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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Feb 28

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

What fool is this?

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

Yes

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

So in a similar vein to "I" vs "me".
"I asked X" -> thou asked X
"X asked me" -> X asked thee

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

Same basic purpose except "thee" is the object in the sentence and "thou" when used as the subject in the sentence.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

"ye" is also different to "thee", because "ye" is both formal and plural second person, but thee is always singular informal, a formality distinction that still exists in a lot of languages but is mostly gone from English now

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

Ooh, fun question. It's normally a long e before a word beginning with a vowel sound and schwa before words beginning with a consonant sound (so "this is thee orange / this is thuh banana") but it goes with sounds, not actual letters, so it's not as fixed to words as you'd think

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

Random aside but my favorite variant/pet peeve of this is modern folks pronouncing "ye olde" as "yee oldie" to sound old fashioned but is/was pronounced as "the old" because y is a corruption of 'Þ' pronounced "th" and the 'e' in "olde" was silent

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

Sort of love how we have this modern affliction of misreading old scripts through our modern expectation of type, because is *is* the modern spelling and same pronunciation; the 'f's are a long S, but it is not a different letter to the short S

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

His peacemaking skills mean an end to the war of the roses, the hundred years war, both world wars, and the war between coke and pepsi are all now peacefully resolved

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

Lolololol

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

If they don't, I will have no choice but to retaliate viciously. I will delist all the songs in Rock Band 4 *and* globally end support for Windows 10. Don't try me Norway!!

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

I too am excited to see if I won the nobel peace prize tomorrow

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5h

I would say "not even they are shameless enough to call Venezuela part of Iraq" but tbqh not sure that's even true

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 7h

Well, one of them at least

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 7h

Feel like that post is an accurate reflection of what the markets thing too, tbh

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 7h

In 2002 aumf news

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 7h

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9h

In the grand jury, no such obligation. In the trial itself, yes (ie the Brady rule)

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 9h

Yes

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, that is perhaps good for him perhaps, but very bad for public health

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 13h

Or being him

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Because a major newspaper's editorial board said it is the same thing as the president arresting people he doesn't like, and it's worth saying "no, that isn't true, these things are not similar"

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Either way, that charge became a whole mess thanks to some contorted logic in Fischer

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

"You can't look at the presidents motives to decide if the action is official, and official acts are presumptively non-prosecutable" is a fancy way of saying "virtually all acts by the president are presumptive non-prosecutable", yes

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Like they invented a "you can't look at motives in deciding the official/unofficial line" which is mechanistically how TvUS ended up creating an excessively broad immunity, but intentionally charging him for unofficial (and/or ultra vires) conduct predates TvUS

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Like one of the deranged things about TvUS is the DOJ's position was "these are unofficial acts of the president, and/or ultra vires" and SCOTUS said "official acts are presumptively nonprosecutable, but we take no position on whether the charged acts were official or not, so 🤷‍♂️"

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