Not everyone has ID either. There’s no mandatory national identification card. Social Security number might be the closest thing, but has no relationship with where you live

I think we should have more early in person voting. We do that where I live now, and it makes it much easier for people to make time to get to a polling place.

I also think more places should allow no-excuse absentee voting.

I don’t doubt that it works well in many places.

It would probably work well in many places in the US.

I was just thinking about places like Washing state that don’t have a state income tax, so combining taxation and voter registration would not be as straight forward as other places.

For better or worse the US constitution gives authority over most elections issues to the states, which means that we don’t have one national voting system. And because most states give big portions of how elections are run to their various countries, the voting experience can be very different in different parts of the the nation.

I assume that we can learn a lot from other places, but I’m not sure that everything that works for one country always scales to a population 5-10x larger.

Not a terrible idea.

It may work in a lot places, but may be more challenging in states that don’t have a state income tax. At least in the US, voter registration is handled by the State government, not the Federal government.

We would also need to account for eligible voters who are not paying taxes, (like college students, who may be living out of state to go to school, but I think would normally be expected to vote at “home”)

That’s great, and perhaps more of the country should.

Everywhere I have cast a ballot operates in person voting in addition to options for mail in ballots.

Washington state chose to address the logistics issues by removing polling stations. I would be curious how many people have problems when they move counties.

Depends on to which level of government you are talking about.

If I have a job I’m paying federal income tax. Most states also have an income tax, but not all.

If I own property, I’m probably paying some sort of real estate tax to the state xand/or county. If I’m renting, probably not.

If, for example, I’m out of work and move back home with my parents, there may not be a clear government record of where I live. Because of how large the US is, that could be a move of 1000+ miles from my last legal residence (would be for me anyway)

There is probably a valid argument about the managing the logistics of poling places to be made here.

Jurisdictions need to know how many ballots, poll workers, and polling locations they need to actually run the election.

Registration also helps to determine what proportion of the electorate turned out. This can give hints to how well information about the time and place of elections was advertised and whether polling places were open long enough or at enough locations to give people the opertunity to vote.

The way in which registration is handled in a given jurisdiction can absolutely be designed to suppress votes.

Back when I was deployed in Afghanistan, we called it steak and rocket night. Friday evenings is when they liked to shoot at us

As I understand it, there are several laws that allow for imposing tarrifs, each with differing requirements for justification and how large the tariff can be.

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) is one that the administration has cited as the law granting the authority for many of the tariffs imposed by this administration.

The tarrifs imposed under IEEPA are the ones that the Supreme Court were addressing with this ruling. Basically saying that the law does not give the president as much authority as he claimed, making those terrifs illegal.

Tarrifs that the administration claims are authorized under different laws will have to be the subject of separate legal claims.

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Still have them. Parents gifted a bunch when I moved out

From my memory of the time, I think it was a few things.

The ability to do 3d in games was new, and without a lot of experience in what made for “good gameplay” devs were trying new things and seeing what works. Similarly, if you go back even further into console and PC gaming history you can find some game that use what, looking back, would be considered terrible control layout and/or gameplay mechanics. Sometimes because the company just wanted to ship something, sometimes because best practices hadn’t been established.

The ability to do 3d was new and the free roaming camera was an easy way to show off the systems capabilities. Especially for early first party games, there was a huge effort to show off how much more advanced the new console was compared to the competition. I can remember marketing that focused on showing that you could look all around these virtual worlds (Mario 64) or how awesome the graphics processor was by highlighting the parralax effect of the background images (Castlvania 4).

Controllers were also evolving at this time. The SNES and original PlayStation controllers just had a D-pad and like a half dozen buttons to control all your movement and actions. The addition of analog control sticks, and the N64’s bizarre controller were really the first shot at having the variety and quantity of controls to make rapid changes of player perspective and actions feasible at the same time.

Combine all of that with some publishers just putting out blatant cash grabs, and you have a whole lot of new territory to map and a target audience that doesn’t really even know what it wants yet.

Yes and no.

In the US the Judicial branch is responsible for the the courts and interpretation of the law / constitution, but the Executive branch is responsible for the execution / enforcement of the law. I think that in other parts of the world it is common for the AG to be part of the Judicial branch, but here they are part of the Executive branch.

As I understand it, there are parts of these investigations/prosecutions that the AG can release under their own authority (or by direction of the President) but other parts that are under seal and require authorization from the courts.

I think the primary defense is the decentralized nature of the application…

Moderators/admins can block and remove content on the instace(s) they control, but this does not impact the content of any other instance.

Effective censorship of the entire ecosystem would require control of many instances and defederation from those that are not deemed appropriate.

There is not really a way for the operator of one instance to control the moderation decisions of the operator(s) of any other instance.

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This is the normal way to begin a jury trial.

He’s not admitting guilt, requiring the prosecutor to prove (beyond a reasonable doubt) to a jury that he’s guilty of the charges.

If I understand correctly, NY has chosen to charge Murder 1 with a terrorism enhancement, which requires the state to prove claims about his mental state, intent, and motivation.

I assume that the defense is hoping to push for some sort of settlement latter in the pre-trial process, and/or to cast sufficient doubt over the specific elements of the charges brought

Or at least a link to where the model is in hosted

I believe it’s tied to the ides of the restless dead.

The spirit should move on after death, but some spirits get stuck between worlds. Often it’s related to the circumstances of their death. Maybe they had unfinished business, they died a particularly grousom death, or they were denied a proper burrial.

That’s the National Defense Sevice Medal

It is awarded for service during a time of war. It was awarded for periods that included the War on Terror, Vietnam, and Korea

Yeah. I’m not sure that this has changed much.

I suspect that was a large part of what drove the excitement for something like Valve’s Proton. It was supposed to make it easier for studios to make games available across platforms, because they would. “just work” without having to put special effort in.

This sounds like the same sort of “We found out that the cost is not actually 0, and we want out. We can’t say that though, so it’s your fault”

They may well be lying about their reasons/justifications, I don’t have any way to know one way or the other.

This just isn’t a new thing. Companies fave been blaming the high cost of supporting the relatively small number of users on an “alternative” OS for a very long time. Unfortunately, I think that as long as desktop Linux is in the single or low double digits of percentage of users, this is something we’re going to keep hearing.

A company is unlikely to do a thing if it’s cheaper to not do the thing.