volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@dale No it's simple: sometimes closed source software happens to be the most effective for accomplishing the goals of the government.

The goals of the government are generally not to promote open source ecosystems or whatever. The goal is to get some task done for society or for their constituents. And often a closed source package is simply more effective for accomplishing what they need to do for the public.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social I don't know how you expect to get through to conservative supporters if you're not speaking their language, though.

I don't think what you're saying is the position of conservatives, so you're not going to get through to them because they're just going to ignore you, because they will perceive you as talking past them.

It's really easy for a conservative supporter to just say, well that's not my position so....

@mhjohnson The problem is that she is a candidate with a lot of flaws, and another candidate would probably have been more likely to win.

I suspect Obamas were really hoping a different candidate would emerge to challenge her, but when it looked like the dust settled around Harris they decided they better get in on the game.

@MoiraEve@mastodon.world this is a strawman argument, though.

Trump and Vance had nothing to do with the whitepaper, so instead of attacking their actual stances, you're projecting the argument onto them that you want them to be making, and that's not a legitimate way to do things.

Plenty wrong with them. It's better to attack them for what's actually wrong with them, not to attack them for positions that they denounce.

@dalfen Oh he's not quiet about how much of an idiot he is. This is nothing new.

He vomits up whatever nonsense manages to scramble to his frontal lobe, and this might be just the latest chaotic trash making its way out of his head.

@amydiehl The problem is that Harris doesn't exactly represent a break from the patriarchy.

If anything she seems all too eager to promote the same old power bases.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social where do conservatives push for that?

I think you might be misunderstanding their actual positions.

@ecksearoh when you have two pigs wrestling in the mud it doesn't really help to emphasize that either is a pig.

When your opponent is a convicted felon seems to me you should emphasize what you're bringing to the table, not focus on him and let him set the agenda.

@jstatepost The real scandal with JD Vance is that he's not particularly interested in Republican ideas, but the party is too out to lunch to notice.

He's an anti-trumper, and I'm going to be really interested to see how this plays out.

@skykiss

@dictatordave from the testimony it sounds like he didn't fly the drone in a secured location. Seems like the director went out of his way to make it clear that the drone was flown off to the side.

The rest of it, sounds like he just wasn't a very good marksman. He borrowed someone else's gun, right? Didn't even have that.

@Draven @greenzeta

@tristansnell I mean, not legally falsehoods. Just a reflection of whatever sources one chooses to believe.

@jennifer we all need to keep in mind, that's kind of his job.

His job is to push for things like regulation of encryption in support of his role in government.

Our job is to recognize that those are his incentives and to push back against him specifically because our incentives run opposite.

It's a continuous and never-ending negotiation. He comes to the table saying they would like to crack down on encrypted communication. We should counter with, hey that's funny how you were able to break into his phone, how about we crack down on that?

This back and forth is just the way it's supposed to work.

@BalooUriza The process of appointing a Supreme Court Justice does not involve a president appointing a person and then demanding legislation authorizing it.

That's just not how the US process works.

I read what you wrote, and it just sounds like you don't know how US Supreme Court justices are appointed. I don't know who may have told you something wrong, but that's not the procedure.

Presidents do not have the authority that you seem to think they do, and it's for very important reasons that they don't have such authority.

We intentionally limit the authority of presidents because we don't want any single person to have that amount of power.

@BalooUriza oh I read it.

It just sounds like you're not up to speed on the process for putting justices on the Supreme Court.

That's not how it works, and presidents don't have the authority to ignore the legal procedure surrounding it.

@WhiteCatTamer well right, and here a key part of professionalism is compliance with the organization, not heading out alone in some sort of personal rebellion.

These employees are bound by professional standards to do what's asked of them by their organization, headed by Biden.

@JamesGleick

@climatebrad if this is the correct order, then the footnote on page 4 specifically refutes the idea that this follows the Supreme Court ruling.

Rather, it's the 5th Circuit ruling that government officials can't operate outside of the system of checks and balances.

NLRB simply has to make sure there's oversight of their officials.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/albright-spacex-nlrb-order.pdf

@mhjohnson I mean, they're not coups, though.

That's just how the US government is set up to work based on voters' votes.

If we vote for this chaos, then we get this chaos.

No coup, just the people getting the awful that they voted for, and they should probably stop voting for such

@crumbs even more incentive to release such damaging information to make sure he doesn't win!

@JamesGleick

@Yoshi contrary to so many sensational reports, that's the opposite of what the SCOTUS said.

In their ruling SCOTUS went out of their way to say presidents must act within the law or that they're subject to prosecution should they violate their authority. They took the time to lay that out.

So no, SCOTUS explicitly said that presidents don't have total immunity. That so many have reported that backwards is unfortunate.

@rbreich

@BalooUriza presidents don't have authority to make such moves unilaterally.