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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> The limit on machine guns is unconstitutional If so, the argument upthread about "well cholera" fails for similar reasons. > I doubt the ninth amendment applies to entitlements, as these are fundamentally different from li
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> This is a nation built on negative rights. I have a positive right to legal counsel, and trial by jury. We have, over the years, extended that to access to education and a wide variety of other items. The Ninth Amendment exists in the
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law Surely intentional lead poisoning counts?
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> Machine guns are banned at the federal level, though… Semiautomatics, if you prefer. (And plenty of Second Amendment purists feel that limit is unconstitutional, and SCOTUS may well soon agree. As they just did with silencers - https:
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> So do you or do you not believe the First Amendment protects speech on this website? From the government, yes. From @dang, no. Similarly, I think it's a clear Constitutional violation for a city government to knowingly give people
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> It won't affect their case against the city… Which again, if they win, they pay for! It'll come out of their taxes , which the city will either have to raise, or cut costs somewhere to pay for. The people responsible will
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
The fact that they apparently attempted to sandbox those tests would seem to be a clear difference between the two cases.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
The public confession of a crime part.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
It is illegal. This is criminal fraud if it's not just made up marketing. (Plus some CAN-SPAM violations.)
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
That'd require them explaining why "the 14th Amendment predates germ theory" is a reasonable argument but not "the Second Amendment predates machine guns".
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> pursuing tort claims Which certainly won't get thrown out over qualified immunity. (And if they win a case against the city, it's coming out of their own pockets!)
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> In the majority decision, Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote that while the deprivation of clean water was “grievous,” it did “not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.” “We are skeptical that the right to not be harmed by lea
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> An objectively good and very stylish film. It is like 30 years old and still grate to watch. Yes, it's a great satire. You get problems when, as with The Boys' Homelander, people apparently can't figure out who the bad g
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
Let's assess that opinion in a hundred years. Maybe they're just Michael Burrys.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
The President of the United States is openly posting fascist shit regularly. Yesterday: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... The image literally says "inspired by Starship Troo
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
Even five minutes late gets you a red dot. Very Swiss.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> we’ve already established an okay-ish democratic system We have pardoned Jan 6ers convicted of "wielding force and violence" for political goals in goverment positions now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> There are very logical reasons why the state wielding force and violence is preferable to the alternatives… Seems like there are some pretty clear historical exceptions to this rule.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> A/I knowingly provided services to groups that verifiably did some rather violent things they are accused of If that's disqualifying, a lot of US government contractors are in trouble.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
Good news: Eventually - and fairly regularly! - the agent will fuck up so badly you have to test the process!
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
Bad's a matter of perspective, as a quick review of Wikipedia's parasite articles will reveal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
They'll release them right after they finish the "tylenol causes autism" study.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
And keeps him because he's good at the number one priority, being a fluffer.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. The First Amendment (largely) prevents the government from choosing what a private company hosts on their platform for them . A
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> I mean, if I hear the phrase "geopolitical unrest", I'm far more inclined to think "Iran"/"Russia" than "51st state". Well, they're not putting it there, either.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
Where does it say the site used Cloudflare?
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
> Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law If your ethics deem Meta ethical, they probably need recalibrating.
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
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by ceejayoz 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

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