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- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Just to add some more fun quotes:
In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives. Such a “highly intrusive” inquiry would risk exposing even the most obvious instances of official conduct to judicial examination on the mere allegation of improper purpose. Fitzgerald, 457 U. S., at 756. Nor may courts deem an action unofficial merely because it allegedly violates a generally applicable law.
This case poses a question of lasting significance: When may a former President be prosecuted for official acts taken during his Presidency? In answering that question, unlike the political branches and the public at large, the Court cannot afford to fixate exclusively, or even primarily, on present exigencies. Enduring separation of powers principles guide our decision in this case. The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official. The President is not above the law. But under our system of separated powers, the President may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office. P
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying that he should be doing it or that it makes sense. But no, it is very clear from the decision that he would be immune. He has absolute immunity for core powers and presumed immunity for all official acts, which the court left very vague, but didn’t deny would include assassinating political opponents. The dissenting opinion made it very clear that this was the case.
With that said, in some way you are right. If Biden did it, it would be appealed and the SC would rule that in this specific case he isn’t immune, whereas if Trump did the same, it would be appealed and they would rule that he is immune. Because the SC is corrupt and doesn’t care about precedent.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Ok correction, it’s not legal, the president can just never be punished for it, as he is immune in order to act swiftly and boldly or whatever the fuck the SC came up with as an excuse to make America a Christo-Fascist state.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Not that I’m advocating for it, but it’s completely legal for Biden to order the assassination of Trump and Vance. So yeah, US democracy is dead.
I hope the American people will resist any draconian measures there are bound to be, whether with civil unrest or other forms of protest.
- Comment on Half as Hot 4 weeks ago:
Bit of an awkward scale for a ruler, but I can sell you one from -6.6666666… to -6.65 goobs.
- Comment on Half as Hot 4 weeks ago:
0 K is like when there is 0 heat basically, while celsius isn’t. Imagine a unit for distance called “good” where 0 goobs is 100 m and 1 goob is 115 m. In that case the goob unit would behave differently than a meter when you multiply and divide because 0 of the units don’t actually correspond to “nothing” in a physical sense. That’s exactly how the Celsius scale is, with zero being placed somewhere arbitrarily, not at a physical zero.
- Comment on Anon enjoys time with his father 1 month ago:
Anon discovers Oedipus.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
Yeah it probably is, my comment was really about raw deltaV numbers without using gravity assists.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
Yeah, you would only need to burn a little bit more on your initial burn, that’s why I said the cost would be similar.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
It’s definitely harder to decay the orbit into the sun directly than it is to get to escape velocity. But to play devil’s advocate, there is probably a way to get them into the sun while being a similar cost to escape velocity. All you need to do is burn prograde to a super high aphelion, ride all the way out there to Pluto or whatever and then do a small retrograde burn to bring your perihelion inside the sun’s photosphere. When you then get back towards the sun years later you would slam into it with a sick velocity that I think would be worth the decades-long wait.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
It’s just not true though, unless you do an out then in maneuver.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
No that’s not really the case, the earth will be destroyed.
- Comment on Jackhammer 2 months ago:
Technically there is no boundary, it’s atmosphere all the way in. But what we might call the “surface” is the photosphere. That is where the density becomes “low” (read not insanely high) enough that light can escape in a free path.
- Comment on Jackhammer 2 months ago:
The sun has an atmosphere so there are soundwaves coming out of it. It’s actually all one big atmosphere getting thinner and thinner as you go out just like ours.
- Comment on Anon has a special request 2 months ago:
It’s actually the exact opposite to what he says. In the US you can do almost anything you want with human remains, while in Europe it’s much more restricted. In Denmark for example, you have to have the body/ashes buried in a licensed cemetery. You can’t keep the ashes yourself, you can’t bury them in your backyard, you can’t spread them at some random special place (except for the sea in rare circumstances).
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
Probably not, but the people who just got a job maybe would.
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
I mean if a state removed the TSA and spent the money on something else, surely they could use the money to create as many jobs as they removed but in an actual useful field.
- Comment on Mildred 4 months ago:
However, it is not required
The sex, not the consent, I hope.
- Comment on Futuristic movies timeline 5 months ago:
This is about the old one.
- Comment on find the one 5 months ago:
Yes, it’s the avocado man himself in the picture.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 6 months ago:
If the arm can bend, the car and the magnet could move towards each other until they come together, moving the car at max a few centimeters. If the arm doesn’t bend, the car is pulled as much forward as the magnet, and therefore the arm and in turn the car itself, is pulled forward, leaving the whole system stationary.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 6 months ago:
No, because if it’s a proper planet it will clear its orbit.
- Comment on Happy Pi Day!! 8 months ago:
Yes, but it’s not guaranteed that it will.
- Comment on freedom units be like 11 months ago:
Yeah they aren’t a unit in the sense that they make a non-quantifiable measure quantifiable. In dimensional analysis they would have the dimension [1]. But they can still be regarded as a unit since they act in the exact same way, just like other factors do. But yeah, they are more akin to the SI prefixes like kilo, or something like a dozen or a gross.
- Comment on We live in a society 11 months ago:
It had lemonade in its name, was next to all other soft drinks including lemonade and water , but contained more caffeine than a redbull and a monster energy drink combined. That is not what a regular consumer would expect.
- Comment on We live in a society 11 months ago:
The difference is it was marketed as soda, not as a caffeinated drink, so it’s a little more nuanced than that. See Legal Eagle’s video on the topic, it’s quite a good breakdown of the situation.
- Comment on I love purple. 11 months ago:
Thank you. Everyone knows history is yellow and science is green, it’s a trivial fact.
- Comment on Completely free 11 months ago:
A lot of them. Like arrested development for example.
- Comment on So true 1 year ago:
It’s also not odd, so that doesn’t work. But to answer your question, it is a number yes.