[-] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I thought the main point of the tattletale laws was to avoid judicial review. An important part of that is to establish who has standing. If the law was enforced directly by the AG, then people could sue the office directly if they think the enforcement violated their rights. But since these laws are enforced by nosy neighbors, there is no one central body to sue to review it. They've essentially insulated these laws from ever having a judge rule they are invalid.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Trust me, we have tried. The problem is that while there was never a PayPal account verified to that email address, somehow a foreign number is attached to it. Every time we have tried to start an account with that email, the verification ping goes to that number, even though the email is unverified. We haven't found a way to tell PayPal to disassociate that number, because we never had any account attached to it to begin with.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What is someone squatted on your email, starting an unverified account attached to your email address with their phone number, but the fuckers at PayPal won't do a thing about it?

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not really, all it requires is someone to produce a signed message with one of Satoshi's private keys, which can be easily verified with the public addresses on the blockchain. Whoever produced that message can be proven to possess that private key. Nothing short of that would be believable by the crypto nerds.

If we presume that Satoshi understood that Bitcoin may be valuable one day and kept the keys private, that would mean that the signer really is Satoshi, or one of his associates or heirs Satoshi trusted wih access. Even if that person wasn't actually Satoshi, their word on who it is would be considered authoritative.

Unless it's Craig. Fuck that guy. Nobody believes him.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

What if I'm concerned that one of the candidates is a fraud?

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe so, but RFK Jr's uncle had Marilyn Monroe on his "ledger", among others, so the infidelity is in the genes.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The AI's ability to dodge simple questions proves it is ready to run for office.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Can you ask the chatbot if Donald Trump is guilty after letting it read the report?

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

What counties are they? Most EC trackers list six swing states (7 if counting NC) so it can't be more than 2-4 per state....

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 84 points 3 days ago

But obviously he did, enough people saw that and said "Yeah, That's my guy" that his net favorability rating is up 19 points. It's still negative, but the fact it went up at all is troubling.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

This is getting downvoted because it comes from a clearly partisan source in the wrong direction.

But I think it's a valid question. I think Trump will win over some Independent voters -- the selfish ones. I don't mean that to be disparaging. I literally mean that he will win the votes of people who are primarily concerned with their own interests, and can't stand when their tax money helps someone else.

You know the type - the "self-made" people who may have taken advantage of government handouts while they were building their wealth but how they they have it no longer see the need for those programs. Or the immigrant who came here "the right way", and now wants to pull up the ladder behind them.

We'll see if there are enough "I've got mine, fuck you" voters there to make up for the enthusiasm that Harris/Walz is building on the left.

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Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.

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The phrase “TRUMP TOO SMALL” stems from a memorable moment in the 2016 Republican presidential debates, during which Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made a crude joke about the size of Trump’s hands.

“And you know what they say about guys with small hands,” Rubio quipped.

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Biden’s campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates “fully acceptable to me” and joked about providing his own transportation.

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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) scolded Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during a closed-door GOP conference meeting Thursday, telling the Florida Republican to sit down when he tried to interrupt McCarthy’s remarks.

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