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AirBreather@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?111·5 months agoFOSTA-SESTA is at the heart of it, as I understand. I don’t want to elaborate much more because I don’t know nearly enough about the situation, but adding this search term helped make it make a little bit of sense to me.
Edit: not that I’m lumping these different ideas together, but that the prudish folks could theoretically use this legal framework to throw allegations that Visa/MasterCard would rather not have to defend against.
Combining the suggestions from 1 and 3 is where things fall apart for me. If the statute does not specify what objective standards must be met in order for someone to be eligible to vote, then the ruling party gets to decide on their own.
Maybe the next updates to the standardized test just “accidentally” favor the ruling party.
Some questions to challenge your proposal:
- What test, specifically, do we implement to tell whether or not someone “know[s] the most basic of facts”?
- How do we make sure that this test is kept up-to-date as information changes?
- Who administers this test?
- When is the test administered?
No matter how I try to answer these questions in a way that’s consistent with reality, all my ideas dead-end at outcomes that suck and only get worse over time.
AirBreather@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?9·10 months agoFeels like there ought to be a term… it’s kind of a mix between “vicious circle”, “feedback loop”, and “echo chamber”.
AirBreather@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Explain why the US bail system is not insane93·11 months agoThe 8th amendment has a clause that disallows “excessive bail”. In Stack v. Boyle, the Supreme Court found this to mean “that a defendant’s bail cannot be set higher than an amount that is reasonably likely to ensure the defendant’s presence at the trial.” So it follows that IN THEORY, bail is SUPPOSED to be set at an amount that is consistent with the defendant’s financial resources (including, it would also follow, increasing the amount for more wealthy people to ensure that it has the same proportionate effect on the defendant’s decision-making process).
Of course, that rule is just a bunch of meaningless words if nobody enforces it… and guess what, the main way to enforce this is by bringing a suit against the government alleging that they violated the rule. So IN PRACTICE (speculation warning here, I’m just some guy), I would imagine that they just set bail schedules at a level where anyone who can afford to pay won’t be able to win an “excessive bail” lawsuit, and anyone who can’t afford to pay it will also probably not be able to afford the cost of that lawsuit.
And something tells me that we aren’t likely to see a wealthy person suing the government for not setting bail high enough for them.
AirBreather@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The LLM (Mistral) randomly started speaking spanishEnglish5·1 year agoTheir main site – not generated by the LLM – has buttons for “Try le Chat” and “Build on la Platforme” even though I’ve got the British flag selected for language.
That’s because “le Chat” and “la Plateforme” are their language-neutral marketing names for their products.
Sort of like how “GM” is still the name of the car company in like France even though it stands for “General Motors” which is an English term.
AirBreather@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•GNU Nano gains optional modern keybindings – OSnews5·1 year agoThere are now 15 standards
No, there is and always has been just the one standard text editor.
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