dhork

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yet many Catholics voted in line with the MAGA nuts, purely on abortion. The American Catholic Church has turned abortion into its defining political litmus test. Hopefully this new Pope can convince American bishops that there are other issues worth their attention.

Besides, the folks who run the US right now always need an enemy. Once they run through the immigrants, and LGBT people, who's next? It's entirely possible these christofascists start ostracizing Catholics. They never liked them anyway, they just liked their votes, and they probably think they won't need votes anymore to keep in power.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

The goodest boy in Washington today

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I feel no need to observe this in real time. I'll read about it after the fact.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 48 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

I guess if the kids want to be safe they need to quit school and work on the farm

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

I'd love to see him run, and I hope he gets a meaningful debate in before the DNC stacks the deck for Newsom

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I'm surprised this wasn't an ex-J6er. Still, I wonder if Trump will pardon him?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

There is a difference between customs and immigration. Customs cares about things (and import duties on those things), Immigration cares about people.

As a US citizen, you should be able to just enter as long as your paperwork is in order. (And if Immigration is interested in you beyond the formalities, it means you are probably on some sort of list, and good luck to you!)

Customs will care mainly that you are only bringing in personal goods, and not commercial goods you intend to sell. They will also care if you buy any goods abroad to take back, because you may owe import duties. So they will not care about your Fairphone unless you bought it while in your trip abroad. In normal times you will have an exemption that allows you to bring in some amount of goods duty-free but the world is all topsy turvy now so I would check what the duty-free allowance is before coming back.

They are used to people bringing phones, laptops, camera equipment, and other expensive personal effects with them on trips. They won't care unless you have a lot of things, and they think you are not being truthful when you say none of it was purchased abroad in that trip. Having five phones for one person would be a red flag, for instance.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Your dad is correct in that every driver gets into an accident at one point or another. You have your license, which means you passed the test. And while the test is the bare minimum, you did meet it.

Every driver starts out new, and has to learn a lot. It can take years before you are truly comfortable, and that's OK.

My recommendation would be to not give up driving cold turkey, but only drive when you are comfortable. Find an errand you need to run once or twice a week and do that route consistently. (Or, if you are working, do your work commute by a consistent route every day). Learn that route, and where all the tricky things are. You may find that after a month or two, you build enough confidence on that one drive that you are not spooked by other drives.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Fear not, MAGAs! Nature is no match for Donald Trump's Sharpie

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (6 children)

The actual parade route is super tiny, less than a mile. NYT published a parade route map, and the troops have a longer walk to the parade start point than the parade route itself. It is just going by the National Mall, and that's it. My local town Memorial Day parade (which only had the mayor, boy/girl scouts, fire department, and school marching band) was longer.

(Edited to add: I don't want to sell the town Memorial Day parade short, it also had a bunch of cool old tractors....)

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Cloudy and overcast, with sporadic bursts of fascism. Possible flood of lies in high-conservative-media areas.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reddit still publishes RSS feeds, so you can use an RSS reader to see the latest stuff. You can't interact with it, but who wants to trade shit posts with bots anyway?

This is how I keep up with my Sportsball teams since that community hasn't really taken off here yet.

 

A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing ended abruptly Tuesday after Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender person elected to Congress, as “mister.”

Self, who chairs the subcommittee on Europe, introduced McBride as “the congressman from Delaware” during a hearing on arms control and U.S. assistance to Europe. McBride responded by calling Self “Madam Chair.”

 

That one person who didn't vote for Ichiro better fess up....

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by dhork@lemmy.world to c/nfl@lemmy.world
 

My Bills are on Sunday. That Steelers/Ravens game on Saturday will be a good one.

 

That's a lot of money

 

On Monday, the mayor marched down Fifth Avenue during the annual Columbus Day Parade wearing a baseball cap supporting BOTH the Yankees and Mets! The hat featured a Mets logo on one side, an "X" in between and a Yankees logo on the other side. ... "No wonder Eric Adams got indicted, that hat is a crime against humanity," one user wrote in a post on X, formally Twitter.

 

LFGM

 

The announcers were very excited about it while it happened

 

Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.

 

The phrase “TRUMP TOO SMALL” stems from a memorable moment in the 2016 Republican presidential debates, during which Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made a crude joke about the size of Trump’s hands.

“And you know what they say about guys with small hands,” Rubio quipped.

 

Biden’s campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates “fully acceptable to me” and joked about providing his own transportation.

 

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) scolded Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during a closed-door GOP conference meeting Thursday, telling the Florida Republican to sit down when he tried to interrupt McCarthy’s remarks.

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