The Democrats are not fine.

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

It’s bad and worse. People are so worried about keeping the worse party out of office that they refuse to criticize the bad party.

It is a little complicated:

Before proceeding further, the Court notes the limited scope of this case, this opinion, and the relief granted. This case does not involve creating a count of the representatives’ locations or second-guessing the House’s own count and listing of its members. Instead, the Court takes as true the House’s recitation of its proceedings and its designation of certain members as participating by proxy. Further, the Court makes no judgment on the wisdom of the House’s proxy rule, only its constitutionality as it pertains to counting absent members as part of the quorum. Nor does the Court address whether some members may permissibly vote by proxy if the constitutionally required quorum is otherwise physically present at the time of the vote. Finally, although the Court finds that the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act violated the Constitution, Texas does not seek an injunction of—and the Court does not enjoin—the entire Act. Rather, the Court enjoins only the application of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act against Texas. The relief granted here is limited to abating the injury that Texas has proven will occur.

https://www.scribd.com/document/709363863/State-of-Texas-v-Merrick-Garland-Et-Al

After the first sentence, I thought, “Was that a moldy orange or something?”

pwnagotchi

Never heard of that before. Cool.

I see your point.

I think I would still like it. I don’t have a problem with it not being implemented because other people wouldn’t like it.

If you know who is being toxic, you can block them.

Another interesting concept that came from the discussion over that was “constructive downvote” - requirement of commenting why one downvotes a post.

I think I like that idea.

All of my encounters with individuals who feel liberal arts are useless and STEM is the way seem to, at their core, feel that way because of earning potential

You were saying a group of people believe that value as a person is determined by their contributions to STEM fields and finance.

Now you’re saying that this group of people believe that value as a person is determined by earnings potential. Those are not the same things.

a person’s intrinsic value and overall value to society is not determined by their contributions to STEM fields and finance

I don’t think anyone who views contributions in STEM fields as the most valuable to society has any respect for finance.

Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs)

White noise sounds like radio static.

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

People listen to it for many reasons.

I don’t think refusing to accept a compromise is a logical fallacy.

debian in opposition to ubuntu gives you a choice at install

That’s nice.

KDE is the default DE for Debian these days?

While Biden justified his Yemen strikes without congressional authorization, in 2020, when President Donald Trump was escalating hostilities with Iran, he was a staunch defender of the notion that Congress should be consulted before taking military action that could spark U.S. involvement in a regional war.

“Let’s be clear: Donald Trump does not have the authority to take us into war with Iran without Congressional approval,” Biden said on Twitter at the time. “A president should never take this nation to war without the informed consent of the American people.”

Hoist with his own petard, oof.

The only platform not yet supported is the Mac Pro, although there probably isn’t much left to do. No, not the “MacBook Pro”, but the “Mac Pro” – the one that looks like a cheese grater and costs thrice as much.

I’ve always wondered what sort of look they were going for.

wtf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chink_in_one's_armor

mostly used to imagine neofeudalism

what else is it used for?