Man this shit pisses me off so much. At the turn off the twentieth century Germany was absolutely cleaning up in theoretical physics. And they pissed it all away with their fascist bullshit.

None of these people care to read the basics of history at all.

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They did this to Houston, but they did an extremely half-assed job. It was one thin layer of additional asphalt covering over the whole intersection. But you can still see the pride crosswalk peeking out from underneath at the edges.

I’m still very upset.

Especially now that the sidewalks have been defaced with hate messages, which were then blacked out with spray paint. Is there a way to get the spray paint off the concrete and go back to chalk?

This is still a big deal result with a lot of physical significance if it holds up.

Full Navier-Stokes are / were understood to model all of the important physics associated with continuous domain fluids. (Continuous domain here means we approximate the many, many particles of the fluid as a smooth, continuous substance).

In particular, Navier-Stokes are supposed to fully model fluids with turbulence. Turbulence is an everyday phenomenon that you can reproduce for yourself in your kitchen sink, and yet it is extremely difficult to formulate a mathematical function for it. Turbulence appears to be random if you look at it, and yet if it is produced by NS, then it is not random. Solving even the numeric approximations of NS for turbulent flows is difficult because the flows exhibit severe variation in velocity over wide ranges of time and distance scales.

Anyhow, if NS is a good physical theory it has to have a physically realistic solution to every physically-possible set of initial conditions and environmental forcing functions. In math terms this mainly means that all of the velocities, pressures, and forces have to be finite and smooth at all times. Step discontinuities don’t really occur in the real physical world (although they do approximately occur).

This result would mean that NS is not the end all final theory for classical continuum fluids. The scenario constructed by OpenAI is claimed to be one that can (at least theoretically) be setup and run in the real world. But if we did that, the real world is certain to do something else besides the infinite flow velocity vortex that OpenAI claims NS predicts. What would really happen in that experiment? Who knows. We’re gonna need to find some new physics to find out.

Apparently, Hoskins was at the hearing, but it sounds like he might have escaped with some light ass chewing.

The court found that Hoskins was in contempt, but he managed to purge the contempt by hearing time. (i.e. he came into compliance with the court order by directing election officials to use the 2022 map.)

A few points here:

• Fox News is a cable channel, so it isn’t subject to this rule. The rule only applies over the air.
• Fox News argued in a legal case that one of its talk shows (I think Tucker Carlson) was not news and no one should believe it. I don’t think they were talking about their actual news programs on Fox News.
• The current FCC of this president is arguing that Kimmel is not a news program. Previous FCCs took the opposite view.

The Supreme Court of Missouri has ordered the Secretary of State of Missouri to appear in person at a contempt of court hearing today.

The Equal Time Rule would require Kimmel to offer to air an equal-time interview to Ken Paxton as well as Talarico. Unless Kimmel’s program is a bona fide news program, which would be exempt from the rule.

Previous administrations adopted a more broad interpretation of “bona fide news program” that included these late night shows that interview guests. Mainly because this rule and the exception are playing with legal fire regarding the first amendment and core political speech.

The Equal Time Rule applies only to over the air broadcasts. YouTube is unregulated on that point.

At 0.0, breathalysers can’t be used as evidence. They’re not accurate enough.

For what it’s worth, in US aviation, the standard is 0.00 BAC and 8 hours “from bottle to throttle.” But breathalyser evidence is treated with a 0.02 threshold for measurement tolerance.

There’re a bunch of legal shenanigans that happened this afternoon on this topic. I’ll try to summarize.

1. Kavanaugh really did rule in favour of the democrat-leaning map. All by himself.
2. The emergency application that Kavanaugh denied came to the supreme court on appeal to from the supreme court of Missouri.
3. In a separate lawsuit in federal court, a federal district judge ruled in favour of the Republican map (forcing MO to change its behaviour with a court order). The main reasoning for this decision is the Purcell Principle. A rule that federal courts can’t meddle with election maps right before an election.
4. #3 happened just minutes after the Kavanaugh decision was posted.
5. Despite that, the #3 decision does not disobey the Kavanaugh decision because it was decided on a different rationale. Also the Kavanaugh decision didn’t come with an opinion.
6. The #3 decision was immediately appealed to both the 8th circuit and to Justice Kavanaugh on the supreme court.
7. Kavanaugh asked for a response on this new appeal by next Tuesday.
8. Kavanaugh is handling all these emergency appeals because he is assigned to handle the circuit that includes Missouri.

Bottom line: Despite the Kavanaugh ruling, the Republican-leaning map is still the current map right now.

Why is this federal district judge probably wrong? In the Alabama and Texas cases, the Supreme Court pretty well established that the Purcell Principle restrains the federal court system, but not state legislatures or state governments. Other court precedent says that the supreme court of Missouri is the ultimate decider of the meaning of the Missouri constitution and the Missouri laws. Federal courts are supposed to defer to state supreme courts if they need to know what a state law means. Here we have a federal judge telling Missouri that their supreme court is wrong on the laws of Missouri, and he’s incorrectly applying Purcell to the state supreme court.

You know Iceland sent one guy to Afghanistan when the United States was attacked.

FYI, this is a midterm election that is coming up. The senators and representatives who will have been elected will be sworn in on Jan 2, 2027 in their respective chambers. Nothing significant to the constitution is scheduled for Jan 6. That’s only in presidential election cycles.

This action also forces the appeals to start over.

Put some “Copyright © Patnou, [year]” notices in prominent places on the manuscript.

How will you be able to talk to Houston if your Teams is not working?

ICE spokesperson Jason Chudy said the agency arrested Javar because he allegedly failed to disclose a criminal conviction when applying for his immigrant visa in 1995. Chudy declared that Javar was “therefore ineligible to remain in the United States now.”

This is the kind of stuff that previous administrations overlooked and used their discretion on. This administration is mainly applying the immigration law strictly according to the letter. The immigration laws themselves really suck and they have for a long time.

compel” limits bit is limited to US citizens

This is completely not true. The 4th and 5th amendments apply to everyone.

that even then, they can confiscate your phone

If they do this without getting a search warrant from a judge, you can sue for the return of your property. You can make them justify to a judge why there is probable cause that your property will yield evidence of a crime.

they can refuse to let you fly

This is a thing that can happen, but you can also sue the federal government to challenge your wrongful placement on the no fly list. People have sued and won and been awarded costs and attorneys’ fees

confiscate your passport,

This can happen if they think the passport is fraudulent, invalid, expired, stolen, or if you owe taxes, or are a sex offender that needs an annotated passport, or sadly if they think you are trans.

For many of these causes, the simplest solution is to apply for a new passport. For the trans victims, the issue is currently in federal court, and I am hopeful for a positive outcome.

deport you to the country of their choice.

At this point I assume you are talking about non-citizens, non-LPRs. If such a person is refused admission they are preferentially deported back to wherever they came from. At land borders, that is cheap and easy. Air carriers are required to transport passengers back to origin at the air carrier’s expense when CBP so demands. (This is why airlines check your documents thoroughly before they let you go.)

If for some reason the person’s travel origin refuses to accept them, then the next preference is a country where they have citizenship or strong residence ties.

With the exception of the original set of CECOT flights, which were done in actual contempt of court, true third country removals are the last resort both in law and in actual (however fucked up) practice.

The people who have been sent to the strange African countries have problems with no documents, no proof of citizenship, their true home country refuses to accept deportations from US because of bad relations, or they have withholding of removal because of a legitimate fear of torture or persecution in their home country. That’s not something that’s going to happen to the vast majority of people that show up at an airport with actual good documents.

Here’s an important point from the activist distress code case: CBP had a plan to target him for this treatment in advance before he showed up at the border checkpoint that day. The airlines send them passenger manifests 72 hours in advance.

100% of the time, if they take you to the little room, start asking you questions, and want to look through your phone, they already believe you’re guilty of something specific.

If that happens to you, you need to understand that you have already been the “target” of an investigation. There is nothing you can do or say in that room that will convince them otherwise. The best thing you can do is shut the hell up, do as little as possible, and don’t make their case for them.

And don’t believe anything they’re telling you either. The cops can lie to you, but you can’t lie to the cops. It’s a crime.

I think I’m at low risk.

I power my phone off prior to arriving in the US and keep it off until I leave the airport.

Under US case law, you can be compelled to give up a thumb print or face ID with a search warrant. But you cannot be compelled to give an unlock code, because the code information is testimony, and you have the right to remain silent.

If they insist on seizing my phone unless I unlock it, my plan is to ask for a lawyer, shut the fuck up, let them seize the phone or whatever, then sue them later to return it.

This plan works for me because I’m a US citizen, and I have an absolute right to enter the country. If you are not a citizen or LPR the local CBP officer has the discretion to refuse admission even if you have a visa. So that’s a real consequence to non cooperation.

Don’t lie to the feds about not having a phone if you really have one. That’s a separate crime all by itself.