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homura1650

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  • Its your fault you didint know about the "no posts on alternating Saturdays while Saturn is in retrograde" rule

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  • As someone who actually does read the rules for a bunch of places; they often have no relationship to what actually gets enforced.

    This isn't just a problem for social media communities. A bunch of business use boilerplate contracts and terms-of-service that again have no relation to how they actually operate.

  • It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

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  • You do not need a constitutional amendment. Until 1911; part of a Supreme Court Justice's job was "riding circuit", to serve on more local circuit courts. This practice was established and abolished by Congress. Congress has the existing constitutional authority to assign Justices to circuit courts.

    There is also a recently proposed TERM act, which would promote Justices to senior Justices after 18 years. A senior Justice is still a Justice, but would not actively decide cases unless there was a shortage of active Justices.

    Congress could also impeach some of the current Justices. Either for partisan political reasons; perjury at their confirmation; or blatant corruption.

  • Suggestions for first C project

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  • I don't know about Europe. But the US (or at least the portion of the US federal government I deal with) has been trying to ban us from using memory unsafe languages for as long as I can remember. For us, Rust isn't replacing C; it is replacing Ada. The only difference is that they have stopped granting exceptions for new code bases in memory unsafe languages.

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • You can easily buy a used car for less than two months rent around here. Less if you shop around for a deal. That car provides transportation, shelter, and does not need to be repurchased every month.

  • money

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  • Even without AI, Web Development was destined to be a short lived industry.

    Sure, it will be around in some form, but a lot of that space has been taken over by mobile app development. Another portion of the market has been taken over by social media (your business doesn't need a website anymore; it needs an Instagram/twitter/etc). And yet another portion has been taken over by products like Wix that allow non-experts to make good enough websites themselves (even without AI).

    Really, thinking of "web dev" as a profession is a category error. You are a graphical designer and programmer that was working in the web industry. There are plenty of other industries that hire your profession.

  • Klingons are so wholesome

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  • If you track how kids perform at this, you actually find a bathtub curve. When they are really young and just learning words, they are actually quite good at irregular conjunctions (for the few words they know). Then, as they get older and learn a bunch of other words, they start messing up the irregular ones they used to get right. Then, of course, they eventually learn the exceptions as exceptions.

  • There are two kinds of people.

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  • When working in 2 dimensions with gravity, it is common to treat Y as up. E.g, 2d video games, physics problems, computer screens.

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  • Municipal steam networks are still operating today.

    For new infrastructure, Electricity is just so good-enough, that it is hard to justify building out partial alternatives like steam pipes. But where we already have them, they are still useful.

  • US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey

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  • That isn't why she was hired. She was hired because she was willing to bring the case.

  • Trump says he'll issue $2,000 tariff dividend to all except 'high-income people'

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  • Because the tarrifs end up is the cost of goods, which is counted as part of their price when calculating inflation.

    If you subtract the direct effect of tarrifs on price, you'll find that they were deflationary.

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    Male Drivers Sue Uber and Lyft Over Women-Only Ride-Hailing

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  • That only solves the problem if there is an equal demand for both. Assuming there isn't, the male drivers still have a claim for lost income as a result of their gender.

  • Deal to reopen government falters over Democrats’ distrust of Trump

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  • What is the both-sides in this case? Setting aside the question of trustworthyness, what trust would a deal require the Republicans to have. The only commitment I see the Dems making here is a singular vote at the beginning. If they don't follow through on that vote, then the deal is off before Republicans give up anything.

    The Dems need to trust Republicans/Trump because they make their concession first.

  • Half the Country Sues Trump for Using Shutdown to Slash SNAP Funding

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  • How the fuck is this actually permitted?

    It's not. Those messages are a blatant violation of a law known as the Hatch Act.

    In theory, this is enforced by the office of special counsel, which is an independent federal agency. In practice, Trump fired the head of the OSC back in February, and appointed one of his cabinet officials to the role.

    In theory, this was completely unlawful, as the OSC was setup by Congress post Watergate [0] specifically to be independent of the President. Indeed a lower court ruled as such; but was overturned on appeal. The problem is that the Supreme Court has recently embraced a view of near unlimited presidential power, including explicit rulings against the constitutionality of laws preventing the president from firing heads of independent agencies. [1].

    The court also ruled that the president has near complete immunity to commit crimes (Trump v US 2024). That ruling gives the president literally complete immunity for "core" acts such as issuing pardons. So, he could pardon everyone involved.

    In theory, the recourse here is impeachment. But there isn't much stomach to impeach him again after his prior impeachments failed to remove him from office. Those impeachments being for: withholding military aid to Ukraine because they wouldn't investigate the son of his political opponents; and directing a violent insurrection on January 6 to try and remain in power despite loosing the election.

    [0] Where then president Nixon directed a break in of the headquarters of his political opponents.

    [1] Although, I will note, the Court has made a point of clarifying that the Federal reserve is fine. Undoubtedly because they care about the amount of money they would loose in the economic carnage of that particular agency loosing independence.

  • USDA announces SNAP benefits will not be issued in November

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  • You can fill out a form and send it to your HR/payroll department to adjust your withholdings at anytime, and they are supposed to do so no questions asked.

    The employee not paying their income tax does not actually have an adverse impact on the employer, so they don't care. Of course, the employee still has the legal obligation to pay; but breaking tax law is pretty inherent with tax protest.

  • I AM BETTER

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  • I had a similar realization when studying undergrad linguistics.

    One of the classes had us read Chomsky's "Remarks on Nominalization" paper. The overwhelming sense I got from it was that the author did not understand X-Bar theory, despite knowing that Chomsky was the one who came up with it (and not realizing at the time that this paper was essentially Chomsky's first paper on the subject).

    I will also say that it is a credit to his writing that the paper still holds up pretty well; even if it spends an entire section coming up with bad answers to what was literally a syntax 201 homework assignment.

  • Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds

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  • The GOP has 53 senators. Under current Senate procedural rules, they need 60 votes to pass a budget.

    Having said that, they only need 50 votes to change Senate procedural rules. However, for reasons I do not comprehend, Senators from both bodies have been surprisingly resistant to the idea of removing or adding exemptions to the 60 vote requirement.

  • What ruins porn videos for you?

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  • Choking. I spend a fair amount of time in kink clubs, and the choking you see casually thrown into random porn would get you thrown out of all of them; including the ones that allow choking.

  • Oklahoma Town Faces 75% Property Tax Hike To Cover Sexual Abuse Settlement

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  • The rapist pled guilty to 10 criminal counts. It's not clear from the article how many victims that represents, as a single victim often results in multiple counts.

    The 14 claimants come from a civil suit. The prosecutors have no say in who gets to sue. Further, the standard in a civil suit is propendrrance of evidence, which is far lower than beyond a reasonable doubt. And the defendant is the school, so it is likely that both sides would try to throw the rapist under the bus.

  • Can you think of any now?

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  • China is the most populace country.