I thought that eliminating the filibuster took a 3/5th vote in the senate. That’s 60 votes. We are nowhere close, though I support holding it to a vote to put it on the record, to highlight the hypocrisy later.

They have the luxury of saying things should change without providing an actual plausible path to achieving that change.

AOC championed expanding SCOTUS without worrying about how it could actually be done, or what the consequences would be 10 years down the line.

Bernie does the same. His public statements frequently gloss over the massive hurdles that make such idealistic ideas implausible, like requiring a super majority which is functionally impossible in today’s political climate.

To be fair, I do think that it’s important that idealists voice how things could be in a political utopia, if they also include a pragmatic breakdown of what it would take.

However, virtue signaling in itself without acknowledging reality is also dangerous.

Lemmy is a perfect example of it. Lots of dissatisfaction with the status quo, and a whole lot of impossible ideas floating around like “there are obvious solutions that establishment politicians just refuse to consider”, when they just aren’t feasible.

… OK?

Most people would design a very similar app if asked to design a weather app. Due diligence would be looking at existing apps in the space and making a decision on how much you want to deviate from the norm.

I once had to make an EPG for a TV app. EPGs are the channel schedules on any cable box interface.

It was stupidly complicated getting the navigation down solid. Took a long time. My boss asked at the end “this is great. Can we patent anything from it?”

Uh, no. Anyone with the same problem (navigating multiple channel schedules at once via arrow keys) is going to come up with something similar.

Same with weather apps. And Apple even has guidelines on app layouts for scrolling vs drilling down nested pages.

Seems like the AI did exactly what a human would do.

There’s no time to step aside. Primaries are over. Trying to squeeze primaries in now would be a disaster.

The time for Biden to step aside was a year ago. And honestly, as much as I have liked his policy (excluding Isreal), and still trust his administration to execute on even if he’s incapable of leading it himself, that debate was terrible for his campaign.

There are only two options now. Continue running himself and try to salvage the situation, or hand the reigns to Kamala. Neither is a good choice, campaign wise.

He continued to pay her after he took office. It wasn’t a one time payment, apparently.

The hush money wasn’t illegal. It was the source of the money that was illegal. He illegally paid her with campaign money.

But I believe the concern, and the entire reason prosecutors are allowing the delay, is that all evidence from the time Trump was president has become “privileged” and now may need to be individually approved as admissible.

This evidence was signing hush money checks while he was president, apparently.

The president cannot impeach them unilaterally, and is explicitly out of his power.

He could, however, potentially send them to a blacksite as a prisoner or conveniently kill them as part of that arrest. They could claim collusion with domestic terror groups, espionage, corruption, etc, as very plausible justification for arrest, and that would probably qualify as official duties, at least how this SCOTUS would classify the same actions if executed by a republican president.

Biden could unpack those courts as an official act and pack it with his own judges, who would rule on the outcome.

This is obviously what Trump would do in the same position. But it’s highly doubtful that Biden will.

It would set an insanely dangerous precedent. But if he doesn’t, Republicans will the next time they hold the presidency.

Trump and his MAGA cult are a clear and present danger to our democracy and its citizens.

The SCOTUS is majority controlled by corrupt federalists openly colluding with lower courts and federalist donors to bypass our elected lawmakers (congress/senate/potus) to effectively unilaterally write policy. This is a clear and present danger to our democracy.

Biden has justification to clean house under official pretext.

Conservatives, personal liberties. Right.

This is the key problem that seems to be getting buried everywhere

The big challenge has been that humanitarian convoys have stopped carrying the aid from the pier’s storage area further into Gaza, to get it into civilian hands, because they have come under attack.

If we’re not worrying about the cost of the pier, which I don’t think the Left is at all, then it’s really not about the storms and the maintenance that’s needed to keep it operational.

The problem is Isreal is still functionally blocking the aid from reaching the people.

So why spend so many resources on this pier and put your people at risk, when distribution of the delivered aid is blockaded the same as the land aid.

It’s weird that they don’t really address the biggest reason Googles algorithm is worse now. The rampant exploitation of SEO.

Bad actors abuse the system in an attempt to be the first result, regardless of relevancy. It’s harder for Google to sift the chaff out than it used to be, because they’re flooded with content claiming to be related to the search keys.

The SEC won’t get additional funding, so they’ll necessarily have to let all but the highest priority cases go because they don’t have enough resources to take everything to court.

This is exactly what the Republicans want. It’s exactly what they did to IRS. Create more work for them and starve them at the same time, so that their corporate puppetmasters can get away with whatever they want, and the few times they do get taken to court, they can throw their big team of lawyers at it, drag it out, and make it not worth pursuing.

This is by design. This is their goal. And I’m certain that SCOTUS colluded with the lower courts to deliver this case to them with a bow tie.

You over estimate the US public. Viewer numbers will probably by abysmal, and the vast majority of voters will only be seeing bias confirming short clips.

The mic mute is not a perfect solution. Trump is going to be shouting over Bidens turn. We won’t hear it (much), but it’s going to make Biden lose his train of thought and stutter while the viewer can’t really tell Trump is screeching 20ft away

But are they allowed to roll out some recliners for a quick grandpa nap?

Oh don’t worry, they’ll reverse this decision if the Republicans get control again.

Precedent only matters when it affirms their goal. Even if it’s their own precedent, they will find some paper thin excuse to change it.

And yes, I’m aware they’ll need a new case to reach them before they can overturn anything. That’s why the conservative SCOTUS members actively collude with the conservative groups that cherry pick / manufacture cases to take to court and then push up the appeals courts so they eventually reach the SCOTUS.

Yeah, but I don’t think EVs have spark plugs to smash and use to break the windows. Checkmate.

Yeah, that’s fucking stupid, and requires the electronics to not be damaged in whatever emergency situation you’ve found yourself in to require this external battery override solution.