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  • Congrats on yer schooling. Woulda never guessed.

  • Seems like your style of humor

  • These tumblrs just reply by repeating the same joke almost verbatim. Four times. Shades of r/yourjokebutworse

  • According to wikipedia, the Georgia general assembly already met from Jan 9th to March 29th of this year, and cannot meet for more than 40 days in a year per the state constitution. I'm assuming it must have a clause granting the governor the power to exempt the legislature from that time limit for a special session, or else this whole request is unconstitutional. But I didn't find anything on wikipedia saying so.

    edit: I found it. Article V, section II, paragraph VII:

    Special sessions of the General Assembly. (a) The Governor may convene the General Assembly in special session by proclamation which may be amended by the Governor prior to the convening of the special session or amended by the Governor with the approval of three-fifths of the members of each house after the special session has convened; but no laws shall be enacted at any such special session except those which relate to the purposes stated in the proclamation or in any amendment thereto.

    (b) The Governor shall convene the General Assembly in special session for all purposes whenever three-fifths of the members to which each house is entitled certify to the Governor in writing, with a copy to the Secretary of State, that in their opinion an emergency exists in the affairs of the state. The General Assembly may convene itself if, after receiving such certification, the Governor fails to do so within three days, excluding Sundays.

    (c) Special sessions of the General Assembly shall be limited to a period of 40 days unless extended by three-fifths' vote of each house and approved by the Governor or unless at the expiration of such period an impeachment trial of some officer of state government

    is pending, in which event the House shall adjourn and the Senate shall remain in session until such trial is completed.

  • how does this letter compel the governor to act?

    Edit: i checked the georgia constitution. If 3/5ths of the legislature certify a letter about a state of emergency, then the governor is compelled to call a special session. and if he doesn't after three days, the legislature may convene itself.

    the republican caucus has a 3/5ths majority in neither the senate nor the house, so even if every republican legislator signed (doubtful), this would not compel the governor to act.

  • I hate news stories that are just “someone tweeted”. The journalist who wrote this did nothing beyond add some trump quotes.

    What response, if any, has Kemp made? Are other legislators on board? What are the rules governing how the legislature may review or impeach the acts of a county prosecutor? When does the legislature convene if there’s no special session? What are the rules for special sessions if there is one? Didn’t the legislature recently pass a law giving themselves expanded powers over prosecutorial discretion? Does that apply here?

    Is this just a publicity stunt by some no name state legislator posted on their Twitter, or is this a serious move? If it’s the former, we needn’t have wasted our electrons.

  • Sadly true. As a nose cutter I will say that I have found the transition from Twitter to mastodon far more painless than Reddit to lemmy

  • If you host a lemmy with copyrighted materials puts your house at risk? Come on bro get some perspective

  • can you recommend a good instance with a no defederation policy?

  • It shows that Unix’s implementation of echo uses 10 lines of code, other nixen use 60 to 100, and gnu uses 250. The implication being, I suppose, that GNU has such a high line of code count because it’s very verbose or padded

  • What is fetching

  • I thought it had to do with communities

  • So how does a brand that is owned by LCG acquire another studio?

  • What does it mean “fetching communities on my home instance”?

  • Telltale games? Didn’t they go out of business years ago and liquidate?

  • I would guess he needed to see the drafts folder. It was reported that he went through several versions of the call to stand down on J6 before committing to what he sent, and some of them were more approving than others.

  • Bro it was just a chance to improve your grammar. It was offered in good faith. If you don’t want it that’s of course your prerogative. But there’s no need for rudeness and hostility.

    Of course in going that route you’ve demonstrated an aspect of lemmy that may be an answer to your question.

  • I would like to invite you to increase your mastery of the English language by learning about all the tenses. With a judicious choice, (I would recommend a pluperfect progressive), you can avoid writing confusing and self-contradictory things like:

    Lemmy’s number of active users has been decreasing for the last month. […] the number has been on an upward trend for the last 6 months

  • Also pls pay your cat tax. I need a photo of this allegedly “annoying” kitty