RobotToaster

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago

Do you think they made it a tie on purpose? They knew they had the chance to troll the entire country and took it, lol.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The secret ingredient was oil, ordinary oil, laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of THC.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Octopodes no longer die when they give birth, meaning they can teach their young and form societies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But the SC should never decide the president in a Democracy

That already happened in Bush v. Gore

[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 days ago (5 children)

To give you an actual answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_threat

The true threat doctrine was established in the 1969 Supreme Court case Watts v. United States.[3] In that case, an eighteen-year-old male was convicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for violating a statute prohibiting persons from knowingly and willfully making threats to harm or kill the President of the United States.[3]

The conviction was based on a statement made by Watts, in which he said, "[i]f they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J."[3] Watts appealed, leading to the Supreme Court finding the statute constitutional on its face, but reversing the conviction of Watts.

In reviewing the lower court's analysis of the case, the Court noted that "a threat must be distinguished from what is constitutionally protected speech."[3] The Court recognized that "uninhibited, robust, and wide open" political debate can at times be characterized by "vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." In light of the context of Watts' statement - and the laughter that it received from the crowd - the Court found that it was more "a kind of very crude offensive method of stating a political opposition to the President" than a "true threat."[3]

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I stole it from Babylon 5, but "assassin of joy" is one I've used a few times

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Windows hasn’t added any features of value since Windows ~~7~~ XP

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What would an advanced alien race even consider fine art?

Six dimensional termite mounds?

Or they could see in a smaller range of frequencies, so what looks like a plain white room to us is a masterpiece of modern art to them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Technically taking human remains isn't grave robbing, it's body snatching. Grave robbing is taking artifacts like jewellery.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Lemmy really is becoming a great replacement for reddit, it feels just like I'm back there.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/10012136

Earlier this year, Germany's environment ministry suggested there should be stricter limits on importing trophies from hunting animals.

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish people in his country.

He said elephant numbers had exploded as a result of conservation efforts, and hunting helped keep them in check.

Germans should "live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to", Mr Masisi told German newspaper Bild. "This is no joke."

Botswana is home to about a third of the world's elephant population - over 130,000 - more than it has space for.

Herds were causing damage to property, eating crops and trampling residents, Mr Masisi said.

Botswana has previously given 8,000 elephants to neighbouring Angola, and has offered hundreds more to Mozambique, as a means of bringing the population down.

"We would like to offer such a gift to Germany," Mr Masisi said, adding that he would not take no for an answer.

Botswana's Wildlife Minister Dumezweni Mthimkhulu last month threatened to send 10,000 elephants to London's Hyde Park so British people could "have a taste of living alongside" them.

In March, UK MPs voted to support a ban on importing hunting trophies, but the legislation has further scrutiny to pass before becoming law.

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