stinerman
@stinerman@midwest.social
I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression.
- Comment on What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)? 1 day ago:
Again, this depends on the state. In some states it’s a fine. In others it’s a misdemeanor and can carry jail time. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector.
- Comment on What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)? 1 day ago:
If Biden wins the election, but dies before the electoral college votes, it’s a free-for-all. The electoral college can vote for whoever they want.
This is unclear. Some states have laws that say that electors must vote for who they’re pledged to vote for.
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 month ago:
It’s not crazy. You should get one every so often just in case. Better to find a small problem now than a big problem later.
I’m more shocked that you could buy the house without an inspection. My bank required one to give me a loan.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 months ago:
If you want to be hyper-technical about it, he could order a hit on Trump, but if Trump was already on the ballot and received 270+ EVs, he would be ineligible to be President. His Vice President would take over as President.
If both were assassinated, the Speaker of the House of the newly-seated Congress would become President.
I don’t think you meant that specifically, but yes if ordering a hit is an “official act”, he could conceivably order the murder of anyone who cares to stand against him.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 months ago:
How many divisions has the Supreme Court?
They can order him released but unless they’re going to send a bailiff to try to break him out of federal prison, they’re just words on a sheet of paper.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
the only viable alternative, for 99% of the population, is Apple
This is largely because Windows and MacOS come preinstalled and that’s how the vast majority of people interact with operating systems. If you had to choose your OS, I’m sure there’d be more choice in the market. Not necessarily Linux, but just more choice in general.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
I’ve been using some Linux flavor for about 15 years. The biggest thing about switching (at least back then) was I knew how to configure Windows just to my liking. With Linux it was a lot more difficult because I had to google everything. Like “how do I change the wallpaper?” How do I get the login screen to appear on the correct monitor, etc. It was just frustrating because I knew how to do this in Windows, but I felt like a major noob again with Linux.
- Comment on Don't forget! 2 months ago:
It seems like alternatively you could cross the border to some other country and not have to do this anymore. Slovakia gets all the breaks.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 2 months ago:
Every year is an amazing year for rich people.
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 3 months ago:
Great Snoring
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 4 months ago:
Your problem seems to be with cert authorities, which is not the same as HTTPS.
I’d be interested in what your solution is that doesn’t rely upon a 3rd party to guarantee that a website is ran by who it says it is.
Also if you’re complaining that browsers warn the user when using http, that’s a complaint about the browser, not HTTPS.
- Comment on Smooth area on the bottom of my balls 5 months ago:
Do you have any hair follicles there? Could by why it’s smooth.
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 5 months ago:
DNS blocking at the router never fails.
- Comment on When you let boomers run social media accounts 5 months ago:
No harm done. It’s just Lemmy.
- Comment on BDSM 5 months ago:
Someone needs to rule 34 this on PornHub pronto.
- Comment on When you let boomers run social media accounts 5 months ago:
It was a joke though.
- Comment on When you let boomers run social media accounts 5 months ago:
May be better suited to lemmynsfw.
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 5 months ago:
Unless the friend has training as a microbiologist or something similar their belief is inconsequential. And even then they would be in the vast minority in their field (like a geologist that believes oil doesn’t come from the heat andcompressions of ancient organic matter.
A lot of people are afraid of new things they don’t understand. The hope is that people realize that the fear is irrational and listen to experts in the relevant field.
- Comment on King shit 5 months ago:
I challenge you to a quaff-off!
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 6 months ago:
I find that there’s more actual discussion here. On Mastodon most replies are people just agreeing with the OP. That also means people butt heads more. I have found people to be nice here.
I never used Reddit, so I can’t say how different it is compared to Reddit.
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 6 months ago:
Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John and Yoko.
- Comment on If we're going to have an effective strategy against FB/Meta, we should clear up some misconceptions around defederation 6 months ago:
I’m not sure it’s as big of a deal with Lemmy. Threads data doesn’t map very well into Lemmy and vice versa. Like with Mastodon, I can read this post and comment on it, but it’s not really a great way to interact. I think it’s a bigger deal on the Mastodon/Calckey/etc side. If IG/FB federate then it becomes a different story, IMO.
- Comment on Can you use the same domain/username for different fediverse services? 6 months ago:
No, not in the example that you’ve set up. The username is always @user@domain. This is like asking if you can have the same email address on Gmail and Hotmail or whatever. You can have the same user part, but not the domain.
People that have used user@x.domain and also user@y.domain is allowed because they’re different domain names.
- Comment on Godlike 6 months ago:
If those are right, my steaks are very underdone.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 6 months ago:
This is similar to Facebook. FB was “censoring conservatives” and “shadow banning” them when Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, and Trump posts had the highest engagement on the site.
- Comment on How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer? 6 months ago:
The code has always been the easy part. The hard part is getting requirements that make sense. It will continue to be the case with bots doing the coding.
- Comment on Back in my day 6 months ago:
The concept of rewatching a movie is almost foreign to me now given that I have access to a library of tens of thousands of movies. It would have to be very good and something that whoever I’m with hasn’t seen it.
Of course I used to watch the same movie about month or so back when I was growing up in the 90s.
- Comment on How is bandwidth allocated on my home network? 6 months ago:
If you want a really in-depth description, this article will give it to you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control
Your torrenting might not be using TCP, but the same basic idea is the same.
TL;DR: the router uses some math and so forth to tell both computers to slow down to the point that it’s not overloaded.
- Comment on Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email? 6 months ago:
This is because people believe that faxes are “unhackable” because it’s just scanning a piece of paper and transmitting it to another machine that prints it out. They never think that you can photoshop a thing and then print it out and then fax it.
- Comment on Should I quit my monthly expenses for alcohol? 7 months ago:
This is definitely a dril subtweet.