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I was hoping to see that actual names of the 'friends' of the court so that I could see their relationships with individual court justices (particularly to see if they are among the 'friends' who've gifted lavish gifts upon any of the justices). It's disgusting that having to do this research is even a thing - most of the current justices haven't been impartial in decades (some of them never).
Edit: I finally read the full text of the article. For anyone who guessed that Justice Clarence Thomas received a series of lavish undisclosed and unreported gifts from one of the real estate moguls involved in this, YOU WERE CORRECT! Just another case of some rich people attempting to purchase judgments from the supreme court and getting away with it.
Instance: a Lemmy server with its collection of local users and local communities
Federation: allowing users of one instance the ability to participate and interact with the content and users of another instance
Defederation: "blocking" an entire instance and its users from participating and interacting with the content and users of another instance.
Every instance maintains a publicly visible "instances" list where you can see which instances are allowed/federated (listed as "Linked Instances" and which other instances are disallowed/defederated (listed as "Blocked Instances". That list is always at the same predictable URL for every instance ( https://[instance]/instances ). For Lemmy.World, that list would be at https://lemmy.world/instances.
Instances operators also have the ability to surgically block specific users or specific communities from other instances. This doesn't mean they have 'defederated', it just means they have blocked a specific use or instance. These are considered moderation activities and show up in an instance's moderation log (also called the "modlog"). Every instance's modlog is public and visible at the predictable URL of https://[instance]/modlog. For Lemmy.World, the modlog would be at https://lemmy.world/modlog. The modlog has a "filter by action" dropdown making it easy to find certain types of moderation activities. If you search the modlog for "removing communities" you can see the communities that an instance has removed or blocked.
In the case of the piracy communities, they were removed from Lemmy.world, but federation still exists between Lemmy.world and the other instances where those blocked communities still exist.
You specifically cite the example of piracy going away as a reason for wanting to compare instance's defederations, but that activity had nothing to do with defederation. Lemmy.world is still federated with the instances that hosted the piracy communities.
If it's too hard to disclose those costs up front, then how in TF are they able to figure it out down to the last cent on the first and subsequent bills?
Demonstrating that they have the ability to do it is not a very good argument for claiming it's too hard.
There is significant evidence that a lot of these false electors it seems across the country were aware that Trump had definitely lost, that his litigation attempts were bogus, and that this was really being used as part of an effort, an illegal effort, to overturn the election
I expect some of them, rather than face charges themselves, are agreeing to cooperate with investigators....which means we should eventually learn all about their involvement.
It was actually leaked and discussed over a month ago that Georgia was considering RICO charges in their indictment and it caused a LOT of argument here and elsewhere. There was a link to an armchair lawyer’s multi-thousand word rant that Georgia couldn’t possibly be considering using RICO. I have desperately tried to find that thread and that link.
It was actually leaked and discussed over a month ago that Georgia was considering RICO charges in their indictment and it caused a LOT of argument here and elsewhere. There was a link to an armchair lawyer's multi-thousand word rant that Georgia couldn't possibly be considering using RICO. I have desperately tried to find that thread and that link.
He knew it was illegal and he did it anyway. Story of his life.
I love the fact that now there's proof he knew it was illegal. This eliminates playing the ignorance-card (which shouldn't have, but still has gotten him off the hook so many times in the past) and also eliminates the 'advice of counsel' defense (because if counsel advises you that something is illegal and then also helps you plan and do it anyway, you're both guilty).
The people who have to fight the battles are the people who ultimately should have the responsibility and the privilege of picking those battles, no?
Everything you said may be true, but it's not you that would be responsible for fighting their battles is it?
They may be completely wrong...and they may be putting themselves in a more legally dubious position...but it is their battle to fight if it comes to that...so the ONLY people who should have a say in what battles they pick to fight are them, not you, not me.
Most rational people choose to limit their exposure to liability before it happens rather than increase their exposure to liability and wait around to later have to defend themselves.
Are you suggesting the proper course is to maximize your exposure to liability and then be forced to defend yourself later?
This is nothing more than theater to keep his willfully ignorant base engaged, donating, and committed to voting for him even if he's in prison.
If he had such a report, he'd have published it long ago. So that means it doesn't exist yet. If he does produce anything, it will be unfinished and unintelligible.
Lemmy.world users no longer see it in all/community search results, and if trying to navigate to the Lemmy.world url for the community specifically (like this: https://lemmy.world/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) they just get an error.
So the only way they would discover that communities are blocked is if they absolutely know the community actually exists by visiting the foreign instance.
The only other way I've discovered you can see what communities an instance has blocked is by parsing through the public modlog.
So while you are technically correct that you can publicly see who is blocking who by looking at their instance list, your answer isn't relevant to the question of blocked communities where there hasn't been total instance-blocking.
As far as I can tell, there is no way to see an instance's blocked communities except by reading/searching their modlog.
I still have a LaserJet 4000N in service (circa 1997 - same era as the 5L) and it's a workhorse that never dies. Once upon a time, HP did take pride in their products. Even then, though, their toner cartridges were abusively overpriced - they just hadn't yet figured out how to prevent 3rd party competition.
I know what discord is - because I use it daily. But what is discord.io? The article doesn't really say what the relationship between discord.io and discord is, but they are using the official Discord logo and official Discord name in the article photo. What is discord.io and what's the use case for using it?
He needs to be grounded, like the child that he is. This judge needs to take away his toys and put him in a corner for some quiet time. Amount of time doubles every time he re-commits the same infraction later.
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Thanks! That was super-helpful!