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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on my research (watching Justified on FX) they’d sidle up to the executive, say a few pithy lines and draw down on and kill him when he goes for his gun or pen, walk away putting their Stetson back on, then get chewed out by their bosses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah honestly after the first couple I was like, crap I’ve been missing out. You can tell they’re legit because the website looks like forum websites I used to frequent in the early 00s (sounds like a dig, but I swear it’s not, the modern web is damn awful to read most of the time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been finding myself suddenly saving techdirt articles for my reading list day after day, and I guess now I know why. Not to say I wasn’t interested before, but they’ve been providing analysis and commentary lately that has just hit different/ has been scratching a particular itch. Please, keep that train rolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  American culture, partly because of bullshit mythos and partly because of religious like devotion to oligarchic capitalism, selects for low-empathy sociopaths and individual atomization/isolation. My favorite low end example is to observe my fellow citizens driving when I go to the suburbs: you are in their personal story, and you are in their way. City living doesn’t fix all that, but having to live in close proximity to neighbors and get used to compromise helps push a slightly more communal vibe.

  But basically the entire culture is built around a get-yours-first mentality? And more recently an influencer-inflected sort of hyper-real understanding of one’s value and potential. We’re like a national exemplar for the dunning-Kruger effect, or like kids who cheat at online video games swaggering around proud of their “achievements”.

  Seems like we’re in the finding out phase after fucking around though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bought a glass too small for my fridge so I fixed it 3d printing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah ok makes sense. Plus like you said you can always over build the piece, etc. and if it breaks after a few months, you can always reprint it haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bought a glass too small for my fridge so I fixed it 3d printing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the kind of shit that always sells 3d printing to me, when is see someone solve a whacky problem they have that otherwise would be kinda hard to pull off.

  I’m guessing that these days the filaments/resins are getting pretty high durability on the consumer market?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said-I feel the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the real comparison is just: did she get enough votes, in states that Clinton lost, where if those people had all voted for Clinton, then Clinton would have won that state. I don’t know the answer, but even if the numbers did cover the margin, I think saying Stein is therefore a spoiler is problematic for a few reasons:

  1. It ignores the very real number of voters who chose not to vote democratic or vote at all simply because of Clinton as candidate.
  2. it ignores massive mistakes made by a hubristic campaign that couldn’t fathom losing to trump.
  3. it supposes that people that voted green, would have gritted their teeth and instead voted Clinton, which is not a safe assumption.

  Regarding OP’s argument: if Stein is a spoiler, than the libertarians are also spoilers. Since her being a spoiler assumes a majority of her votes would have gone democratic, we can take the same liberty and assume the libertarians would have instead opted for trump. If they had larger vote numbers than the Green Party got, as OP is saying above, then they cancel out greens spoiler-ness, and in fact represent a slight spoiler in favor of the democrats. I don’t really buy this read for the reasons I mentioned above, but OP’s point still kinda stands.

  I’m not personally interested in voting for stein, I’ve heard enough weird stuff about her over the years that I’m not comfortable with her as a candidate. But I don’t buy the constant messaging that “third party votes are wasted votes”. My assumption with people that post these things is that they’re not suggesting it’s OK to not vote. And assumably, they also don’t want you to vote, but vote for the opposition. So it’s just the same old thing: vote the way I want you to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…