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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • So I’ve seen lots of commentary about this ruling, but I kind of assumed that the panic was overblown. After all, the ruling said presidents were only immune for “official acts” but could still be held accountable for “unofficial acts”, right? Well fuck, turns out I was wrong.

    “In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the president’s motives,” [Chief Justice] Roberts writes. “Such an inquiry would risk exposing even the most obvious instances of official conduct to judicial examination on the mere allegation of improper purpose, thereby intruding on the Article II interests that immunity seeks to protest.”

    They’re literally saying that there is no way to determine what is an official act and what is not. So Biden could order someone to go shoot Trump, and we couldn’t even inquire into if he was acting in an official capacity or not.








  • Same. Especially since I’ve been building EDWs for most of my career. People are always surprised that it actually takes time to integrate with different systems.

    “What do you mean you can’t just pull all the data out of this system that we don’t have database access to and are still building out the APIs?”

    I kid… The people asking for stuff don’t know what backend databases and APIs are.














  • This article is 6 years old, but just shows that Trump’s strategy has remained exactly the same. He plays off our media’s weakness to want to report on a spectical, so he gives them exactly what they want in order to dominate headlines.

    Hitler, Childers writes, became not just a political leader but “a national celebrity, easily the most recognizable — and controversial — figure of German political life. Even his enemies — and they were legion — were obsessed with him. His habits, his tastes, his background, his personal life were the topics of endless speculation, gossip, and analysis.”