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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

Even if you take everything else at entirely the most charitable face value...

... It's really fucked up autographing not just one of the bombs for the photo op, but it says all of them.

Even if these shells were intended for a purely good and just purpose, taking out a worthy target nobody would miss like NYC, LA, or Washington DC, signing each individual shell before sending them out is still a bit much.
Tanya the Evil saying "They're commies. blow the shit out of them."

:| oh no not our billionaires no please dont go its too dangerous

I remember last year which was really nice and temperate, I spent much of nearly every day off outside, and meanwhile I kept reading apocalyptic headlines about how it was the hottest day ever and we were all gonna die.

Unfortunately, Matt was eaten by an NPR reporter for a story.

Sorry to be the one to break the news....

I don't remember the case, but there was one of the big church and state ones I think, and the lawyer was a straight stereotypical big texas lawyer and he seemed to think he could just win the case through sheer force of personality, and that just wasn't happening.

Actually, it was often surprising that you couldn't predict based on who seemed to be doing better at oral arguments who would win the case.

I wanna build a wall, a big beautiful wall, and get the Americans to pay for it.

It's often interesting listening to cases (I had a hobby of listening to supreme court cases for a long time) that the individual people involved don't matter as much as they think they do because the court is setting rules that affect everyone.

It should be mentioned that I'm just a retard on the Internet, and so anything I say about damn near anything is as such.

"COME TO CANADA! NOW YOU TOO CAN LIVE WITH 25 STRANGERS IN AN OLD LADY'S UNFINISHED BASEMENT FOR ONLY 1200 A MONTH!"

The scope would be anything that would be considered "official duties". If you're acting in your capacity as an agent of the state, then you would not be liable.

Clinton v. Jones (1997) is relevant, because it says that while presidential immunity exists, it doesn't apply to actions taken before entering office or "alleged misconduct of petitioner was unrelated to any of his official duties as President of the United States". The next question in these cases would be whether the prosecuted actions are related to official duties as president, and I could imagine that question ultimately going back to the supreme court, given that the court could either be very broad or very narrow and that would be important to consistent legal outcomes.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/520/681/

Seeing my son on the ultrasound changed everything. It was still really early on but that was a human being with arms and legs and a beating heart, moving around (actually jumping around in a way he still does today on occasion) made me realize what this "clump of cells" they were talking about was.

It's just science, it's right there. Can't deny reality if you're honest.

Yeah, it's the other side of Nixon v. Fitzgerald. There it was asking about civil immunity and here it's criminal.

I agree that Trump can't get drunk at a poker game and beat a Waiter to death and go "nope, I'm the president, it's ok"

Sovereign immunity obviously only applies to actions taken in your capacity as a sovereign. However, as I said in my other post, if you're in the scope of that immunity then it would be absolute (like civil liability in Nixon v. Fitzgerald) unless limited through legislation similar to how it works in a 1983 claim or the federal tort claims act.

Iceland and Norway get a pass -- they're already like 99% renewables due to geothermal or hydroelectric.

Google remembers its old motto "Never be evil"

Thanks, good advice.

Well sure, if you want him to be torn from reality! There's some changes that the timeline just refuses.

Reading the article, it talks about the "tricks" to read, and I think about reading Beowulf where "Beowulf spake, bairn of Ecgtheow", "Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings"

Like... You better be able to sound it out because there's no tricks here, you've never seen these words...

There's a lot of videos on youtube of people using pressure washers to clean sidewalks, and especially getting rid of the plants in between stones.

I tried it today, and can confirm that it works, but it takes about 100 times longer than the videos might indicate and I can't imagine what my water bill will look like. Happy to have cleaned up my paving stone sidewalk though!

He was going to, but when he did he came back and realized that if we don't let 9/11 happen COVID gets even worse.

Whenever we're sitting around discussing teaching the latest political thing, I almost always now go in to look at how many schools failed to produce one (1) student reading at grade level at graduation.

I think it's fitting that people who shouldn't have made it to the next grade because they don't yet have the prerequisite skills are being taught by people who think they should be allowed to teach all these other materials when they aren't yet successfully teaching the prerequisite skills.

Get back to work slacker! What you think just because you got a nuke dropped on you that's an excuse?

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