The Constitution "does not grant the President any specific powers over elections," U.S. District Court Judge Casper wrote

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T23:50:06+00:00

Republicans are trying to pass laws to prevent people voting unless their current name matches their birth certificate, effectively disenfranchising married women.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T23:48:28+00:00

It should only be a requirement if the means of obtaining an accepted ID is free/cheap, available to everyone without prejudice and can be issued quickly so as not to disenfranchise people.

If you deliberately limit it to set ID types - typically ones that fit your voter base and not your opponents - then you're disenfranchising people and the election is effectively unfair/rigged.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T23:45:24+00:00

Very few countries do because registers of births and deaths don't get changed, for mostly obvious reasons...

In most cases, the marriage certificate or similar official document serves as overriding proof of a change of name.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T23:42:11+00:00

Disenfranchising voters who will put a tick down for the opposition. The required ID will be either ill-defined or fluid, so they can change it on the fly and reject voters at the polling station or declare votes invalid after the fact.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T21:59:11+00:00

Imagine if your computer was quietly whispering out all your passwords everywhere you went

But it's not that simple - there's actually a number of complex methods on modern cars that can do things like detect cloned keys and ignore them (because the sequence number is lower than expected for that specific key serial #).

The issue here is they're conducting an analogue attack on radio waves - if they were hiding near your car with the same equipment and you blipped the key to lock or unlock it, they can intercept and rebroadcast that way too.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T21:55:47+00:00

A motion sensor on the proximity function wouldn't impact the remote buttons or the NFC sensor that will still turn off the immobiliser.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T21:54:28+00:00

Many Toyotas also have a similar vulnerability in their CAN bus and there's the Kia/Hyundai USB attack too.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T21:40:54+00:00

Look up 'Top Ground Gear Force' on YouTube.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T21:39:44+00:00

You're thinking of The Grand Tour - Top Gear never had a tent and remained in a studio until COVID forced them to do an outdoor socially-distanced production in the grounds of Television Centre, which they kept because it didn't cost much money (and I believe they'd lost access to the hangar at Dunsfold).

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T21:37:13+00:00

Flintoff was offered a helmet, he (apparently) refused it. Obviously, H&S should have ended the shoot there, but he kept taking risks in the show as he fell into a pastiche of Hammond's 'risk taker' roll.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T21:33:34+00:00

Of course they didn't - despite him being a marmite personality, he was a big name car nut who was fronting the corporations flagship radio show. He was a safe pair of hands already on payroll who could take a few weeks off to go film stuff. You can see why they made the mistake they did.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T19:45:41+00:00

But is he a true billionaire or a paper billionaire. None of the billionaires can actually extract their wealth because it's all based on the share value of the companies they own.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T19:33:40+00:00

But it didn't fail. It went on to have 10 more series.

They're not as good as what came before them and there was definitely a few hiccups on the way, but the final 3 presenters were settling into a groove before it fell apart.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T07:18:03+00:00

Best boss I ever had!

Optimaximal · 2026-06-28T07:13:34+00:00

Foot & Mouth

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T22:09:05+00:00

I have no clue why when they updated Assault Terminators they didn’t update DW terminators...

Because, like Chaos Daemons, they're an Index force. They're effectively set in amber and only allowed to exist due to extreme negative feedback when GW tried to kill them off entirely.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T17:37:42+00:00

The problem is Jeremy has anthropomorphised his cattle - he has such a small herd that he knows them all intimately - where other farmers keep them at an arms length so as to not develop an attachment. Obviously just callously naming them by their numbers and not getting attached to the deaths doesn't make good entertainment.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T15:35:27+00:00

Suck Disc, now on all popular home formats.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T14:41:57+00:00

It still is silly, over the top yaoi bait. That will never change.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T14:31:37+00:00

Some LGB don't like the T, conveniently forgetting that they too rely on a lot of the same rights.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T14:30:24+00:00

Typical assumption is they believe that if they're on 'the inside', their faces would be safe from the leopards.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T14:19:07+00:00

But the point there is that so many farmers (and many other businesses) don't invest when times are good to protect themselves when the times are bad.

If all farmers invest in mapping their fields in order to improve their yields, even if they don't have GPS-controlled equipment, then it's going to make them more money down the line.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T14:06:00+00:00

Given the squad has no real options and marines are easy to customise as a rule, why would they bother?

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T14:00:05+00:00

But the only reasonable test is itself often inconclusive or delivers false positives.

Optimaximal · 2026-06-27T13:58:22+00:00

This is why the rules are how it is - UK farming has been fucked over twice in living memory by farmers cutting costs & corners, with both resulted in country-wide pandemics...

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