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Courts are corrupt. Have to go Article 5 convention to rewrite the Constitution, I think.

Do you have a license to multiply those prime numbers together?

Could have been an assassin.

But, would NPR approve of my desire for a harem more than my space opera novels? I think not.

See Hitler's American Model (2017) which talks about how Nazi lawyers were attracted to how the US built itself on the tradition of common law as opposed to the more European and relatively inflexible tradition of civil law. Government under common law may change rapidly as judges overturn precedent, opening a window for demagogues such as Trump a way to quickly reform government in their favor before a majority of the populace, with their often passive consequence-centered de facto method of understanding political decisions, can oppose the changes.

checks atmospheric carbon dioxide

No progress.

Historically, I think with queer/unusual behavior were simply exiled/forced into suicide if they couldn't mask. I'm glad I live in a part of the US that isn't a monoculture as political originalists would have it revert to. Witchburning and lynchings are for losers.

Personally, I think a definition of life can be boiled down to whether something can record and then selectively rebroadcast information patterns in a different medium. Intelligence is a function of how long a delay there can be between recording and rebroadcast in addition to how much information is transcribed.

Transcribing DNA/RNA into peptide chains obviously meets the criteria.

Wildfires are ruled out since, although wildfires can propagate themselves, information in fuel is almost immediately lost during combustion; if wildfires are alive, it is only in combination with other life forms that can selectively preserve and sacrifice parts of themselves through fire, such as pine cones requiring fire to clear away undergrowth for new sprouts.

A computer meets the criteria, but the selectivity of information storage has historically been tightly controlled by humans. It's more accurate to say humans and computers form an augmented hybrid lifeform.

He'd sooner take the oligarch route and privatize the FAA, fill it with his own loyalists, then give his flights priority wherever he goes, including whatever private aviation business (e.g. FedEx clone) he wants to push.

Even if it is in jest, that's a block.

=3

It's not a death threat if you're supporting their death wish.

POV: ESL programmers

Fast lane to parasite town.

It's like useful information grows as fruit from trees in a digital forest we call the Internet. However, the fruit spoils over time (becomes less relevant) and requires fertile soil (educated people being online) that can be eroded away (not investing in education or infrastructure) or paved over (intellectual property law). LLMs are like processed food created in factories that lack key characteristics of more nutritious fresh ingredients you can find at a farmer's market. Sure, you can feed more people (provide faster answers to questions) by growing a monocrop (training your LLM on a handful of generous people who publish under Creative Commons licenses like CC BY-SA on Stack Overflow), but you also risk a plague destroying your industry like how the Panama disease fungus destroyed nearly all Gros Michel banana farming (companies firing those generous software developers who “waste time” by volunteering to communities like Stack Overflow and replacing them with LLMs).

There's some solar punk ethical fusion of LLMs and sustainable cultivation of high quality information, but we're definitely not there yet.

tl;dr: Immigration law isn't safe, but we should prioritize our worries on the most plausible immediate problems within it.

Trump may be pushing to break immigration laws to invigorate political support with his MAGA base, but ICE still deports people in an orderly manner.

Verbose: ::: spoiler spoiler For criminal warrants, which require a federal judge to sign off on, they may take into custody all people present to collect evidence and, conveniently for them, to run identity checks so they can deport undocumented individuals. US citizens may be temporarily detained until ICE can determine their legal status, but the Massachusetts immigration lawyer in the podcast, Matt Cameron, is not aware of lawless sweeps of neighborhoods or workplaces occurring today in which ICE does not perform identity checks during criminal warrant enforcement.

From a triage standpoint, more concerning are administrative warrants that require no federal judge generally comes in the form of ICE camping courthouses to interrupt local judicial proceedings to capture individuals be they defendants, witnesses, or victims. However, even this potentially unbounded method for accelerating deportations is limited by the number of ICE officers directly involved in enforcement removal operations. Cameron estimates only about 7,000 currently are active. See OA 1100: Mass Deportation is Much Harder Than Trump Thinks (2024-12-16).

I am not saying that Trump wants to follow the law. What I am saying is that the judicial system, and people's belief in its efficacy, present roadblocks to even Presidential power. Judges must be replaced with loyal syncophants, corrupt ICE officers must be hired and retained, buy-in from local law enforcement (often annoyed that their criminal cases are being disrupted by ICE) must be obtained, and people's expectations that paperwork accompany law enforcement must be eliminated. And at every step of the way, educated people like immigration lawyers are aware of the exact details of the evil being pushed by Trump. So, find one you can trust who is not fear-mongering; listen to or read their publications so you can spend your mental energy tracking developments that matter rather than less likely scenarios, such as US citizens being removed through accident or malice by ICE.

I hope other areas of government do not differ in that similar roadblocks exist to slow down Trump's lawless orders. What I am saying is that within each domain of government under attack, we need to prioritize which norms deserve focused protests and which can be considered safe for now. :::

Here's a transcript of an Opening Arguments podcast episode in which an immigration lawyer talks about the U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) case as well as Plyler v. Doe (1982) which says all school children have a right to go to school regardless of their immigration status. I recommend listening to it since their focus is to triage what is actually likely serious and what is just political grandstanding.

Hard to execute your Machiavellian overnight decapitation conquest when so many people believe in the checks and balances designed to inhibit takeover by a King.

The relevant section of Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) that Trump, despite having four years to have his loyalists prepare a government takeover, has failed to do over the past few weeks:

... on seizing a state, the usurper should make haste to inflict what injuries he must, at a stroke, that he may not have to renew them daily, but be enabled by their discontinuance to reassure men’s minds, and afterwards win them over by benefits. Whosoever, either through timidity or from following bad counsels, adopts a contrary course, must keep the sword always drawn, and can put no trust in his subjects, who suffering from continued and constantly renewed severities, will never yield him their confidence. Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, so that they may be more fully relished.

The trailer music was also a track on the “Rock” radio station.