FlexibleToast

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Apple dragged their feet for years in implementing RCS.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean you can drop the sarcasm indicator and actually be correct. Every single state has price gouging laws already. However, I know Republicans will now act like it's a terrible "communist" plan just to obstruct it.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Not a really fair comparison because muscle can weigh much more than fat. However, yes he is full of shit.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Covid was a global emergency at one point.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Kamala is proposing making it illegal at the federal level.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Intent can play a part in the attorneys discretion to bring forth the case. But the espionage act does not require intent.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

The thing is, the MAD doctrine works. We enjoy relatively more peace than we had before.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

No it wouldn't with the new precedent and the espionage act. The espionage act only has to show that they did the action of publishing the leak. They don't have to prove any sort of intent.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Another key difference is that the Trump administration charged Julian Assange for publishing leaked documents. In the past it was the leakers that would be prosecuted, but publishers weren't because of the chilling effect on free press that would cause. Now we're seeing that chilling effect in action.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ironically that's poetically why they're not releasing them. They already had their hand slapped once.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, if anything when you look at bronze statutes that have been in the elements for decades, the parts that people touch are the shiny, nice-looking parts.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I don't doubt you two, but it could be anywhere in the Midwest. The Midwest is full of these types of signs.

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