BrianTheeBiscuiteer

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

So Biden tried to use his execute power to forgive student loans, the SCOTUS shot it down, so now he’s invoking a different law for the same ends which could still potentially be struck down. Yeah, classic dictator behavior: do whatever you want to long as your judicial system approves it. And if he was being a “dictator” on border policy (i.e. violating law) then that sounds like a great reason to impeach instead of, “His family is shady.”

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Murder implies not only an intent to kill without justification or excuse. As piss poor as his excuse was, a teenager from another state trying to protect a strangers property, he still only shot at the very last moment. He’s a complete idiot and I believe guilty of manslaughter, but not murder.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Based on…

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Dark Brandon can get pretty savage. Hoping Biden still has him tucked away for emergencies.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Cops? They all deserve to be killed. You believe in this quite matter of factly.

Maybe the author was struggling to find examples but this could also be trolling. The biggest problem with this strategy is that the right actually wants all that crazy shit to happen. Zero abortions, jail all the homeless, machine gun turrets along the border, impossible divorce, and teaching creationism as a hard fact? That’s their paradise!

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Motherfucker held rallies at the White House so his campaign didn’t have to pay for it.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

It works doubly well because after accusing the left of doing it for ages (like voter fraud) all of the right-wing voters will say, “So what if we cheated? We’re just trying to match their level of cheating to keep it fair!”

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

What are you talking about?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_for_Marriage_Act

… signed into law by President Joe Biden. It repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), requires the U.S. federal government and all U.S. states and territories (though not tribes) to recognize the validity of same-sex and interracial civil marriages in the United States…

It stopped short of requiring any and all states to perform same-sex marriage but it was a definite improvement over existing law. As always I’m sure they held back on a full guarantee of a right to marriage because a handful of “moderate” Democrats refused to support it otherwise. I hope history records Manchin and Sinema as doing measurable harm to our country.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

At that level of wealth your entire motivation for living has been greed and no amount of money satisfies greed. They’re expecting a return on that donation for sure.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Who needs strength when you can just bite and outrun anyone?

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I have no problem with regular people having the ability to shoot machine guns or similar auto-fire weapons but for God’s sake license that shit!

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

If you supported abortions Matt then your 15 yo dates wouldn’t have a kid in the first place.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Just because it’s not on a report doesn’t mean providers have no recourse when it comes to seeking compensation. If they so choose they can take anyone to court and obtain a legal judgement. The frequent calls and letters from collectors are no picnic either.

The biggest issue I have with paying bills on time is the stupid billing systems. Like 30% of the time I either can’t find the payment option in their portal, login doesn’t work, don’t see any record of services (i.e. just give us money), or the total amount owed is different from the paper bill. Life is distracting, and if I can’t assess what I’m paying for and get to the “Submit Payment” button in 10 mins then don’t expect me to remember 8 hours later when I again have free time.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I kind of hate how you can not only nope out of nearly every puzzle with lockpicking but rogues get like half a dozen bonuses during the skill check so why are you even rolling the damn dice?

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

It’s still amazing that they shot it down for that reason when the case brought by Lorie Smith had pretty much no standing either (i.e. a homosexual couple never once solicited her services). scotusblog.com/…/supreme-court-rules-website-desi…

Biden says the next president may get to name two Supreme Court justices (www.npr.org)

LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

One, they haven’t had the votes since Biden became President. Two, that doesn’t fix anything. If we had 6 more liberal justices today they can’t just say, “Hey, let’s undo the bad decisions from the last 15 years.” They need to address the issues that come before them in regular fashion. If the Democrats had the votes they need to just start codifying everything we take for granted AND institute reforms (e.g. no more fucking filibuster, no stock trades for elected officials, and a SCOTUS code of ethics).

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

You clearly underestimate how much money a billion dollars is. There’s always enough money to bribe officials.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Trump, the guy who twice said Nikki Haley was Speaker of the House on Jan 6th?

My open source "proof of useful work" captcha alternative (python)

Situation: You run a website and want users to have to do some amount of work in order to activate a function in your code. The “function” can be anything: creating an account, receiving some kind of in-game token/reward, dispensing coins from a faucet, whatever. Captchas are becoming increasingly both increasingly complex...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Not sure if you want to label it as a “captcha alternative”. In most cases I’m sure the captcha is used because they want a real person looking at the page (and the ads on the page). In this case it seems more like a way to keep either bots or people from doing nothing but consuming content (or hacking) without giving back something of value. Either way I really like the idea.

Other ways, in theory, I think you could do this kind of thing are torrent ratios (e.g. hosting one or moreLinux ISOs), general archiving (e.g. you get asked to return a random range of bytes from a file you’re supposed to be backing up), you run a weather station that reports temperature to the National Weather Service. You might think about a more general framework for just verifying if user X has been contributing something of value.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Hmm, don’t see anywhere in the Constitution where elected officials have a “right to life”. Your move NC.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I watched Dear Infidels and really most of the criticisms could also apply to Christian Nationalists.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

And if somehow marijuana was the cure… or the cause!

The anti-AI sentiment in the free software communities is concerning. (lemmy.world)

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively. Creators like TheLinuxExperiment on YouTube always feel the need to add a disclaimer that “some people think AI is problematic” or something along those lines if an AI topic is discussed. I get that AI has many problems but at the same...

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I’ve never heard anyone explicitly say this but I’m sure a lot of people (i.e. management) think that AI is a replacement for static code. If you have a component with constantly changing requirements then it can make sense, but don’t ask an llm to perform a process that’s done every single day in the exact same way. Chief among my AI concerns is the amount of energy it uses. It feels like we could mostly wean off of carbon emitting fuels in 50 years but if energy demand skyrockets will be pushing those dates back by decades.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Goddamn this makes me sick. THEY CAN BOTH BE GUILTY!!!

Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it: Several federal agencies are working to safeguard research, including climate science, from future political meddling. (wapo.st)

The Washington Post has recently started asking people to register in order to access gift links. You can put in a completely made-up email address, as there is no verification of the email address.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Biden should start ousting conservative appointees and other officials any way possible and goad Congress into passing laws to restrict his ability to “drain the swamp”.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Any alt source? This just doesn’t render properly on mobile.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Sounds like these are at least some of the items they backed away from: whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-house-republicans-end…

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

My high school banned shorts. In Texas! Can’t wear fucking shorts to a school in hot AF Texas! Of course a school can ban certain phrases on t-shirts.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I’m just done “trusting” Republicans in general. Romney seems to be the only one left that has a moral compass (that doesn’t just point to “Nazi Jesus”). Even then I don’t believe he’d give a damn about the poorest among us as long as he could point to record stock prices and low unemployment.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I mean, there can be a way of working — a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.

(LGBTQ+ exists)

Republicans: I can’t live like this!

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I’m sure there’s no “conflict of interest”, “insider trading”, or “anti-bribery” training for her and I, an engineer with no direct reports below me and no power to make financial decisions, have to recertify those things annually.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

This is a really odd take. I mean if voting is inconvenient on the reservations then why not mail-in voting? The reservations take up a very small portion of the land so administration should be relatively low cost. You’ll spend way more money trying to secure an online voting system (and of course they’re just going to cut corners).

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Grabeth them by the pussy as thou would haveth them grab thine own pussy.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

This. Sucks we can’t just say shit like it is but it’s just as easy to make it up. I’m not going to verify the claims myself but if OP said it was Vandelay Industries I might make the decision to not do business with them.

It’s a little late now since the accusation has already been made but it’s essentially legal to state verifiable facts without drawing conclusions from those facts. Still, doesn’t mean the company won’t come after you, just that they risk calling attention to the issue. Unfortunately I know of no remedy or repercussions for a company filing a baseless lawsuit.

IANAL BTW.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

I think it could be potentially easier to thwart malicious bots than “honest” bots. I figure a bot that doesn’t care about robots.txt and whatnot would try to gobble up as many pages as it could find. You could easily place links into HTML that aren’t visible to regular users and a “greedy” bot would follow it anyway. From there you could probably have a website within a website that’s being generated by AI on the fly. To keep the bots from running up your bills you probably want it to be mostly static.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

North of 95F your body will start having trouble regulating temperature and hydration, ventilation, and shade become critical. On a bike you can only reasonably control hydration (can’t depend on strong wind, moving at a constant speed, or staying under building and foliage shade) so basically 9 months of the year you’re putting your health at risk to commute by bike. Riding a bike to the nearest bus stop and going from there might be the best middle ground.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Well, same sex couples, and by extension their children, are more likely to get harassed by bigoted fucks like Rep Rosendale so I guess there’s a sliver of truth in there.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

And if they say the President does have immunity before the election then Biden would be free to exercise that new “freedom” to suppress the opposition or find some other way to hamstring the new admin.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

So the DoJ is Joe Bidens puppet and he’s using it to persecute Trump for checks notes failing to turn over classified documents? Not insurrection or treason? Embezzlement? Russian collusion? Campaign finance violations? If every single indictment is a farce, why not drum up murder charges so he’s guaranteed to serve time?

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Hate to give him such credit but he’s shaping up to be even more brilliant than Hitler was. Hitler rode the wave of real economic strife (700% rise in prices) while Trump is riding a wave of ignorance.

Trump plans to claim sweeping powers to cancel federal spending: In a second term, allies said the former president would look at funding cuts for the World Health Organization and green energy (wapo.st)

Classically, Congress held the power of the purse, able to both bar and require spending. This imposed a significant limit on Presidential power. With a bought court supporting him, Trump would have significant ability to essentially chart power as a king.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

After watching part of the Netflix documentary Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial I’d say there have definitely been war crimes committed.

Just Google “IDF power targets” and keep a barf bag on standby.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Doesn’t seem very unusual unless that’s trying to say runoff elections are no longer a thing (most votes doesn’t mean majority).

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Once again Republicans misunderstand/misrepresent history to suit their own needs. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote

In short, none of this is meant to say that a person can’t express more granular support in an election, so long as it doesn’t give certain citizens greater influence than others. A ranked ballot is still “one vote” per race, in IRV at least, so my vote doesn’t mean any more than yours.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

We can’t have the VP out-racist the Racist-in-Chief.

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Black VP contender touting the positives of Jim Crow and a black Supreme Court Justice wanting to revisit a landmark desegregation case? The GOP is a cult, straight up!

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