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How universal is this argument; giving money to politically powerless groups (19th century Irish, homeless people, jobless people during the depression) somehow makes them poorer, …

Same. But perhaps the underlying technology is a superconducting SQUID. The ability to detect a heartbeat from distance is far fetched though.

I saw this and what makes this particularly pernicious that you assume it was a fan applying ai voice to his authentic words, but you don't know. There is also an ai slop channel f…

Even if true this is irrelevant, the first amendment is agnostic to truth or good propriety.

Kamala Harris is a progressive, who by certain objective measures, was the most left senator, even further left than Sanders. Of course in the general election she moved to the cen…

You mean deep seek r1 generated this? With what prompt?

A classless society that never aspired to have or need a warrior class, to a society that inexplicably needs a "warrior class" that presumably answers to the moneyed capital class …

Or sci fi holograms?

The Seal Team 6 example is batted around because it is specifically cited by Trump's legal counsel as an official act that isn't bound by law -- the conservative Supreme Court has …

Curious how an ostensibly "conservative" court can ignore the concept of enumerated powers, the constitution clearly does not grant immunity to the President, so the conservative c…

I wonder if covid infections, perhaps in rare cases the vaccines themselves, is to blame for the post-pandemic phenomena of ADHD medication shortages, the crime wave, school discip…

Maybe. A better explanation for the slowness of the national laboratories is they their word will be taken more definitively on this issue than anyone else. They are the ones with …

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1685088625187495936.html The most immediate and interesting are improvements to generators (35%) and SQUIDS.

They claim to have observed the Meisner effect, quantum locking unique to superconductors, a pretty big signal, so more likely fraud than a mistake.

The critical temperature (Tc) >= 400 K or about 127 C, so apparently this material requires relatively high heat to reach superconductivity. This is unusual, superconductivity is a…

The Republican Supreme Court cited a new conservative legal doctrine know as the "major questions doctrine" to issue this ruling. Biden's own words aren't relevant.

The Republican Supreme Court ruled against this because it is not simpatico with their pollical beliefs. The statutory authority for Biden's actions is there, that doesn't matter b…

Biden's legal justification for student debt forgiveness was the 2003 Hero's Act, which allowed the Secretary of Education to discharge student loans debt in times of national emer…

The enabling law for this policy was the 2003 HERO's Act, which has been used prior to Biden's student loan forgiveness plan to modify loan conditions. So this policy was approved …

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China uses an ethnic quota system for underrepresented minorities for university admissions, just like India and the United States (until today).

There was hasn't been a "prior Democratic balance of SCOTUS" the SCOTUS has been firmly conservative since Rehnquist (1986) and probably before that. What is notable about this Rob…

Remember the Supreme Court upheld the legality of affirmative action in 2016 in Fisher v. UT-Austin, and two lower courts upheld the legality of affirmative action in this particul…

Judicial review has upheld the constitutionality of affirmative action policies for 40+ years, what changed is the composition of the Supreme Court and its related willingness to l…