Yeah, it’s a real shame that they never got around to writing a 9th and 10th Amendment…oh…wait…

they argued that not criminalizing abortion gave women rights that the constitution did not explicitly protect(?)

No they didn’t. They decided that the question of legality should be returned to the States because Roe v Wade was decided based on a 14th Amendment Right of Privacy through Due Process. Your comment is about the practical outcome of their decision in some places.

Frankly I still think RBG had the correct legal argument and that Roe should have been decided on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

I’m sure they have no problem writing an opinion that allows bans on gay marriage.

Except they had the opportunity to do just that and refused. So obviously they have some kind of problem with it.

What’s more distressing IMO is people making disparaging comments when they clearly don’t understand the U.S. legal system.

Essentially anyone who loses a case in a Federal Appellate court, like Kim Davis did in the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, has the right to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court then decides if they want to hear the case or not. It’s a good thing.

I don’t like Kim Davis nor her agenda but that’s no reason to upend over two centuries of procedure.

Crazy that we’re in this situation where the there’s a question over whether a court will overturn its own precedent.

It’s happened with SCOTUS before and at least sometimes it’s a good thing. Dred Scott being an example.

I wonder if I could port Petsci Robots to it.

The GFW is about logging, mining, and controlling Internet traffic and data but your comment is about phone calls. These two things are only loosely related.

The article purports that the GFW is able to track electronic documents so closely that it can tie them to an actual individual. Assuming that’s true it positively refutes the notion that the GFW is “futile”. If the article and data leak are accurate then we also have proof that the GFW has the capability to detect many kinds of VPN despite strong obfuscation efforts and potentially decrypt the data streams. That is not “futile”, it’s scary AF.

Specific to phone calls you and your Aunties can chatter about whatever you like but there’s a strong possibility that those calls are being recorded, transcribed, and reviewed by automated systems for potential real world action. We know that the American NSA has this capability so it’s a near certainty that the Chinese Government does as well.

But I’m not seeing any of this in the guts of the article.

It’s a 3 part series so presumably that kind of content will be coming in either Parts 2 or 3.

I think if you’re looking for tons of replies, the fediverse isn’t going to be it - not untll the mainstream sites become so toxic that users bolt in droves.

You’ll start to hate Lemmy too if / when the great unwashed masses begin showing up. Those of us who’ve been around, shout to @[email protected], have watched this play out over and over again.

When the norms start congregating in a single place you can be assured that place is going to shit.

I’m glad the lawsuits didn’t kill them but what Kahle tried to do with “Open Library” and “Project 78” was truly insane. Admirable but insane. They absolutely had to know right from the outset that the Media Companies weren’t going to allow it to continue post-COVID.

The deflock site doesn’t show any cameras at my closest HD but I don’t know if this means that they respect their customers slightly more than Lowe’s or if it means the site just hasn’t been updated yet. I’ll have to make a point of looking the next time I’m up that way.

Same here. I’d like to think that there don’t exist here but I’ll bet they do it’s just that no one has updated the map.

I suppose but it was originally intended to take effect in 2008 and it’s not even fully in effect yet, that will happen in 2027.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act

You really need to research this issue instead of knee jerking to the most recent events. Even Red States were fighting this as far back as 2010.

Real ID is not new and the recent domestic flight enforcement was just the LAST part of a law passed nearly 20 years ago.

Real ID was passed after 9/11. Has nothing to do with the current clowns.

Reolink for the cameras and deny them internet access. You can tell them to record to internal SD Card and / or setup an NVR like Frigate. If you don’t want “roll your own” headaches and have the money for it then use gear from Ubiquiti and UniFi Protect.

Which means they have to run and maintain servers.

I’d bet money that it works just like similar devices from Reolink. Local recording to SD Card or NVR. If you want cloud recording then you’re paying a monthly subscription.

This device from Aldi is at a very low pricepoint but it’s specs are garbage. 480p recording? In 2025? C’mon…

National Guard ain’t got level 5 plates…

This is why Home Assistant exists.

And they were spraying all kinds of nasty shit…

Yes they used literal shit, both animal and human.

…on grass that isn’t native…

I can’t answer that but it really wouldn’t surprise me. The ruling class commonly imported plants and animals from all over the world.

…to make it look pretty?

No pictures exist, obviously, but I’m quite sure that groundskeepers were doing whatever was necessary to make their Lords estate look as good as possible.

We also have them because they are nice to look at, smell good, and pleasant to use; the exact same reasons that the wealthy had them.

Most alternatives to a traditional lawn lose at least two of those and they can take just as much time to maintain.

Suburban lawns are a problem but there’s very few, if any, alternatives that provide the same benefits.