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ChildOfEru··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
> (3) Presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. On remand, the District Court must carefully analyze the indictment’s remaining allegations to determine whether they too involve conduct for which a President must be immune from prosecution. And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct. Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial. Pp. 30–32

For example, from my understanding this means that Nixon's tapes could never have been used in any form in a criminal trial regarding Nixon's actions.

In today's political environment I don't see an impeachment ever succeeding unless the opposing party has a super-majority in the US Senate.

ChildOfEru··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
It has been 3 years and 6 months since Trumps election interference with essentially no progress being made in the courts.

If and when Trump gets elected how long do you think it will take the Supreme Court to differentiate between an 'official' act and a 'non-official' act when Trump acts illegally in 2025?

Throw in the recent ruling increasing the difficulty of proving bribery and things are looking grim ( IMHO ).

ChildOfEru··on I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
Who knows how long this would have been unaddressed without Ariel Miculas initial input.

Part of the job of a maintainer is to curate and foster input so the project has a robust community in the future.

The maintainer in this case did a miserable job of that.

ChildOfEru··on Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI
Articles written by an AI and then summarized by another program. Nothing can go wrong here.
ChildOfEru··on Analog Chess
I'm just reminded of the last line of the README.md

"I am in Electrical Engineering and I like writing shitty code to piss off my Computer Science friends." -- https://github.com/ehulinsky/AnalogChess/blob/main/README.md...

ChildOfEru··on Peter Thiel's Religion
I have no desire to read something that starts with the premise that evangelical Christianity is true or read an analysis that accepts that premise from the start.
ChildOfEru··on Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like – not
Always interested in the abuses of regulatory capture.

Here is RELX (owner of Elsevier) lobbying spending in the US:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...

ChildOfEru··on Map of Surnames in Europe
Very fun; my grandfather came from the Isle of Jersey. The surname clusters around the Normandy area which makes sense.
ChildOfEru··on Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter
Goes into a bit about theories on the formation and a bit on the core of Jupiter. https://www.universetoday.com/14470/does-jupiter-have-a-soli...
ChildOfEru··on What Is a Nuclear Microreactor?
There are alternatives to batteries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage

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

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/first-grid-scal...

ChildOfEru··on Ask HN: Great nontech book that you read recently?
"A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924" by Orlando Figes

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014024364X

ChildOfEru··on How the Internet sees us
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...