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facialimpediment posted:Well, Iran is doing weird poo poo again. This smacks of IRG internal struggle spinning out of control again.
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Milo and POTUS posted:terrible band btw They only do covers of classic tunes. Not even good covers or songs either.
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The Governor of Wisconsin found One Weird Trick to Increase School Budgets - Republicans Hate It! https://twitter.com/JSEllenberg/status/1676665157789929477?t=lxKad6iwVULVuMdcAjNkcg&s=19
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facialimpediment posted:The Governor of Wisconsin found One Weird Trick to Increase School Budgets - Republicans Hate It! That is, uh, a very creative interpretation of line item veto powers.
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A.o.D. posted:That is, uh, a very creative interpretation of line item veto powers. It's funny but I can't imagine it will hold up. If it does, get ready for the next creative GOP governor to just line out words until any bill says what he wants it to.
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facialimpediment posted:The Governor of Wisconsin found One Weird Trick to Increase School Budgets - Republicans Hate It! smh he could have made it valid till the two hundred and third millennium by only deleting the
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's funny but I can't imagine it will hold up. If it does, get ready for the next creative GOP governor to just line out words until any bill says what he wants it to. I'm pretty sure it'd take mere minutes to craft a bill that can be carved up into "Blacks, immigrants, and gays don't have rights".
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's funny but I can't imagine it will hold up. If it does, get ready for the next creative GOP governor to just line out words until any bill says what he wants it to. https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/reading_the_constitution/reading_the_constitution_4_1.pdf This was a Republican own goal because they used numbers and a single sentence.
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Shalhavet posted:https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/reading_the_constitution/reading_the_constitution_4_1.pdf Holy poo poo that's the power working as intended! This might well stand up in court!! edit: And the power used to be even more broad!! What the gently caress Wisconsin?
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Gonna put this in law textbooks as an example of why one (1) ought to spell out numbers very clearly.
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Platystemon posted:Gonna put this in law textbooks as an example of why one (1) ought to spell out numbers very clearly. It wouldn't work if you included any numerals, because the Governor could line out the word "one" and still play gently caress gently caress games with the numbers. The limits appear to be that individual letters can't be crossed out to make new words, and sentences cannot be combined. Really, this should just go under "item vetoes are bad".
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Shalhavet posted:https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/reading_the_constitution/reading_the_constitution_4_1.pdf quote:1990, the voters amended the constitution to provide that “In approving an appropriation bill in part, the governor may not create a new word by rejecting individual letters in the words of the enrolled bill.”4 This amendment prohib- ited the governor from striking letters in a bill to create an entirely new word, a practice started by Governor Anthony Earl and continued by Governor Tommy Thompson. In 2008, the voters again amended the constitution to prohibit the governor from creating “a new sentence by combining parts of 2 or more sentences of the enrolled bill.”5 The gov- ernor could still veto an entire sentence, or parts within a sentence, but could no longer create an entirely new sentence from parts of two or more sentences. This is insane.
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A.o.D. posted:It wouldn't work if you included any numerals, because the Governor could line out the word "one" and still play gently caress gently caress games with the numbers. The limits appear to be that individual letters can't be crossed out to make new words, and sentences cannot be combined. Really, this should just go under "item vetoes are bad". The court will rule that Hindu–Arabic numerals are legally letters.
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Platystemon posted:The court will rule that Hindu‐Arabic numerals are legally letters. And then strike it down with a surprise rule against perpetuities.
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Comedy option: the original text stands but the ASCII hyphen‐minus is considered to act in subtraction, making the funding increase valid for A.D. 1999.
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This amendment is basically Ron Swanson's "I can do what I want" note.
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Seems like it would still be permissible to strike out a "not" and completely change the meaning of a sentence. The legislature would have to be incredibly careful with the wording of the bill with that kind of fuckery in mind.
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hobbesmaster posted:And then strike it down with a surprise rule against perpetuities. School funds will be increased during the period ending 21 years after the death of the last survivor of all lineal descendants of his Majesty Buckingham Ulysses Badger, King of Wisconsin, who have been born before the date of this agreement.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Seems like it would still be permissible to strike out a "not" and completely change the meaning of a sentence. The legislature would have to be incredibly careful with the wording of the bill with that kind of fuckery in mind. It is.
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it's hard to find a way to do twitter, but worse but ol' zucky sure figured out how to do it https://twitter.com/emoswaggy/status/1676744730179149824 basically, you get a few tweet-like substances from people you follow, then INFLUENCERS IN YOUR FACE so what if twitter, but all you get is the "for you" tab of the most odious people in existence plus instagram
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facialimpediment posted:so what if twitter, but all you get is the "for you" tab of the most odious people in existence Why did you say this twice?
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Meta current events: Beau of the Fifth Column had a pretty good video on doomerism yesterday. https://youtu.be/kOBz0Mq7imo I still don't know what to make of him, but this is a good message that I wish better permeated left spaces. loving YouTube mobile share link not embedding 
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I think Beau is generally good. And he makes a great point here about USSC shooting down the “Independent State Legislature” theory. Not to say the USSC as currently composed, is the “Good Guys,” but if they’d gone the other way we’d be looking at a much different reality today.
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facialimpediment posted:it's hard to find a way to do twitter, but worse Sure, if you're a person the idea of control over what you see is important. If you're a Zuck-bot 9000 you see stuff like TikTok and conclude that what is most profitable is if the meat bags have no control and your algorithm determines all content for them so you can push whatever is best for you to have them see. Not in the least bit surprised this is the route taken.
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The web of connections doesn't expand if you only get to see your own curated results. And those strands represent revenue. More = better.
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Time for another check-in on The Future Of The Democratic Party https://twitter.com/katie_honan/status/1676957361364422663?t=CiltuH91V3F8stmK6amsbA&s=19 This while Bill de Blasio announced a non-divorce separation from his wife... while posing with her for a photoshoot and they're both going to stay living in the same house. https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1676576068059242497?t=wCehOkB9vw0uqBr8vk5B5Q&s=19 NYC man
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Nick Soapdish posted:NYC cannot and should not have a normal mayor. Need just the weirdest freaks to get yelled at and lead the city Still somehow better than DCs run of mayors being consistently and hilariously bad RFC2324 fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jul 6, 2023 |
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https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groundwater-that-weve-nudged-the-earths-spin/quote:By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 alone, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, AGU’s journal for short-format, high-impact research with implications spanning the Earth and space sciences.
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facialimpediment posted:it's hard to find a way to do twitter, but worse I deleted my Facebook account 4.5 years ago and haven't missed it once since then. I stayed on Instagram because "that's where my friends are" but I realized that when I open up the app, I see very little content from my friends but a ton of "suggested content" that aims to either shock or piss me off, ads for cheap poo poo that'll likely break within two days of it arriving (assuming it's not an outright scam) or memes rehashed and stolen from other meme accounts ad nauseam, ad infinitum. I don't expect this to get better, and I think any other Twitter clone, be it a Zuck effort or something else, will meet a similar fate because there's no way for an aspiring billionaire tech bro to serve up a social network that caters solely to small networks of close friends and make money without shoveling ads or clickbait at them. I hate to say it, but MySpace circa 2004 is probably about as good as social media was ever going to get, and even that isn't that great.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I deleted my Facebook account 4.5 years ago and haven't missed it once since then. I stayed on Instagram because "that's where my friends are" but I realized that when I open up the app, I see very little content from my friends but a ton of "suggested content" that aims to either shock or piss me off, ads for cheap poo poo that'll likely break within two days of it arriving (assuming it's not an outright scam) or memes rehashed and stolen from other meme accounts ad nauseam, ad infinitum. Mastodon does alright but it's basically roll-your-own Twitter clone. The infrastructure is owned by the individual groups that host instances and they can choose to federate with each other to see the others messages. Smaller, more insular, but it works alright.
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Hey Russia has been bothering drones again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-66119404
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facialimpediment posted:it's hard to find a way to do twitter, but worse I'm waiting to see if this thing goes Google+ before I commit to it.
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Imo early instagram was pretty great when people actually shared, but now it's business accounts and a cesspool of ads and reels which I hate because they draw your attention with a quick dopamine hit. A good social media platform should account for the longevity of data and posts. Dare it say it but 4chan got it right with the auto post deletion. No point in archiving posts by default unless you or others intentionally want to save it. I hate going thru reddit and seeing newbies ask common questions when a google search easily finds a good effortpost. Not too familiar with discord, but is this what it essentially does?
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Suicide Watch posted:Imo early instagram was pretty great when people actually shared, but now it's business accounts and a cesspool of ads and reels which I hate because they draw your attention with a quick dopamine hit. Discord has unlimited history but it's search is so bad, people scroll the equivalent of the last five pages and redo the same questions monthly.
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I'm breaking my lurking to lol and lmao https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/06/twitter-meta-lawsuit-threads-app-musk-zuckerberg?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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monkeytennis posted:Hey Russia has been bothering drones again. So they're gonna crash in to another unmanned drone and gently caress up another plane? That'll show that, uhh, chunk of circuitry. Yep, it'll definitely learn a lesson from this.
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