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The answer isn't something we should accept as an opinion, though. For example, laws prohibit the federal government from (direct) involvement in elections.


I think you are confused. The constitution explicitly grants Congress the right to pass laws regulating federal elections:

  > The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.


Republicans love this, legally speaking we can do nothing.


Legally speaking, the Republicans have been losing in court over and over. That doesn't mitigate the damage they're doing during the lag, and the consequences for breaking the law have never been as strong as they should be when officers of the law and elected officials are the ones breaking the law.

But it is important to acknowledge the wins. They do have an effect, and that's the only path we seem to have toward slowing down the march to autocracy.


I think they're saying to give the benefit of the doubt (ex. maybe it's a glitch), without realizing many of us have no more leeway to give due to the continuing onslaught of criminal behavior from musk/Trump which we'll all have to pay for in the future and is now giving our enemies reason to celebrate.


"Benefit of the doubt" is what some were gaslighted into when Musk threw a Nazi salute.

When you attempt to gaslight the entirety of the planet that hard, you get your "Benefit of the Doubt" card revoked.


If you continue to give Musk the benefit of the doubt, then you are charlie brown running at the football lucy is holding.


>the [nuclear] football lucy was holding [until we axed the whole department of energy]


That's a strange way to spell "criminal".


By all means, challenge the research if you find it offensive. It might get conservatives to sponsor a public works project for once.

Removing the data (particularly when it can be archived and served at zero cost to the government) is the only way you can waste taxpayer dollars in this situation. The research has been paid for, taxpaying Americans should be able to access it.


This is like being hopeful of staying dry in the rain


After ignoring the download links I ejected the floppy, drank some coffee, and read from the notebook. What did you try?


The characters in OP's arrow function have the benefit of being available on a standard keyboard layout. This has proven to be an important syntactic feature, imo.


Haskell uses a single backslash \ in place of λ


A more accurate title, as well.


I can confirm for power toys on Windows, I find it essential for making use of multiple 4k screens.


It's honestly the best of the lot but slept on in these parts because of being Windows only. KDE started to clone this as a native feature but it seems to be abandoned. Story of linux I guess.

I really, really can't recommend PowerToys enough.


I believe the goal is to sell this as a DIY PI 5 project...


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