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Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

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A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.

uscourts.gov/…/code-conduct-united-states-judges

Not that SCOTUS is held to the same code of conduct that all other federal judges are held to, of course.

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Moisturize me!

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At least twice before, Thomas has similarly defended his failure to make required disclosures as an unintentional error or a misunderstanding of the rules.

Seems like the only possible explanations are that he’s lying or he’s incompetent.

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I only use if for medicinal purposes!

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Trade embargo.

CRETAK: A glass of Romulan ale, Doctor?

BASHIR: Thank you, Senator.

ROSS: The trading embargo has been officially lifted, if you were wondering.

BASHIR: It hadn’t crossed my mind, actually.

ROSS: To one of the many benefits of the Alliance.

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Her continued presence on the bench, not just on this one case, is fatally undermining the already tenuous legitimacy of the federal judiciary.

Fallout Series (Why don’t I like it?)

I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...

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One is high fantasy, the other is satire. They may be technically very similar, but as far as tone and mood they are very different beasts. Like Star Wars and Spaceballs.

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Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, …because they’ll never come again. …What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. …After all, Number One, we’re only mortal.

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What, never?

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Destabilizing the system is the point. Trump is just the tool.

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It’s an older reference, sir, but it checks out.

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Not a bot. But also not an idiot, which is the target audience here.

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I haven’t been having any major problems except for occasional framerate stuttering, but then I don’t use that many mods.

My only real complaint is that there’s really no new story content, it’s just a couple of new locations (Enclave checkpoints like FO3) some new armor and weapon types, and a handful of quests that are pretty much radiant quests with a coat of Enclave paint. Considering the download was like 10GB I was expecting more. If Google is telling me the truth, that’s bigger than all the other DLC combined.

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There’s a quest where you find a ghoul child locked in a refrigerator on the side of the road (it’s implied he’s been in there since the war). You have the option of selling him to a named member of the gunners.

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That’s from FO4. I don’t think it appeared in any other game.

fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Kid_in_a_Fridge

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“If lawmakers want to rein in the harms of social-media platforms, targeting just one under the guise of national security ignores an entire industry predicated on surveillance capitalism. Like all popular platforms — including those that Meta and Google own — TikTok collects far too much user data. But banning a single platform will not address the privacy problem that’s rotting the core of the entire tech industry.

If domestic social media is collecting dangerous amounts of personal info about Americans, then foreign social media under who are subject to the laws of adversarial nation-states should be seriously concerning.

The matter of domestic social media will have to be addressed by a completely different law because it cannot be addressed by a law similar to this new one. People who bring up domestic social media in discussions of this law are completely missing the point.

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Which Tittok users has the US government censored?

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No, of course it’s not fine.

But if it’s not fine for domestic social media apps to do it, then it’s even worse for a foreign adversary to do it. Right?

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They could use their advertising platform to manipulate US public opinion and elections. And, again, this isn’t to say it’s fine for domestic companies to do this. But that’s no argument against this law. In fact, I daresay the “gamer-to-far-right-radical pipeline” you identify is an example of this.

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I’ve seen that too. But they’re mistaken. “Censoring the internet” is not what this law does. That’s hyperbole not based on any reasonable interpretation of the actual law.

Don’t misunderstand me; this is not a good law. Nobody should be happy about it. But it is prudent, wise and perhaps even necessary. Refusing to acknowledge this while ignoring that actual 1st amendment concerns that this law will be challenged on does not help your argument.

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What do you mean?

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This part:

a desperate attempt to keep young people from discussing Joes pet genocide where they can’t be censored by the us govt.

suggests that users are being censored by the US government. Doesn’t it?

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It’s almost as if hostile nation states are manipulating public opinion to destabilize western democracies and alliances.

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Tiktok has been a subject of national security concerns since at least 2020.

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Well, no. The courts struck down Trump’s Tiktok ban because he used an executive order that overstepped his authority.

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That’s the opposite of what the court said.

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That’s about 1609 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458^th^ of a second.

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US, China, Russia, France, and the UK have veto power over Security Council resolutions because they are the ones who are called upon to actually enforce Security Council resolutions.

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A veto means the resolution does not pass in the first place.

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This is a textbook example of the “establishment of religion” prohibited by the First Amendment.

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Akshully, it’s the seventh.

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Obstruction of justice*

Could the Federation defeat Star Wars' Empire in an all-out war?

Would a Federation warship like the Defiant out gun a Star Wars Star Destroyer? Who has a bigger armada? Who has the tactical advantage? Don’t forget that The Federation includes the Klingons, who love warfare and have fast, agile, heavily armed ships, with cloaking devices, and the Vulcans with superior logic and tactical...

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There’s a fan fic about exactly this question, written by Graham Kennedy (of the Daystrom Institute Technical Library website.)

www.ditl.org/portal-chapter1.php

tl;dr: Federation shields, weapons, engines, and tactics are vastly superior, and they are nearly impervious to the Force. But the Empire has a huge numerical advantage.

spoilerThe Federation wins, but not easily. Mars is destroyed by the Death Star.

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Personnel*

Lawmaker caught on hot mic branding Biden impeachment hearing as ‘Jurassic Park’ (www.independent.co.uk)

A hot mic captured a lawmaker labelling the heated House Oversight Committee’s impeachment inquiry hearing into alleged corruption committed by the Bidens as “Jurassic Park,” encapsulating the hearing’s devolution into chaos....

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It was a Democrat stating the obvious, not a Republican admitting the obvious.

Anyone else feel like the article really didn’t want to mention that part?

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I can only hope that the DOJ is investigating her for corruption.

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What is a “Chairman of NATO”?

Best sidequests in the Fallout games?

I’m doing a playthrough of 3, New Vegas, and 4. Mostly focused on beating the main quests and the DLCs but I want to make sure I hit the best side quests on the way. I’m making my push to finish 3 right now and I’ve finished the DLC, Oasis, cannibals, vampires, ant quest, the other ant quest, and a bunch of stuff I’m...

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In New Vegas, completing Arcade Gannon’s companion sidequest gives you a suit of Enclave advanced power armor, and a squad of Enclave troops with a vertibird will back you up at Hoover Dam. It’s virtually impossible to trigger this quest by accident.

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The article makes it sound like you can push the gate open without a receipt, it will just set off an alarm.

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washingtonpost.com/…/biden-hur-transcript-classif…

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Don’t be tremendous.

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Dax knows the deep, dark secret kept by the Trill Symbiosis Commission. They’d be wise to leave her alone.

The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries (apnews.com)

Michael Hallett, a professor of criminology at the University of North Florida who studied the effects of “Cops,” said he viewed the NYPD’s forays into social media as a natural response to a digital media ecosystem that rewards speed and sensationalism....

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“We want to go on social media and push back on the misinformation that’s out there,” Tarik Sheppard, the NYPD’s top spokesperson, said in an interview. “Because if we don’t, it could cause damage to the reputation of our cops and the work that we’re doing.”

Having a “top spokesperson” in the first place is part of what’s being criticized, Tarik.

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Both, please.

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