Merlin

My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy and I look forward to the preliminary and full reports from the NTSB so we can learn from this loss of life and ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Trump is such a performative shitstain and his populist ilk can fuck right off. To place blame for an accident while bodies are still strapped to seats in the water is abhorrent. The NTSB is amongst the foremost investigative bodies in any domain, full-stop. Let them do their work and they will provide answers. Of course, this becomes more difficult if the sitting POTUS is a self-serving piece of shit that will politicize ANYTHING he can to maintain power.

Yuck 🤮

The consumer GPU market is becoming a dystopia at the top end. AMD has publicly retreated from it and Intel is likely a decade away from competing there. I guess I’ll stay in the midrange moving forward. Fuck Nvidia.

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Altman and his ilk are so full of shit. Even the name of their company is incredibly ironic and insulting.

I empathize. But Roe v Wade was never a super-precedent and while I support abortion, I (and many legal scholars) found flaws in the notion that a fundamental right to privacy is located in the 14th amendment and that that right extends to abortion. This is why I think it was a mistake that Democrats didn’t codify abortion rights when they had the chance in 2008.

EA stopped innovating years ago and became a games monetization shop. You reap what you sow.

It’s mostly elites that think they’re losing elite status–which to them feels like persecution. Additionally, I do think a lot of DEI initiatives at companies are poorly designed.

Even Costco’s shareholders are based. Love it.

I disagree. While I agree that Thomas and Alito are radicalized originalists, the rest of the court is more ambiguous. Roberts is an institutionalist with an incremental approach while Gorsuch favors textualism over originalism and occasionally swings left. Kavanaugh is a textualist with varying degrees of pragmatism on a case-by-case basis. Frankly, I find his jurisprudence to be rather clumsy. But he’s certainly left of Thomas and Alito by a wide margin. Finally, while Barrett favors originalism, she exercises independence from the conservative wing more than any other justice and I have very little concern that she’d entertain such nonsense as this.

I hear you and understand the precedent. But I don’t think it applies here. Yes, our institutions are weakened–but they still stand. This would never be passed into law as an amendment. Thus, they’d need a supreme court willing to engage in such an egregious miscarriage of justice that most would consider it to be treason.

While I find the Robert’s court troubling, I don’t think they’re capable of such a thing.

Let’s hope I’m right.

Absolutely. People talk about another civil war. If you start hearing about spontaneous violence in the streets, that’s when you need to worry. I think if this actually passed, we’d start hearing about stuff like that.

Realistically, Republicans know this has no chance of passing. Frankly, I think this is just mean-spirited trolling–which is a good indicator of the state of our politics. We want to see the other side suffer.

Tremendous respect for this lady. Speaking truth to power–particularly those with authoritarian aims–is vital to the future of our democracy.

This is the result of ever-expanding executive power.