cmac

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[–] cmac@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

It's not illegal, but most government employees work for the executive branch, so you can theoretically be fired for not obeying the chief executive (president). Just like someone at a company can be fired for disobeying the CEO, unless there is actually a law protecting the specific behavior.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

How did Trump support the name change in a 2024 executive order if he wasn't president during any of 2024? I don't remember Biden signing that order for him.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's always inheritance tax, and splitting the fortune with siblings. Eventually someone down the line would only be getting $999 million.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not a link to a sponsor. It's a YouTube info page about what it means for a video to have the "Contains sponsorship" tag.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"...except as a punishment for crime" -13th amendment

Maybe "former" slave plantation isn't an accurate description.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Since they're rendered to look like spheres are the numbers proportional to the area of the circle, or the volume of the sphere?

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That looks abismol.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 83 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Those aren't even real people. Those "usernames" are the names of custom emojis you can use in Twitch chat. Still weird in context, but I can see how it would be even more creepy if you didn't know that.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

Or they try to refill prescriptions that aren't supposed to be. I got a call from them saying they had contacted my doctor and she wouldn't let them refill my short term antibiotics, so I should call and fix that so they can give me more that I don't need.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Hate speech in the United States

In a Supreme Court case on the issue, Matal v. Tam (2017), the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no "hate speech" exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the U.S. government may not discriminate against speech on the basis of the speaker's viewpoint.

It's not a crime on its own in the US, but if it incites imminent lawless action that can be a crime.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

The cars already have decent GPUs to process the camera data for driving assistance features, so someone at the company probably just thought it would be neat to do something with that computing power when it's not being used for driving.

[–] cmac@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At least one of those lines goes back on itself at some point, so my assumption is that it's tracking where each country has been over time.

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