Let’s hope they try to replace their lobbyists with AI.

You can blame American puritism for that.

No sexual content on these websites, instead we’re going to stir up rage and sell everyone an AR-14.

Yeah, there’s two problems with this.

1. Congress is non-functional and can’t act as a check on the executive branch or the courts. In the past they’ve passed fuck you laws where they initially passed a law saying X, the supreme court interpreted it to say Y and then they passed a clearer version of X. This hasn’t happened in a long time.
2. The supreme court likes to reinterpret the constitution. This means if you want to correct the supreme courts interpretation you have to pass a constitutional amendment. Even if Congress functioned properly this would be difficult.

The idea we’re talking about wouldn’t work anyway. The problem is, many of the state supreme court judges are also batshit.

The only way round this is to copy other countries that have functional judicial systems and stop making judges either political appointments or directly elected. They need to be professionals selected on merit, and firable, or at least replaceable after a term, if they’re incompetent.

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My favorite was when Priti Patel suggested we should use wave machines to drown migrants trying to cross the channel.

The only problem was she was home secretary at the time, and actually in charge of the borders.

You’re never quite sure if mockery or horror is the right response.

"Because of my views - and they’re lawfully held views - they are missing out on this opportunity, and that’s the part that is absolutely galling.

And it’s also a lawfully held view for scope to think she’s so terrible that they want nothing to do with her.

Fucking coward. If your only justification for your views is that it’s “lawfully held” you need to admit to yourself that you’re a bad person.

Did he look in a mirror?

I think the big mistake is in thinking JD believes anything.

He opposed Trump to get his name out there, and then supported him to become VP. Everything he does and says is just to appease people more important than him.

He’s Catholic while opposing the Pope because that’s what Peter Theil (his major sponsor) does.

She’s also written some banging children’s books.

There’s the whole earthsea saga that is probably easier to read than Harry Potter.

JD Vance confirmed to be in the next Minecraft.

Can you put out a contract on someone just by betting on polymarket that they won’t die by a particular date?

You know what’s even better? Proportional representation and an executive branch that answers directly to your elected parliament.

Ranked choice or STV just means you continue to vote against Republicans and hope for the second worst option of Democrats, but you can feel better about yourself because you put a left-wing party down as your first choice.

STV should only be used for figurehead positions with no real power.

If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.

Noise cancelling only really works on constant background noises like an engine. It doesn’t work on bells and just kind of muddies speech, but you can still here the noise.

The problem is diplomatic ramifications.

Parliament can always do what it wants, but if it’s unilaterally removing rights from another country they’re going to be pissed off.

It’s not gay unless the brain worms touch.

Petition for the UK to ship reform off to the colonies.

It’ll make both countries smarter.

Most of the country wants it but the politicians don’t want to give the far right any excuses.

What we’re seeing is closer and closer alignment until we end up as a defacto member of the common market, but without a say over the rules.

If we end up rejoining it will probably take more than a decade and it will be under the default rules, just because the EU can’t be bothered to deal with British exceptionalism again.

I’m not being funny but it can be both.

Square root is an operator that maps a number to the positive number that when squared returns the original number, but there is also a square root symbol.

Similarly, % can be an operator that maps a number x to x/100, but there’s also a percent symbol.

It just depends if you’re talking about functions or fonts.

Their family probably came to Taiwan after the Japanese invasion.

Japan was notoriously brutal to the indigenous population, but most of the people in Taiwan came there in the civil war.

In fact, stamping out the indigenous culture has been an ongoing part of the post civil war Taiwanese government, and it’s only recently that the Taiwanese language has been allowed to be taught in schools.