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knightly the Sneptaur
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Cake day: July 5th, 2023
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135·1 month agoI’d love for the Dems to start acting like an actual opposition party, but they’re owned by the same billionaires and not much has changed in the ten years since the party took a collective shit on Bernie so Hillary Clinton could have “Her Turn” like it was owed to her.
Vote however you want, but you have to do more than just vote if you want anything to change.
7·2 months agoOnly if you’re using the Chrome extension, maybe. This is just Google trying to kill even the memory of Google Reader by fucking with the biggest competitor to social media in Chrome.
IMO (and IANAL especially not of constitutional law) the executive branch has to prove to the courts that it has a compelling interest to keep such registries and that its need is such that less invasive recordkeeping would not serve that justifiable purpose. E.G., it needs a registry of voters to determine if someone is eligible to vote and in which jurisdiction, because without it the pollworkers would have no way to tell.
Under Strict Scrutiny, laws enabling such registries must be “narrowly tailored” (E.G., voter registration doesn’t need to know how much taxes you pay and your tax record doesn’t need to know which party you’re registered to) and employs the “least restrictive means” necessary to satisfy its compelling interest (E.G., they can’t charge you a fee to update your voter registration and there will always be a free option for filing your tax paperwork).
Keeping lists of trans folks serves no compelling interest, is not narrowly tailored to the interests it supposedly serves, and there isn’t even a civil means of determining whether or not one is on the list (to say nothing of correcting it for the folks that have undoubtedly been added to it in error). As such, it is prima facie unconstitutional.
Even the lowest bar of constitutional scrutiny, “Rational Basis”, would require that the law allowing the list be “rationally related” to a “legitimate goverent interest”, and I can’t think of anything less legitimate or rational than a government’s claimed need to get into everyone’s pants.
4th Amendment, the right against unreasonable searches.
Hell, that feels really familiar. I burned out at work, my AuDHD has been getting worse, and I came out as enby, and then my partners of 20 years decided they didn’t want to live with me anymore…
Faraday cage, but it’s just a dog crate wrapped in aluminum foil.
As usual, shot placement is key. I imagine the navigation sensors are fragile enough that a small air rifle could do enough damage to disable them, but a .22 would definitely do it and maybe even be enough to lock up a knee or shoulder joint.
Seems pretty enforcable to me. Hell, they were even able to compel the U.S. Olympic committee to pay out hundreds of millions when their lead team doctor sexually harassed so many athletes that he’ll be in prison for the rest of his life.
What fact about yourself are you least willing to share with strangers?
If there is no way to tell if that is a reasonable question for me to ask, then by what metric do you decide whether or not to answer it? Does that metric act as a stand-in for “reasonableness” to you, and if so then how do you square it with your earlier insistence that drawing such a line is impossible? If not, why?
Something something “Butlerian Jihad”
Nah, if Youtube blocks adblockers then I’ll just waste my time elsewhere.
2·3 months agoMisread that as “Midwest Counties”.
My egg cracked at 11, but enbys were almost entirely unknown in Texas back then so I masked so hard that I was basically living in denial. My 18yo self wouldn’t need gender validation, it’ll find kindred spirits for that in college, but “Colorado, not California” might push up my transition date by a decade, 'cuz my first attempt to escape Texas didn’t go well.
And no legal firm will waste their reputation on suits like that, so you’re stuck filing individually, spending hundreds of dollars just to waste a few seconds of an intern’s time.
For the amount of money it’d take to make that effective, we could just buy whatever legislation we wanted at the statehouse.
Better to save the time, money, and energy for getting folks out of Kansas and providing support for the ones still stuck there.
The bounty system goes through the civil courts and they can throw out frivolous suits as they please, so trying to gum it up with frivolous suits would be a lot more expensive than the benefits such a tactic would confer.
The bounty system goes through the civil courts, so there’s no efficient way to gum it up with reports. Anything frivolous would get thrown out immediately.
Oh hey, that’s almost exactly the kind of cyberpunk dystopia that I grew up reading fiction about:
Okay, someone please tell me that there is better terminology for this…
“Cyberwitch” and “Technomagic” feel like cyberpunk tropes straight out of Shadowrun and it’s really awkward to try and explain my Practice to normies, non-tech-savy occultists, and the techies that stridently refuse to use their own magical thinking with Intent. XD