Here’s a question for American Lemmy folks.

For those of you without a passport - where is your birth certificate? Does it list your parents’ names? That piece of paper is all that proves you’re a citizen. Lost it? Welcome to being undocumented.

Yeah, not to mention Alito (IIRC) made some concurring option that basically said, don’t fucking try to make everything a class action we’ll be watching for that.

Yes, but with exceptions for class action and for administrative process act (apa) nationwide injunctions.

The idea being, if you’re a member of a class in multiple states, you should be included in the injunction for the class even if (as the majority stupidly concluded) you aren’t the person actually asking for the injunction.

On a side note, the podcast Main Justice does a good job explaining these nuances.

Edit: this doesn’t mean things are solid for the class certification. The government will no doubt appeal (potentially directly to SCOTUS) to say the class definition is too wide/invalid. It’s not normal to just call Roberts up and ask for a hearing without going through the various appellate courts first, but we’re not in normal anymore.

Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income and disabled Americans

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At one point, House speaker Mike Johnson circulated research from the conservative American Enterprise Institute finding that, after sleeping, playing video games was how Medicaid recipients who do not work spend most of their time.

Yes, because heaven forbid the poor and disabled enjoy life a little.

I’ve said this to my very conservative family when they talk about cheaters and welfare queens - I’d gladly give 10 people assistance even if some of them don’t “need” it. If it helps even a majority of the group, it’s worth it.

Edit: And here’s a thought. What would be an acceptable third thing they most spend their time doing?

Listen to that one rep who said we’re all gonna die!

We just need to accept the lord jesus into our hearts so that the hereafter will be assured! Fuck the present earth, it should go through trials like extreme weather, rampant sickness, wars etc - that’s just a sign that the second coming is near!

/s

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If birthright citizenship can be “blocked” by an executive order and now thanks to SCOTUS, there can’t be a national injunction, the next democrat president better fucking executive order gun control and a whole slew of things.

“You cannot have this kind of whiplash,” Etheridge said. “If every four years tax policy changes drastically like this, we are not going to be able to build anything great in this country.”

No shit.if democrats ever get a trifecta again (highly unlikely) they’d better fucking pass actual laws rather than this budget bill crap.

I want to know the special discount - is it a reduction in price or an increase.

For another interesting take on privacy in the future, take a look at Brian K Vaughn’s The Private Eye graphic novel.

In that world, everyone’s privacy was lost “when the cloud burst”, revealing every private kink, writing, messages, etc for everyone including the rich and powerful. The response was a hard turn towards absolute privacy via avatars.

Plus the art style is great.

http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye

Honestly? This is a great, low stakes way of letting him get the feel for the game without feeling like he’s not “helping”.

I’ve been playing Gravity Rush from the PS Vita. I went in blind and have been enjoying it so far. I can’t get motion controls to work, but that hasn’t stopped me yet.

Shit, indeed actually got me a job once, and I’m starting to look again after 8 years.

I’ve been meaning to add his patreon. I have too many as it is and need to call a bit, but I just feel guilty about it.

It’s not like you can learn from it (even if the topic is something you’ll never use like a 2 hour dissertation on heat pumps or a multi-video series on how an old pinball machine uses only relays to calculate scores).

Why yes, I am subscribed to Technology Connections, how could you tell?

mom, Barbie says she can’t connect to the Internet, is the wifi down?

But I’m just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Any day my ship will come in from these scratchers. Am I going to be okay?

/S

I would get multiple drives and do RAID. Here’s a helpful calculator to figure out drive quantity, size, and configuration. The reason to do RAID is redundancy. Hard drives will fail (even NAS branded drives). You do not want your photos, media, etc to be lost in that case. I personally do not go with anything below RAID5 (and for super sensitive things, I’ll even go RAID6 - despite the hit on overall capacity. If the optiplex has drive capacity for multiple drives, I strongly recommend you go this route.

I’m about 43 years old and I literally just bought my first new car this year - and that was with a few years of saving/planning for a sub $30k car. Prior to that, every car was at least a decade old at purchase time, each one driven until they died.

It blows my mind how someone could just walk into a dealer and drop 70k, 80k, or way more on something “just for fun”.

Hey, while we’re spending time rehashing presidencies - how about we have a full blown Senate investigation into Ronnie’s cognitive decline? Surely we can find some evidence there.