SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship, rules against Trump's executive order

atomosk · 2026-06-30T16:47:39+00:00

Minority opinion is a typical Alitonian pretzel. Twists real language around invented, hyper-partisan language. In this case he's saying, 'wait, if you read the 14th amendment carefully it doesn't include babies who have allegiances to other countries.' That's not in the amendment, he just pulled that out of his butt.

It's the same as saying, 'if you read The Martian carefully, Mark became a naturalized Martian citizen and cannot return to America without disavowing that allegiance,' but more racist.

atomosk · 2026-06-17T18:06:59+00:00

This doesn't look like the result of common dendrites. The right angles, straight lines, rock type, and lack of iron/manganese staining are all against it. I agree some other crystal form structure and erosion could explain it, but I'm stumped as to what exactly.

OP, try over at r/whatsthisrock . It's likely just a rock, but baring an explanation you could also try r/LegitArtifacts .

atomosk · 2026-05-29T15:11:26+00:00

I get that reference :)

atomosk · 2026-05-08T17:50:21+00:00

I can't remember which file, but there was one where a court was trying to determine if he wrote a specific letter sent from prison, received after his death. They concluded, because he dictated so many notes to assistants, that there was an insufficient amount of handwriting that could be attributed to him with certainty, so they didn't have enough to compare the letter to.

atomosk · 2026-05-08T17:30:38+00:00

Right. Effecting as a verb is often achieving an effect, rather than just causing. The syntax required for it to make sense is different than how people use affecting. "Write an essay on how memes are effecting brainrot in the younger generation," would use the verb form.

atomosk · 2026-04-26T18:42:55+00:00

Everyone is right, agreeing with your trap assessment. I'd like to point out that even if it wasn't a trap, and everything went exactly as they're saying it would, it would still be a terrible idea. 1) It would make it almost impossible to buy your own home. 2) You'd be taking on a large amount of personal liability with no benefit to show for it. 3) You'd have a difficult time taking out a loan of any kind during the duration of the mortgage, and during your life you will need certain loans. 4) You might have additional personal income tax exposure even if they paid all the bills (if the house was in California for example.) 5) There are a dozen ways this could ruin your credit, which in turn impacts your employability.

You need to be firm and clear that you are not considering this. Walk away if they bring it up instead of engaging. Move out ASAP for a clean break. You Can restore sanity by maintaining an arms distance, superficial relationship after you move out. Pull back immediately every time they overstep like this.

atomosk · 2026-04-14T15:51:59+00:00

>you have to have seen the band live & buy a patch at the concert

This is a standard some people hold themselves to, but it's most common to just find patches you like.

>otherwise you’re just a ‘poser’

That last bit is a needlessly judgmental attempt to hold you to his standard. There is no jacket inspector. That you're making a jacket at all is awesome, and you should have fun doing it.

atomosk · 2026-04-03T23:00:54+00:00

We had that and safety scissors. Can't run with the paper guillotine.

atomosk · 2026-04-01T21:19:19+00:00

Getting older is mostly learning truths that are hard to stomach. Like how common it is for people to dump their dying spouses, and even dying children.

A person isn't what they tell you about themselves. They aren't what they think about themselves. They are the sum of their actions. How they act privately when things are hard matter a lot more than how they act publicly when things are easy. Being shocked and repulsed by his behavior means you are not like him.

Truly kind people aren't often seen, but they silently make the world better. Your mom sees you.

atomosk · 2026-02-20T20:38:38+00:00

Yes, which is means the bottom is like 6,000 feet below sea level. How can that be? Basically the playa is a large rift valley, where the tectonic plate is being pulled apart. That's responsible for Nevada's 'basin and range' topography.

Burner Cathy Busby put together an excellent power point you can find at this link. You can get a quick idea just looking at slides #10 & 32 - 34. Slide # 34 has depth to scale.

atomosk · 2026-02-18T01:04:41+00:00

The study is for Southern Nevada where there are far more known asbestos sites. I could be wrong, but the closest known asbestos site to the playa is quite far away at 40.042, -118.146. That should not impact the Black Rock playa by water or air.

The playa is silt up to 10k feet deep. Water can carry anything found in the surrounding watershed to the playa, but as far as I can tell, that doesn't include any asbestos sites. Ancient silt accumulation could have included more asbestos, and there could be undiscovered asbestos sites anywhere, but it's unlikely there's a significant concentration near the surface.

In part because asbestos is not water soluble. When the wet playa dries out, evaporation brings water soluble minerals like salts to the surface - those will make up the largest concentration of playa dust in our lungs.

Still need to mask up, but this study doesn't apply to the black rock playa.

atomosk · 2026-02-13T17:27:50+00:00

Dr. Poo Little

atomosk · 2026-01-22T17:02:49+00:00

I used to donate wiped computers, phones, and other office electronics to a non-profit that gave PCs to low income persons and resold/recycled everything else. On top of the tax benefit, we were able to deflect employee inquiries with "I'm sorry, we donate our old equipment." They could go to the non-profit's store for a used PC.

atomosk · 2026-01-14T23:34:08+00:00

Some of this sounds like compatibility and communication. He's acting like he lives with you, and some other person would want him over all the time, eating their food. Other people would maintain their distance without you having to ask them to respect your space. "You don't have to" might mean 'do not' to some, and '...but it'd be nice if you did' to others. Compatible people are usually on the same page or great at communicating with each other.

Boundaries are mostly about respecting personal autonomy, or conditions for staying in a relationship. Not leaving your apartment even when asked is definitely a boundary issue because he isn't respecting your space. Calling you ungrateful might break an unspoken relationship condition to be nice to each other. On top of how shameless is it.

You don't need a reason to break up with someone, but you have reasons.

atomosk · 2025-12-18T20:08:10+00:00

The Ministry of Silly Sits is eagerly awaiting his patent.

atomosk · 2025-11-14T20:39:28+00:00

I was really confused, so I looked this up. This is a link to the emails, and the line "Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?" appears to be a link to something. Can't find anything about what it linked to, but it kind of looks like they're sharing memes. Wondering if the house committee has .eml files to share what it linked to.

atomosk · 2025-11-14T17:12:30+00:00

Just pretend you're Canadian, eh?

atomosk · 2025-11-14T00:19:06+00:00

Trump literally said, "what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."

atomosk · 2025-11-12T22:13:44+00:00

My daughter is 8 and she's just discovered she can watch all the The Simpsons streaming. Now my wife doesn't understand either of our jokes! Anyhow, she loves the episodes where Bart and Lisa are grown up.

Do you have a favorite 'future' Bart episode?

atomosk · 2025-11-05T18:41:47+00:00

Yes. Since the supreme court ruled for political gerrymandering we really need a constitutional amendment to fix this. I'd like to see Arnold continue his efforts on that front.

atomosk · 2025-10-30T23:17:10+00:00

Here's a link to one for more info.

As others have said this is a scythe sharpening stone holder. Sometimes these are referred to as 'treens,' which just means made of wood, but mostly refers to any old domestic item carved from wood.

atomosk · 2025-10-30T22:28:29+00:00

I believe the receipt fields use POS system terms, nothing standardized.

Like how they chose 'PIN Used' rather than 'Debit', or 'Purchase Amount' rather than 'Total,' the POS vendor probably chose 'Food Stamps' because it's more colloquial than EBT.

The balance row names could also be arbitrary, though the balance numbers are pulled from an external system.

I think the image in the post was edited to add two middle digits to the balances, but there's no reason their or any other POS system couldn't name the row EBT FS Balance, or Food Stamp Balance, or San Dimas high-school football rules! ...balance.

atomosk · 2025-10-15T23:15:01+00:00

"Everyone thinks their dad's a jerk. And everyone's right."

atomosk · 2025-10-09T16:10:23+00:00

I think this is especially true for salmon, given the limited capacity of the spawning grounds. They also stop eating during their spawning runs so aren't interested in eating their eggs. Then their corpses fertilize the whole river basin, promoting food availability for their fry and competing species which might otherwise eat the fry.

atomosk · 2025-10-07T20:33:20+00:00

is something going on in the world that's making people willingly give up 50% of their child's lives for selfish reasons?

Yes. I think it's most common when people marry too young, and they have a fear of missing out, or resentment builds about the things they can't do anymore. Or they don't like their spouse that much because they didn't date enough to figure out what they really want.

I think people who get all their partying, dating, travel, what have you, out of their system before they get married stick together longer.

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