volkris @volkris@qoto.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
The holdouts say the opposite. Take this statement from Chip Roy, just to grab one of them at random to grab his stance.
He’s calling for discretionary spending at 2022 levels, and the US certainly did spend on more than the military then.
This isn’t about budget victory, though, since this isn’t about the budget.
The budget talks came last year and concluded with the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
All of this is just dealing with the fallout from that mess of a bill.
I disagree.
It sounds to me like your complaint is that the standard simply doesn’t do what you want it to do, doesn’t have the features that you wish it had.
Great! Work on improving the standard. Personally I’m pretty critical of ActivityPub.
But what I’m hearing you describe sounds like exactly a good faith implementation of what the standard is aimed at providing.
ActivityPub doesn’t provide two way communication, and as far as I can tell isn’t supposed to. I would not fault Facebook for implementing that exact same focus.
From what I’ve heard from the holdouts, their concerns tended to focus on spending, not taxes.
The numbers tell others things about the account, though.
Chances are someone who’s being followed by many people has content that’s worth following (circularly :) )
Also, large numbers suggest opportunities to engage with more people through that profile.
It’s been a long time since I read through the history of it in the courts and US regulatory system, but it was sort of the unintended consequence of a collision of individually well-meaning left-leaning positions.
Something like:
(allow detainees to stay to argue for asylum instead of shipping them out immediately) + (make sure children are held in age-appropriate settings) = (separate children while they’re being allowed to stay in detention)
As I recall from the standard, it’s not so much about ambiguities as much as it’s that ActivityPub simply doesn’t have a built in concept of two-way communication.
An actor posts things to an audience. An audience of one is simply a subset of posting in that system. Two-way communication is at most two people making posts with each other as audiences.
ActivityPub is just not really built to be a messaging platform, so it would be in good faith for Facebook to implement it accordingly.
The whole idea of Fediverse is that there won’t be one whole idea of Fediverse :)
I joke, of course, but this platform is built around instances being whatever they want to be, each with the [rather popular] option to exchange content with others, if that contributes to the direction the particular instance wants to go in.
Democrats actively passed laws recognizing student debt, including it in budgets.
That’s what they did.
Student debt cancellation was never legal in the first place.
Congress has been legally relying on those payments for years as part of the budgetary process, leaving the president no legal authority to unilaterally waive it away.
It’s not dead now… it was never alive.
No, not blackmail.
The president is requesting additional power to borrow money, and as per checks and balances, he only gets that power if our representatives agree that it’s for the best for the country.
It has nothing to do with fault. It’s just how the US was designed to work: if generations of Americans are going to be on the hook for paying off that debt, we want to make sure the public is really in agreement with it, through our democratic process.
If the president can’t make his case for more borrowing to the elected Congress, then checks and balances means he can’t borrow on our dime.
Listening to Republicans today debating among themselves over the #DebtCeiling deal, there’s a big problem that the hardliners literally don’t know how federal finances work, and so they vastly overestimate #GOP power in this situation.
If Biden can’t borrow money to pay for programs that the #GOP likes, then he won’t, and their favorite projects will be harmed. This empowers Biden, but they have no idea.
Today’s debate on the right was all about the moderates trying to inform their young colleagues as to the actual rules of the game, to inform strategy, but the hardliners weren’t interested in learning… unsurprisingly.
Just goes to show how important civics education is, especially for those actually in government.
We had a unanimous Supreme Court, composed of justices with approaches that come from many different angles, all agree that the agency was wrong.
In the face of that, what makes you think that the agency, with its own self interests, was right?
Where exactly do you think the Court got it wrong?
Yes, it is unrelated, so we need to call this administration out for trying to distract from its faults with such unrelated things.
Yes, I’d fault politicians of the past for the debts they racked up irresponsibly. But that has nothing to do with the irresponsible actions of THIS administration, that we should hold accountable.
Now this is the administration in power. They must own their actions and not be allowed to fingerpoint at the past to skirt accountability.
Oh, I see! So the TX Senate passed one version, the House took it up and made some changes, including that one, passed it, and the Senate rejected the House amendments, so it’s in conference.
Unfortunately I don’t see a record of any House speeches explaining their changes.
Well, we’d both agree that there are problems with giving the governor’s administration too much power, right? So this legislation doesn’t give them a choice. It directs the Sec. of State to act, regardless of their feelings, which is one safeguard against abuse of power.
It’s part of what looks to me like a reasonable approach with guardrails preventing abuse.
You keep missing that this is a question of law, not a question of my opinion, or the opinion of medical experts, or anything else.
Again, let’s fix the laws.
But until we elect better people, until we stop reelecting bad lawmakers and presidents that don’t have such concern for that health, this is the law of the land, and we’re stuck with it.
But keep in mind that in the US system there is law that takes precedent over each other, to iron out exactly this sort of issue.
Federal regulation is defeated by codified statute which is defeated by constitutional imperative.
So in this case, the last Congress gave statutory permission to spend on programs, but that can’t override constitutional obligation to service debts.
Constitutionally, the president must not default, and he cannot borrow money. Treasury must pay debts, and spending on other programs is second in priority.
It was absolutely not a question about what they deserved. That’s not a question for the Supreme Court to answer.
That’s an answer for the Legislative Branch to grapple with, and the SCOTUS merely respected the conclusion of the US democratic process, whether the particularly class of wetlands deserved protection or not.
The Court said this is not a question it is able to override, once the peoples’ representatives have spoken.
If the law needs to be changed, we need to elect better people to Congress.
volkris
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Yeah, the rumours are true. #Calckey is changing its name.
A change in brand is never easy, but it’s better to do the change now rather than later.
I’ll tell you this, though. The brand will reflect the growth of the project.
What’s currently known as Calckey isn’t merely a Misskey fork anymore.
RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9f701jlpvp
Calckey is not going to be called "Calckey" for much longer, that's all I'll say... 😉
@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk, @spoilertv’s answers confirmed the simplistic way I thought it worked:
Essentially the original instance merely posts a notice with a forwarding address.
At least, so long as the old instance cares to voluntarily maintain the note.
I think it’s very similar to forwarding postal mail arriving for someone who no longer lives there.
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
