volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@raymondpert

Well right.

SCOTUS did NOT order the creation of a second majority black district, despite reports wrongly saying otherwise.

It laid out the conditions for meeting the Voting Rights Act, and the quote in the article pretty well reflects what the Court said: it has to be left up to the voters, and not gerrymandered for a particular result.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1086_1co6.pdf

@JamesGleick

Yep. And this sort of sensationalized reporting is why so many have lost so much respect for outfits like the NY Times.

They get clicks yelling and going right up to the line of "dictator" and they get their clicks, but the public ends up mislead as the article doesn't have all that much meat to it.

@CGM

I think if you listen to conservatives, conservatives make it clear that that's not what they're talking about.

In my experience, the extremely common meaning of "deep state" among conservatives is the civil service, the career employees of the federal government that they have disagreements with.

Of course, half the time the conservative using the word will be so uninformed about how the government functions that they won't know WHO they have an issue with, just that it's someone in there.

@JamesGleick

@strypey

Well, I've always thought far too few tech type people are familiar with some of the applications of cryptography, PKI and all of that.

If more knew about it we'd have widespread use of pgp, web of trust, and many other techniques with very practical benefit.

And of course I'm referring to technical people knowing about the crypto stuff. Much of it is legitimately technical, so I wouldn't fault common users for not knowing about all of this magic inside their applications :)

But yeah, someone who's not familiar with it could be excused for seeing those dichotomies/binaries. Without such solutions, the problems are real.

@dansup

@lydiaconwell

Welcome to the platform that spurns the algorithms that brought them more of a variety of posts :)

There are some upsides for users for good algorithms.

@persagen

I think they're confusing a want for absolute power with the simple fact that there are separation of powers concerns to protect judicial independence in the federal government.

Yes, SCOTUS gets to police itself, because despite the downsides of that idea, it's better than letting the other branches order around the head of the Judicial Branch.

@edgeoforever

I think it's more that he's a completely empty-headed idiot who doesn't know anything until someone else tells him what to think, **and that point really should have been emphasized all along**.

People attacking Trump for his beliefs, instead of for not having any, just enamored him to his supporters, many of whom respect the guy for having a spine.

Sadly, so many of his critics bought into the story that he had these strong stances, therefore supporting the myth that got him elected.

@SteveThompson

If they received such poor college education that they'd fall for the line that SCOTUS is to blame for the lack of loan forgiveness, that's just a reflection of failure at the high school level.

And maybe colleges really need to tighten their standards so that students don't waste so much money on educations that they're sadly unprepared for.

@corbden

Yeah, that's definitely a concern, and I'm glad we did develop stylesheets to address it.

(Setting aside issues of how *well* the stylesheets actually worked in the real world, that is.)

Still, this gets into the different schools of thought as to whether it's more important to convey the author's intent or to give the viewer what they want.

It's a debate with arguments on both sides, but yep, br is the tool for the author's intent and p is the tool to empower the reader.

And of course this actually ends up mattering more than just superficially when accessibility and screen readers come up.

@benbrown

@corbden

Ha! No! I am [jokingly] horrified by this comment!

So jokes aside, I'd say p and br have very important differences:

p is a semantic label, saying this is a paragraph. Render (or read or anything) it as you think best.

br is a command to insert a line break, saying nothing about why it's in there or what the content is.

Each has its place, and (as I recall) p is especially powerful because with stylesheets you can both say what you've written AND order it to be spaced the way you want.

@benbrown

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Honestly, if that's the case it says more about the state of journalism than anything else, if journalists have such weak perspectives of the world that they can be so shaped by social networks.

At that point every single article you read is probably not giving you an accurate view on the world.

@e_urq

@tcely

It's worth highlighting how much outright misbehavior there's been in the nuclear regulatory space for decades now, up to the point of courts calling out illegality and regulators just ignoring the rulings.

And the misbehavior seems to all fall on the anti-nuclear side of things.

So this isn't merely a case of political disagreement or development of public policy. Once laws are so ignored it becomes a case of outright corruption.

@Angelica

@bespacific

I'd say you're leaving out the most important branch of government.

We need new laws passed to reform the laws around tax deductions, but we keep electing and then reelecting the same congresspeople who fail to do it.

@swest6602

The article is confusing a few different things and in the course misunderstanding the structure of the US government.

For example, you really can't talk about independent agencies in the same way as normal executive branch agencies. One is under presidential control and the other isn't, by definition.

But the big thing I'd respond with is this: the reason the US has a president in charge of the executive branch is because then he can be held to account for executive branch functioning.

If the president wants to fully own the DOJ, then great! He will personally stand for impeachment should the DOJ misbehave.

That's the trade.

@ikantolol

Perhaps that's what you get without defederation :)

But I say that with my eternal emphasis that each user should be empowered to shape their own experience here, as much as practical, even if that includes an experience that some of us might view as cesspoolish.

@BenJammin @Double_A

@nicol

The big issue I'd see is that the skillset needed to operate a site like Tumblr might not be very front and center in that group of superusers.

From technical through organizational skill, it sounds like a job one can't really do as a side project, and I'd worry that users wold focus on their personal goals for the site without having the abilities to actually implement those goals.

@darnell

@drrjv

The important thing here is not what some rich guy did or what Thomas did, but rather was a law actually broken, and if not, let's elect the people who are willing to fix the law.

And stop reelecting those who aren't.

We need to not get distracted by the drama and instead reform laws that need reform.

@ProPublica

@bigheadtales

I mean yes, if you really want to look at it that way, a government is a grand conspiracy. And a government with a constitutional basis has the details of the conspiracy written right there in public.

Police are prevented from doing something about it? Police are part of the government!