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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 57m

What makes you think that they (or anyone else) can't do that?

Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 57m

You might not *want* it, but in most contexts it can be said and can't be sued over (or, rather, any suit will be dismissed).

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 1h

And that the entity which enforces any judgements the courts hand down is...the government.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 1h

How do you propose your silly scheme be enforced? Only the government has the power to enforce things on entities that haven't voluntarily agreed to be subject to something.

And before you say "the courts, of course" I hope you do realize that the courts are part of....the government.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 1h

Nuke it from orbit.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 4h

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Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 2h

Well said!

Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 2h

This show provided some of the most durable memories of my early childhood. I even met Bob McGrath when I was four or five (and have an autographed photo somewhere). Such a pleasure to watch clips as an adult - the heart in the writing and acting is so clear to see.

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 16h

Bob McGrath’s first scene in SESAME STREET’s first episode. It’s an excellent example of the chemistry between Bob, Matt Robinson, and Loretta Long. This is a trio of young actors charting a new path in children’s programming, & playfully feeling their way...

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 2h

And of course limits on Congress creating unconstitutional new torts.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 2h

And it's somewhat irrelevant anyways.

Courts are...drumroll...part of the government.

Thus (as you and Lizard well know) courts are constrained by the 1A too and have no power to enforce unconstitutional things. And so there are limits on speech-related torts.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 2h

They're independent elections. Spainberger cannot drop the vile asshole or make him not run.

He should be vigorously denounced and any endorsements pulled, though.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 2h

Someone we parasocially know has a new book cover quote if he wants one.

Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 3h

Will highly likely lose on lack of falsity. While there may be studies about *acetaminophen* I’ll eat my hat if there are studies about the effects of Tylenol’s inactive ingredients re: autism.

(Because why would there be? It would have been dumb and a waste of time and $ to do them.)

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 15h

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 12h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 14h

🤣🤣🤣🤣
So — unsurprisingly — wrong.

What matters is what he’s doing when he says it, not what he says.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 14h

That’s not the test. What he says doesn’t matter. It’s what he was doing when he said it that matters.

And every court in the land is going to rule that any president doing a press conference is acting in the scope of their official duties.

Likewise for a cabinet sec’y in a Congressional hearing.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 14h

And that’s the law that makes federal officials immune from being sued for defamation for things done while acting in the scope of their office.

Sorry you can’t handle the truth.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 14h

What inanity are you babbling about? The Westfall Act was passed in 1988.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 14h

If he’s at a press conference and is asked a question about that it sure is.

If he’s, say, at some fundraising thing for a private art gallery and says something about that, probably not.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 16h

Given the full context, “Those who provide information to the public, i.e., newspapers cannot be legally punished for publishing factual errors, but they are not allowed to knowingly lie to cause harm”, I find it very hard to read the final clause as anything but descriptive.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 16h

Where do you get the silly idea that newspapers “are not allowed to knowingly lie to cause harm”?

A newspaper is totally allowed to, for example, say “vaccines are harmful and no one should get them” and there’s nothing the govt or anyone can do about other than denounce them and refuse to buy it.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 16h

18th and 19th and 20th century media up to around WWII were full of yellow journalism and partisan hackery.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 16h

And Jefferson helped start a newspaper to slag other founders, advised people to not read newspapers because they were so full of crap, and yet still believed the First Amendment protected that stuff.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 16h

Well, the ads are technically true (the best kind of true 😁) because you don’t get those things with Medicare; they are separately-purchased items.

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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 19h

I think the first one worked on its own.

The subsequent ones basically required that you had already read the books in order to have a good handle on who these people are and why they’re doing what they’re doing.

Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 19h

And because I HAAAAAAAATE HMOs.

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