volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@ericmacknight Well we keep electing hapless people to Congress, so this is what we get.

Honestly, the story of this moment is one of the people that we have elected and reelected to Congress. Trump is doing things that were authorized by Congress or tolerated by Congress, and that's our fault for electing these idiots.

And the worst part is that they were idiotic, and we looked at their track records and decided, yes, we should re-elect these people.

Trump is just a symptom of our deciding to reelect idiots to Congress, and that story is not appreciated enough.

@light

Hmmm. I actually would disagree with this statement for a very practical reason.

Due process is about giving people the opportunities for defense that the consensus has judged to be right. It's really more about maintaining an orderly system without surprises that serve society, to maintain the perceived legitimacy of the system to avoid the alternative, anarchy and vigilantism.

Due process is for being able to tell other members of society that the right steps have been taken so that other members don't need to get violent on their own.

That's the real danger of the way some people, lately US conservatives, undermine the concept of due process: they are endangering themselves when they don't understand how important it really is to their own safety, and to the communities and society that they value so strongly.

@interfluidity

@light Oh I personally really dislike the abbreviation. There are semantic issues with abbreviating something like that, it either in terms of computer science stuff or in terms of accessibility, the abbreviation is something I avoid.

A it's not exactly a hill I'm willing to die on, but one I'll stick to rather than go against those minor issues.

@byteseu why is that hard to believe?

Neither one is particularly any of your business, so it's kind of dumb to marvel at the fact that you haven't been able to demand them.

@walterolson.bsky.social they didn't fail the test.

Yes, the people we elected to Congress did say that a president can unilaterally invent an emergency. That was a dumb thing in my opinion, but that's what the people we elected decided.

And so it's not a failure on Wednesday. Rather it was successfully supporting a governmental institution that I personally find really stupid, but we elected these people so I guess the larger public is good with it.

It wasn't a failure: it was a successful democracy. Yay democracy.

@anthony instances like qoto forego idiocy of microblogging.

Just pick an instance without the constraints of character limits.

@madbarrister you misunderstand.

They aren't actually taunts against your sovereignty. You misread that situation.

@burnoutqueen I wouldn't say it's particularly ironic, though. It seems pretty consistent with Trump's messaging.

@wobweger Well for what it's worth, and this isn't my perspective really, but for a lot of people context will add a lot to the experience.

Musically it's kind of like saying the melody doesn't really need the percussion that's in the back keeping time, but even a simple percussive beat can add context to the melody.

So for a lot of people these other qualities add more context to the literal scripted frequencies.

@copter_chief various international news sources have reported otherwise.

So I'm pretty skeptical of that claim.

@jk sounds like it will be a judgment on Arch and pacman, not Linux.

I've never been particularly impressed by those.

@servelan It's funny because as an executive branch agency the IRS by definition always takes all of it s direction from presidents.

If this appearance makes a difference in the legal process, then it's just a sign of how broken the legal process has become over the generations.

@ronsparks.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy as soon as you make that grounds on which to expel someone I guess?

@JustTooOdd@lor.sh I'd say you have that a bit backwards.

Much of his job is communications, so he seems to be choosing idioms that communicate more better to the audience in front of him.

If you want to communicate, it's important to meet your audience where they are.

@aworkinglibrary No, not de-skilling. Decosting.

If the skills were free, if skilled workers were free, then employers would be more than happy to employ their skills. So it's not about skills.

It's about using fewer resources to produce for customers, including human resources.

@hoare_spitall: South Carolina, in 1860, it seems :)

@JdeBP @lyndamerry484 @cstross

@cmyrland when you say the posts get published as they should, do you mean they show up on your mastodon feed, just not organized into that particular list?