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seadan83 commented on ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones   techcrunch.com/2025/10/07... · Posted by u/mdhb
coredog64 · 2 months ago
"due process" means "This is the process the government must follow" and is not shorthand for "You are allowed to appeal to the USSC". I think most people would be surprised how little process is owed to someone who is not legally present in the United States and how few opportunities there are for appeal.
seadan83 · 2 months ago
The 14th amendment: "prohibits states from denying any person "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law""

The US constitution applies to all persons (people) inside of the USA regardless of citizenship. The amendment says PERSON, not CITIZEN.

Therefore it should not matter at all how that person got here, they are due the same rights and process as __anyone__ else on American soil. That is the 14th amendment of the constitution, further backed by multiple ultra-important and historical supreme court precedents that rights apply to ALL 'people' and not just 'citizens'.

seadan83 commented on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair   cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/... · Posted by u/VikingCoder
hollerith · 3 months ago
>The lend lease part is not correct. Lend lease went mostly to UK (Google AI says about 60% of lend lease went to UK

UK sent stuff to USSR, too, including probably some of the stuff they got from the US, and they delivered it to Murmansk (rather than requiring the Soviets to come get it) during which their convoys and sailors took losses from the German navy.

I heard that the USSR received $1 trillion worth of stuff in 2025 dollars from it WWII allies. The US sent advisors, too, e.g., in how to build factories.

Of course, a few years later the US was sending stuff to Germany as part of the Marshall Plan, one of the purposes of which was to build up Germany so it could resist future Soviet aggression.

seadan83 · 3 months ago
> UK sent stuff to USSR

Yes, but that wasn't part of the "lend lease" program.

The quantity of materials sent from the UK to the USSR was significant. Just it was not part of the lend lease program. (Arguably this is something better, just direct aid without strings attached).

The quantities of what the UK gave to the USSR was a sacrifice of blood and treasure: "food and raw materials, roughly £30 billion in today’s money. This included 5,000 tanks and 7,000 aircraft, while public charitable donations provided approximately £5.3 million (roughly £490 million in today’s money) in medical stores...."

"Some of these supplies were purchased in the United States (US) by the UK for delivery directly to the USSR. Most British supplies were carried by sea to Northern Russia, docking at Archangel or Murmansk, by a series of Arctic convoys, which were subject to sustained German attacks from three dimensions from powerful German forces based in Northern Norway" [1]

> I heard that the USSR received $1 trillion worth of stuff in 2025 dollars from it WWII allies

Sounds plausible (I would hesitate to repeat it without seeing the data behind the numbers). I'm curious how the number breaks down as a relative amount.

[1] https://www.geostrategy.org.uk/britains-world/telling-the-tr...

seadan83 commented on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair   cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/... · Posted by u/VikingCoder
tgma · 3 months ago
Well, First Amendment protects your rights to obscene speech too, so you just affirmed here the license terms are controlling, not First Amendment. I am not litigating this exact incident (which in all likelihood had most to do with business decisions as WSJ reports,) nor suggesting that I think what was said was overly offensive, just pointing out that the airwaves in question are much more restricted than general speech in the United States and debates over what is allowed would not automatically escalate to a constitutional concern.
seadan83 · 3 months ago
> Well, First Amendment protects your rights to obscene speech too, so you just affirmed here the license terms are controlling, not First Amendment

Nonsense. Feel free to point out how my comments about just the first amendment is related to you equating that to licensing terms.

> which in all likelihood had most to do with business decisions as WSJ reports

I am not convinced. Please provide the WSJ report. Seems the FCC chair saying "easy way or hard way" was more salient.

To boot, Kimmel is back on the air. If there were substance to the abrupt firing for business reasons, or regulatory, Kimmel would not have been reinstated.

> just pointing out that the airwaves in question are much more restricted than general speech in the United States

I do agree. The restrictions are for obscene speech generally. It is significant when that is extended to political speech.

> United States and debates over what is allowed would not automatically escalate to a constitutional concern.

Indeed. Except in this case we have selective enforcement at the behest of the government for what the government does not like. It is exactly First Amendment territory.

seadan83 commented on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately   timesofindia.indiatimes.c... · Posted by u/irthomasthomas
rayiner · 3 months ago
> Please explain the senate

The Senate is orthogonal to our discussion. It implements the federalist structure of our government, representing the states themselves. That’s why the state legislatures originally appointed Senators. We have muddled up the system through direct election of senators and should probably repeal the 17th amendment.

seadan83 · 3 months ago
The senate was a compromise to give small rural states unequal voting power compared to the more populist states.

The senate is explicitly created to give more power to minorities.

It is not orthogonal. The senate is EXACTLY the mechanism to ensure majoritarian rule is not at the expense of the minority.

The direct election vs not is not consequential. The consequential part is that states get two senators regardless of population.

seadan83 commented on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately   timesofindia.indiatimes.c... · Posted by u/irthomasthomas
sarchertech · 3 months ago
Slavery was around long before the US existed. In Ancient Rome it was much more common for slaves to buy their way out of slavery..
seadan83 · 3 months ago
Sure, but the context is America. It would have been helpful to make clear you are referring to other systems of slavery (for which i would still want to see data for).

Again, the resources I found in a quick search state about 5M slaves in Rome, and buying freedom was uncommon.

seadan83 commented on Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place   psypost.org/scientists-sa... · Posted by u/CharlesW
SanjayMehta · 3 months ago
They can be scientists on both platforms.

Bluesky is just the ideological opposite of whatever X is today, but with more blocking and censorship than even what Twitter had under Dorsey.

seadan83 · 3 months ago
I think you're assuming that dichotomy. There was an observation that Trump supporters derided liberals for loving biden. The observation pointed out a false equivalence, "the other side is doing the same thing", we love Trump, so they must love their leader too.

Or, do you some sort of systematic evidence that evaluates the politics across all of bluesky in comparison to X? I don't think there is such evidence to know that bluesy is the polar opposite of Twitter.

seadan83 commented on Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place   psypost.org/scientists-sa... · Posted by u/CharlesW
tjwebbnorfolk · 3 months ago
Ah I see. So you want to use "science" to push particular political remedies to your pet issues.
seadan83 · 3 months ago
Um, yes. Science is the best epistemology that humanity has discovered, best being as the most effective way to discover truth.
seadan83 commented on Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place   psypost.org/scientists-sa... · Posted by u/CharlesW
glitchc · 3 months ago
I have yet to observe an activist practice objective thinking. That was the root of the argument. Activists sometimes do back the correct argument, but not because they are practising scientific reasoning. Most activists are swayed by rhetoric, a good story. That's an emotional response, not a logical one.

To answer your second point, science has a process for disseminating new findings. It's not perfect, but it works. Organizations that scientists work for do pay attention to those sources, discoveries do get patented and productionized. I encourage you to conduct some research: See how many people were talking about mRNA vaccines and gain-of-function research on social media before COVID vs after. The lack of social media coverage didn't affect the science or the scientists, who had spent the past decade conducting research on the subject.

I will maintain that Twitter/X/Bluesky are not part of the scientific process, nor should they be. These platforms do not encourage objective thought or reasoned arguments.

seadan83 · 3 months ago
> I have yet to observe an activist practice objective thinking

It would be a sampling bias fallacy to draw conclusions based on your lack of observations.

Eg: "mountains, never seen them, they don't exist."

It is funny then for a geologist to be considered an activist when they say the mountains most certainly do exist.

Your first paragraph is unfounded. (Fwiw, The other two I found interesting. )

seadan83 commented on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately   timesofindia.indiatimes.c... · Posted by u/irthomasthomas
foogazi · 3 months ago
> This is terrible lack of planning.

POSIWID

This is what the system wants

seadan83 · 3 months ago
TACO tuesday?
seadan83 commented on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately   timesofindia.indiatimes.c... · Posted by u/irthomasthomas
Surac · 3 months ago
So USA demands its slaves to stay inside?
seadan83 · 3 months ago
It's worse than that. Demanding that the job creators and company growers be taxed or stay out. If a team is half H1Bs, it is not because there were Americans waiting for those jobs. These are irreplaceable people (if they could be replaced to not deal with H1B nightmares, companies would readily do so). So, the big irony is these people are job creators.

u/seadan83

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