he was also all geared up to run in 2016, but then his son died. If I recall, Hilary Clinton actually waited for Biden to decide he couldn’t run before she entered the race.

Article says the ceasefire was originally planned for 4 days, so they made the hunger strike coincide with the end of the ceasefire. But then the ceasefire was extended. But they went ahead with hunger strike anyway? Ok…

Is this news current? Isn’t the conflict in like day 3 of ceasefire? Are they still on hunger strike?

It’s obviously an overly legalistic and technical argument that doesn’t speak to the merits. But it’s an appeals case, you have to argue legal errors not factual ones. I’m not a lawyer and have no idea how likely it is to succeed, but I think “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” is best legal practice, so I don’t see how this filing hangs him out to dry. It’s bad optics but I don’t think is gonna matter to anyone.

Did you not read the article?

and that Trump technically did not swear an oath to “support” the Constitution. Instead, during his January 2017 inauguration, Trump swore to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution during his role as president.

You’re talking about the reasoning in the ruling by the district judge. This article is about trump’s argument in filings to the appeals court.

Even if dems win a majority in the house, they may not have a majority of state delegations. the house vote is by state delegation.

For the record, I don’t think safari works this way. Every incognito window has its own session I believe

but the encryption keys are not stored on the 1password cloud systems

1password user data is encrypted, right? so even if a hack had allowed a bad actor access to user pw databases, it’s not like they would’ve just scored everyone’s passwords… right?

We call this pose “the strong arm”

I guess a guy who would block a POTUS’s constitutional task to appoint a SCOTUS justice would not be above doing the same thing to a dem Kentucky governor over a senate seat.

They’ve been planning for this eventuality. The state legislature passed a law requiring the governor to appoint someone of the same party.

Zuckerberg owns %14 percent of the 2.5 billion shares of the trillion dollar company.

Yes, he could retire and live off a slice of the profit for the rest of his life. But that’s nothing. Anyone with a few tens of thousands of shares of a healthy company can do that. That massively understates the scope of his holdings.

Facebook could never turn a profit again. Revenue could fall off a cliff. And Zuck could borrow against the value of his assets to get paid handsomely for the rest of his life.

Heck he could shut down Meta and liquidate the company for pennies on the dollar and still have more money than most people see in 100 lifetimes.

the cheevos, for one

It was a joke, but you appear not to have gotten it. Hence the wooosh sound.

Wooosh

My own experience with advanced degrees is that they can give you a sense of humility. You gain some expert knowledge in one field, yes, but you also get a glimpse of a larger world of knowledge that you did not specialize in. You learn just how much you don’t know.

It seems you had a very different experience with your degree. It gave you the confidence to pull rank to win internet arguments with strangers. If that is the case, then well done.

Of course you don’t need a masters in literature to know the meaning of the word “compel”. Any speaker of the English language knows this. Anyone who’s seen The Exorcist knows this. You pulling out your credentials proves nothing. It’s a non sequitur.

And of course even if the word meant what you claim it meant, it would be irrelevant. You, my friend, are a non sequitur wrapped inside a non sequitur.

US here. Never heard of swot, spod, or neek. So i definitely don’t think those are imports from here.

Isn’t “geek” originally a circus actor term? Like the strongman or bearded lady. The geek is the guy who bites the heads off birds and other gross stuff.

Did French circuses not include an act like that? What do they call him?

Of course even if they do have that act and there is a French word for it, that doesn’t mean that it evolved the same way in French to have the same anti-intellectual meaning

The central claim would be more persuasive if the evidence weren’t just “I typed it into google translate”. That is a very limited way to see what words a language has