Vent

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[–] Vent@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Legislative branch writes the laws. Judicial branch interprets them. Executive branch executes/enforces them.

SCOTUS's power comes from judicial review and precedent. They can't make arbitrary decisions on arbitrary things. Someone has to bring a case through a ton of appeals and different courts, then SCOTUS can rule on their interpretation of the law and write one or more essays explaining why and the nuances of their decisions. Those decisions are then examples/precedents that are followed by lower courts in future cases, until someone goes through the process again and SCOTUS decides to take the case and change the precedent, which is even more difficult and rare.

In this case, it sounds like they're arguing over if the FDA did their legally required due diligence. If not, then their approval is null and void, so the drug is banned.

A bunch of things stop states from ignoring their decisions. In this case, any company making the drug is not going to value it as worth the risk so it probably won't even make it to court again.

Some federal laws are tied to federal funding. For example, the 21 drinking age is tied to funding for roads. States can choose to set the age to 18, but they lose out on funding.

States can decide to just ignore federal law and get away with it, so long as it's not something the federal government is willing to fight for. For example, states legalize Marijuana essentially by deciding to just ignore the federal ban. The federal government doesn't care enough to send in their own anti-weed police or to pass legislation to force states to ban it again.

It even applies at the federal level. The executive branch can decide to just ignore SCOTUS and do their own thing. For example, SCOTUS ruled in favor of Native American's rights but Andrew Jackson ignored it and did the Trail of Tears anyway (he kicked tons of natives off their land with no shortage of human suffering and death along the way). The Legislative branch can fight against the Executive branch by withholding funding, but the Judicial branch doesn't have any such "stick".

It's rare that situations happen where branches fight against each other or states defy the federal government, but it's not unheaed of. It's all part of the checks and balances. In any case, it needs to stay within some realm of reasonableness in order to get buy-in from other government officials and the populace as a whole.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google is disallowing "remote code" in extensions and classifying blocklists (the lists of urls that ad blockers use to know what to block, which are just text files hosted on remote servers like github) as remote code. As a result, any blocklist updates will need to go through the extension review process, which typically takes anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks.

Google often updates YouTube's ad delivery on a daily basis. Blocklists must also update as frequently to keep ads blocked on YT. If Google requires that blocklists go through the review process, they can drag their feet and essentially render the ad blockers useless even if they have to allow them to stay in the extension store.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

America's response to the opioid epidemic is a far cry from treatment and compassion. They're literally charging friends (addicts) of overdose victims with murder just for being associated by redefining "drug dealer" to be super broad and reclasifying ODs as poisonings.

Amazing read: He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed a law this month to reclassify fentanyl overdose deaths as “poisonings,” and Arkansas passed a “death by delivery” bill in April to charge some overdoses as murders in an effort to deter anyone from selling or even sharing fentanyl. Prosecutors in Alaska, California, Florida and at least a dozen other states were beginning to pursue new murder cases against any defendant who fit under the wide-ranging definition of a fentanyl dealer: a 17-year-old in Tennessee who, after graduation, shared fentanyl in the school parking lot with two of her friends, both of whom died; a husband in Indiana who bought fentanyl for his disabled wife, who overdosed while trying to numb her chronic pain from multiple sclerosis; a real estate agent in Florida who threw a party and called 911 when one of her guests overdosed; a high school senior in Missouri who gave one pill to a 16-year-old girl he met at church and warned her to “only do a quarter and then do the other quarter if you don’t feel it.”**

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 79 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Have they considered doubling the number of prisons and providing police with tanks?

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

They only do downhill deliveries now

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It's only slightly misleading and Arstechnica writes really good articles. It's pretty much the only news site I regularly browse.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Leaving out the TV makes it less precise and more clickbaity because then it sounds like Android phones are affected.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Agreed, clickbaity af. Updated the post with a disclaimer.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Did some more research and Netflix did remove their "Basic" plan when they added the cheaper ad-supported tier. They also raised the prices of their other plans, but those increases were consistent historically, so I'm not convinced the addition of an ad-supported tier caused them. Graph of Netflix prices from 2011-2023

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Netflix didn't start with ads, and the ads don't affect pre-existing subscription tiers.

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who do you ask permission from and how? Message the mods? Post a poll?

[–] Vent@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If nobody was allowed to post their own stuff, then things like official comic accounts wouldn't exist. Or official accounts in general.

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