sleepdrifter

joined 1 year ago
[–] sleepdrifter@startrek.website 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and, according to an arrest affidavit, said something to the effect of: “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump's America now! I'm a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”

Yeah still too early to tell isn't it

[–] sleepdrifter@startrek.website 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If I'm not mistaken, I've heard stories about it being prohibitively difficult to vote (long lines, inadequate staffing & # of locations, banning vote-by-car, a COVID response) in urban areas. Can't imagine a lot of those barriers exist in more rural areas.

[–] sleepdrifter@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

I've used carrier video calling before, the option appears when I call my wife. We both have Verizon, though, and I've never checked if I can do that with other people

My wife and I constantly lament how we were born a few decades too late. For everything

[–] sleepdrifter@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I recall someone from the BBC saying something similar when it came to covering Brexit. It would take their producers days to find a credible, coherent voice that was pro-Brexit, while the anti-Brexit folks were basically lined up to voice their reasoning. That dichotomy was never revealed to listeners and caused some strife amongst the news team as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal

Do yourself a favor and go pirate it now

[–] sleepdrifter@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're mostly in rural parts of the states where private (read: investor owned) utilities determined the region wouldn't turn a large enough profit to expand there and the state's public utility commission didn't mandate their expansion