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  • Trump administration suing Gavin Newsom over California’s voter-approved redistricting plan – live

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  • IANAL, but my understanding is this is how laws are challenged in the US. A plaintiff cannot file suit against the legislature, or the government in general, to challenge a law. A plaintiff needs to sue an individual within the government who has enforced the law, and then demonstrate that the enforcement of said law has caused the plaintiff harm. In this case the law will be enforced by Newsome or someone within his administration like the Secretary of State.

    I learned this when Texas passed their anti-abortion law in 2021 (S.B. 8). Rather than having government officials enforce that law, the state offloaded enforcement to private citizens by paying them cash rewards for successfully suing alleged abortion providers. Since state officials are not doing the enforcing they are not directly causing harm to any potential plaintiffs. There's nobody in the state government you can sue to initiate a challenge to the law.

  • Elon's Woody

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  • How did the authors write Asterix Puns?

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  • I always assumed the translators were simply doing a heroic job. Getting puns and wordplay to work across languages is hard. I would not be surprised if some jokes had to be significantly changed for different languages or countries.

  • Elon's Woody

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  • That's actually a big improvement. Still an ugly vehicle, but at least this version has better character.

  • I joined a dating app for pyromaniacs

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  • Hot!

  • I've seen that before…

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  • "This thing is a Thneed. A Thneed's a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need! It’s a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove. It's a hat. But it has other uses. Yes, far beyond that. You can use it for carpets. For pillows! For sheets! Or curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats!"

    The Lorax said, "Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth who would buy that fool Thneed!"

    But the very next minute I proved he was wrong. For, just at that minute, a chap came along, and he thought that the Thneed I had knitted was great. He happily bought it for three ninety-eight. I laughed at the Lorax, "You poor stupid guy! You never can tell what some people will buy."

  • Wendy's to close hundreds of US stores in bid to halt falling profit

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  • Oooo, that's a neat site!

  • How do I throw a hadouken?

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  • Keep trying. Once you get it, move on to the uppercut.

  • How do you build your snow forts?

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  • Thanks! This has become a January tradition with my kids. We are trying a different winter camp location in 2026, and I really hope there will be enough snow to do this again!

  • How do you build your snow forts?

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  • Pile the snow into a big mound, pack it down, then hollow out the middle. Camping overnight is optional.

  • 196 @lemmy.world
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    It's happening!

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Smooth operator

  • iSweep

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  • Yep. Working clothing retail on a slow day? Time to fold and refold a lot of shirts just to do something other than stand behind the counter looking dumb.

  • EU person wondering how the elections went.

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  • Odd-numbered years are relatively quiet in US elections. Very few things are on our ballots, and most of them are state and local issues like judges and city council seats. The Democrats won the few high-profile races: NYC mayor, two state governors, and a referendum in California about redrawing electoral district maps.

    The next big election will be in November 2026. Most of the seats in the national legislature will be up for election (all 435 House seats, and 33 of 100 Senate seats). Also 36 state governors, and many seats in the state legislatures.

  • On average how much faster is italicized text moving than normal text?

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  • I don't know, but *smaller is faster*

  • The biggest problems with Lemmy right now

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  • 1: @Skavau@piefed.social is right.

    2, 7, 8: What's the goal here? Is Reddit the gold standard we're aiming for? I'm not convinced Lemmy needs millions of daily active users to keep a plethora of niche communities active, and to store a massive backlog for posterity. It's fine if Lemmy is smaller and narrower in scope.

    3: Reddit has duplicate/overlapping communities, too. I'm not sure how to avoid this without either (a) top-down control of community creation by admins, or (b) constant pruning of communities by admins. Neither are desirable, IMO.

    4, 5, somewhat 7: Adjust expectations to reality, and appreciate what we have. Lemmy isn't Reddit 2.0 and it never will be. There isn't big venture capital money sloshing around. But Lemmy has come along way without it. Hundreds of instances hum along reliably, day-in and day-out. There are surprisingly good browser UI's (look at Photon/Tesseract/Alexandrite) mobile apps. Not bad for an open-source project that runs on volunteer time and user donations!

    6: The complaint about moderation tools is legit. I really want a better reports queue, among other things. But I don't have the time and energy to contribute code, so I wait patiently.

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Nice

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Perhaps some questions shouldn't be asked

  • Should I go back to college/university?

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  • Getting an engineering degree is generally a good thing. Demand and pay tend to be above average. A certificate can be helpful, but I have watched people hit a "paper ceiling" in their careers; people stuck with the title of "designer" doing an engineer's work without an engineering degree, and never getting an engineer's salary for it.

    Whether a bachelor's degree is beneficial for you personally will depend on a lot of things, not all of which are within your control. 20 years ago a BS in computer science was a golden ticket. Now the industry has shifted and the job placement rates for new CS grads are awful. It's hard to predict the future.

    I agree with the other commenter that going to university is good for the whole self. I was exposed to people, ideas, and experiences that I would never have encountered elsewhere. That alone made the effort worthwhile.

  • The Agora @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works
    Vote Locked

    Should we defederate from maga.place?

  • Where is modern Punk?

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  • Hell yeah. There's an unassuming restaurant in my town that hosts local all-ages punk and metal shows after the kitchen closes. The underground scene is alive and well. I'm looking forward to having your experience myself as my kids grow up.

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  • The sun's shining bright
    Everything seems all right
    When we're poisoning pigeons in the park

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    perchance ai text to image gen error

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  • Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

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  • Why do we even have this lever truck?

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Okay, little one

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    If you need me, I'll be over here screaming into a pillow

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
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    Sniper dad

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Straw Hat Pirates' Jolly Roger

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Straw_Hat_Pirates%27_Jolly_Roger
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Shirtless Burt Reynolds because why not

  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
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    Writing other genders is hard, but sometimes people nail it

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Now put the marshmallows in the mug of cheese sauce

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Sundance Rule

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Funny cups

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Fortunately, they were unrelated events

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    Sverdrup

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sverdrup
  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    I will have my laptop and be available intermittently

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
    kersploosh @sh.itjust.works

    This hipster in an airplane safety panphlet

  • no context @lemmy.world
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    Pic