I felt like I must have misread the ruling after seeing all of the articles and comments.

Former presidents also have a “presumption of immunity” for their official acts while in office — but, the court ruled, there is no immunity for “unofficial acts.”

So chutkin is going to decide what acts were official acts and which were unofficial.

But “presumption of immunity” is a weird fucking phrase too because it makes it seem like you can prove they aren’t immune? Like presumption of innocence–you start there and work the other way. So presumably(pardon the pun) you can start there with this and work the other way still?

I’d need actual lawyers to make this make sense.

But either way it didn’t seem as “carte Blanche presidents can do anything” to me when I read it.

Federal ethics guidelines are $20 of value and it can’t be a cash equivalent (gift card).

These clowns are so out of touch.

This comment chain made me chuckle. It’s such an “internet comment section” …trope? I don’t know the right word.

I know.

My response was to the previous comment.

In a non Tesla, if someone is locked in a car, what happens? There isn’t some secret “let me in” button. You just break a window. This is a dumb story.

Then break the fucking window if it’s an actual emergency.

Why did you get kicked out?

It highlighted some pretty glaring weaknesses in OSS as well. Over worked maintainers, unvetted contributers, etc etc.

The XZ thing seems like we got “lucky” more than anything. But that type of attack may have been successful already or in progress elsewhere. It’s not like people are auditing every line of every open source tool/library. It takes really talented devs and researchers to truly audit code.

I mean, I certainly couldn’t do it for anything semi advanced, super clever, or obfuscated the way the XZ thing was.

But I agree, that the fact we could audit it at all is a plus. The flip side is: an unvetted bad actor was able to publish these changes because of the nature of open source. I’m not saying bad actors can’t weasel their way into Microsoft, but that’s a much higher bar in terms of vetting.

It’s pretty hilarious when people act like being open source means it’s “more secure”. It can be, but it’s absolutely not guaranteed. The xz debacle comes to mind.

There are tons of bugs in open source software. Linux has had its fair share.

As much as I hate that prime added ads to a paid service (absolute horse shit), the way they’ve implemented it so far is one of the better methods. They’ll do a single ad at the beginning that’s like “this show is brought to you uninterrupted by Samsung”. Then no more ads until the next episode.

YouTube is trash with it.

Of course you are getting downvoted, because you are right and not being a reactionary douche like your average lemmizen.

Lol?

You think the current currency system is the cause of war?

This is a fantastic analogy.

I’d say they limit the impact of corruption.

Buncha wet blankets on Lemmy. JFC.

I know there is a ton of hype around AI, but at least there is actually something there (unlike crypto).

This is the most exciting thing to happen with computing in a while and if you read Lemmy you’d think everything is bleak and hopeless.

There is so much opportunity to change the way we interact with computers and innovate.

The article even states this is a thinly veiled ad for some other “method”.

The agile manifesto is fantastic. Scrum can work wonders as a means for providing a framework to hang “agile principles” onto.

Most organizations don’t do “scrum” well or quickly lose sight of the “why” behind it.

Companies are gonna company at the end of the day. Process + bureaucracy + buzzwords + ill-informed management + vendors promises + shit customers/product owners = late projects.

Agile done right, works. The benefit agile has over waterfall(the process it replaced in a lot of places), imo, is that it’s predicated on working software, responding to change and working collaboratively/iteratively.

Yea, but they also do some great journalism and if you can, support them.

We don’t have many decent journos these days and they need to eat.

Normalize paying for things that add value to your life.

Also, it’s a bit ironic that people might be concerned about privacy but unwilling to pay for something. The alternative is usually privacy invasive ads/tracking/selling user data.

Yea, I definitely understand what you are saying. I dont get those people either. Its frustrating and even heartbreaking because they are so misled–but are also so easily “misleadable”. Its hard to not fault them for it; its hard not to call them dumb.

I guess historically we called those people “suckers” or “rubes” – which still may not accurately reflect that they can be very smart people (or even critical thinkers) in most other aspects.

There are certainly very dumb people that support trump. There seems to be a willful ignorance amongst his base. That said, dismissing them all as “dummies” hides the really scary problem: they aren’t necessarily dumb; they are brainwashed.

Imagine if all you heard was how great Trump was, how much he’s accomplished, how badly Democrats want to bring him down, how they are setting him up,that Biden is the reason for these prosecutions, and never hearing any of the facts about the cases or anything remotely negative about Trump.

If you lived your entire life main-lining conservative talk radio, YouTube conservative conspiracy theorists, Fox News, news Maxx…and then have social media magnifying those views by feeding you all the things you already want to Believe (because you’ve been listening to this shit for years). Now Facebook is saying all of your friends think this way too.

Then you have republican “leadership” lying to you or misrepresenting almost everything because they can’t afford to lose their clicks or have news Maxx call them a Democrat plant. They are doing everything they can to stay in power even if it means they have no ethics or values. So they’ll sit there and weasel out of having any sort of backbone against obvious corruption or criminal activity.

And because of all that, people who grew up believing the news wouldn’t straight up lie or that their party has integrity, ethics, and values…they end up believing what they hear. It’s what their friends say on Facebook. It’s a massive groupthink.

When people say it’s like a cult, it truly is. They need to be deprogrammed. You know how hard it is to break people from their religion? That’s how hard it’s going to be to reel back Maga people.

But from their absolutely misguided, misinformed foundation, they are acting rationally. If everything they hear on a daily basis is true, of course they are fired up.

This trick is: how do we reach them? How can we even start reeling them back in?

We need things like this guilty verdict. We need actual leadership in the Republican party to stand up for what’s right and admonish his behavior. A group of them need to do it together so they can’t be picked off like injured gazelle by news outlets whose business is outrage.

I don’t watch much TV anymore. Actually I’ve probably watched less than an hour of actual TV this year.

Watching that clip of Noem was shocking. She says nothing. Answers nothing. When she is obviously backed in a corner she says she “doesn’t answer hypotheticals” and starts talking about an open border. Obviously South Dakota a land locked, non-border state is very concerned about this.

The reporter did okay, but she should have pressed even harder to push back against all of the lies. But the whole questioning around the jurors and if she would have decided the same way (after already getting her to basically say the jurors decided correctly with the information they had) she even accidentally admitted the evidence was overwhelmingly lop sided because uh…of course it was.

Anyway, that was brilliant from the host.

It’s literally the Biden admin. They’ve made it a huge priority and followed through.

People knock Biden, but he’s been consistently doing this stuff across the government. It’s refreshing.