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  • If this law is enacted, the Supreme Court will say that states can’t frustrate the operations of federal agents with these sorts of laws. Chief Justice Roberts will write the opinion and compare it to giving states the power to ban bulletproof vests from being worn by federal law enforcement and call it “a step from anarchy”. Clarence Thomas will then write a concurring opinion saying that federal agents acting on orders from the president should actually be immune for any type of civil or criminal liability for any of their actions, lawful or not.

    Then, when a Democratic president takes office the court will walk it back and say “well, actually, there’s this exception, and this exception, and that exception…”









  • NateNate60@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldCatbox.moe got screwed 😿
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    29 days ago

    You’re being downvoted because your assertion that hosts are responsible for what users upload is generally false.

    (1) Treatment of Publisher or Speaker.—No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

    (2) Civil Liability.—No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—

    (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

    (B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in [subparagraph (A)].

    47 USC § 230c, a.k.a. Communications Decency Act 1996 § 230




  • I think you’re overthinking it slightly.

    • French flag represents the language called “French”
    • Spanish flag represents the language called “Spanish”
    • Russian flag represents the language called “Russian”
    • German flag represents the language called “German”
    • Portuguese flag represents the language called “Portuguese”
    • Japanese flag represents the language called “Japanese”
    • Korean flag represents the language called “Korean”
    • Chinese flag represents the language called “Chinese”
    • Italian flag represents the language called “Italian”
    • But somehow, the British flag doesn’t represent a language called “British”, but rather, one called “English”, despite there existing an English flag

  • The actual reason: Gasoline prices in the United States were customarily displayed in cents per US gallon (about 3.8 litres). This means the sign originally read something like “15”, which meant $0.15 per gallon. Since the US has also a long history of pricing things in 9 or 99 (due to the psychological effect of such pricing), many service stations appended the extra 9/10 at the end to indicate 9/10 of 1 cent, which was a more meaningful price difference when the price of fuel was 15 or 25 cents and not two or three dollars. Legally, although the smallest cash denomination in the US is one cent, the US dollar can still be nominally divided into 1,000 “mills” for accounting purposes.

    Inflation has caused the price of gasoline to rise, and when it passed $1 per gallon, service stations continued the same pricing traditions by just adding a third digit to the number. When digital price displays came on the scene, many of them continued to just display a three-digit number with the traditional 9/10 at the end, i.e. 123 9/10

    New displays seem to have gotten rid of this tradition and just display a three-digit decimal number, i.e. 3.45 or 4.56.