cactacea

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by cactacea 6d ago
> The modern Supreme Court majority contradicts itself from one day to the next. See how they claim it's legal to fire officials of independent agencies like the FTC without cause, but illegal to fire officials of the Federal Reserv
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by cactacea 6d ago
> That the vast majority of people that "want reform" actually just want a Supreme Court whose majority always sides with them. That you immediately go here in response to what are universally understood these days as incorrect
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by cactacea 6d ago
If you're not a US citizen then your opinion on my country's court system is completely irrelevant to me. Residence has nothing to do with it.
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by cactacea 6d ago
Nothing, they're just trolling. Not even an American either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633555
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by cactacea 6d ago
So I am to understand that you agree with the Dred Scott and Plessy decisions? Bold strategy you're taking there.
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by cactacea 6d ago
> The Supreme Court is the only institution in our system capable of standing up for the rule of law, fundamental rights, and the separation of powers. Just because it is doing a bad job does not mean we should weaken its powers further.
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by cactacea 8d ago
> "you shouldn't be doing it, because muh gubernment surveillance and unencrypted comms and you are being watched by the feds" is gonna just make you sound crazy. Well yeah if that is how you choose to have that conversati
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by cactacea 8d ago
> hypothetical about a future totalitarian police state, or evil hackers, or whatever, but that makes you sound crazy. Immigration agencies are absolutely monitoring social media when people cross borders, apply for visas, etc. There&#x2
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by cactacea 8d ago
> In captions, ads enticed Meta users to click with claims like “I can show you more” or promises that “our AI transforms your hidden desires into hypnotic videos. Dark, seductive, unforgettable.” Another boasted, “there are no restricti
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by cactacea 11d ago
> I'm suggesting that AI fundamentally meets a tenet of Marxist dogma And why would be relevant to a democratic socialist?
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by cactacea 16d ago
Huh?
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by cactacea 16d ago
Just thinking out loud here but I wonder if there is a case to be made that by renaming Lake Ontario to something that nobody actually uses, the President has violated the law that requires "uniformity in geographic nomenclature and or
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by cactacea 16d ago
What was the point you were trying to make by linking the executive order? The actual law simply states that the "Secretary of the Interior shall provide for uniformity in geographic nomenclature and orthography throughout the Federal
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by cactacea 16d ago
Total collapse, idiot managers already fired everyone that knew how anything worked and now they're completely fucked. Frankly I have no idea how I've managed to hang on this long but likely to be gone myself in a few weeks as wel
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by cactacea 19d ago
Well that just sounds like communism with extra steps.
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by cactacea 19d ago
Using distilled water would be a good idea as well.
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by cactacea 26d ago
You really do not know what you're talking about.
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by cactacea 28d ago
To go deeper than just alarming this is more accurately referred to as normalization of deviance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
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by cactacea 28d ago
Of course? It wasn't really a choice, just making the best of bad and worse options.
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by cactacea 28d ago
No longer commuting from Shoreline to downtown Seattle and spending 2+ hours in a car each day certainly helped my sense of well-being.
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by cactacea 1mo ago
Funny enough there's a very good chance I'm a Lost Canadian. I filed my application for proof of citizenship in February and am still waiting to hear back. Hopefully soon.
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by cactacea 1mo ago
> In a more sane world the Republican Party would be in favor of universal health coverage. How many potential entrepreneurs stay working at BigCorp because they need the health benefits? Oh hi. That is me.
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by cactacea 1mo ago
> These are life-changing possibilities, especially for entrepreneurs. I would quit my day job and completely focus on my side business if I didn't have to worry about healthcare.
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by cactacea 1mo ago
I was constantly sick when I worked in downtown Seattle and rode the bus. I've been sick exactly once since I started WFH full time in 2019.
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by cactacea 1mo ago
Good news, he does geology too
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by cactacea 1mo ago
Also somehow defines "Operating System Provider" but not "Operating System"? > The term operating system provider means a person that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a covered device.
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by cactacea 1mo ago
Parents should parent their children and not make it everyone else's problem. This is a social and political problem, not a technical problem with a technical solution.
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by cactacea 1mo ago
Text of the bill: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s5090/text
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by cactacea 2mo ago
It is more that labor protections in most of the industrialized world actually mean something, such that this sort of behavior is generally not even to be considered an option by an employer.
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by cactacea 2mo ago
> (I assume Amish has a large corpus) Pennsylvania Dutch does not, it is primarily oral and the Amish generally don't allow themselves to be photographed or recorded.

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