They all have environmental impacts but every serious modern study I’ve seen concludes EVs are better, often substantially better.

It depends on the electricity fuel blend. So in the past if you had a lot of coal it could take a long time to “pay back” the carbon cost of a new EV. But as more and more renewables are coming online that payback period is getting shorter and shorter. In most places if they’ve put at least some effort into bringing down carbon emissions, EVs are a substantial improvement.

Of course, walking, biking, transit are all far superior. But if those aren’t viable for some trips then EV is the next best option.

Unfortunately I think it must be assumed in this day and age that any content posted online publicly may be stored indefinitely, on any platform. Even if you delete it, there are bots scraping all your comments, and you won’t be able to delete from those databases. So I’m not sure how much utility this feature would have today.

I feel very confident this is the case. And I also suspect that most of the “bots” or “shills” or whatever other inauthentic accounts people think they are identifying are just these same types of people who have unusual posting habits or communication styles. I’ve yet to see one iota of evidence that there are any accounts masquerading as something they’re not to influence politics. The only actual bots I’ve seen are the boring spambots who just post scam links at a rapid rate.

Yeah I think it’s way beyond what I would know how to do… I’ve also got some pretty crazy things happening in my life right now so I’m not looking to take on any big projects at this time. Maybe when things are back to normal.

Or I’ll ask around and see if anyone else is interested in doing it.

Wow great comment. But I’d have to figure out who is going to host a local server first. I’m not super tech savvy personally, especially compared to Lemmings.

Oh wow this would be huge. The local sub is the main thing that keeps me coming back to Reddit.

However, it probably will take some local organizing to get it to fire in each area. Getting a critical mass for these is tough by just having randomly distributed global internet users join. Even with thousands of users, the California community on Lemmy is way less active than the sub for my city on Reddit.

The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it’s possible they’ll be slightly more by the book… but usually they wrote the book to allow police to “reasonably” violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.

But yeah unless they ruled it inadmissible, the lapse in custody probably won’t matter. The average juror is hopelessly naive and thinks cops are just pure-hearted goody two-shoes who would never do anything wrong.

Yeah that’s my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other’s backs unless something happens that’s so blatantly criminal that they can’t find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn’t sound that way to me, but I’m no expert.

The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.

You’re saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.

However again, I have not been following all the twists and turns so I don’t know what other evidence may have been uncovered since the arrest.

Ah well I haven’t followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.

Right, and I think we are seeing increasing cases of jury nullification, especially for civil disobedience against ICE. However, the reality is that Lemmy is a bubble. Luigi and his alleged murder are nowhere near as popular among the greater population as he is here. So that’s why I think the chance of a hung jury is higher than nullification. Hung jury can happen if there is just one or a few people who refuse to convict. But jury nullification requires unanimity. There’s bound to be at least a few law & order boomer types on the jury. But only time will tell.

Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.

If only they’d succeeded in ousting him. If so many suckers hadn’t defended him back then maybe it could have worked.

I can’t even imagine. MAGA was already losing their minds in 2016 with wild predictions that Obama would not leave office, despite there being no indication of it whatsoever.

I think there’s also a high likelihood the Supreme Court tells them they can’t do this. Even though it’s totally legal as of existing precedent.

My understanding is they may be able to but to do so risks publicizing secret exploits, which could then be fixed. So they usually save these for very high profile targets to make sure it’s worth it.

From what I’ve heard this would also apply to Linux.

Oh it definitely will notice. It could be seriously damaged, no way to know from this.

But yes, street trees are important safety infrastructure! We should absolutely be demanding our municipalities plant and care for them on every road.

But I thought a few murders was all that was holding us back from a spontaneous revolution? /s