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Point of order: the Constitution doesn’t set the number of justices, it gives that power to Congress.

That doesn’t seem like a reasonable or well thought-out idea.

What do you suppose the president has the power to do in this case?

A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.

https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges

Not that SCOTUS is held to the same code of conduct that all other federal judges are held to, of course.

How do people fall for this guy’s lies? He’s not even good at it…

It’s also an English expression.

It doesn’t have to be addition. It could be a hash function, etc.

All participants select their own random whole number and publish it to the group. All participants add all the numbers together. The result is either odd or even (heads/tails) and everyone arrives at the same result independently.

Annual commemorative pastry observance

Not only is it normalized, but it’s being weaponized. See, for example, the recent XZ backdoor which was equal parts hacking and a psi-op against the maintainer.

What a hyperbolic, heavy-handed headline.

That’s the opposite of what the court said.

Well, no. The courts struck down Trump’s Tiktok ban because he used an executive order that overstepped his authority.

Tiktok has been a subject of national security concerns since at least 2020.

It’s a British thing.

!achievers@lebowski.social beckons

Network (1976) is a perfect movie.

What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

-Paarthurnax

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Based on the show they’ve put on in Ukraine, and leaving aside nuclear weapons, I don’t think the Russian military is a credible threat to NATO.