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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
bullying is always not okay
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
death threats and doxxing really go against the spirit of open source software, which is people are allowed to code what they want, they post the code, and we can all see it. someone also could have easily forked this if they were that unhappy.
i was on the list and my first reaction was “why the fuck am i on this list?” but i also found it somewhat funny and also concerning. am i really that bad?
but death threats and doxxing are not okay.
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 3 days ago:
I don’t know the answer to the following:
Is the current state of the law that a federal appellate judge can say “Okay, for this area of the country, I am issuing an injunction that ICE can no longer operate until they submit a report to a court monitor explaining corrective actions they will take and if anyone violates that order I will have us marshals arrest them?”
because i am under the impression that the new decision is they can’t do that. that it would be challenged immediately, the sc would against say you can’t issue blanket injunctions that impact federal policy, and nothing would occur.
i believe my unrelated examples were related, so we disagree. this isn’t a court briefing, this is the internet: unemotional and narrow language has no place here.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
does this mean I’m no longer on the list?
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 4 days ago:
I wasn’t saying you were racist.
I was saying even if you were technically correct, the original poster was implying that now the supreme court is the only one who can make nationwide policy on stopping illegal nationwide federal actions.
although what you said was technically correct, in that federal appellate courts can overrule federal courts below them, it’s also still true that now only the supreme court can stop federal policy that is clearly illegal and the supreme court is extraordinary slow, as is the entire court system, and that the supreme court cherry picks the cases they want to hear.
there’s an illusion under us law that justice is fair but the reality is the ability of a court to decline to hear an issue means many unfair situations remain, and even when they are heard, it’s slow
i felt like what you were saying, while technically correct, missed the bigger picture and implied legitimization and process when that’s actually been extraordinarily damaged by limiting federal court judge remedy power
i wasn’t calling you racist, or disagreeing on ideological grounds, i was saying that your limited technical answer so grossly missed the larger situation that it undercut the actual legitimacy crisis that does and should exist for this branch. it is not business as usual, some of the conditions for these detainees are terrible and reminiscent of nazi-regime treatment of others, and the fact that nothing can be done about it at any federal level except at 1 court that refuses to hear most things and is extremely slow to hear matters means that it’s not the same situation as it once was
this is not ideological framing that muddies the waters. your narrow technical analysis nit-picking at the literal meaning and missing the implication is unintentionally or intentionally implying there’s still some legitimate functional system that is working correctly instead of something completely broken
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 1 week ago:
This grossly mischaracterizes things.
The defining feature of the US Court system is how slow it is. We are talking about federal policies that are corrupt, racist, and unconstitutional.
The legal concepts are effectively the same because without nationwide injunctions, there is no mechanism to stop corrupt policy.
The Supreme Court declines to hear most cases, they cherry pick what they want to review, and occasionally when there is a large clear conflict between circuits then it means the Supreme Court may decide to hear the case in a year while harm is ongoing.
You’re saying appeals courts are still binding on their own circuits, but we are talking about federal nationwide policy and executive branch that just ignores rulings unless there is enforcement.
The correct way for this to have proceeded previously was for a federal appellate court to rule it’s unconstitutional to randomly harass people on the street because it violates the 4th Amendment without probable cause, rule it’s an ongoing pattern and they keep ignoring the law and so a simple legal instruction is insufficient, and the instruct the federal marshals to seize ice infrastructure, their computers and phones in DC, and destroy them, and then to stay the order while it gets an emergency appeal, forcing the Supreme Court to rule on this.
But the Supreme Court doesn’t even have to rule on these issues now. The federal courts are powerless to do anything and the Supreme Court declines to hear it. Also, the Supreme Court held racism was a valid reason for detaining people, so ICE agents are fully allowed to randomly harass, detain, threaten and subdue people who are not white or not black, because that’s what these racist MAGA hicks want: they want a reduction in brown people, and they know they can’t easily harass and kill black people anymore, so they are just going after brown people instead.
Let’s just call it what it is: racist white people don’t like so many Latinos and other brown skinned people, they have noticed that white people are a smaller portion of the USA and white people are having fewer children, so they have enacted racist policies and elected a corrupt Supreme Court and selected a racist government in power to find ways to change this.
To pretend that the federal courts still have some sort of power in this situation is intellectually dishonest and mischaracterizes what is going on. In theory, decisions are binding on lower courts still. But what does it matter? Does a court matter if no one listens to it and then its power is taken away?
The racist MAGA hicks made a calculation that they could come into power, enact laws that would have previously been deemed illegal, pack the courts with conservatives, and start a campaign to reduce the brown population of the USA and also that liberals and brown people would not take up arms and try to physically stop them. And that calculation was right. Liberals are notoriously anti-gun, anti-gun ownership, and for extreme gun regulations; they are also the party of civility. So… MAGA was right.
What happens when things change and liberals come into power? Will there be hearings? A tribunal? The Supreme Court has sanctioned all of this under racist, intellectually dishonest language and so on what grounds can people be punished for evil? There are no grounds unless there’s a Constitutional amendment. It won’t happen. Even today, eminent domain is being used to seize land for data centers while black people never got their 40 acres or their mule. The horrible truth is MAGA got away with it and will get away with it. Liberals do not have the audacity and courage, nor the voting numbers, to do anything of substance.
- Comment on Prediction vs Reality 5 weeks ago:
You know what would help this situation?
AI
Lots and lots of AI.
Also more religion.
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 3 months ago:
:'-(
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 3 months ago:
Nooo! But I used to be so popular on Lemmy!
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 3 months ago:
:'-(
- Comment on Are there any open source word processors that have AI integration? 3 months ago:
It’s a good point. But I also think I can’t stop environmental catastrophe from occurring because religious people don’t believe in science and most people are religious.
I am all in favor of banning gas cars, building better public infrastructure, and extremely harsh draconian environmental standards to try to stop the extinction event unfolding before us, but over time I concluded I can’t stop it: people are too religious and stupid.
I can’t deprogram the entire world. I may as well have a nicer life until everything dies by using AI.
- Submitted 3 months ago to [deleted] | 14 comments
- Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source? 4 months ago:
Nope, I’m looking for a reason to keep using it when I hate closed-source software! It’s the exact opposite!
- Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source? 4 months ago:
US Corporations that receive secret court orders are required by law to violate their privacy policies.
- Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source? 4 months ago:
Right, that’s what I’m saying. I don’t have the technical skill to check this out myself. Should I just delete it for now?
- Submitted 4 months ago to [deleted] | 11 comments
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 5 months ago:
Are there are any worthy online newspapers specifically investigating this?
- Comment on Must be nice 5 months ago:
cruelty to animals (isolation, pellets on ground that aren’t comfortable enough to make a bed. a hard hard floor under the pellets, day after day of misery and tedium and a form of sensory deprivation, having to use his own body as a pillow because of horrible cruelty) isn’t actually funny!
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 5 months ago:
Completely terrifying. Is anyone, like immigration activists, following up on this? Or is everyone just sort of shrugging and moving on?
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 5 months ago:
How is it possible that 1300+ people have disappeared and there’s not more awareness? Are the news channels not covering it or investigating it?
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 5 months ago:
My concern is that there is enough documentation on who isn’t calling people, who has no connection to anyone…
If there were racist genocidal people within the system and they were able to recognize each other (via tattoos, memberships) and then assign each other to certain duties, if certain people were put into cargo planes and dumped over the ocean, I’m not sure anyone would know.
It’s very hard to communicate with people in places like that if a person doesn’t have money or anyone willing to accept a call. If someone who was a racist genocidal person was put in charge of putting people into groups (based on lawyers, family contact, etc), people who were completely disconnected could be put into a unique group, put in a certain part of a facility, and flown in cargo planes together.
I just don’t know how likely this is. CECOT is a facility that holds people in a way that many international organizations would consider torture. If people were being killed in there, including people deported by the USA, I am very sure people would not know.
If we don’t know where 1200 people who were previously detained have gone as a society, and if there’s no record of where they were sent, it’s hard to fathom the state didn’t kill them, although I don’t know.
I’m very ignorant on all of this. 25% was just a randomly chosen number. But what about 10% or 5%? I just don’t entirely understand the purpose of making immigrants being deported untrackable unless the point is to make it easier to kill them, because if the purpose was just to make it harder to legally contest deportation, the system could just be very slow but have slow tracking built into it… but it doesn’t have that, right? I really don’t know the answers to any of this.
- Submitted 5 months ago to [deleted] | 113 comments
- Comment on PSA 5 months ago:
I really wish I knew if the study authors were religious. I also wish that all scientists were required to disclose their religion at publication of studies and recruitment of participants, except for math or chemistry or physics or applied material sciences, which leave no room for bias from delusional religious beliefs.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 6 months ago:
This is a great point. Specifically an increase in economic education required of students would be helpful, including helpful for things like understanding environmental science, because externalities and environmental science and regulation have overlap that most don’t understand.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 6 months ago:
lol! oh shit, thanks for reducing my ignorance slightly! lol, you got me. that’s terrible.
does git clone multiple things, not just github? fuck me, i have a lot to learn still…
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 6 months ago:
sudo apt remove git && sudo apt purge git -y
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 6 months ago:
I completely agree. This isn’t so much a failure of business; it’s a failure of the government to properly hurt businesses that enact policies that hurt workers and consumers. And in democratic countries with voters, it’s also the failure of the voters.
This is why we need people like Lina Khan to be given much more power in society. There are good, liberal economists out there who understand that if you don’t regulate externalities, then market systems will cause extreme disfunction in society. Smart economists understand this, elite rich people understand it,the problem is that the bottom tier of society that is ignorant and believes in religious myths is easily deceived by the upper classes.
The result is a society with progressively more unequal wealth distribution, rapidly descending into environmental hell, with a public that is mostly confused, religious, and idiotic upset about market conditions, but glad the evil trans girl won’t be able to play softball.
All of these issues are part of the same problem: how do you convince the poor and stupid to not get tricked by the elite again? But perhaps it’s just impossible. After all, the poor are mostly religious and believe in crazy things like virgin births and flat earth… Until the poor reject such lunacy, or society becomes so awful that they are compelled to reject it, there’s really not much hope for change.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 6 months ago:
So in that situation you need beans and rice and water purification (filters) that last 3 years. It’s expensive, but not impossible. There are people who already have that stored, and most of those people are very smart and well-prepared.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 6 months ago:
Just to be a devil’s advocate: fear is an evolutionary response and is there for a reason and is sometimes highly rational. Talking yourself out of fear to conform to society’s expectations is not always smart.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 6 months ago:
It’s great advice about storing water for an emergency.