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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 1h

these guys and the A-10 guys need to have their brains studied in a lab

alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 2h

But that's why he's doing it. Hegseth could never make the grade as SF, so he's going to make them shave and get testosterone tests. I'm sure he enjoyed making misery for Sikh and Black soldiers, but this is all about operator envy.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 2h

This implies violent insurrection, because there's literally no other way a third of the country is going to let the other 2/3rds decide what constitutes a suitable test of political ideals. You don't want to see what the favorable conditions look like for that. The window closed in the 1870's

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 3h

In principle it sounds grand, but what concrete policy would be used to exclude dumb, bad people from voting? if the rubric is "your views are too bad to vote", okay, but the subjectivity is just the beginning of the problems with that.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 5h

Special ops got very lax about grooming during the GWOT, having a beard was seen as special and cool, hegseth probably feels inadequate about it

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

idk what to tell you, I can buy my children a plate of tacos, sides, and a drink for slightly less than $100 plus tips. Obviously it's more when the kids have margaritas but that can be just for special occasions.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 7h

Margaritas and tacos on the rooftop at La Fonda, 50 bucks tops. Some people retreated into doomer mind prisons during COVID and never rejoined us

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People think you're cheating the system somehow. It can be really discouraging. Neighbor saw me out running and said "you look like you're on amphetamines, be careful". ok boomer

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh fuck that guy with a football bat forever

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We wouldn't call it "hard-coding", it can't be built into the model itself. But yes, they're usually employed as collections of agents. One could be the attorney, and the others could be directed to consult it before acting. It adds cost and friction at a moment where cheap and easy is the mandate.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeah, we know them better than anyone, and they don't improve with familiarity.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My pet theory is that it centers around crypto. Tech stocks made a lot of tech workers wealthy, but there's nothing like dweebs who have nine figures of walking-around money just because they got in early on Bitcoin.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean... the odds of this kind of derivative rape-casting fanfic spontaneously emerging from 1990's Usenet is not quite 3000%, but it's asymptotic. Many more times than you can recall, you have read "Can you believe the rubes once outlawed <horrifying thing>? omg so primitive"

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember how we forced German POWs to watch videos from the concentration camps?

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

those kinds of people, they're always either realtors, youth pastors, or serial killers. Sometimes all 3.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i never want to hear a Republican ever again whining about Dems being the "free stuff" party

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh that's good to know. can't trust anybody on the internet anymore.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i'm glad these guys are the leading voices for safety, idk about the rest of you but i'm feeling safe as fuck right now

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It executed on hype instead of converting grocery store customers. they treated commodity products as loss leaders. when dotcom funding dried up, they had few steady customers, no real assets except for a brand that had become a symbol of excess. Amazon started with high margin products.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

what does it mean if I have no idea what any of this is about

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

She's gonna do the right thing. I do agree that would be a Senate bid. Imagine seeing her wield the sword of justice as AG, though.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's not what I've seen where I live. Anyway if a municipality isn't charging tiered rates that make the biggest consumers pay a premium, that's the real problem, which predates datacenters. Industry uses water, it's on local governments to ensure it happens equitably.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It might help if you had made an effort to explain why "data center water usage is terrible" rather than admitting it's a less important but emotionally salient point to mobilize advocacy for deeper horrors that you also haven't articulated. this is why nobody listens to you people. nothing there.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a person who said oil spills aren't actually that bad, that it's just a useful way to manipulate rhetoric, has some opinions on brainrot. cool bro

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But, spilling oil is indisputably harmful, while using water is what water customers pay to do. If you rant about things that aren't actually harmful or abusive, nobody's going to care if somehow you eventually do happen to turn up some actual harm worth opposing.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

they not only admitted it, they took some pains to illustrate it with the analogy of oil spills not being all that bad (!)

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They're admitting quite openly that they believe the rubes are too dumb to process the unnamed horrors of a building full of computers, so they're terrifying them with One Trillion Liters of Water. And they don't understand how the open dishonesty discredits their entire "movement"

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pauli's aphorism "not even wrong" comes to mind

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it couldn't be the fact that I'm an asshole who set my grandchildren's future on fire. it must be woke therapy

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ah they must have done an unpublished hack of some Russian interests.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

oh he really got their ass, they have to lower diesel prices now

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They can pass what they want, under whatever constitutional authority they want to claim. If unchallenged, it stands. If challenged, it survives only if SCOTUS agrees that the argued authority is valid or the state law is unconstitutional.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's nothing to do with what I think is a civil right. It's how the court decides an issue can be federalized, determining how it can be legislated. Child labor has actually gone back and forth on this, being banned on one interstate commerce argument, reinstated as local, then interstate again

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if Congress passes a law overriding a state law, the state will prevail in having SCOTUS nullify that federal law unless SCOTUS finds that the state's law somehow violates the constitution. No matter my opinion of SCOTUS or what I think the law actually says, that's how it works.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your question doesn't parse. The Constitution says that SCOTUS rulings determine what the Constitution means. I do think the Constitution has obvious textual meaning that SCOTUS often gets wrong, sometimes purposefully. A bastard hack court, in your words.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congress can override state law only if SCOTUS agrees that law is unconstitutional. Not arbitrarily, nothing to do with corruption, just the plain mainstream reading of supremacy and separation of powers. This is literally the only thing preventing Republicans from outlawing midterms right now.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you high? Roe was a right-to-privacy claim resting on a heavily stretched commerce clause loophole, which is why it was so vulnerable to being overturned.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you for confirming that you understand SCOTUS packing is the only option due to the fact that the 10th Amendment does not permit Congress to override any random state law it pleases. It took a while, but we got there.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's supermajority for impeachment, which they never had at any point. Republicans currently have a trifecta, why isn't it raining impeachments for judges who are blocking Trump? Because the trifecta isn't enough. Think it through.

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

okay I'll bite, why isn't the Republican Congress not passing random laws to rewrite how every blue state does things, since the supremacy law says they can override any law they feel like? just spitballing, but maybe it's because nothing works that way

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The CRA exists because it survived a challenge in which SCOTUS ruled it was Constitutional issue of interstate commerce. Now explain to me exactly how you see that going down in 2021, how is the Roberts court letting it through, please show your work

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alarmist morisette @technicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The tenth amendment has not been repealed, is very much alive and in force, and is routinely used to block the federal government from overriding state law. Your turn, explain why you think that's not happening

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