rclone & restic work okay together to create backups in a Google drive mount. There are "issues" with backing up to Google drive since it doesn't guarantee file names are unique which is... a choice... but it should be reliable enough.

If memory serves, Shelby was just about the ability of the DOJ to require states from the former Confederacy to get DOJ’s approval before making any changes to their election laws, where this is about DOJ’s ability to monitor any state’s actual implementation of their election laws

This is quite incorrect. I would read the link I provided.

As for how likely it is that you actually get hit - do you think it’s easier to avoid a 2’ x 6’ object moving at 15 mph or a 8’ x 16’ object moving at 45 mph?

The cars are where I expect them to be - and they are much more likely to slow if they see me on the crosswalk. Dude on a bike just swerves around me at speed.

Cyclists like to think they're still pedestrians when it suits their purpose.

I'm quite surprised he hasn't already.

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Since Shelby v Holder they are restrained in where they can monitor - they need a court order to do so and can't follow old guidelines that let them monitor in "historically racist" locations like Texas.

https://www.justice.gov/crt/about-federal-observers-and-election-monitoring

This isn't a criminal trial

What are those cyclists having accidents with? Magical monoliths that appear out of nowhere or... cars?

Yeah... Whenever I'm on foot in the city I'm twice as nervous about being hit by a cyclist as I am a car.

They ride on sidewalks, don't stop at lights, weave through pedestrians at crosswalks, etc.

They seem to be so full of themselves for not being in a car that they forget that they can also injure people.

Because it is an attack on somebody for belonging to a group rather than something about themselves specifically.

https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/learn-about-hate-crimes#hatecrime

Until it goes to the supreme court as well.

I'm sympathetic... I'm not sure I'd be willing to share a sh.itjust.works link to my company #general slack channel.

Though that is far from the biggest problem Lemmy has for adoption. Many communities are simply flooded with 15yr old tankies.

The other mandates that police charge people, including kids, with felonies for making threats of any kind, credible or not.

Holy shit is that true? Kids say stupid things ALL THE TIME. They're impulsive and don't understand what it means to think about the future. And you're going to put a FELONY on that kids record???

The patient must have a life-threatening condition and be at risk of death or "substantial impairment of a major bodily function" if the abortion is not performed.

So, therein lies the problem.

They couldn't take action before her life was in danger even though they knew it would be. So they have to wait until it's an "emergency" which is far more risky. And this woman died was a result.

This law greatly increased the risk of the situation needlessly.