[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 68 points 1 day ago

Octopodes no longer die when they give birth, meaning they can teach their young and form societies.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

But the SC should never decide the president in a Democracy

That already happened in Bush v. Gore

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 33 points 1 day ago

The boomers at the Vatican have no idea what they've unleashed with this.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 93 points 1 day ago

To give you an actual answer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_threat

The true threat doctrine was established in the 1969 Supreme Court case Watts v. United States.[3] In that case, an eighteen-year-old male was convicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for violating a statute prohibiting persons from knowingly and willfully making threats to harm or kill the President of the United States.[3]

The conviction was based on a statement made by Watts, in which he said, "[i]f they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J."[3] Watts appealed, leading to the Supreme Court finding the statute constitutional on its face, but reversing the conviction of Watts.

In reviewing the lower court's analysis of the case, the Court noted that "a threat must be distinguished from what is constitutionally protected speech."[3] The Court recognized that "uninhibited, robust, and wide open" political debate can at times be characterized by "vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." In light of the context of Watts' statement - and the laughter that it received from the crowd - the Court found that it was more "a kind of very crude offensive method of stating a political opposition to the President" than a "true threat."[3]

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 35 points 2 days ago

I stole it from Babylon 5, but "assassin of joy" is one I've used a few times

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 0 points 2 days ago

Windows hasn’t added any features of value since Windows ~~7~~ XP

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

What would an advanced alien race even consider fine art?

Six dimensional termite mounds?

Or they could see in a smaller range of frequencies, so what looks like a plain white room to us is a masterpiece of modern art to them?

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

Technically taking human remains isn't grave robbing, it's body snatching. Grave robbing is taking artifacts like jewellery.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 16 points 5 days ago

That we're all prisoners in a prisoner's dilemma?

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 25 points 6 days ago

cow and chicken

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 6 days ago

Scaled, on subscribed communities. It seems to act mostly like "new" with some extra weight given to voted posts.

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