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That’s not how you petition the Supreme Court.

Yet another Republican “patriot” who flunked civics 101.

The trial was already over. This was for the sentencing.

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

They make me laugh even when I’m sad.

Mike Duncan’s The History of Rome and Revolutions podcasts (particularly the French Revolution series).

What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

Each teaching has to be evaluated on its own merits, its basis in reality, and its effect on the child and how they relate to others. Whether it’s religious in origin is ultimately beside the point.

I can scratch any point on my own back.

Traditional breakfast dishes are my favorite for dinner.

I left during the API kerfuffle even though I didn’t use an app. I had been thinking about getting off of it for some time prior to that because I realized doomscrolling was negatively affecting my mental health. So I followed the refugees from /r/DaystromInstitute to startrek.website.

Article 5 doesn’t oblige members to take any particular action. It only says that an attack on one is an attack on all, and leaves it to each member to decide what actions, if any, they will take in response.

This is somewhat similar to how Nicaraguan sign language was developed. Basically, kids at a school for the deaf invented it.

Apartment superintendent. $62k plus free rent and utilities.

Looks like compatibility hacks for various websites.

Interventions - are deeper modifications to make sites compatible. Firefox may modify certain code used on these sites to enforce compatibility. Each compatibility modification links to the bug on Bugzilla@Mozilla; click on the link to look up information about the underlying issue.

User Agent Override - change the user agent of Firefox when connections to certain sites are made.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/UA_Override_&_Interventions_Testing

Ask Robespierre how that works out in the end.

Today, the US is withholding billions of dollars in Afghan assets, cutting off a crucial economic lifeline for the people of Afghanistan.

What assets are they talking about here?

I’m not familiar with the idiom “spitting on the wrong horn.” Here’s the context of the quote:

But weigh this [the evils of liberty] against the oppression of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem [“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery”]. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

I feel like you’re arguing a point I haven’t taken a position on. I’m only saying that arrests like this seem insane to an American sensibility.

The conservatives gave it the power to prosecute people for protesting climate change and made it inadmissible evidence for them to explain the reasons for their protest

But I will say that changing the law like that is also insane to an American sensibility.

It’s less about thinking she shouldn’t be punished for her speech, and more about thinking that the state shouldn’t have the power to punish speech. To quote Thomas Jefferson, “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

It’s not a question of what speech I think should be allowed, but rather a question of what powers I think the state should have.