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  • Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch

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  • Not sure exactly, but international trade law is weird, and generally bills of attainder are targeted at one or more individuals rather than classes of individuals. If a law defines a class, like "anyone selling goods from China" then I don't think it qualifies as a bill of attainder. I did find this article on Lawfare from 2019 where Huawei challenged parts of the NDAA because it specifically forbade the executive branch from buying Huawei gear. The courts ultimately did not agree with Huawei.

  • Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch

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  • If a law punished a specific murderer or group of murderers it would be, but not if it punished an entire defined class of murderers equally. Lawmakers generally describe the qualifications of a crime (e.g. "anyone who knowingly and willfully causes the death of another person") and prescribe a punishment for anyone convicted of it, and then the courts determine whether or not individuals are guilty by whether they meet the qualifications laid out in the law. Bills of attainder are laws that define individuals or specific groups as guilty by identity, not qualification, which means they don't get a trial and the judiciary doesn't get to act as a check on the legislature.

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  • It's been tried before, and abandoned because it's generally a bad idea. What you're describing is a bill of attainder, a law passed specifically to punish an individual or group.

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    Trump is a Plant Whose Sole Purpose is to Usher in the Apocalypse

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  • Donald Trump is greedy and self-serving. He allies when he believes the alliance will be useful to him. He's not a a complete hapless idiot, but he does have an extremely over-inflated idea of his own political acumen.

    US presidents do have a lot of real power. He's the CIC of the US armed forces, for one, and though they are currently bungling an op in Iran, that's still a huge amount of power.

    He is also being manipulated by Musk et al, in an arrangement he believes is beneficial to himself. Musk bankrolled his '24 election, for example, and in exchange let him gut the agencies that would regulate Musk's (and Trump's) business interests.

    I really don't think there's an elaborate plan to destroy the world and bring about the apocalypse. Maybe Thiel believes that as he says, maybe he doesn't. He's a liar, so it makes no sense to speculate on whether or not he believes what he says. I think greedy assholes like Thiel find it convenient to justify their actions (and their consequences) by citing the apocalypse, when in reality they're just saying whatever's convenient for lining their pockets.

    Trump is a scapegoat, but really one of convenience. He ran on his own volition and captured a hostile GOP more or less on the strength of his rhetoric. The current crop of MAGA politicians are hangers-on. The moneyed class are allies of convenience and self-interest very much in Trump's own mold. Some of them are better at it than he is.

    Also IDK where you been, but WW3 is happening now. The US, Russia, Europe, NK, and the ME gulf states are all directly and indirectly in combat. Venezuela is puppeted, Cuba is starving. China is feinting actions in the SCS. It's happening. This is what it looks like.

  • Trump appears on former fixer-turned-enemy Michael Cohen's radio show after detente

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  • In an interview with CNN shortly before the radio interview aired, Cohen said he had resubmitted a pardon application to the White House that had been denied by the previous administration, but had yet to receive any response and planned to follow up Friday.

    In case you were wondering why.

  • Classic rock

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  • Poor lil guy ❤️

  • Thanks a lot, Mr. Spock.

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  • Every so often, someone wishes upon Andromeda and accidentally magnifies the effect of the wish by a factor of about 10^12. It's a hazard.

  • will you join in Halloween night to De-FLOCK your community?

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  • If you can find the kind that has a rigid wand like this, that would be easiest.

    But if you're using a can or small sprayer, I think your best bet would be a lightweight, collapsible stepladder. They make some that are easy enough to carry around with you so you can insulate your entire home without having to carry a lot of heavy equipment.

  • Thanks a lot, Mr. Spock.

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  • Council of Mages - Official Report on the Wish Catastrophe

    (the document is scrawled in a childlike hand, or one that is unused to writing manually. The document is badly smeared with ink and is illegible in many places)

    This will likely be the last report of the Council. Many of the members are dead or dying. Suspect anti-magick agents have conducted the Wish To End Wishing. Range of effect unknown but believed general at least to this dimension. Extra-dimensional scrying now impossible (illegible section) impossible to determine. Our palaces will crumble soon to dust, our people soon reduced to scrounging and hunting in the dirt like the mundane creatures of the wood. Most will starve or succumb to disease. Our libraries will decay, all our knowledge will pass into myth, and we will fall into ignorance. There is no repair. My family (This section is smeared and illegible. the smears look intentional)

    (illegible) and I will continue our research, if food and shelter can be found, though with no magic whatsoever (illegible section) on survival. Recommend all do similar.

    I would wish good luck, but the gesture is now empty. Farewell if you may.

    End of Report

  • Thanks a lot, Mr. Spock.

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  • It's OK I once saw a shooting star and wished that everyone could wish upon regular stars, so feel free to go nuts.

  • will you join in Halloween night to De-FLOCK your community?

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  • No one's doing that here, I just like sharing tips about home improvement. For example, did you know that spray foam insulation can be found at basically any hardware store, and can be used to close up gaps in your home? It's better to get the closed-cell type, as it dries into a stiffer, more durable material that lasts longer. You can also find sprayers that have long hoses for insulating the difficult-to-reach areas of your home.

    Also the liquid and fumes aren't good for you, so make sure you use it in a well-ventilated environment and wear appropriate protective clothing like gloves, high-coverage sleeves, and a mask as needed.

  • GitHub has been down for most of the morning - Engadget

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  • There are downsides to being unemployed for sure, but not knowing that Github is down until I see it on social media is quite an upside 😌

    I'll pour out a bit of coffee for all those who still have to care about these things o7

  • I voted Trump. Now he’s pardoned the $20m Ponzi fraudster who conned me

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  • That's why making education only available to the wealthy is a priority for those who wish to exploit people.

  • AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive. Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could out think neural networks.

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  • I think it's a combination of things. One, they are good at synthesizing huge amounts of data and detecting trends, which is useful for surveillance if you're not that hung up on being exactly right all the time. Two, they are very energy-costly, so their use drives up the price of energy, which drives up the price of fossil fuels.

  • TIL that Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic The Gathering, is the great great grandson of President James Garfield.

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  • Yep. After Lincoln made it famous people began to see presidential assassination as rather passe. And he loses out on the shortest tenure record to Harrison, so nobody remembers poor Garfield for much other than his mathematical contributions. Or contribution, singular.

  • TIL that Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic The Gathering, is the great great grandson of President James Garfield.

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  • Fun James Garfield trivia: he wrote a proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

    Notable wiki editor burn: "Garfield is thus far the only President of the United States to have contributed anything original to mathematics."

  • Trump hid in catering cart to board secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat – reports

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  • I wonder how often so-called "normal" world leaders pull Keystone Cops bullshit like this. Seems like the kind of thing you only resort to if things are already going very poorly / stupidly, but it has to happen from time to time. I'm sure the secret service has done some truly wacky capers that have never seen the light of day.

  • Trump Blurts Out Huge Admission of Midterm Weakness as MAGA Cracks Up

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  • Exiting a cult is a process. The people who voted for Trump at least once have generally been indoctrinated with distrust and hatred of Democrats for most or all of their lives. All that indoctrination doesn't go away once they start to see the cracks in the MAGA facade. Continuing the process takes work, and some of them will do it and some of them will either disengage or recommit to the lie. But some of them continue to do the work. It takes time.

    But agreed, they aren't to be depended upon to make good decisions, so if you're not close to the cult you still have to vote.

  • If AOC Doesn’t Run for President, Run a Union Worker

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  • IMO it's not wise, and it is a symptom. Congress has been ceding more and more of its authority to the executive for a few decades now because it makes it easier for incumbents to avoid controversy and win reelection. The executive branch has become more powerful and is now being molded by the Unitary Executive Theory, or the "What if we had a king but used a different word" theory. It's this idea that all executive power flows from the office of the president, so anyone not the president must either toady up or prepare to get fired. Except the fed, for some reason 🤔🤔🤔

    I think some other executive departments, particularly DoJ, should have directly elected leaders and should be able to control their disbursements from Congress independently of the President. They should be a check on the President just as the President should be a check on them. I'm pretty sure that would require a constitutional amendment and I'd want someone more versed in political theory than me to describe exactly how executive authority should be divided, but as it is the US presidency is far too powerful for the country's own good.

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    queerlilhayseed @piefed.blahaj.zone

    If I have some spare compute, are there ways I can use it to help an existing fediverse instance?

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    What makes you say (or think) "good question"?