ziggurism

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[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

he was also all geared up to run in 2016, but then his son died. If I recall, Hilary Clinton actually waited for Biden to decide he couldn't run before she entered the race.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"Rollenden Königlich"? Ist das wie "Rolls Royce" auf Deutsch heißen soll?

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Article says the ceasefire was originally planned for 4 days, so they made the hunger strike coincide with the end of the ceasefire. But then the ceasefire was extended. But they went ahead with hunger strike anyway? Ok…

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this news current? Isn’t the conflict in like day 3 of ceasefire? Are they still on hunger strike?

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It’s obviously an overly legalistic and technical argument that doesn’t speak to the merits. But it’s an appeals case, you have to argue legal errors not factual ones. I’m not a lawyer and have no idea how likely it is to succeed, but I think “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” is best legal practice, so I don’t see how this filing hangs him out to dry. It’s bad optics but I don’t think is gonna matter to anyone.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Did you not read the article?

and that Trump technically did not swear an oath to "support" the Constitution. Instead, during his January 2017 inauguration, Trump swore to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution during his role as president.

You’re talking about the reasoning in the ruling by the district judge. This article is about trump’s argument in filings to the appeals court.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Here’s wiktionary:

Although sometimes used, normalcy is less common than normality in American English. It is very rarely used in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It is frequent in India and Zimbabwe however.

So it’s a regional thing.

Although the claim that in US English the “normality” form is more common does not match my experience as a speaker of US English.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I did not recognize that form and assumed it was not a word. I stand corrected.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (8 children)

the word is "normalcy"

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Lie groups are my favorite thing in all of mathematics, and gauge theory is my favorite thing in physics. E8 and all its connections to other subjects is one example of how amazing this subject can be.

It would be a coup de grace of the highest order, just the crowning intellectual achievement of mankind, if we could stumble upon a theory of everything explaining the entire Standard Model, just by fiddling around with how to fit SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) fits inside E8 or whatever.

But I guess it's not going to happen.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

you don't need a uniform distribution. if the server distribution mirrors the population distribution (and why wouldn't it?), that will still achieve the desired effect.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Do people not remember back in the 2010s when bit.ly was the main link shortener used everywhere on the internet, and then Ghadafi, the then dictator of Libya, declared the site to be incompatible with Muslin decency norms because it was used for porn? And then all bit.ly links were just dead links?

How many times do we have to learn this lesson? Domain name hacks are fun but just not worth it. And in 2023, now we have all the new TLDs. This was a dumb decision

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