AbouBenAdhem @ AbouBenAdhem @lemmy.world

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From the text of the resolution:

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa rejects the decision of Obergefell v. Hodges ; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse the Obergefell decision, and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman...

Does the Supreme Court even have the power to reverse a previous decision without a new case revisiting the issue?

And doesn’t it violate the separation of powers in multiple respects for a state legislature to tell the Supreme Court how to interpret the federal constitution?

100% tariff on indulgences.

In Italian or Latin, it would be “Papa Pizzaballa”.

You can create an AI avatar before your death that will haunt them on your behalf.

Reducing Google’s monopoly on search is at least a marginal improvement in its own right, even if Apple’s search ends up being equally shitty.

“What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.”
― Dan Quayle

That and Magnolia.

Hopefully that just means using AI to find and index existing content, not to fabricate its own results.

One person making all the decisions is a dictatorship, which is distinct from both fascism and monarchy.

Unless we replace the meanings of distinct words with the principle that all bad things are the same thing.

No doubt Proton’s CEO will use this to justify his “Trump is better for regulating big tech” claim, while ignoring that the judge is an Obama appointee.

Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

I mean, they gave the sandwich a name that literally means “a gross or blatant lie”.

While speaking the proper expositional incantations.

Cryptography in movies is more akin to magic than to actual cryptography.

We started cultivating grain about twenty thousand years ago. We can identify stone tools from over three million years ago.

Or—they were different concurrent simulations using overlapping memory locations.

I’m using Wheeler’s version of the MWI, because it currently seems to be the most common one—but I think Wheeler’s version is a misunderstanding of Everett’s. So if that’s what you mean, I agree (although in that case I’d say “the Everettian interpretation” instead of “many worlds theory”).

According to the quantum many-worlds interpretation, such a world would only exist if it could arise due to a random quantum fluctuation at some point in the past history of our own world—which doesn’t seem plausible in this case.

The password to my home server is a salted hash of my primary (memorized) password, so I can recover it from any computer that can run the hash function. From there I can access the rest of my saved passwords, bookmarks, etc.

Someone needs to get Trump talking on camera about making Romania the 52nd state.