Two people tried to use it against Trump, so far.

[obi-wan.jpg] “Of course I blame him; he’s me!”

Some of those systems are still around. For example, Roosevelt Island in NYC has a pneumatic trash collection system. Apparently it’s the only part of NYC that doesn’t have trash piling up on the streets/sidewalks all the time.

a hedge AND a fence

Cordless power tools are really good these days.

short(-ish) term

That’s optimistic.

Republicans believe they can flout the law with impunity. Democrats refuse to teach the lesson that destroying the Rule of Law harms the Republicans too, by treating them as the literal outlaws they are.

I have a Costco membership. I don’t buy things like this or frozen vegetables there because they cost more per unit than they do at Kroger (let alone Lidl or Aldi).

No, that comment was just the last straw.

Perhaps you should define “blue maga”

Weird, dishonest fanboyism for liberal politicians.

The only MAGAs in this thread are the “Blue MAGAs” trying to gaslight us into thinking that merely administering the existing law is some heroic act and not a goddamn baseline expectation.

And that’s saying a lot, because I fucking hate the “Blue MAGA” accusations. I’ve always considered it dishonest ‘both-sides’-ism, not a real thing.

But nope! This thread, right now, has finally proven to me that it is indeed real. You have managed to sink to that level. So congratulations, I guess, for extinguishing the last shred of faith I had in liberals. That’s what your bad faith bullshit has accomplished. I hope you’re happy.

The fact that you’re not refuting me makes me know you know I’m correct.

He “focused” on fuck-all because this is not an expansion! No expansion happened. The claim that anything was expanded is a LIE.

The debt always supposed to have been forgiven under policy that has existed for more than a decade. Biden did his job and nothing else. It’s only notable because his predecessor didn’t.

How much clearer do we have to make it? Why are you liberal apologists acting like MAGAs?

These programs exist but bureaucratic hurdles prevented people from actually having their loans forgiven.

Biden bypassed all that and just forgave the loans.

Biden didn’t to jack shit except to undo Betsy DeVos’s sabotage and administer the program in good faith. That’s not heroic; that’s the basic expectation of the job. It only looks heroic in comparison to the previous active sabotage.

Unless these programs that existed before trump are suddenly stopped when he didmt stop them last time

He did stop them last time, though. Or rather, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos did. I mean, obviously they didn’t officially cancel the program/change the policy, but they definitely did do everything they could to illegally obstruct the process.

That still doesn’t mean Biden deserves to be fellated for (checks notes) merely ceasing to obstruct, though.

ITT: liberal apologists getting BIG MAD that the rest of us aren’t buying their spin trying to give credit to Biden for merely enforcing the existing law.

From the article:

The 150,000 new beneficiaries announced Monday include more than 80,000 borrowers who were cheated or defrauded by their schools, over 60,000 borrowers with total and permanent disabilities and more than 6,000 public service workers, Biden said in the release.

These are all loans that were ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN under existing law.

Again, it all depends on intent. You can try to just “happen” to “inadvertently” create a benchy lookalike, but your success depends on whether you can bullshit the judge into believing that, not the actual degree of similarity.

That’s not how copyright works. Copyright is a legal concept, not a technological or physical one. If the intent was to be inspired by a 3DBenchy and it’s not “transformative” (as in, into a different medium from a 3D model entirely), it’s infringing. It doesn’t matter how many vertices in the mesh are different if the person making it started with a 3DBenchy in mind.

At best, if your intent is to mock the original, you try to argue that it’s parody and thus fair use, but it would still very definitely be a derivative work regardless. Any further downstream modifications would thus also be assumed to be infringing the copyright of the original unless they were (successfully) claimed to be parody too.

Shutting Off X’s Algorithm

Hey EU, that’s not how any of this works. First of all, you do not have any control over that – even if you demand it be done, there’s no way to verify compliance. Second, there’s always an “algorithm.” There can’t not be an “algorithm;” that would mean it would display nothing at all. Even the choice to just display tweets chronologically is still a choice, and implemented in the form of an “algorithm.”

What you do have the power to do – and what you should do – is simply just straight-up block X entirely.