Since knowledge is woefully inadequate, this would necessarily boil down to “treat others as you assume they treat others,” which is exactly the moral standard already followed by trigger-happy cops, ICE agents, MAGAs and bigots in general.

Is that really the best you can do?

As far as the Golden Rule goes, it’s immensely improved by framing it negatively - do not do unto others as you would not have done unto you.

Too many to list, dating at least back to 99 Luftballons.

This is the most recent one: Pacifica - Soltame

I think Platner isn’t as skilled at avoiding establishment Democrat smear campaigns as Mamdani is.

The game that Stardew Valley blatantly copied - Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.

It was made for the GBA, so has straightforward and precise controls, with none of the irritating camera or targeting complications that come with making the game 3D.

There are other later games in the Harvest Moon franchise with better graphics, but like Stardew Valley with a gamepad, they tend to have irritatingly imprecise controls. Friends of Mineral Town, with its isometric 2D, doesn’t have that problem.

They will.

They have no principles, no integrity and no honor. They’re just craven, corrupt and conpromised tools of the oligarchs.

Future histories of the collapse of a the US will of course focus on Trump as the figurehead for those who destroyed the country from within, but probably not very far behind Trump, they’re going to focus on the Roberts court and the loathsome scum who made it all possible by betraying the trust placed in them and violating the standards expected of them.

Oh look - it’s the Toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum.

One of the many things I’ll never really understand about this whole Trump thing is how he manages to get so much support from the right-wing choad demographic when he’s such a gross, flabby, pathetic, whiney manbaby.

I think ATProtocol is doomed, so no.

Bluesky got too big too fast and has too many greedy corporate weasels already involved. For the time being, they’re pretending to actually prefer an open protocol, but I think that’s just a marketing ploy and it will never last. They’re going to EEE it sooner or later.

Oh gee whiz - who would’ve expected that? 🙄

That too.

Of course he can, though it"s exceedingly unlikely that he will be, since it’s a process that would require integrity, courage and determination, all of which are virtually non-existent qualities in Washington today.

Which is unfortunate too, since as I have cause to point out daily, the man is quite obviously a deranged lunatic.

I really don’t think he’s ever been particularly attached to reality, but the combination of losing the 2020 election and stewing and lying for four years then lying his way to winning the 2024 election appears to have completely broken his mind. And the upshot of that is that the world in which he now lives and makes important decisions is not the real one - it’s entirely a product of his own warped perceptions, as filtered through an emotionally stunted mind that’s slaved to the task of protecting his grotesquely bloated and fragile ego and has completely lost any ability it might once have had to distinguish between reality and delusion.

That’s my reaction broadly to hate.

Even beyond the fact that it’s destructive and ugly, it just seems like a pointless waste of time and energy. I don’t get why anyone invests that much time and energy into being miserable, and especially over something that can’t possibly really matter in their lives.

Alternate headline: “Supreme Court Yet Again Just Hands Trump What He Wants Without Even Bothering to Try to Justify It.”

And that will also serve as the alternate headline for every Trump regime ruling yet and for all future ones as well

We actually live in a world now in which the President of the United States explicitly states his intent to overtly violate the first amendment and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.

If Miller had his way about it, they’d already be bulldozing leftists into mass graves.

as political violence becomes normalized online, particularly among ideologically extreme left in America

https://meidasnews.com/news/mass-shootings-at-two-homeless-camps-after-fox-host-called-for-homeless-to-be-killed

It’s not intended as a pejorative, so its perceived weakness is irrelevant.

It’s a precise term with a very specific definition in international law, and that’s the point.

Israeli terrorists have just taken 1500 Palestinian hostages.

If so, then to which specific instance(s) (or more precisely, local mirrors of instances) would replies be sent?

In the sense in which you’re framing it, it would likely be more accurate to think of it as spectrums and subspectrums, in the same sense as sets and subsets.

It’s a bit late in the game for that isn’t it?

I mean - she’s right, but the SC has already cast aside law, precedent and the Constitution at this point, and is ruling almost entirely based on opinion. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say, “preference.”

In the book, set for publication on 9 September, Barrett asserted her belief that the June 2022 ruling that struck down abortion rights nationally “respected the choice” of Americans.

Ah… so she’s not just contradicting the plain reality of the current SC, but her own statements.

Or more precisely, just spewing whatever line of bullshit might serve her current purposes.

Which is undoubtedly the reason she was nominated in the first place, and the exact thing she was expected to contribute.

Helluva timeline we’re living in here…