The Trump administration is giving you new excuses every day

Not subject to filibuster per se, but there was absolutely something they could have done. From TFA:

Under the process, Senate rules allow for members to propose an unlimited number of amendments.

So while not literally a filibuster, they could have effectively filibustered it by simply continuing to propose amendments, preventing the billi tself from ever coming to a vote. Once again, the Democrats are showing themselves unwilling to play hardball.

The contributor’s frustration with Linus started with Linus ignoring multiple explicit requests for his intervention. When the contributor was so frustrated at the lack of response from Linus that he had the audacity to talk about it off list (linking here because the original toot has been deleted), it was at that point that Linus finally chimed in to tell the contributor “Maybe the problem is you,” implying that Hellwig’s obstructionism was not a problem in his eyes and that the only issue was the contributor drawing public attention to it.

The quote is from the documentation of Trump’s 2019-07-25 phone call with Zelensky, modified to substitute “Germany” for “Ukraine”

Yes.

The real question is whether there are any provisions of the Geneva convention Israel isn’t already violating. (If so, don’t point them out. They’ll take it as a challenge.)

The only good cops. Now if we can just convince the rest to follow their example …

True, but this looks like it may be different. Based on the article, it seems less like she’s deciding whether to do it than trying to figure out how. It has never been done before and there are multiple steps but the process is only loosely defined.

Edit: Not different.

Not necessarily original source - you can use aerial imagery from Bing, for example.

The actual requirement is actually a legal one. The data must be public domain or otherwise compatible with their license.

No Yes, Tesla is a capitalist organization, raw and pure.

FTFY

This sounds like a perfect case for automation - a bot could be creating the posts and only require human intervention when something goes wrong.

Congratulations on your own strip, by the way! Burnout is real, and good for you to be recognizing it and taking action to prioritize.

Not from the inside. It’s the kind of situation that spills over into community, friend groups, and projects people are involved in though.

A 7 (I think? Maybe 8?) person queer anarchist polycule including at least one trans and two nonbinary people bought a house. Only two of them had credit scores that could qualify for the mortgage, so they were the only ones on the deed.

There were the usual squabbles about resource sharing, proper use of the sharps container, etc. The thing that really complicated it was the personal defense culture - open carry were encouraged and providing firearms training and range time for the local queer community was an explicit goal.

Fast forward a year or so. The primary partner of one of the deed holders has mostly shifted to other partners and the deed holder is extremely hurt and angry. The other deed holder is involved in a disagreement with accusations of transphobia and claims of threats of violence on both sides.

Things get so tense that two people leave or are driven out (depending who you ask). They just happen to be the two on the mortgage and deed. In the mean time, the housing market crashed and significantly more is owed than the house is worth. The deed holders want out, nobody else has a place to go, one person just wants revenge, the two sides can’t even talk to each other unmediated, both groups have some of the others’ belongings, and an eviction has a real chance of getting someone killed.

(This is no longer an active situation, and was eventually resolved to nobody’s satisfaction but without bloodshed)

Sounds like a good time for a black block

If you don’t mind throwing some money at the problem, you can go a step more durable and get a new model F.

Despite their reputation, I’ve actually had two original model M boards die on me over the years. Yes, just from sitting on my desk and being typed on. No, I can’t imagine how either.

If he orders it, they’ll go. They can’t afford not to. It’s an economic draft, and the poor are about to get even poorer.

It’s a hard “g”

Pardons would only help with criminal contempt charges. In this case, the judge would probably be applying civil contempt to compel compliance with the court order. Since they wouldn’t be held on a criminal charge, pardoning the crime wouldn’t get them released.

Looks like a tangerine. Still tedious, but much easier than an orange.

Defenestrate?

Yes. Full stop.

If you feel you’re straight but find there’s this one guy who’s really hot and that gets you off, then you’re straight. Your orientation is what you decide it is, and nobody else’s to gainsay. There is even an entire subcategory of straight “MSM” (men who have sex with men).

The same goes for anybody else - if you aren’t guy #1 and are questioning someone else’s identity, then even if you find it odd or uncomfortable please just accept it and move on. They know themselves from the inside, in a way you never can.

Might they decide in the future to identify another way? Are they going through a self-discovery process? Working through internalized homophobia? Maybe. Maybe not. Not your circus, not your monkeys.