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Trans-Exclusionary Ruledical Mold
  • It's true. He is in fact way more Him than I was ever capable of being.

    I am simply built differently... alternatively. Some might even go so far as to say incorrectly. I know I would.

  • US conservative influencers say they are ‘victims’ of Russian disinformation campaign
  • Oh yeah you're right. I just looked it back up and this article says one of the commentators was getting $400k a month, a $100k signing bonus, and additional performance based payment in exchange for I guess 4 videos a week.

  • US conservative influencers say they are ‘victims’ of Russian disinformation campaign
  • I guess according to the allegations only the founders of Tenet Media or whatever it was called knew the money was coming from Russia and they hid it from the talking heads.

    But like... How much money do these people have to be getting paid before they have a thought to question where it's coming from? Dim Tool was apparently getting like $100k a WEEK from them. Like at what point does it start to get suspicious?

    Edit: I was misremembering. Apparently it was $100k a week so that's $400k a month.

  • Trans-Exclusionary Ruledical Mold
  • I've gotten tricked out of so many things by those blasted Fae. My gender, my sexual attraction, my attention, and precisely 1 (one) of my pronouns.

    Now I go by He/They because I can never be Him.

  • Gearbox's new Risk of Rain 2 DLC is being torn apart on Steam, and original devs are concerned
  • From Wikipedia:

    In November 2022, Gearbox Entertainment acquired the Risk of Rain IP. Hopoo Games remains an independent studio. Hopoo now states that they are working on other games and projects.

    The Steam page for the DLC also lists Gearbox Software as the developer and Gearbox Publishing as the publisher so yeah. Seems accurate.

  • Sounds dope rule
  • Looking at what appears to be this guy's twitter I think that's probably accurate. One of the first things I saw looking for this guy's profile was this and I can't see any other explanation for the term "Straightriotic lovemaking"

  • RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine group can’t sue Meta for agreeing with CDC, judge rules
  • On June 29, 2021, the district court dismissed the operative complaint, and the court entered final judgment the next day. The district court dismissed Science Feedback without prejudice for lack of service, and it dismissed the remaining Defendants with prejudice for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted.

    Quick search for "with prejudice" in the document. I guess they tried to argue that Meta was acting on behalf of the state when they "censored" their anti vaccine posts, but they failed spectacularly in doing so.

  • Boston Globe Falsely Prints Headline Calling Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Transgender
  • Small note. The writer didn't choose the title, the editorial staff at the Boston Globe did. The person who actually wrote the article, Greg Beacham is a writer for the Associated Press, which syndicates their stories to papers worldwide. Those papers are then allowed to choose the headline they run with if they decide to run it. That's why he's included in the apology. He talked about it over on his Twitter.

    So I have a hard time believing anything other than actual malice on the part of the Globe's editorial staff.

  • "Old and quite weird": Democrats finally discover new effective attack — and Republicans hate it
  • More than just non-conforming generally too. They super quickly embraced that non-conformist image when it came to the masks.

    But it feels like just calling them weird triggers a primal fear within them that they're not really part of the "in-group" after all. It works where other insults don't because they can't easily write it off as their enemies simply being jealous of how cool they are basically.

  • A President Harris might not get any Supreme Court picks – Biden proposes term limits to make sure all future presidents get two.
  • Most likely you'd have to allow the sitting president to appoint an acting justice to serve out the remainder of that justice's term. Yeah we'd still have the problem of RBG dying under Trump and giving us a 6-3 conservative majority, but if she only had a few years left on her term when she died the damage would at least be limited.

    As for what McConnell did to Garland, having term endings scheduled would make that a lot harder. If their terms are staggered such that they always end 1 year and 3 years into each president's term it destroys the argument that it's too close to an election and the people should get to decide who makes the appointment. They'd be forced to outright deny the nominee and let the president try again. That's much harder to maintain.

  • A President Harris might not get any Supreme Court picks – Biden proposes term limits to make sure all future presidents get two.
  • The idea would essentially be that they wouldn't all hear every case. You'd randomly assign a panel of say 5 justices from the pool and each panel would hear their own cases.

    That way we stop bullshit like what Thomas did in his Dobbs concurrence where he straight up said he thinks cases like Obergefell (gay marriage), Lawrence (can't criminalize gay sexual acts), and Griswold (contraception) also need to be reversed and all but instructed conservative legal circles to back challenges to those cases. Since there'd be no guarantee that a baseless partisan legal challenge would end up in front of favorable justices they would be much less likely to succeed.

    This does potentially introduce a problem with consistency, but such a problem isn't unsolvable. You could institute a rule that allows for basically an appeal on a SCOTUS ruling to be heard by either a different panel of justices or the entire body as a whole, for example. It obviously wouldn't be perfect, but we don't need perfection. We need SCOTUS to not be some unaccountable council of high priests who can act with blatant partisan interest and we can't do anything about it.

  • Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather?
  • Not really. Using % of forecast area as % chance of rain inherently gives equal weight to your position being anywhere within that area. Even if you limit the forecast area to the 5m or whatever it is radius that smartphone GPS is typically accurate to which a weather app could theoretically do, simply using % of the forecast area covered as % chance of rain inherently gives equal probability of you being literally anywhere within that 5m radius. It would obviously still be more accurate, but those numbers wouldn't be the same thing.

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