Mnemnosyne

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[–] Mnemnosyne 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Up until the court decided to start ignoring centuries of legal tradition that is the bedrock of our legal system and threw out stare decisis the decision was actually more secure than a specific law.

Any law codifying it can be challenged on many grounds, especially the 10th amendment. It could easily have been struck down as unconstitutional because the federal government has no power to pass a law affecting this issue, since the constitution doesn't grant it.

Only a constitutional amendment would have been likely to survive a court willing to do what this one has done, and there is zero possibility the Democrats could have passed one.

[–] Mnemnosyne 2 points 3 months ago

It's possible to. Are they? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they're not. They're going after Microsoft and not Google.

Not that it makes any difference since Edge is just reskinned Chrome now anyway. If it was still it's own thing I'd be rooting for Microsoft, at least up until they start to become bigger, then I'd turn on them.

[–] Mnemnosyne 12 points 3 months ago

Yeah, this. I don't understand it. Why does anyone not in the MAGA cult do anything for this man if not fully paid up front? It's been decades since he was well known for not paying his debts and stalling as much as legally possible if taken to court to make him pay. There shouldn't be a single person who is in a position to provide services to him that doesn't know this!

[–] Mnemnosyne 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I can't think of a single thing built in the last century that will still be there in a thousand years. We may still build some cool stuff, but none of it is durable anymore it seems.

[–] Mnemnosyne 5 points 3 months ago

Your answer to 'can anyone provide actual evidence' sounds like a very wordy 'no' and a transparent attempt to distract from that.

[–] Mnemnosyne 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Is this meant to be sung to the cadence of one of Tom Bombadil's songs? I dunno why that's just what felt right when I read it.

[–] Mnemnosyne 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The funny thing is he might be the one in the right, if we examine with logic.

A mayor probably has no particular skills or abilities to help personally in that sort of situation, and if he was doing his job correctly in the past, then everything in his power to do would already have been done. The appropriate experts are ready. Emergency plans are in place. There's backup plans, and backup plans for the backups, all carefully considered and planned by the best people the mayor could get to do them in the past.

But humans are weird and have stupid ideas, so we want to see the mayor in his office, giving interviews, or even better, at the site of the disaster, helping. Except the most the average mayor is likely to do in an emergency situation is get in the way and be a distraction.

That's the sad thing - your city's mayor may or may not have done a good job, I have no idea, but the average mayor will definitely be attacked if this happens and he doesn't make a show of 'helping'.

[–] Mnemnosyne 30 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Contingency plans. Yeah. Sure. I don't think there are any that most of us can make. There aren't any countries I could move to that would be any better I don't think. I'm too old, I don't have degrees, my only job qualifications aren't particularly in demand because the training for them is fast, and the only family connection to citizenship elsewhere I had is insufficient because it's too many generations removed from me.

I suspect the cast majority of people who would be even worse off than me under another Trump/Republican administration are in just as bad if not worse a position.

[–] Mnemnosyne 1 points 4 months ago

Some old Ubisoft game pissed me off like that I think, required their account and launcher and pissed me off. I think I left a bad review in that one because of it, unless I was too lazy to.

[–] Mnemnosyne 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If I bought the game without realizing this, I would definitely give it a bad review because of it.

[–] Mnemnosyne 5 points 4 months ago

To be fair I'm not as smart as Data, so I doubt it would need that much to outwit me.

[–] Mnemnosyne 10 points 4 months ago (26 children)

When the technology gets there, this will be amazing. I'll be able to sit down at the computer and say "make me a mystery detective RPG in the style of Sherlock Holmes but set on a cyberpunk styled city on a space station like the Citadel from Mass Effect" and I'll get just that, generated exclusively for me with a brand new story that fits the themes I asked for.

But that is gonna be a couple decades or more I expect. I dearly hope it happens quickly so I can live to see it, but it's not going to be in the next ten years, that's for damn sure.

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