volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@TMRuppert I think you're confusing honoring with recognizing.

So very often, we recognize people for both their positives and their negatives as a way of expressing that we all need to do better.

That's what I hear from these discussions.
@forpeterssake

@realcaseyrollins nobody wants to not hear back for three days, but I'd rather that than be limited to only those who happen to be on their phones right as I message them.

Yes, I want it now, but also, for a quality match I'm willing to have patience, AND on the other hand, I would want a partner to have that patience as well.

So yeah, like I said, provide an indicator about how many people a person has messaged.

If I can see that someone has messaged a ton of people one night, then chances are higher that they'll ghost if I bother responding.

@Free_Press you have it backwards.

The Title IX regulations Biden has proposed would threaten due process for LGBTQ students as well, so restoring those rights would be a good idea.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Even the idiot that Trump is occasionally stumbles into the right answer.

@mcnado Indeed!

It IS a choice to make a more considered understanding of a situation that might be important, for example, one where children are dying.

Or, you know, if that's not so important we can just stick to the vapid slogans. Whichever.

Personally, I think that's important enough to think more deeply, but you do you.

@Geoffberner

... every politician has been voted in.

Every one of these representatives has been chosen by vote, and most have been re-empowered by vote after their previous actions.

We could vote for different people. We could vote for change. We will when we want it.

Or we'll keep voting for the status quo.

Yes, voting is the driving force behind political change. And it's the driving force behind maintaining the same old.

We get the representatives we elect and that we re-elect, rewarding the lack of change.

They're our votes to use as we wish.

@Incognitim you're comparing apples and oranges, though.

As I said above, different cases have different levels of complexity and different contexts.

It sounds like you're so focused on outcome that you're completely overlooking how the system actually works.

@sj_zero but in the end, no matter how or why a representative votes the way he might, his voters that probably reelected him are affirming that yes, he did right, he deserves to go back and keep doing what he's doing.

We must not get lost in the drama to the point that we forget that we vote for our reps. We empower whatever it is they're doing.

@Rasta @Free_Press

@realcaseyrollins I'd worry that those rules would basically penalize folks who are too busy in life to be constantly on dating apps, which might be exactly the sorts of people you'd want to bring to your app.

I've thought about such things in the past, and I've forgotten my conclusions, but I did think it would be useful to show something like the number of people a person has attempted to contact.

If I know I'm one in three that the person tried to contact in the last month, I'm going to give that much more attention than knowing I'm one in five hundred.

Plus, this would disincentive blanket harassment.

I would always leave it up to the user, though.

@theguardian_us_environment twist: presidents don't have authority to do that, so the payments would have been for nothing.

@mcnado ah, you see, you've already shown that there's more to the story, just in your quote.

@Rasta

Well, I'd grind my own ax some more here :)

The job of Congress is for 530+ individual members to show up and represent concerns of their own voters and build compromise and consensus about what the US government should be doing, whatever concerns those may be.

BUT all too often people are ignoring their own representatives and voting for people who are doing the opposite of what they'd have them do.

Whether voters want their congressperson to be talking about infrastructure or books, well it's up to them, but they need to make sure their empowered person is doing what they want.

The job of Congress is to represent the concerns of the country, whether those are my concerns or your concerns or not.

@Free_Press

@sj_zero copyright isn't a very solid basis on which to make a practical claim of ownership since not only is it extremely limited by different and complicated legal jurisdictions, but those limitations tend to be pretty significant anyway.

In other words, practically, copyright as ownership is a very weak claim.

That's why restrictions laid out in TOS are so important, if they're important to you.

And it's why ActivityPub/Fediverse if anything undermines those ownership claims.

@drahardja

@sj_zero on the other hand, since you're handing them content willingly, without a TOS specifying that you retain rights to the content, therefore they're free to use what you handed them.

TOS can restrict them. Without a TOS, they're free of that restriction.

Don't hand anyone content without restriction in the transaction if you want restrictions on the transaction.

@drahardja

@mcnado wow, way to ignore context.

@ilust606 I know that's common framing, but I don't think it's the best way to describe what goes on in the House.

It's not that Democrats propped up Johnson, but that the House as a whole decided not to change their Speaker.

We need to be emphasizing that the Speaker of the House is not a party position. They represent the whole House, including the minority party, so this was the entire House rejecting the nutjob this time.

Sure would have been nice had the Democrats not supported the nutjobs last time. We probably wouldn't have gotten back to this point.

@TeamMidwest that sounds like two potentially independent ideas, though: could it be that the seeds of war aren't so firmly in language but the seeds of peace are?

For example, war over control over a piece of territory might not have much to do with language, but language might indeed help find a peaceful resolution to the dispute?

@drahardja bad news: any content you submit into Fediverse is basically broadcast into the datastores of any corporations that want to use it.

ActivityPub actually makes it harder to own data. It's very much a public broadcast medium.

@Godfrey642 Trump has been fined.

@Edelruth

Oh, no, that's not quite the argument. Both sides in the case were explicit that not everything the president does after swearing in counts as an official act to be covered under this question.

The issue brought to the Supreme Court is a lower court claiming that a former president can be prosecuted even for official acts that were perfectly legal at the time.

So as often happens, SCOTUS is sitting as a court of appeals, really judging the lower court, not the underlying case.

Nothing in this case would excuse a president from abiding by their oath of office. Anything they'd do outside of their oath would not be immune from prosecution.
@hopefulhumanizer @Nonya_Bidniss