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  • Technically, SCOTUS didn’t do anything. They refused to take up the case, which means the 5th Circuit’s ruling, that superseded both lower courts that affirmed it was illegal by saying “we’ll address it next year after the primaries,” was the final say.

    The thing that needs to be made sense of is why the 5th Circuit is allowed to operate in bad-faith as a rubber stamp for everything Conservative.



  • This. All of this. It’s fine if the goal is to let the active communities bubble to the top organically, but that doesn’t mean much if people can’t easily find them.

    It would be nice if there was a way to load-share communities among the instances or something, kind of like a mesh network.










  • Reminder that this isn’t a GOP document, it’s a Heritage Foundation document (right wing extremists).

    They could try to follow it, but the Heritage Foundation ≠ GOP. If anything, the Federalist Society is a far greater threat, since they have tactfully and successfully infected the judiciary, and they don’t even have a public manifesto of this nature.

    This is certainly concerning, but it’s far from guaranteed to be utilized.



  • It all has to do with evaluating flight risk, with his lawyers asserting a reasonable belief to the judge that he’s not one (prosecutors likewise can make their own recommendations). Bail can be denied, but from what I understand from legal podcasts, most cases have release conditions.

    The fact that he skipped town means his lawyer might get in some trouble, but it almost certainly means this guy is royally fucked when they find him. It doesn’t look good to juries when you run away.


  • As far as people with lower-end systems being unable to enjoy newer titles, I’d like to point you to the prolific and endlessly creative indie scene. Yes, you may not be able to play the latest AAA “Skyrim Ultra Remaster DX: Penultimate Boogaloo - GotY Edition,” but there’s lots of gems out there that don’t require the latest GPUs.

    But as for realistic graphics, there’s actually an aspect you may buy be aware of: game companies actually influence the movie industry. Because games not only have to deliver realism but realism in real time, they have to constantly invent new techniques. The movie industry picks up these techniques and makes better movies.

    Plus, IMO, improvements are always welcome. Death Stranding had some of the best mocap I’ve seen in both the movie and videogame industries, and don’t feel those improvements were wasted effort.