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I love that so many people are openly talking about (and recommending) just fucking ignoring these idiot judges and carrying on anyway. It's entered the mainstream consciousness and I don't think these judges quite understand how dangerous that is. This is "jury nullification" on steroids, and judges already hate nullification. They should be scared shitless that the public at large is losing its willingness to respect and obey the courts.

All it takes for a district court to become utterly toothless is for its city/county police/sheriff departments to stop enforcing its orders. If these judges keep pissing everyone off like that, they're going to discover how far their gavels go when there's no guns backing them up.
Judges should get to meet their natural predator, gravity.
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We've had states (Washington, Oregon off the top of my head) talk about forming up interstate alliances to counter the federal government. This is unmistakably a sequence of events leading to a civil war — it just always takes decades for things to really boil over. "Nothing ever happens" guys get to thrive for most of their lives, but they tend to be extremely wrong a few times per century.
This already happened during the first Trump term during COVID. Andrew Cuomo led a group of states who agreed to co-enforce COVID rules in a Northeastern Coalition and have lockstep policies, sometimes superseding Federal guidance--NJ, NJ, CT and at times PA. California, Oregon, and Washington made a similar compact, and I think Whitmer had something going on with neighboring states too.

It kind of died down when it was made pretty clear early on that they wouldn't be able to close State borders due to Federal interstate commerce and free travel protections, and as they found it harder to enforce rules when people started to chafe against the restrictions. But we were pretty close to a Balkanization of the US for about 2 seconds back then.

The only thing that might slow Hoschul and Newsom doing it again is their desire to run for President of the whole country, and trying to create fiefdoms locally could turn off voters nationally. Plus in her case she is a wellspring of negative charisma and lacks the forcefulness that allowed Cuomo to bully his neighboring Governors into following his grandstanding lead.
 
Because if I took a time maching back to the 1990s and told them about the PATRIOT act, TSA, FISA courts, and the forever wars, they would have laughed themselves to death. The political atmosphere did not exist for something like that to happen democratically.
I have always given infinitely more creed to the idea that powers that be knew of the possibility of 9-11 but did nothing to prevent it because it would dramatically change the landscape of society in a way that benefited government agency. As the years pass, less and less people in places like this were even alive back then, let alone of an age where they were politically aware and seem to have no concept of just how large of a tectonic shift that was. Pre 9-11, if you asked your average blue collar, F-150 driving, country western listening, bud light drinking on a friday night average joe how they felt about government invading your mail, phone and other sensitive data, you'd get an angry yelling rant.

But after?

That average American was horny as fuck for big daddy government to inject itself into our lives to "Stop the next 9-11". You had retards like Toby Keith and Alan Jackson, along with a dozen other mainstream acts, in everyone's ear every 15 minutes reminding people to be mad, scared and violent about it while wrapping themselves in the same iconography that the government was using to sell you it's end to privacy. You were either a Patriot who was for America and wanted to make things right, or you were with the terrorists and deserved the rope. (kinda sounds familiar, now that I think about it)

To this day, I feel like the word "Patriot" has a completely different meaning to me and I can't take people seriously when they use it unironically after what being a "Patriot" enabled back then.
 
Musk is mad his solar subsidies are going away:
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Meanwhile, when Elon actually needs reliable power and not taxpayer dollars:
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Grid reliability is threatened by SOLAR because it's useless at night/on cloudy days, which means that you need an equally-sized fossil fuel/nuclear/hydro plant to back it up, which raises prices.
 
I like how the headline fails to specify it's a bunch of foreign markets that are spiking because they think Daddy Judge is going to give them literally everything they want with no limits.
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When you determine rally and crash by which side you like...eh...Some outlets labeled a .10% decline as plunging.
I recently heard that 30% of the code in windows 11 was done with AI.. Don't know how true that is, but it would help explain the bloat.
I find that hard to believe given that 90% of Windows 11 is probably just Windows 10.
 
I recently heard that 30% of the code in windows 11 was done with AI.. Don't know how true that is, but it would help explain the bloat.
If you mean "Actually Indians" yeah it probably was. There is some dumb shit in it like the Start button being a React app.

God if the SteamOS goes to PC AND can do shit like Word/Excel Windows might loose a decent market share.
 
Nigga I'm telling you to work at McDonald's which is what is getting passed into law. You don't work, you don't eat. That is life and always fucking has been. If you don't work you starve. Law of the Jungle my neezy.
It used to be required that if you received benefits (this included SSI, SSDI and welfare) you were also enrolled in Ticket to Work. You were required to show proof that you had attempted to find employment and were denied to keep benefits. They had to resources to get you entry level jobs and if they said here we have a job for you and you said no goodbye benefits as well.
 
My big worry is the big domestic terrorists of the 70s were allowed to walk free, cause we didn't have the political will to pull them out from society by the roots.
They walked free because TPTB felt they may still be useful.
I look at the groups sowing chaos and disorder at oddly specific times around the USA and I think they are, in fact, proving to have been useful. To someone anyway.
 
It used to be required that if you received benefits (this included SSI, SSDI and welfare) you were also enrolled in Ticket to Work. You were required to show proof that you had attempted to find employment and were denied to keep benefits. They had to resources to get you entry level jobs and if they said here we have a job for you and you said no goodbye benefits as well.
Well now it's more than trying. You either work 20 hours a week or no benefits at all, barring a few exceptions from what it seems.
 
You never know which one is the one that cracks the dam. That whole article is damning, the party management of safety and risk, the obvious lying about the deaths, paired with the 'improving' workplace casualty numbers indicates that any reduction in workplace fatalities is just a result of not counting them.

I did a report for work once regarding workplace safety and automation.
Food for thought regarding any number from China:
China reports 108 forklift accidents in 2022.
America reports approximately 50,000 for 2021-2022.
The fucking UK reports 1300.

There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and CHINESE STATISTICS.
There has been some interesting info floating around that china doesnt even have billion people . Something basically they calculated based on salt consumption and various other stuff that the average person consumes no matter what
 
Still better and less bloated than pajeet code.
Gotta disagree there.

The legacy crap in Windows that can't be removed and replaced is the equivalent of the load-bearing poster from the Simpsons.

Windows can't be fixed because of the way it was just constantly glopping more shit on top of already poor code nobody understands, and keeps getting worse, yet MS never had the balls to say "Ok, we are starting fresh", they just keep grafting more lumps onto the code homunculus.

Not even Jeets could make it any worse.
 
There has been some interesting info floating around that china doesnt even have billion people . Something basically they calculated based on salt consumption and various other stuff that the average person consumes no matter what
So their per capita pollution and overfishing are even worse? That's horrifying.
 
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