My favorite HOA conflict:

https://www.jeepforum.com/threads/epic-hoa-parking-boot-battle.572540/

TL;DR - HOA boots a car parked outside a guys house. He puts the car up on dollies and pushes it into his garage.

They accuse him of stealing the boot.

He tells them they can come get it any time they want.

They tell him it’s $140 to remove the boot.

He tells them “Nah, it’s cool, I don’t need to drive the car.” LOL.

Edit Also in Arizona… Something in the water down there?

Yup. It just felt like we peaked with the Moon missions and have been steadily moving backwards ever since.

Here’s the thing… if America really cared about NASA… I mean REALLY CARED… we would have been up in arms when they abdicated the shuttle program 14 years ago. That was, what, under Obama’s first term? 2011.

I was super interested in the shuttle stuff when I was a kid, from Enterprise forward, and was pretty disappointed with what they were doing with it.

“Oh, look, they’re sending up mice again… shouldn’t we be PAST that by now? We landed on the fricking MOON already, why are we sending up mice… AGAIN?”

Is that the one with all the dicks on it?

Yup! 94 swingin’ dicks!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/bayeux-tapestry-historian-genitalia-dispute

(88 on horses)

You’re advocating punishing an entire population for having the temerity of selecting their own elected government.

There’s a term for that:

https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/collective-punishments

U.S. fertility rate is actually up the last few years, still below replacement level, but up.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/fertility-rate

Everyone should have realized it was security theater when nobody was asked to remove their underwear after the underwear bomber.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Farouk_Abdulmutallab

Next up is to ditch the fluid restrictions.

“I’m sorry, that’s too much fluid, here, let me dispose of it right next to this massive line of people in case it has an explosive, chemical, or biological component…”

I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.

Time To First Byte 0 to 800ms.

“It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it’s text, images, or parts of the user interface.”

They’re bragging about now meeting the minimum standard. LOL.

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about

“Our cars are now faster than ever! They can go as fast as 55 mph on a standard highway!”

Not surprising they failed to break the blockade, it IS surprising they didn’t even make it 1/2 way through Libya. I mean, if they made it to Egypt and couldn’t crack the Gazan border, that would be one thing, at least they could say “an attempt was made!” But to not even make it TO Egypt?

That’s a giant fail.

Holy shit, I missed that. That’s a tectonic change if the Supreme Court can actually be bothered to recognize it.

Federal torts and also “qualified immunity”.

https://innocenceproject.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-qualified-immunity-and-how-it-shields-those-responsible-for-wrongful-convictions/

In before “YoU CaN’T SuE ThE GoVeRnMeNt” /s

Hey @Davriellelouna@lemmy.world Looks like you’re posting a bunch.

Please note sidebar rule 7:

“Rule 7: We didn’t USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you’re posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.”

? I thought the US was when Trump agreed to pull out and turn it over to them?

Valve really operates in a different market from Microsoft or Sony, but what hurt them was a couple of things:

1. Repeatedly skipping Gamescom essentially told Sony “Yeah, we don’t care about Europe.” And the sales numbers show it. Sony owns Europe.

2. No differential between console and PC. Launching the same game at the same time on PC and Xbox doesn’t incentivize people to a) buy games on Xbox or b) develop games on Xbox. Why bother if it’s on PC the same day?

3. Focusing on digital vs. physical takes games out of stores. On a recent trip to Target they had a nice big Playstation section and a nice big Switch section. Hey? Where are the Xbox games?

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/target-not-selling-physical-xbox-games-anymore.1679241/