Actually, SCOTUS precedent on the second amendment referring to a personal right only goes back to the Heller decision in 2008.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
I will also note that this decision further held that some restrictions on the second amendment are permissible, although it left the precise boundaries open.
I think the most sound legal reasoning would be to say he hasn’t actually been convicted of any charge that constitutes “insurrection”. Conviction is how the government asserts and proves that something happened, and to skip this step opens our legal system for a whole lot of abuse. They’re going to say that, if and when he is convicted, then he can be barred, but not before.
It would be possibly the most egregious thing SCOTUS has done (and they’ve done some shit) if they use this argument. We have the records of the adoption of the 14th, its original wording specified only members of the Confederacy were barred, but they explicitly changed it to cover any act of insurrection. We also know that they considered the language of “any officer” to cover the presidency because someone asked that question, and it’s in the minutes.
They do actually have a platform besides that. Unfortunately, that platform is just, “whatever Trump says.”
No, but there’s not as many of them as you might think. TX is gerrymandered to hell, voter suppression abounds, and so many people don’t think beyond the R it’s astounding. The Republicans have created an environment where they almost can’t help but stay in power. If everyone eligible to vote in TX was able to do so properly, the state would look a lot more purple. Source: born in TX & lived 2/3 of my life there before I got out.
I can totally seeing him pull a Ferengi after he dies and sell off dessicated pieces of his body. Except it will turn out they’re fake.
See, that’s part of what we’re afraid of, and indeed has already happened. Women who simply miscarried could be assumed to have purposely aborted somehow.
I know it’s technically different, but in both cases you have a person who has lived in the US for most of their life, and is for all intents and purposes an American, but who is not, due to a technicality, a citizen. It is extremely similar.
No, he wasn’t “pretending” to be a citizen, he was a citizen. They’ve just now decided his citizenship was granted in error, and so he now is no longer a citizen.
No, he was a US citizen at the time. They’ve revoked his citizenship now because they said it shouldn’t have been granted, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t ever a citizen. It means he was before, but is not now.
Not that rare, this is a very similar situation to what the DREAM Act was trying to resolve. As of last year, there were more than 500,000 people who qualified.
…have you been paying attention? They’ve already been fucking with private enterprise. All that matters to them is the culture war. They’ve completely dropped the pretense that they’re about business.
Unfortunately, at this point, that’s a distinction without a difference. Christian and Republican have been melding for decades, and now many people who profess Christianity really mean that they’re Republicans.
You misunderstand. You take a picture of, say your dad at a family reunion, and in the background the rest of your family is just milling around. That’s not the subject, and so the AI model saves it as “people doing stuff” or whatever. When you load that photograph, the people in the background will be generated, and they won’t be your family.
This is all beside the fact that the AI may decide your subject is different from what you think it is.
This is just an extremely unreliable form of data compression, and extremely unnecessary. Phones and cameras can currently save hundreds or thousands of photographs locally, and cloud storage can save millions for free, and even more for extremely cheap. You’re solving a non-existent problem by shoehorning AI image generation in where it’s not needed.
The pitch is that everything surrounding the subject is extra, and so it doesn’t matter if it’s the same every time. It’s literally throwing that information away in favor of a simplified description. It’s extremely processor-intensive data compression.
I’m sorry, but no. Not only does that invoke a ton of extraneous processing on both ends (when saving and when recalling the image), but the rest of the image is still important, too! Can you imagine taking a photo at a family gathering, and then coming back later to see randomly generated people in the background? A photograph isn’t just about the “subject”, it’s often about a moment in time.
Their ToS did say that updates would only apply to the current major version and newer of Unity when the updated ToS was released, but they removed that clause without telling anyone about a year ago and are claiming their changes are retroactive, so that can’t even be trusted. At this point, I can’t see any game dev beginning work on a new Unity project ever again without some kind of ironclad guarantee that this would never happen again. My prediction is we’ll see maybe 1 or 2 years of games released on Unity, just from the ones that were already too far into development to start over on something else, and then Unity is done for good.
You’re more right than you may know. Conservatives in Houston are forcing several schools to convert their libraries into basically just detention halls.
Either that, or “What son? I barely know him, he was just a coffee boy. Never seen him before in my life.”
Were you paying attention the last several times he’s tried to do more and gotten blocked at every turn by people who can’t see past their own gains?