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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

But the court’s six conservative justices all appeared much more skeptical of the district. They attacked it on a variety of grounds, including questioning whether the initial case striking down the map was correctly decided and whether Louisiana was obligated to draw a new map if they believed the courts were wrong.

“What if the Robinson decision were plainly wrong?” justice Samuel Alito asked, referring to the original decision ordering Louisiana to add a second majority-Black district. “Would you still have a good reason to follow it?” Alito later all but said he believed the Robinson decision was wrong.

J Benjamin Aguiñaga, Louisiana’s solicitor general and former Alito clerk, said repeatedly that even though Louisiana believed the court’s original decision was wrong, it still had an obligation to follow court rulings.

Even Republicans on the Supreme Court are getting on board with ignoring rulings you think are wrong. Do these dumbasses understand that they're going to put themselves out of a job?

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The reason why those two new PSUs only have one 8-pin connector is because they both sport two 12V-2x6 sockets instead. The company does offer PSUs with up to three 8-pin and one 16-pin power slots.

The only reason why anyone would want to use two 12V-2x6 cables is to have a PC with two Nvidia graphics cards but given that SLI is dead and long gone on the latest generation of GeForce GPUs, dual setups are purely for AI, to let you do your own training and inference.

I'm not sure about the AI angle. The product pages for the PSUs don't mention AI, and no company is going to make a product for AI and not mention AI.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, because they can afford the legal fees. It will be worst for smaller sites. From the article:

With Section 230, if a website (or a user!) wants to defend its right to keep content up (or take it down), winning such a case typically costs around $100,000. Without those protections, even if you’d ultimately win on First Amendment grounds, you’re looking at about $2 million in legal fees. For Meta or Google, that’s a rounding error. For a small news site or blog, it’s potentially fatal. And this includes users who simply forward an email or retweet something they saw. Section 230 protects them as well, but without it, they’re at the whims of legal threats.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

"Only expert criminals could do as much crime as we assume they've done and not leave any evidence!"

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

Imagine if the Democrats had called for impeachment every time someone in the Fifth Circuit issued a clearly incorrect ruling

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Send real eggs, but "forget" about the travel time so they arrive rotten.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

He's the founder of the paper, obviously they're going to give him special treatment.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 111 points 1 week ago (13 children)

“I just saw some news that Trump took some grants away from Johns Hopkins where my sister works and now my mom is upset,” Watters told guest Ned Ryun, the founder of conservative nonprofit American Majority.

“She’s texting me. It’s going to be a whole family thing, so we’re going to have to deal with that over the weekend,” Watters said.

I can't tell if he's upset about his sister's job or that his mom is going to be bothering the whole family about it.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Their vote made it so that “democrats” have no power in the house, the senate, the office of the presidency, the supreme court, or the dozens of federal agencies that are now being gutted.

Actually, today Senate Republicans needed help from the Democrats to pass a bill to keep the government funded. And 10 Democrats helped them, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

RSS works too. Just add .rss to the end of the old.reddit URL for the sub, e.g. old.reddit.com/subreddit1.rss

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Republicans need at least 7 Democrats to side with them on cloture. Schumer is just going to embarrass himself if he votes for cloture and enough Dems hold out for it to fail.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago (8 children)

We really ought to stop exports of anything their military needs, for national security reasons. "National security" is one of Trump's favorite justifications, so I'm sure he'll understand.

 

There was a time when sneering at international law would not have been a good look for someone aspiring to be Prime Minister of Canada.

But, charting new territory, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre contemptuously called Justin Trudeau “woke” for indicating Canada would abide by a ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — a court that Canada helped establish to punish war criminals.

Poilievre specifically rejects the legitimacy of the ICC charges against Netanyahu, on the specious grounds that Netanyahu was democratically elected.

Poilievre's tweet with an interview clip

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