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Comment Re:94% of Trump's cases lose in lower courts (Score 1) 110

And 94% of them are overturned in favor of Trump when they get to the Supreme court, usually on the shadow docket with absolutely no reason given. The system of checks and balances designed to protect you have failed. All of them.

The lower courts getting overturned by a higher court is part of that system of checks and balances. Many people think it's the lower courts that are failing.

Many of the lower court decisions seem pretty solid, reasonable and thought-out, but SCOTUS, especially Justices Alito and Thomas, is seemingly just making stuff up, or misinterpreting things from Medieval England, to support their agendas.

Alito's Roe attack betrays a medieval ignorance of ancient history
Google: alito medieval england roe

Many of their rulings that specifically favored Trump seem like stretches, like the near-total immunity for the President and limiting the application of the insurrection clause for presidential candidates. It'll be interesting to see how they re-interpret things when a Democrat is in the office - I'm guessing 3-6 will then see things differently.

Comment led by Letitia James, New York's AG (Score 1) 110

That's gotta really torque Trump off. :-)

"It's more symbolic than substantive," he said. "All the court is saying is ... you need to go back to work and consider these applications. What does that really mean?" he said. Officials could still deny permits or bog applications down in lengthy reviews, he noted.

Sure, but companies only have to wait 3 more years ...

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 51

More like "scammer of the year" 2026 will be the year of the AI hangover when reality (and the bill) sets in

Then it's convenient they're all sitting on a girder, from which they can be strung. :-)

Ironic that they chose this image as if their work compares, at least in effort and danger, to the iron workers building skyscrapers in the original b/w photo: Lunch atop a Skyscraper. None of those "AI Architects" would ever have lunch there.

Comment Apples and oranges (Score 1) 145

if you're an internet platform you get treated one way; you do the exact same thing and you're a publisher, you get treated a completely different way.

This is a false comparison. ISPs generally don't (get to) pick their customers and don't select, edit, and curate those customers content, publishers do both. Publishers have a direct hand in who and what gets published and when, ISP generally don't. Granted, ISPs could be (more) selective in who they signup, like publishers, but that would be hugely labor-intensive and not cost effective given the scale of ISP customers vs. publishers. Even then ISP wouldn't (generally) get involved in their customer's content - as that would get them into trouble under Section 230 (if I understand things correctly). All subject to Terms and Conditions, your mileage may vary, etc ...

Comment Re:it's funny (Score 1) 30

It is also true that something that's nice and convenient isn't a necessity, either.

I fully agree that it's nice.
I fully agree that it's convenient.
It requires a fair amount of self-discipline; there are some employees that can handle that, and some that cannot.

Ideally, a company would evaluate you on your performance & productivity, not where you're sitting.

It's still not "a necessity" that's bullshit hyperbole.

Comment Re:Why should I subsidize EVs? (Score 1) 152

Scratch a liberal and you always, always find an absolute fascist.

We MUST contribute to the greater good, you say? There is no opt-out? Or else what?

And we all know who gets to decide what is the greater good, right?
Certainly not that ridiculous "democracy" that would vote against electric cars.

Comment Re:Dumbing down (Score 1) 115

Republicans are also know-it-alls who claim they're "smarter" than scientists and know "what's best" for everyone with zero evidence and zero experience.

Our current President and his followers especially... Usually the smarter (more educated) someone is the more they realize how much they don't know. Sadly, the opposite is also often true. The dumber (less educated) often they know more than they do. See: Dunning–Kruger effect

Trump thinks he knows everything and is the best at everything, which makes me believe this story about one of his former Wharton professors, as reported here:

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.

Comment Soo.... (Score 1, Informative) 115

Paid for by taxpayer dollars. Oh, and the public funding drives.
(which of these is "the most important" depends on who's begging in front of whom) ...oh and $2.5 million per state? So a flat $125 mill annually?

"The commission's decision to drop PBS membership is a blow to Arkansans who will lose free, over the air access to quality PBS programming they know and love,"
IT'S CLEARLY NOT FREE.

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