the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it?

the congress. the congress could make a law. it’s that simple. the fugitive slave act didn’t need a fucking Agency of Slave Recovery.

For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that.

i don’t think we need most of these agencies at all, but those that are needed could still be created directly under the supervision of congress. would it make their lives harder? yes. but it would also stop any autocratically-minded executive from doing what’s being done.

The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations

the marshals already existed before the fbi.

I feel there is nuance.

I have a joke that the Congress would create a department of impeachment and place it under the president. I know it’s not really a knee slapper.

congress has been abdicating since the Wilson administration (at least) and we are now seeing the consequences of those actions.

if you had elected me to be president, i’d have scuttled an aircraft carrier and a nuclear sub during my inauguration speech, and I’d be dismantling the bureau of Indian affairs, the bureau of prisons, the federal bureau of investigation, the central intelligence agency, and the NSA ( whose full name i can’t summon at the moment) just as we see trump dismantling agencies I think are mostly benign.

the problem is that Congress has had no courage for a century.

someone comes to town, someone leaves town

by cory doctorow

using an LLM doesn’t take money from artists

you didn’t even mention xmpp

thebadspace has no real rhyme or reason either and lists a lot of folks I think are fine, and also gives (almost) no reason or receipts.

the Lemmy block system works as intended. if you want some other system, use some other service. but being a federated system, you can’t actually stop the data from being visible, or someone from creating a new user and interacting, if your post is public.

I keep all the little snippets like that kind an org-mode file, and write notes about what I was doing and why, and org-babel can even execute the code right there in the document.

and it’s not even running a terminal!!

literally anyone asks me to set up my grill at the protest. I’m down.

what’s netbird

glad my root pass is toor and not something as obvious as password123

maybe I’m just taken in by her feminine wiles

Amy Schumer. I thought she was hilarious and all the haters should go fuck themselves. I still want to think that but it’s hard.

you don’t seem to know what plagiarism is, so I don’t see the point in continuing this conversation.

if I plagiarize The Bible, that has nothing to do with copyright. it’s still plagiarism.

no it’s not. it’s an academic crime.

if you were sued civilly for copyright violations, that’s not plagiarism. That’s copyright infringement. plagiarism is something else.

plagiarism is neither a civil tort nor a criminal offense.