world
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Is Musk's $1m-a-day cash giveaway to US voters legal?
  • I meant taking his money to vote. Yes your vote is private but that you voted is not. So if you sign his form, collect his money, and then go vote, I have heard it is possibly illegal. Which is why I'd suggest most people just stay away from this rather than try to game his system

  • Is Musk's $1m-a-day cash giveaway to US voters legal?
  • I have seen a few legal theorists saying there's a possibility that's illegal too. And if I had to gamble on who's more likely to get fucked over between Elon and a regular person? I'd probably be willing to bet all of Elon's money on the regular person getting shafted

  • Cheesy broccoli with bacon
  • Cook bacon 2-3 minutes, or until crispy

    Take your shoes off, or get naked.

    Other than wildly short times to say this is a "20 minute meal" there are several baffling decisions here. Not trimming that broccoli will be unweildy to eat, they seem to boil heavy cream instead of just creating a roux, and the cheeses seems to be added in reverse order of meltiness

    It's like they put the recipie back and forth through Google translate a few times

  • Should you trust that doctor?
  • I agree he should be a little farther right, but his origin story is all about how his injury specifically prevented him from doing surgery anymore. Plus some iterations of him with the time stone might not have thought about medicine in hundreds of years. His magic also seems to not be healing focused. So I kinda get why he is under qualified comparatively

  • If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the sea can this be done? Or is it even legal?
  • Generally speaking in America it's very difficult to obtain custody of a corpse after the authorities have it in their possession. While there are many types of funeral options viking burials are not one. Regular fire does not burn hot enough to fully burn a human body, which is why cremation uses special equipment. Generally nobody wants partially burnt corpses in their river, so you're either going to be illegally polluting or going to international waters. Generally you'll need to convince some combination of funeral director, medical examiner, coroner, hospital director, and the police to give you custody of the body. It seems unbelievable to me that you'll be able to convince all those people to give you a body for a viking funeral

    On to illegal ways you could accomplish this: not reporting a dead body is not only a crime but also makes you incredibly suspicious for fraud at a minimum and murder at the max. Not acquiring a death certificate will make dealing with any estate very difficult. Stealing the body from wherever it is located will likely get you charges for defacing a dead body. You could bribe some people to look the other way but if that fails that's also a crime

    In short, no you can't really do it. However, this is America, so presumably with enough money to the right people you could probably work it out. But we're talking .01% level money and connections

  • Abortion passes inflation as top election concern for women under 30, survey finds
  • Sure, we might have record unemployment, inflation can be low, and by most metrics the American economy is doing well. However people are feeling squeezed. They're spending more on rent, groceries, health insurance, other necessities than they have in their entire lives. Most people don't have the vocabulary to describe that economically so they use words they've heard. In most people's heads inflation=things are more expensive. So they complain about inflation even if that's inaccurate

  • Couch co-op thread
  • Some retro suggestions:

    • Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 - it sounds like your cousin is probably too old for this but this has one of the best "younger sibling" modes. They help collect and shoot bits. Which ultimately doesn't matter much
    • The Legend of Zelda 4 Swords Adventure - It's basically multi-player Link to the Past! Bonus points if you dig up a GameCube, link cables, and GBAs
    • Kirby Super Star - a mix of competitive and coop games
    • Super Mario World (any) - you take turns but if you don't go 6 levels without dying to his one it can be fun
    • Halo 1-3 + ODST - Great classic shooters, the campaigns are customizable for difficulty, and a little kid probably loves alien shooters
    • Borderlands 1/2 - Looter shooters with a sense of irreverance
    • Dead Rising 2/Off the Record and 3 - Zombie hoard murdering with combo weapons
    • The Simpsons '91, Battletoads, TMNT, Streets of Rage, etc - Beat Em Ups are great for multi-player
  • I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend.
  • One thing to consider is that delivery and takeout are significantly more popular than they were 4 years ago. Some of these chains either anticipate or encourage you to heat your cookies just before you eat them and halfway cooking them gives the best results. A place just down the road from me encourages 1 minute on high in the air fryer or 3 in a toaster oven before eating

  • Weirdo has a thought.
  • I did. I voted in the primary for a normal-ass guy and then voted for him again in the house. The Shapiros party gerrymandered him out of his office. Sorry you guys keep voting for lunatics, but you reap what you sow

  • N.C. Governor Race Jolted by CNN Report That Mark Robinson Called Himself a ‘Black Nazi’
  • Honestly reading through everything I don't even know if that's the worst part. These stuck out to me:

    "Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.

    “I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!"

    And in my opinion the worst one so far:

    "Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few"

  • Out of Context DnD @lemmy.world makeshiftreaper @lemmy.world

    Me: I can't believe you stopped me from defenestrating that guy! Do you know how often you get a chance to defenestrate someone?

    Player 2: I don't even know what that means

    Me: Exactly!

    Defenestration (n): the action of throwing someone out of a window

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    Clicking a link to a lemmy community on a card doesn't work

    When someone links to a community if you open the post and then follow the link it works fine. If you're browsing with cards and try to follow the link from the card without opening the actual post it attempts to open the link in a browser which fails because the link is not the full URL. It would be nice if clicking the link would take me to that community on that instance, which is what it does when you open the post and click the link

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