That's the best question. Clarence Thomas shouldn't have been able to openly flaunt his corruption for decades, but he has. Is this just going to be more firm hand-wringing by the Dems with no enforcement mechanism whatsoever? At that point, it would be better to just recognize the court as illegitimate in the public eye as opposed to giving the false sense that it is in anyway ethical.

Surprisingly melancholy comic.

It feels like the war has ground to a halt, where the only progress is in bodycount. Russia has failed to make meaningful advances lately, but Ukraine's successes on the counteroffensive have also been extremely quiet.

Great question. A lot of government agencies consider Kentucky as part of the southeast, but I would say that culturally Kentucky falls squarely into Appalachia, along with West Virginia, Tennessee, western NC, southwestern Virginia, and southern Ohio. I would also say that Kentucky has a pretty wide metro/rural split, with Lexington and Berea being very different places.

I remain dumbfounded as to how Roblox got so big and is now publicly traded.

Any third party player is a negative to Biden right now, even if it is "just" Manchin.

The election is won and lost on the 10% of independents within purple states, and this 'coalition' would batter left-leaning independents with ads

We are fortunate enough to have a large bank barn that has been a barn swallow nesting ground for years. Although we use the top floor and seal it off, we leave a gate open for the swallows in the ground level every year. It's a joy to see 50+ of them on the telephone line in late summer.

This year our flock is significantly smaller, and two of them didn't make it. Hopefully just a one-year anomaly, but deep down I doubt it.

I'm a fan of Connect. It goes a good job with the material you design language. Once the Sync for Lemmy is released, I'll bounce over to that app. Overall, I've been very pleased with Lemmy. It doesn't have the volume of content to the more niche fringes, but it scratches the itch all the same, and I don't have to feel as gross doing it.

Since China (with the US) is one of the major offenders of fossil fuels, I am curious as to whether we see more dramatic climate change impacts in China specifically, or if that impact is going to be diffused across the world. China is a big country.

I genuinely hope so. I know that not all hope is lost, but some days the relentless march of climate change articles -- Vermont thousand year flood! Phoenix, 99 degree overnight low! is crushing.

You could put this in the parenting community and get even more positive feedback, lol

Between Boost and Sync, Lemmy is emerging as a promising option because there's going to be multiple strong 3rd party apps to engage with.