Depends on what you mean by matter. The point of the criminal justice system is, theoretically, to determine who breaks the law, and to punish people who break the law. In that sense it matters because Trump was found guilty in a fair trial by a jury of his peers.

If what you mean is that it will change the politics of America, certainly. Trump is now running with the specter of a conviction hanging over him. Even assuming appeals and pardons, that fundamentally changes the nature of the election. It raises real and serious questions about how he could serve if under house arrest, parole, or in prison. It forces us to reckon with the balance of powers in this country - can a person dodge justice because they attain high office, or do we hold them accountable no matter what?

If what you mean is in reality, no it probably won’t do shit.

And why do old people randomly capitalize nouns? Every Sentence reads like the just read the Written Word for the first time and wanted to give It a Try For Themselves

I bet the 9/11 fighters are still pissed he burned ‘em

Broadly there are three options:

1. Buscemi is kind of an asshole and pissed people off
2. Buscemi holds a political opinion/is the subject of some conspiracy that makes him a target
3. New Yorker shit

I don’t have any info to suggest any specific option is right, and I’m too lazy to do even a modicum of research, but if I’m betting I’m betting on 3 with a hedge on 2. He seems cool as hell.

Well that’s because you’re a tech-hating Luddite most likely \s

Yeah since I learned who the Luddites were I’ve kind of fallen in love with them

Happy to! I can see why someone would be confused 😂

The Luddite is an anticapitalist blog https://theluddite.org

People here are far more likely to be anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, pro-privacy, etc. those groups all circle the same kind of Cory Doctorow/Matt Stoller/Luddite world where the word enshittification became popular.

That’s total monthly users, not active. MAU is about 30-40k

I don’t really think political spending is going towards Lemmy trolls, much less like…national propaganda spending. Shitty advertising bots maybe.

Fair enough, I have also seen that crap

No one is paying troll farms to go comment on lemmy though

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What is happening in your life

Enron’s share price was very high right up until the end, too. Share price is not necessarily a good indicator of underlying fundamentals

They absolutely do because the guns often contain blanks. There was a great episode of What Went Wrong about this and about safety on set. There has been a huge push towards realism in gunfights, meaning blanks over sound effects and visual effects. Firing a gun obviously is far more dangerous than not firing a gun. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-went-wrong/id1512847066?i=1000617518180

To cash out

Yes and there are definitely people who use excel for art. Just like there are people who use GitHub for its releases page. It’s just not the primary use of either program.

A huge chunk of GitHub users? Citation needed. Sounds like what you mean is you and your communities use it that way.

I mean I did try. They didn’t really listen, just repeated the same thing over and over again.