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  • What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?

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  • Based on my research (watching Justified on FX) they’d sidle up to the executive, say a few pithy lines and draw down on and kill him when he goes for his gun or pen, walk away putting their Stetson back on, then get chewed out by their bosses.

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  • So yeah this sounds like a useful and relatively cheap and simple way to get another good indicator. But I’m a little confused also, because I thought that for the most part, these funeral directors and facilities produce death certificates for each person that they handle, so I had assumed that this data was already being collected or was collectible.

    For instance many of these processes are set up to avoid “fraud” so they’re almost automated once a death certificate exists—thinking for example social security maintaining a death list and getting automatically transmitted notices of death, etc.

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • Same man, same.

  • Trump Says a Recession Might Be Worth the Cost. Economists Disagree.

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  • Uh huh, but worth it to who? So far all we’ve heard is some vague existential nonsense about how they have to implode the economy in order to save the economy. Based on the messaging I’ve heard all my life, “stagflation”is one of the least desirable economic modes to have under capitalism.

    If we believe that the democrats didn’t properly recognize or hear the very real economic anxiety that Americans felt prior to the election, and that that disconnect in part contributed to their failure, I think we might also assume that Americans as a whole will not simply “take his word for it” that they should become homeless in order to drive crypto prices up.

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • Yeah I kinda figured, thanks for replying though. I have an acceptable workaround, but man, once you get used to no ads, it feels like a blizzard of insurance and other crap ads once you use one of the apps not in a computer. It’s actually what’s got me slowly rebuilding an old surface pro with Linux surface—because I enjoy YouTube on tablets, but basically can’t stand the iOS apps anymore haha.

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • Do you know if there’s a way for me to add something to my Pihole that would interfere with YouTube ads on the app on Xbox? I’ve been using wireless screen cast to use a laptop lately because the ad frequency has gotten so intense on the Xbox and iOS apps. Guessing it’s somehow being included online to the video streaming and I can’t use a browser/unlockorigin in the console so maybe there is nothing to be done, haha.

  • Elon Musk’s DOGE is growing desperate for a “win”

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  • When they were selling DOGE during the campaign, the pitch was they’d have a year or something to do their thing. The EO might have it spelled out can’t recall. But they also said they would just be an advisory group? Not insider threat hackers and political commissars at the top of every agency. Not sure why they are sweating a time limit since they dont care about any other law, regulation or protocol. I guess if they don’t deliver enough, Trump won’t do another EO extending their presence? They’re literally reworking agency stuff so that the DOGE staff have to sign off on commissioners actions, hiring etc so are they just going to revert that once the clock strikes midnight for DOGE?

    I suppose the idea is that the admin wants to lock in all the creepy shit from project 2025 prior to mid terms since they know that all of it will end up being wildly unpopular and will result in republican losses in congress and potentially gridlock from that point forward… but again, their playbook essentially calls for the end of democracy, so why are they sweating something like the midterms…

  • Social Security: Bernie Sanders issues dire warning about Elon Musk's plan

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  • That’s not how they’re doing it. They’re just slashing anything they don’t understand, entire departments. There are many interdependent systems and each uncalibrated attack brings them closer to failure/disruption.

    There is no careful analysis about “people not doing their jobs” going on here.

  • Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

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  • Yeah honestly after the first couple I was like, crap I’ve been missing out. You can tell they’re legit because the website looks like forum websites I used to frequent in the early 00s (sounds like a dig, but I swear it’s not, the modern web is damn awful to read most of the time).

  • Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

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  • I have been finding myself suddenly saving techdirt articles for my reading list day after day, and I guess now I know why. Not to say I wasn’t interested before, but they’ve been providing analysis and commentary lately that has just hit different/ has been scratching a particular itch. Please, keep that train rolling.

  • FBI and Red Cross headquarters are among more than 440 federal buildings listed for potential sale by Trump administration

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  • Private equity has arrived for the federal govt.

  • Vice President JD Vance describes Britain as ‘some random country’

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  • Yeah this has been what I’m wondering lately. Clearly Thiel can’t be super in love with Elon since they ousted him from PayPal while he was on his honeymoon… but if he’s a useful idiot that can take the attnetion and heat, when everything implodes it’ll be on Musk and then Trump, and then Vance, who has been higher profile as VP than most, can try and worm his way in there and voila, Thiel has got what he wants. Vance is pretty off putting to most people though, which seems like bad judgement on his handlers part if they want a pseudo-legit govt CEO… but then the handlers are also super off putting in real life and clearly live in a alternate reality/bubble so maybe it’s not that far fetched.

  • Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?

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  • American culture, partly because of bullshit mythos and partly because of religious like devotion to oligarchic capitalism, selects for low-empathy sociopaths and individual atomization/isolation. My favorite low end example is to observe my fellow citizens driving when I go to the suburbs: you are in their personal story, and you are in their way. City living doesn’t fix all that, but having to live in close proximity to neighbors and get used to compromise helps push a slightly more communal vibe.

    But basically the entire culture is built around a get-yours-first mentality? And more recently an influencer-inflected sort of hyper-real understanding of one’s value and potential. We’re like a national exemplar for the dunning-Kruger effect, or like kids who cheat at online video games swaggering around proud of their “achievements”.

    Seems like we’re in the finding out phase after fucking around though.

  • Vice President JD Vance is skiing in Vermont, and the locals have opinions about that

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  • This makes me wonder: when someone like this goes on a ski vacation… does that mean that a bunch of his secrect service detail has to also ski / be able to ski competently?

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  • That is definitely a superb owl, what a face

  • FDA Begins to Rescind Firings, Call Employees Back to Work...

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  • Yeah that would make sense why I unintentionally oneself on it so often. I almost always hit back or close when I end up there (usually because I click on a link that is interesting to me without interrogating the URL very closely, bad opsec I know)

  • FDA Begins to Rescind Firings, Call Employees Back to Work...

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  • It’s… one of the worst sites I’ve ever come across. Everything about it is shit and suggests a lack of credibility, but I am constantly surprised by the number of times they have articles I initially wanted to read.

  • Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash

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  • I suspect amongst other things, this is probably a major reason Bernie is doing this tour—to demonstrate how a sane and worker-forward progressive populist message brings in a strong coalition of voters, even in states that the democrats write off as deplorable. I’m skeptical that it will change their minds, but it’s once again a reminder that continuing to shill a neo-liberal status quo message is a losing game.

  • Lilium Auratum - John Frederick Lewis (1871)

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  • Yeah thanks for sharing this, it’s very beautiful. The color palette is great.