Nomecks

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I bet it's the back flow valve. Mine would try draining for a few seconds then error. Repeated rinse cycles would drain a little at a time. It's past the pump in the out hose

on What the fuck? · c/mentalhealth · 3 pts · 7d

Lemmy.world isn't a safe space for anyone. It's the wrong instance to be housing a serous community about anything.

on DS9 in a nutshell · c/tenforward · 1 pts · 15d

He was active in a conspiracy to draw the Romulan empire into a war, which resulted in the death of a Senator. Sisko engaged Garak into the conspiracy. How do you not see Garak blowing up Vreenak's ship as "the use of armed force by a State against the sovereignty, integrity or independence of another State". Garak was engaged in the conspiracy by a federation captain. It was the very definition of a crime of aggression. It doesn't matter if Sisko intended the result, he (and the Federation by extension) orchestrated the conspiracy.

on DS9 in a nutshell · c/tenforward · 1 pts · 15d

You're technically correct that killing Senator Vreenak wasn't a war crime. It was a crime of aggression, and is still one of the four core crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression, and war crimes), so Sisko would still be at the Hague for it.

I don't think courts would see Sisko as an accessory after the fact as he was conspiring to bring the Romulans into the war using false pretenses. Senator Vreenak got killed by one of the conspirators while in commission of the conspiracy. I think this would definitely be an arguable court case.

They passed the ACA by having to negotiate with DINOs like Joe Liberman:

https://www.npr.org/2009/12/15/121452544/democrats-trade-off-to-get-60-health-care-votes

The negotiation inside the Dems was as bad or worse than the one with the Republicans. They didn't have 60 votes for single payer or any other real change.

Democrats have never been able to vote as a unified bloc like the Republicans do. It's easy to unite when your banner is something simple like "Democrats bad, Obama bad." When it's a complex issue like Healthcare and you're dealing with people with different agendas it gets a lot harder. Especially when politicians are mostly bought and paid for as a feature of western democracy.

He "Had 60 Democrats" on paper only. There's a 0% chance he had 60 votes to do anything really revolutionary. Enough Dems are on the payroll to make sure there's never any real reform.