Michael Seraphim
@mseraphimsl.bsky.social
Did you ever say what rank she is? I was thinking you had said she's an LTC once.
Fascism is all about the triumph of the will of the party over norms and laws of society and, particularly in rubbing that in the faces of out groups. The hypocrisy is the point. They want you to know that the norms and laws won't protect you.
He honestly really did. He did such a good job that a lot of his initial supporters grew to hate him. In this one specific instance, that's actually a really good thing.
The last 19th century black South Carolina congressman GW Murray was railroaded by an all white jury in 1905 for leasing land to black farmers to help them meet the property requirements for voting and was driven into exile in Chicago.
And it used to not be a speech at all. Presidents submitted written state of the union reports for more than a century without a corresponding oral address to Congress. The whole big production is a 20th century thing.
Sadly, the news from today has mostly made that search pull up trial stuff and not tiny mushroom dick porn.
Just some local news.
queenseagle.com/all/2024/5/3...
Queens man convicted — Queens Daily Eagle
Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan
jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort
to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his...
Only because John Tyler died before the end of the Civil War.
We've had a couple of Vice Presidents tried for felonies though. Since America is all about striving for new heights, I guess I'm proud we can have a felon for a former President...
Sadly, I bet that's also the way you break the ambient light.
Claro que si!
But I'm prioritizing. His clown car life can move on to prison by and by but the kids top the to do list.
I'm less interested in jailing Nick, et al and much more interested in getting these kids into a safer environment stat. What a mess
For Arizona the bag limit is 2 per year and you need a big game permit.
I was going to say. Not much under the open sky is reliably resistant to a pack of javelina. Those guys are a menace when they're annoyed.
It was also the contention of the state legislature. I'm not saying the ruling isn't absurd. It clearly is. It's just not an outlier for Republican thought in Mississippi.
mathematically impossible to put a measure on the ballot by citizen petition. The state supreme court confirmed that this interpretation is correct.
Mississippi accidentally did something dumber. They set in the state constitution that petition drives could not count anymore than 20% of required signatures from a single one of the state's 5 congressional districts. Then redistricting dropped them to 4 congressional districts. It's now
I sure hope not. That poor pup has got such insane jaw dysplasia. That's got to suck.
Are these from before or after the renovation? Did they keep the fire escapes or did they have to bring it up to modern fire codes?
Hopefully the repair cost isn't ruinous and they reopen. Hate to see them close.
I don't know the background on this one. I saw part of the roof fell in today and that the illiches are ghouls, but specifically?
This has got to be detrimental to your cardio. Damn that inescapable cuteness.
Oh, it's -your- fault. :)
But seriously, It must be frustrating to see how out of control its gotten from the base level that was already feeling out of control way back then.
Tomorrow! Tomorrow! My train comes tomorrow! It's only a day awaaaay!
I actually don't know what the total number of posts per day on BlueSky is at the moment. Any idea what that number is these days?
She is coming from a good place on this, and I respect that, but the people she's arguing with on this topic are long time experts in high volume social media and web moderation. She's incredibly wrong in a goodhearted and terribly dangerous way.
You can go on the dark web and buy batches of stolen accounts sorted by age or volume of posts and then pop them into your spam network. It makes things very hard to eyeball so the only way to effectively moderate is by behavior, not what the account looks like. If it acts like spam, treat as spam.
It's TRIVIAL to set up those account too. It's all automated and scripted. You can set up fake accounts 10,000 at a time with interlocking relationship and with stolen accounts, can have legitimate, long term accounts as friends/interaction partners. This isn't 2002 anymore.
I used to be an email admin in another life and even with a site that had only a few thousand accounts, would see 90% of our feed volume composed of spam. And this was 20 years ago before transnational gangs and state actors entered the picture. It's incredibly worse now.
Also, it's trivially easy to cook up an entire infrastructure of accounts that claim to know the spam account, bogus photos that are taken by the spam account and news articles about whatever awful even the spammer is experiencing and all very plausible. Without question it's already happening.
Yep. And if your site gets a reputation for not slapping it down fast you end up with what Twitter has now. It's not a coincidence that every 3rd post is nudes in bio now. How many mutual aid posts would you think BlueSky is getting on a daily basis? 10,000? 100,000?
I think people who are advocating looking at each one of these posts individually and deciding exemptions on a case by case basis do not understand the staggering volume of posts that fly through in a day. These calls have to be automated and have to be real time or the site will die screaming.
"Nevertheless I plan to support, raise money for and vote for the person that led the violent insurrection attempt on January 6th."
If they can gerrymander for political purposes without federal oversite, the state constitutions won't be enough to ensure fair maps and fair representation. If Reynolds goes away, the leg could do 2 reps and 1 senator per county, for example, which would fit the Wisconsin requirements just fine.
In the case of Wisconsin, it was overturned on the basis that the state constitution was violated because Wisconsin has explicit rules about the composition of districts in the constitution. It doesn't mean the leg can't gerrymander, just that they have to follow the specific state rules to do so.
Harlan's dissent in that isn't -completely- batshit crazy. It's certainly no crazier than some of the reasoning in Shelby County. I could definitely see someone taking a run at it again.
Between allowing explicit gerrymandering and then allowing the gerrymandered legislature to perpetuate the rigged districts in perpetuity, it's very easy to make minority rule impossible to overturn through elections. It's what's coming next.
Also likely they're soon going to rule that legislatures can't have redistricting authority taken away from them without their consent, overturning Arizona Leg v Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. We're going to see Wisconsin everywhere if the Supremes have their way.
They're going to strike down independent redistricting committees next. That first sentence is going to be the basis for it. The counterrevolutionaries on the court want every state to be like Wisconsin.
It's probably some kind of OSHA violation and they'll have to blow up the bridge and build it again if you tell anyone. It still sounds super romantic though.