deathbird

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

'That statute prohibits state officials from “corruptly” accepting “anything of value from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded” for an official act.'

This is quite literally the 'textualists' ignoring the text of the law. Creatively redefining what 'rewarded' means. Jackson's dissent is basically 'Did you read the text?', 'Do you think Congress knows what words mean?', and 'Do you own a dictionary?'

It takes a lot of education to make a ruling this stupid. It should be impeachable.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

The hero we need rn tbh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I suppose, but at that point it really hits the level of abstract principle rather than plausible policy. Kind of up there with "no more war", "ending hunger", or "socialism replacing capitalism".

And while I do believe that a better world is possible, I really wanted to speak to things that are plausible in the existing political and economic climate in my lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Playing Disco Elysium for the first time and it's really good. Reminds me a lot of Planescape: Torment. Really a breath of fresh air after Fallout 4.

Fallout 4 had fun gameplay, but my god did the writing suck. There were a few good bits, but overall it was garbage. The 4-options-only dialogue system blew anyway, but the options were always "Yes", "No", "Meh/Sarcastic Yes", and "Tell me more!" It was terrible.

At least in Skyrim you were a nobody that everyone wanted a piece of, you lack of internal motivation was understandable. The conflicts were between the groups were rooted in a history you woke up in the middle of. There were literally chaos gods (daedra) fucking shit up. For the love of god Bethesda, please just make the next Fallout game an actual RPG.

Oh, and I also need to circle back around to Dave the Diver now that the Godzilla DLC is out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah but there's no real international authority for that, and how am I supposed to get my national government to join a treaty organization for that purpose when neither it nor any lower level of my government offer anything similar?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (6 children)

GOG is good too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Right? Call it what you will, changing terms of sale or use after taking someone's money is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Also nationwide lead removal fund.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Copyright should go back to 14 years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

And forced arbitration should be invalidated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Haiku, but honestly I'm just happy to see the conversations here

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Dogs working contribute to society, but don't talk. I don't know why being able to talk would suddenly change things for cats.

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