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[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 13 minutes ago

In this case, it ought to work exactly the opposite of how you think: a Congressional resolution is supposed to be the only thing that gives Trump authority to engage in war to begin with, so the only thing vetoing one ought to be able to accomplish is to remove that authority. There isn't supposed to be such a thing as as resolution disapproving of the President's unconstitutional unilateral action; if anything, what Congress just did should be treated like revoking its prior approval and thus not be vetoable.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago

@ChonkyOwlbear makes a very good point: the idea that the burden is on Congress to disapprove of the war and that Trump can veto their disapproval is completely ass-backwards, if you really think about it, and its absurd that the media and/or general public is treating it as anything remotely resembling business as usual.

(This isn't meant to be a criticism of @Andronyx individually, BTW. I can't blame them for falling for the same logical sleight of hand as almost everybody else.)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

All the right-wing organizations are named in doublespeak like that. Being dishonest is core to their ideology.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of 'new text document' and avoid watermarks:

(Not sure which font to use, so I picked a monospaced one for added 'cyber'. Also, here's a clean base image if anybody wants to do better.)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I agree with your overall point, but have one quibble:

Also, I mean, sure, satellite internet providers have been around for 30 years and each one had a period where the future looked bright before upkeep costs or technical issues hammered them into oblivion, but… mhhh…

Pre-Starlink satellite internet's future never looked bright because the latency and upload speeds always sucked. Having a swarm of satellites in a low orbit constantly handing off the connections is genuinely a huge improvement compared to having a few satellites all the way out at geostationary. It's just a shame that it's got the deal-breaker of being run by a nazi.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

"Just as" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I'd say.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Maybe there's room for compromise, but there is absolutely zero reason to concede such things in advance. The baseline expectation is that every device should be running Free Software and fully respect its owner's property rights, full stop.

If you instead approach the issue with the casual attitude that "oh, proprietary isn't so bad if it doesn't connect to the internet" the compromise after negotiations ends up favoring proprietary tyrants way more than you would've been okay with.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

No device should have the third, ever.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty sure he meant something like "not a nonprofit or government entity."

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/50143863

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

The 2009 movie. Just, like, the whole thing.

(And I'm not even talking about differences between the JJ-verse and the "prime" timeline; I'm talking about shit not making any damn sense in the internal context of the plot. Kirk was a mutinous fuck-up cadet who should've been thrown out the airlock when Spock had the chance, not promoted straight from cadet to captain by the end of the movie!)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

At this point, they aren't even trying to tell anybody that. They're openly arguing prejudice is OK.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46763057

Hopefully my neighbors will rejoice as I no longer have to cut and drill steel.

My next goal is to find another junk trailer so I can get the wheels more centered and have better handling and keep the rear of the trailer from scraping when going up and down driveways.

 

Youtube link, in case you don't like PeerTube for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCs5nDEZpoM

 

Blog post, if you'd rather read text than watch video: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/42401743

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