If an update to the proprietary Nvidia driver causes Linux to crash, that’s an Nvidia problem, not a Linux problem.

Attempted crimes require intent, so there is no attempt for unintentional crimes like manslaughter.

Most US states have a crime for any sort of nonconsensual physical contact, usually including intentionally expelling any bodily fluid onto another person, which deliberately coughing at someone could do. It may be called assault, battery, or harassment. Exposing someone to undue risk of harm is also often a crime with a name like “reckless endangerment”.

Certainly not. The duties of the president of the USA are:

• Execute/enforce the laws made by congress
• Command the military
• Grant pardons
• Make treaties
• Appoint ambassadors, judges, and officers
• Report to congress about the state of the country

It’s not necessary that any one of those functions be the responsibility of a single person, nor is it necessary that any one of them be performed by the same person or group as any of the others. Some of these functions may not even need to exist as such; I don’t think pardons are a feature of all systems of justice, and a legislative branch has other ways to learn about the state of the country.

Each US state has a separate definition of murder, but in most, intent to kill is sufficient. Motive is not an element of the crime.

Unintentional, but reckless killing is manslaughter. Many states have an intermediate crime of second degree murder in which there is no intent to kill, but the killer’s behavior shows an extreme indifference to the value of human life, which could apply in a case like this if the victim died.

This case took place in the UK.

What would you like them to do instead? How much extra are you able and willing to pay them so that they can do that and stay in business?

I still use Reddit, but less after the API changes. I was already using Mastodon and aware of Lemmy when that happened, but the biggest server previously was lemmy.ml, and even that wasn’t very active. I put it in the back of my mind to check on again in hopes it would gain relevance. Reddit pissed off a bunch of its users, so it did.

Lemmy.world launched around then, and I’d heard of its admins by way of their well-known Mastodon server so I signed up.

No. They don’t have to coat check the guns.

I don’t like that they can create a perimeter and inspect peoples’ possessions outside the event area at all. People shouldn’t have to give up their right to be free from unreasonable searches in public places.

It is, of course hilarious that Republicans created an exception for guns and suddenly don’t like it.

Aren’t they all?

Politicians claim all sorts of things that have, at best tenuous connections to reality.

We shouldn’t accept the claim that Biden fixed the economy, nor Trump’s claim that Biden broke the economy, nor either of their claims that they’re going to fix it next term.