volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
@expert you're not ONLY helping the site to grow.
Presumably you're also sharing content worth sharing.
@noellemitchell
@Moon in my experience one really important reason is because the brim interferes with field of vision, so you end up knocking your hard hat into obstacles that you would have otherwise seen.
Which is annoying.
Another reason is fitting into some welding masks that fit much better with the hat backwards.
Sometimes on construction sites you can identify the welders by their backwards hard hats.
@StephenRamirez keep in mind that the establishment rewrote laws and brought question to precedent to clear the path for the lawyers to go that route.
The establishment was absolutely part of this.
@fencepost that's the thing about it: so many explainers like this overlook the balance that the deference was a source of a lot of bad things, and reigning it in would be good for cracking down on them too.
Chevron deference allowed a lot of bad stuff to hide, which is exactly why the court has been moving to reform it.
Just remember, it's named after a corporation for a reason.
@pinsk that's simply not a reasonable way to approach the world.
No, inaction is not action. Inaction doesn't have the effect of action--it has no effect. This is just putting words in people's mouths and then criticizing them for things that they literally didn't say, positions that they absolutely didn't take.
It's pretty antisocial to normalize that kind of approach.
TX national guard federalization & secession talk
@maeve despite kind of clickbaity reports to the contrary, no, Texas isn't defying SCOTUS.
If you pull up the SCOTUS order, Texas isn't doing anything out of compliance with it.
@Lyle I mean, I guess some are?
There are a whole lot of bigger issues people are debating today, with all of the drama around the world and hard negotiations happening with regard to borders and funding in DC.
Maybe it depends on what groups a person might be listening to?
@freemo it's a tough call, especially if you might suspect the tips are shared with other employees who actually were helpful.
@MugsysRapSheet but Trump DID ask the SCOTUS to intervene and they rejected his invitation.
SCOTUS took up Bush v Gore because Bush made the case that a lower court screwed up, which needed correcting.
SCOTUS didn't take up Trump's cases because that campaign didn't make a solid case.
It had nothing to do with Biden, but about Trump's request being unpersuasive.
This shows that the Court is happy to ignore Trump's wants when they think he's blabbering nonsense.
@philip_cardella @TonyStark @CivilityFan @axeshun
@lauren FWIW, today I heard a bunch of self-described MAGA folks rejecting the idea as a nutty conspiracy theory.
Heck, a few of them took it to the next level and made their own conspiracy theory that something so nutty clearly came from those trying to undermine the MAGA side.
What a time to be alive.
@jrp I'm with you, personally, but then I'd say with good UI design there's room for all of us here, for different users to tailor their experiences to their personal preferences.
My reasoning: character count isn't about content but about form.
And practically, while your fediverse reading program might not be able to understand a post well enough to see what the content is about, and give you a warning, it can easily detect character count and do something you'd like if the count is too large.
If you want to skip all posts above 500 characters or whatever, it would be trivial to program a client to do that. It's a UI issue.
@KeithDevlin well, what examples do you have of that happening?
Occam's Razor would have us at least consider that maybe they rule in certain directions because the argument they propose is simply the right one, that there isn't this conspiracy involved.
@DemocracyMattersALot
@MugsysRapSheet that's because Trump's recounts never made it to SCOTUS in a way that warranted its action.
In Bush v Gore the Court was involved because a lower court had demanded a recount. When it comes to Trump it was the opposite: lower courts rebuked him already, so there wasn't anything for the SCOTUS to do.
@philip_cardella @TonyStark @CivilityFan @axeshun
But as we can see in this article, the solution didn't work and people were left without housing.
@MugsysRapSheet it's not that simple as this is a judicial process involving multiple courts going through processes of hearings and preliminary injunctions and appeals of the injunctions.
If you really want to simplify it that way, though, the answer is no. The appeal was over an injunction that actually allowed Border Patrol in.
But again, this matter is not that simple.
@MugsysRapSheet when you go directly to the ruling you'll see that's not what they ruled, regardless of the reporting.
Here's the order for you to read for yourself. It's short.
In fact, they would have had to issue a long ruling, not a short order, had they actually ruled that officers can come in an cut razor wire.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/012224zr_fd9g.pdf
@MugsysRapSheet that's not what's happening in this legal proceeding.
The state isn't ignoring SCOTUS. It's that SCOTUS didn't say what so many are running around claiming it said.
@JaniceSelbie well, where in her rulings do you see magical thinking?
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
