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John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court
To borrow a phrase from Roberts, the best way to stop criticism that the court is “going beyond the proper role of the judiciary” is for the court to stop going beyond the proper role of the judiciary.
This, right here, is my favorite line of the article.
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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
Yes, the annoyance of the ads is the bigger problem. Give short, non-annoying ads (the solar ones are some of the worst) and I won't work to stop them.
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Exclusive: CNN obtains the tape of Trump's 2021 conversation about classified documents | CNN Politics
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Do we think his staffers were just sucking up to him or are they just as dumb as they sound?
Yes.
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Folks who wear button up shirts: do you start buttoning from the top button or the bottom?
Top, it's easy enough to line up the collar and work your way down, without a mirror.
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Ecuador: ‘dead’ woman who was found alive in her coffin dies in intensive care
I'm not falling for that again!
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An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance
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Super religious circles
anyone would think it was a good idea to integrate it into the legal system
Unfortunately, the venn diagram overlaps in the US pretty considerably, because A wants to force B in a lot of ways.
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Vote "No" on the Special Ballot Measure in Ohio! Final Day to Vote, August 8th!
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Saw some yes up by Olentangy and in Grove City, but neither are surprising.
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Just realized the lie about reddit api pricing
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Sadly, did the same here. I was mindlessly clicking on the relay logo when the blackout was going on when I was bored, so I finally removed it too.
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First poll shows GOP effort to rig Ohio ballot measures failing badly
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And, to boot, the State Supreme Court ruled that the legislature violated Ohio law in setting up said election, but wrung its hands and said "oh well, nothing we can do" a la DeRolph.
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First poll shows GOP effort to rig Ohio ballot measures failing badly
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Then the legislature should have also increased the passage threshold for legislature-initiated proposals to 60%. But they didn't. Because it is all about preventing non-conservative proposals like abortion or marijuana from passing.
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Game trying to break an AI's security with a few levels of difficulty
[spoiler ahead]
Basically, asking it to rot13 the password worked on any level where it wasn't foolish enough to tell me the password by asking how many characters. It didn't offer me level 8.
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Game trying to break an AI's security with a few levels of difficulty
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Yes! Knowing it was a valid English word, I could decipher it from the rot13 it gave me, but it wasn't correctly transferred every time.
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Pokemon is driving me to want a Plex Server.
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Much of piracy is down to ease of access, not cost.
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Biden announces $930 million going into ISP pockets in effort to expand internet access to out-of-touch Americans who can't read this headline
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while the cities enjoy unfettered access to Gigabit speeds and faster
I wish I did. One provider at 500Mbps, one at 50Mbps, and a cellular provider that kind of works at 12-100Mbps. Very much in a suburb/city area. I'd sooner say put the $930M to breaking up the internet provider monopolies.
