I prefer 239 bean soup. Yes, it must be exactly 239 beans, not even one bean more.

If 239 bean soup had even just one more bean, it would be too farty bean soup.

My code comes from the bad place

“Yeah, but only the weak ones…”

I don’t know, but I liked it anyway

I can’t take him like that, it’s against regulations

When I click that link, and go there in a browser without logging in, I only see 70ish comments listed. But I also see a lot of removed comments as I scroll down, mostly from a single user. My uneducated guess is that there was already some chicanery in the thread, which the Mods have dealt with, and you are seeing the result of that.

As far as what can be done about it, there really is little to be done, as log as Lemmy remains open (and federated). Posts and comments hop around from one instance to the other, and while some instances can take a hard line against bots some other instance can be more permissive then it becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Active, open moderation is the best cure, but takes effort.

Boring and souless AF

It’s a corporate logo, what did you expect?

Yes, that is the actual headline

Oh they’ll figure out some tortured logic to make sure they get the outcome they want while screwing over people they hate.

The funny thing is, it was not explicitly clear at the time of the founding whether things like the First Amendment applied to States at all. After all, the Constitution applied to the Federal Government, and States had their own government…

… Until after the Civil War, when the 14th amendment was ratified. You might be familiar with the 14th Amendment as it is the one that guarantees birthright citizenship. Well, that’s just it’s first sentence. The second sentence also guarantees all citizens the rights enumerated in the Constitution, making it clear that the States cannot abridge those rights.

But right now, the plain language of the 14th Amendment is under attack by Conservatives who claim that it all of a sudden does not cover people born here whose parents are not citizens. So as long as today’s Conservatives will ignore one part of the 14th Amendment, why not ignore the rest and hope a captured SCOTUS makes it all hunky-dory after the fact!

SB 2972 would require public universities in Texas to adopt policies prohibiting “engaging in expressive activities on campus between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.” Expressive activity includes “any speech or expressive conduct” protected by the First Amendment or Texas Constitution.

Let’s do the same thing with the second amendment and see how that goes over in Texas. “You have the right to bear arms, but not when you should be in bed…”

Does that make it his eye tooth?

Ladies and gentlemen, your 56th President…

Me, too. I had a whole internal discussion about which scenario would be more stereotypically French…

She said the cost would be footed by Trump himself as well as “other patriot donors.” Leavitt said construction would finish “long before” the end of Trump’s term.

So since they made a point to say that, I can only assume it will really be paid for by tax dollars, and Trump’s friends will get all the no-bid contracts…

Or, this spokesman is auditioning for a gig on Trump’s PR team.

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Hah, and when this source asked the guy’s office about it the guy’s spokesman went full DARVO:

Asked about the situation, Walters’ latest director of communications, Quinton Hitchcock, responded with a pointed statement Friday afternoon.

“What an absolute joke of a story and this is embarrassing from you to write a junk tabloid lie,” Hitchcock wrote in an email. “Any number of people have access to these offices, you have a hostile board who will say and do anything except tell the truth, and now, ‘NonsenseDoc’ is reporting on an alleged random TV cable image. Rock solid truth in journalism.”

So yeah, now I’m even more convinced the guy was caught red-handed…

The new stuff is accepting payments in Venmo and PayPal.