For everyone elese who didn't know, the current "Waka Jumping" law in NZ allows the leader of a political party to demand the resignation of a member of Parliament who leaves their party. Sounds like the Greens are wary of the law in general, so they require an internal 75% vote for their leader to request the ejection.
The ejected member will be replaced via a new election, if they represent a district, or by the next person on the party list if they were from the proportional vote.
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Yeah, I don’t think this goes to trial and rewrites the lawbooks or anything, but there’s enough here to litigate, and I reckon Tesla will settle to avoid going to discovery.
This is a bit different, in that it's not a trademark claim, but rather a copyright claim. They're saying that the still isn't meaningfully trying to be anything other than a Blade Runner still, and Musk's use is not protected by any sort of Fair Use. There would likely be a statue of limitations or something for the specific cause of action, but you can't lose copyright the same way you can a trademark.
One could argue it's an uncreative derivative work not subject to a fair use exemption, and actively used in commerce to make money for Musk, while simultaneously it damages the Blade Runner brand if, as claimed, other car companies assume Tesla and BR have a relationship, or the BR brand is inextricably linked to Tesla and Musk. The fact that Tesla and WBD hurriedly sought a copyright clearance, once Tesla realized WBD didn't have all the necessary rights, doesn't speak well for Tesla's position, nor does the fact that Musk referenced Blade Runner at least twice in his presentation.
Mine turns eleven this month. Dislikes Star Wars and Star Trek. Loves magical girl anime and Pokemon. We have been able to share some stuff though: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Netflix She-Ra, Gravity Falls, ATLA and Korra. However, if people spend 1% too long in a spaceship, she is DONE.
LOL, I have been driving Outbacks for the last 11+ years, and I love 'em. For brightness, the scroller to the left of the steering wheel will reduce brightness on both the screen and gauges, and the little thumb buttons will shift away from the real time fuel economy, at least on the drivers' console. I can't help you with the cabin, but I don't mind it, and the cargo volume with the back seats down is generally better than the Forresters. I will say that the Outbacks already have so-so fuel economy; I'll be surprised if anything significantly roomier does much better.
For buttons, Hyundai and Nissan seem to be fighting a rear-guard action to keep them around. Get the Santa Cruz! Get a "Ute"!!!! Do it!
The Liberal Arts Side of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
Honestly, this one is as good a place as any other. I think new communities make the most sense when their subject matter becomes so prevalent that it starts to annoy the people who are in a community for other reasons. We sort of tried to run before walking when APIpocalypse happened, and I think we're still structurally cleaning up the mess.
So that being said, what are you looking for? Another truck? Something smaller?
This is it, really. Fundamentally, the people placing online orders just want to exchange money for lunch, same as OP.
In the old days though, they would show up, see the line was too long, and some percentage of them would leave. Publix needs to increase staffing, implement rate limiting (I think they call it "Order Throttling" in this space), or partially prioritize the people who want their sandwich bad enough to spend their own time waiting. I assume there's some metric that would optimize it, and even if not, some reasonable guesswork (alternate prep of in-person versus mobile orders?) would help with the physical traffic jam and angry luddites (no offense, OP 🤣).
Part of the problem may be that Pubsubs in particular occupy a weird space where they're a much-loved quick dining option while still having the infrastructure of a grocery store deli counter, and managers from that mindset. I'm sure everything is sort of kludgey and half-assed.
I'm a good little consumer. I pay my Disney tax. But, errrm, "PVOD" just means "Prepare VPN, Or Delay." At this point in my life and the media landscape, it's mostly "Delay."
As somebody else mentioned, historically 99% of voting was done on election day. Opening the polling places earlier than that was the exception, and the terminology has simply stuck as the practice has expanded. Additionally, many jurisdictions have something materially different about voting early, whether different hours, looser location rules (I used to be able to early vote at any polling place in my county, but not now... thanks, Texas), etc., so it's useful to refer to distinguish them somehow.
We were set to go to Fan Expo with these, but wife Pokemon-loving kiddo weren't feeling quite 100%. This is ultimately good, because the obscure (in the US) anime that kiddo was angling for was just not going to happen for Halloween.
So, I'm going as Professor Freide, wife as an Umbreon, and kiddo as Nemona from the Violet video game. Kiddo's oversized Pikachu pillow got a captain's hat safety-pinned to his head, so he'll be Cap.
Voted today in the Fort Worth suburbs. Hopefully Cruz is just so clearly reprehensible that Allred pulls off a surprise, but I fear that not actively hating trans people may doom him.
Generally easy to vote, but as mentioned, remember your ID. Had one chucklefuck who wore a "Make College Station Great Again" hat that slipped by the poll-workers because it was Aggie maroon. Wife told me the Aggie was yucking it up with somebody, "you all know how to vote, right?!?!?" but she verbally shut them down, because she's awesome like that. I did see the pollworkers send one lady who was likely voting R (educated guess here... she was well behaved) to go home because she had applied for an absentee ballot but hadn't brought it to surrender at the polling place.
immediately trespassed and removed
So I take it to mean the poll workers or someone else actually asked them to leave? If so, that's something. This is absolutely shitty, politicking at the polling place at best, and I agree with the others: you show up to a political event in the south wearing a white sheet, then pointy hood or not, we all know what you're evoking.
Naw, man, that's just the cookbook that tells you how long to leave the one big crumb in the bottom of your air fryer.
Sporcle: NCAA D-I FBS Mascots
128/133 in 6:30. In defense of my knowledge, if not my wisdom...
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ODU and Kent State are the only two I truly forgot. I just straight up skimmed past UNC, then I misspelled Sam Houston and I still don't why it didn't take my answer for ULM:::
Why Uga XI will not accompany Georgia Bulldogs to Texas
>The mascot known as Boom ‘is really young and immature and crazy as hell’
SEC Shorts - SEC Fraud Detection
They had the Herbstreit stinger in the can, ready for the first time they needed it. I'm sure of it!
No captions this week, best I can tell.
Billy Napier's timid decision after late-game TD comes back to haunt Florida in OT loss to Tennessee
Scared money don't make money, right Billy?
Also, regardless of what happened, going to OT forced the nation to endure more of that mutual shitshow than was necessary.
One of the better summaries of SovCits I've seen, presentation from a municipal lawyer in Wisconsin (PDF warning)
I don't think they capture all the nuances of the craziness we see on this community, but it's a pretty decent and readable summary of where the SovCits are coming from, once you kind of "get it" for one variety, you start to see them more like insanity Jazz, with infinite riffs on core principles.
One "between the lines" part of this presentation is the stuff about SovCits being victims of scammers. This, along with sheer impatience and "path of least resistance" thinking, goes a long way in understanding why courts and government offices play along to the degree they do and try to find something even halfway of useful to say to them or do for them.
I believe the author is Andrew Logan Beveridge, Stevens Point City Attorney.
Star Trek Voyager Gothic
You've been on this tiny ship in the Delta Quadrant beyond any hope of recrew or resupply for over a year, but you keep seeing ensigns you don't recognise. Everyone tells you that they've always been...
Thought I'd give this one from 7 months ago a bump. Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12634612
> ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Gothic > > > You’ve been on this tiny ship in the Delta Quadrant beyond any hope of recrew or resupply for over a year, but you keep seeing ensigns you don’t recognise. Everyone tells you that they’ve always been here > > > > You go down to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. B'elanna tells you that he’s just stepped out. He’s been 'just stepped out’ for days. > > > > A shuttle crashes on a desert planet. You speak with Chakotay about the possibility of trading for some new shuttles, but he looks at you funny and says “but we already have a full compliment of shuttles” > > > > You run to the shuttlebay and inspect them personally. There is a full compliment of shuttles. And none of them even have a scratch. > > The next week, a shuttle is torn to pieces in a plasma storm. You’re not even surprised when you find intact it in the shuttlebay an hour later. > > > > You stop mentioning shuttles. > > > > The ship has an encounter with some Kazon, but manages to get away. Their ships are primitive and slow and you shouldn’t run into them again. > > > > Two weeks later, you meet the same Kazon, now somehow in front of you. You begin to suspect that you’re driving in circles > > > > You go to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. You haven’t seen him in two years. He’s 'not there right now, but should be back in a minute’. > > > > Janeway and Paris travel at warp 10 and turn into salamanders. You’re sure that it happened. You remember it happening! But no one brings it up. When you ask Tom about it, he doesn’t even register the question. > > > > You scream “BUT YOU WERE A SALAMANDER!” into his ear. He doesn’t even hear you. > > > > You see another Ensign you don’t recognise. You finslly just ask the computer for the crew compliment of Voyager. You are told that the answer is: 121. > > > > A month later, the Hirogen conquer the ship, spend weeks brainwashing and surgically altering the crew into believing that they are actually characters in holographic simulations, and then hunt them for sport. This culminates in a pitched battle between the crew and the Hirogen in which the ship is utterly wrecked and dozens of people are killed. > > > > Afterwards, you ask the computer for the ship’s crew compliment. You are told that the answer is: 147 > > > > The next day, you wake up and find Voyager restored to its original state. > > > > You make a discreet inquiry about Lt. Carey. Now everyone acts like he’s dead but can’t tell you precisely when or how. > > > > The Captain takes you aside one day and specifically instructs you not to mention Ensign Jetal to the Doctor. She says that she knows that this will be difficult, given how close we all were to her (and you in particular), but that for the greater good of the crew, you need to act like Ensign Jetal never existed. You solemnly nod your head and consent, and she gives you a comradely pat on the shoulder and leaves the room. > > > > You have absolutely no idea who Ensign Jetal is. > > > > Voyager absorbs the remaining crew of the USS Equinox. Well at least you’ll finally have an explanation for the new crew you see around the ship! You never see any of them ever again. > > > > You’ve now travelled almost 40,000 light years towards home. You check the star charts; somehow, you’re still in the Delta Quadrant. You begin to wonder if the Beta Quadrant even exists. > > > > The Delta Flyer is destroyed by Borg torpedos. You don’t even bother to check the shuttlebay for it, you just instinctively know that it will be back > > > > A few months later, the Captain gives you the sad news: Lt. Carey is dead. > > > > You finally make it back to the Alpha Quadrant, say your tearful farewells, and receive a handshake and a promotion from Admiral Paris. As one last thought before leaving Voyager forever, you pay a visit to the shuttlebay. You find it utterly empty, except for one lowly crewman with a mop and pail, swabbing the deck. “I…guess that Starfleet must have already cleared out the remaining shuttles?” You say uncertainly, your voice echoing in the cavernous, empty room. The crewman breaks off his mopping and looks at you like you’ve lost your mind and says: “Voyager never had any shuttles.”
Recommendations other than Bambu and Prusa?
I currently run a Voxelab Aquila I got for $120 three years ago. It largely replaced a Monoprice Mini, and the Aquila's done some surprisingly good work for me, but I may look for something new to put on the ol' birthday list. I would like a flat bed and some modern QoL improvements built in (he said, side-eyeing the BLTouch clone he never installed), but I'm still looking to play in the shallow-end, price-wise, and anyway Bambu just has "future enshittification" written all over it. I don't do anything time-sensitive, and I'm not afraid to put the whole thing together, so who are the current leaders in the value space? Recent machines from Creality?
“This Court cannot possibly order the State Fair to allow handguns to be carried at this year’s Fair when the party seeking that relief does not even argue that Texas law obligates the Fair to do so," one of the justices wrote in a legal opinion.
Even other Republicans think Ken Paxton is bad at his job. This is some nice judicial snark:
>Remarkably, the State’s presentation to this Court takes no position on whether the State Fair of Texas, a private entity, has the legal authority to exclude patrons carrying handguns from the Fair. This may surprise many observers, given that the ostensible purpose of this litigation is to determine whether Texas law entitles law-abiding Texans to carry handguns at the State Fair despite the Fair’s recently enacted policy to the contrary.
Go ahead and read the whole thing, though, including the footnote. It's only 4 pages of double-spaced text with huge margins. They are not even disagreeing -- although they should -- but rather just laying into Paxton for how sloppy the filings were.
Help me ID a book from a hazy 1980s childhood memory
As a child, we had a book of scary stories that included some absolutely ghastly but entrancing pen-and-ink art. I'm 99% sure they're not "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". I don't remember much, but a few things stuck with me:
- a picture of a diver in an old-timey deep sea diving suit and maybe a sea-witch type character draped in seaweed.
- at least one really creepy drawing of a willow tree
- one or more of the pictures also involved a classically gothic cliffside along the sea.
- I want to say the binding was green or teal
- no dust jacket that I recall, but it could have been missing
- as a child, it struck me as old but not ancient, so I'm guessing it was from the late 60s or early 70s maybe
- my parents let me read it, and they were Mormons and frankly not really readers, so I'm guessing it was sort of vaguely considered age appropriate in those days if parents didn't look too close.
Style-wise, as I recall it kind of split the difference between Edward Gorey (thanks, @[email protected] for unearthing my nightmare fuel) and the semi-famous Darth Maul concept art from Iain McCaig. I have downloaded the first two volumes of SStTitD, as they are technically old enough to be the ones, but while they're definitely in the same milieu they're not what I'm thinking of. The art in this had heavier linework and IIRC used pen-and-ink crosshatching instead of shading; I also can't find any images in those two that hit me as "THAT'S IT!".
This could absolutely be a wild goose chase down memory lane, but any suggestions?
Pac-12 sues Mountain West over 'poaching penalty'
It's finally happened. I have no idea WTF is happening with realignment. The players in the drama are constantly shifting, the motivations are murky, the money is not immediately obvious. I am very confused.
PSA: The Goulets from Goulet Pens are into some pretty serious Men-rule, Bible's-literal Evangelical Christianity (reddit link, I know I know)
Short version: Drew, their employee with the most public facing role and known to be a chill guy and left-leaning, left the company with some celebration but zero explanation. This got folks looking, and they saw that the Goulets are heavily involved with planting (think "franchising" or may more accurately "metastasizing") a new church that was growing out from a larger one that has all the usual disgusting anti-LGBT+ rhetoric, and the new church has a mission statement that includes bible literalism and explicitly places men above women in home life and church roles. Also, Reddit being Reddit, the mods handled it all very clumsily and in a way that makes it look they've traded their integrity for a couple of pens.
'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' exclusive photos reveal Jaleel White and a band of space pirates, as show creators explain a 'resurgence of piracy.'
Did he do that?!?!?!?!?
Also, kinda burying the lede that the Wolfman-mask alien from the ANH Cantina scene will be an actual character.
Please don't let this suck...