I mean, it seems to me that this would be more reason to oppose obviously political prosecution. If the alleged offenses can’t be tried at this point anyways by your own point, then it’s even more blatant that this is an attempt at election tampering.
If you refer to the article, it’s price tiering. You would be consistently paying $0.24.
$1700/yr is 12 hours of gaming each day at $0.40/hr, which is more than the $0.24 you’d actually be paying. Nobody gaming that much would otherwise be spending $100/yr on games in any case.
This is a very stupid thing for the industry, but your numbers are hyperbolic and anti-useful.
It’s because the pig’s response to being called the wrong name is a sentence with 42 characters.
Trump initially indicated that he wanted to build a ballroom, but that none of the East Wing would’ve been touched. As with any significant government building, there’s a good amount of history and significance to the East wing. It’s also where guests would enter and hosted the First Lady’s office/staff.
Trump then proceeded to ignore the standard rules/requirements for making changes to the building, which he doesn’t have unilateral authority to do. He leveled the East Wing, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the project during a government shutdown, money which was essentially pilfered from other allocations IIRC.
Despite various attempts to check his illegal construction efforts, he has continued unabated. Some of the funding has also come from “private donors” which has pretty transparently been influence bribery from important figures and CEOs and stuff.
There’s been a lot to it over time, but that’s some of the broad strokes.
That’s him saying so as part of the Dissenting minority. He was outvoted by the rest of Trump’s sycophants.
It’s a way of helping people easily identify and verify whether or not they’ve taken the pill for the day. “Did I remember to take my medication this morning? Oh right, today is Tuesday. Must not have.”
California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington (both the state of and DC) have all-by-mail voting. I imagine some of the particulars vary slightly, but in general you get a ballot a few weeks prior along with some associated info, and then either mail it back and/or drop it off somewhere. Presumably there are in-person locations available for edge cases, but the overwhelming majority of voters in those areas do so by mail.
I have to imagine the goal of the Twitch stuff would be to make something like AI VTuber or something. Less about the game itself, but more about the creator to be replicated.
Join servers on your behalf would be required to do something like “Join the World of Warcraft community server” or “join your guild’s Discord server” buttons. Theoretically permanent links could work here, but Discord has made permanent linking harder to do for legitimate reasons, and it wouldn’t work for smaller servers.
Email and third-party connections seem questionable. Why should Blizzard need to know my Discord account’s email?
IIRC this means that the Battle.net app would be able to see the details of a connected Twitch account, for example. I think I’ve seen this used in certain situations for things like account management apps or in a few servers that want to verify the identity of people, e.g. creator communities.
Informationally, “jipped” is often spelled “gypped”, as it is associated with the term “gypsy”. It shares a discriminatory association with that slur for the Romani people.
I’m not a lawyer, but my guess is that this is more about publicly admonishing the DOJ lawyers to encourage them not to file them in the first place. There’s a difference between telling someone “No” and telling someone “Are you fucking kidding me with this stupid shit?”
A quick Google shows that there’s no real evidence of involvement. It seems like Epstein might’ve been trying to arrange for her to be present at a dinner with Gates, like as in him wanting Gates to get her there? Uncertain. I wasn’t particularly rigorous though. I’m not claiming to have strong context.
I mean, I think the reasons that automated systems should allow for overrides by human operators should be pretty apparent.
Agents killed someone they are entirely happy to have killed. As far as ICE is concerned, this was a job well done.
It’s worse, they didn’t actually ask about the 4th.
“To the best of your knowledge, which of the following best describes what America’s 250th anniversary commemorates?”
Yeah the 4th is the day, but plenty of people might reasonably be less certain given the options listed and the fact that the anniversary has been talked about in general terms in the media for weeks.
A futurist is someone who has an interest in or studies the possible futures of our world, and who generates work related to their predictions of the same. It’s a pretty broad term, and would encompass certain academics, as well as writers and other enthusiasts. Their basis in evidentiary processes is obviously going to vary greatly, by it’s not necessarily accurate to say that they are simply guessing. It’s not a licensed term, but neither is “author” or “crypto-bro” or “politico” and yet one can certainly be any of those without any credentials.
There are certainly some elements of guesswork and hypothesis in any predictive field. Certainly there will be authors out there who might style themselves as futurists, but whose works are much closer to fantasy than speculative science fiction. I (personally) think it would be grossly inaccurate to call Star Wars a futurist work, for example. But I think one can easily look at the history of technological and social developments and create something that is a reasonable prediction of the future. I think Weir does a respectable job of portraying a mostly-plausible scenario in The Martian, by comparison. Asimov’s work has various examples that could probably be called Futurist, as well.
Why might a director or script writer consult with such individuals? Well, partially I suspect it’s to claim that they did. It’s a headline and marketing thing, of course. But also, because they’re making a piece of media that’s not necessarily in an area that they’re intimately familiar with. Even if you’ve made several science fiction movies before, I think it’s probably obvious that taking advice from someone who has spent thousands of hours considering the minor nuances and smaller details of something would have some useful insights.
Hate to break it to you, but placing the order at all is already giving them all that data.
I mean, that’s a broad question. Personally? Practically? Politically? Constitutionally?
Legally-speaking, this is not something the President can unilaterally do. Theoretically they could amend the Constitution to accomplish the former and allow for the latter, but the chances they could actually do so are next to nil.
Could a President do it anyway? Well, maybe… It seems very unlikely that this would survive public scrutiny, and even the corruption-captured Courts would have a very difficult time trying to justify any of it under existing frameworks.
The “retroactively” part would probably be a particularly difficult hurdle. The US Constitution has protections against Ex Post Facto criminalization, and revocation of pardons would almost certainly violate that principle. Ditching that protection would be wildly unpopular, since it would allow for things like passing a law that would, for example, having ever received an abortion in the past. Or, having ever so much as touched a firearm.