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uiri commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way   maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker
notch656c · 3 years ago
By your logic women unaffiliated with service are excluded then. The unorganized militia, by US code, is (you can look up the code but this is pretty close) basically able bodied military age male citizens.

Throwing in all these constraint when the constitution clearly say "the people" without qualification which magically means basically everyone one place but not most everyone somewhere else seems kind of arbitrary to me, but then again the courts seem to have held up visitors aren't people so hey. This is why I'm not a lawyer because really such fuckery makes my brain melt. If I were the sole sitting justice of the supreme court I'd say the qualification is a person is one unit of people and thus they have the rights of the people. IMO if you're one of "the people" then when the constitution uses "the people" unqualified elsewhere that's you -- which by symmetry means if you can't own a gun you're not a person and have none of the other rights of the people.

uiri · 3 years ago
State law in the state where I live defines the unorganized militia without regard to sex.

At least the 7th circuit agrees with you, (United States v. Meza-Rodriguez) even if there are other federal appeals circuits that don't. So this is something that will likely go to the Supreme Court eventually.

uiri commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way   maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker
notch656c · 3 years ago
Are you sure of that? Rights attributed generally to "the people" in the constitution can be limited from being enjoyed based on immigration.

For instance, "the people" have the right to keep and bear arms but god help you if you're here irregularly or on a tourist visa and do not meet one of the exemptions. Sure non-immigrants are persons but federal law doesn't give a fuck.

uiri · 3 years ago
The second amendment is one of the few exceptions rather than the rule. It is difficult to argue for inclusion in "the people" who have the right to bear arms when excluded from selective service and from the definition of the unorganized militia.
uiri commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way   maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker
Jerrrry · 3 years ago
That's a constitutional right, and rights belong to citizens, not persons...
uiri · 3 years ago
The Bill of Rights makes no distinction between citizens and non-citizens in its text. It says that rights belong to people, not exclusively to citizens of the several States.

The Equal Protection clause protects citizens and non-citizens alike, e.g. Graham v. Richardson, 403 U.S. 365 (1971)

The first amendment protects aliens once they are admitted to the US, Bridges v. Wixon, 326 U.S. 135 (1945)

There is a right to travel that is an extension of the first amendment rights to freedom of association and freedom of expression.

uiri commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way   maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker
SOLAR_FIELDS · 3 years ago
Yes this is insane. I’m a U.S. citizen and if I’m not allowed to fly because of some arbitrary national security measure then that measure had better be public information and known before I book a ticket. If my government has denied you the right to travel without telling you why I genuinely and sincerely apologize and take responsibility because it should not work like that and ideally I should be able to vote out the people who made that decision.
uiri · 3 years ago
Why does your citizenship status matter? The right to domestic travel within the United States is enjoyed equally by everyone within the US.
uiri commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way   maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker
Miner49er · 3 years ago
That's a problem with the English language though. There's not a singular only version of "they" and there probably should be.
uiri · 3 years ago
The singular only version of "they" is "they", just like the singular only version of "you" is "you". "You" was formerly plural, with "thou" as singular, but "thou" has since fallen into disuse.
uiri commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way   maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker
ripdog · 3 years ago
I totally understand wanting to be respectful, but respect goes both ways. She needs to respect the fact that her odd pronouns are literally breaking the English language for people who want to use them.
uiri · 3 years ago
Have you considered that someone who chooses "it/its" as its pronouns is intentionally trying to break the English language with said choice? In this case, it is Swiss, and therefore it is likely not a native English speaker which could be a factor as well.
uiri commented on How to Write English Prose   thelampmagazine.com/2023/... · Posted by u/deepbow
Slow_Dog · 3 years ago
One seeks to find a clear and beautiful double-negative-free rendition of the same sentence, written by thy own fair hand. Alas, one seeks in vain, as the critic fails this test of courage.
uiri · 3 years ago
"I find most, if not all, passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne to be thoroughly delightful."

It's not hard to address double negatives.

uiri commented on Tech journalism doesn’t know what to do with Mastodon   worldhistory.medium.com/t... · Posted by u/doener
tasuki · 3 years ago
I for one am very confused about the excitement about Mastodon, and your comment made even me more so.

Is comparing Mastodon to email a good comparison? Isn't email a protocol and isn't Mastodon a piece of software?

uiri · 3 years ago
SMTP is to Postfix as ActivityPub is to Mastodon. If you're not technical enough to care about the distinction between protocol and implementation (as most users are not), then the distinction is largely academic. You can register on a server running Mastodon and communicate with anyone on any other server running Mastodon or with anyone on any server running any of the other ActivityPub implementations (Pleroma, Misskey, etc).
uiri commented on Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going (2012)   citylab.com/transportatio... · Posted by u/jseliger
maxaf · 6 years ago
I grew up in Moscow, and my family used a private car to get around the city. I always knew where I was, because I figured one day my turn would come to navigate the roads on my own.

I’m raising my daughter in Manhattan, the least car-friendly place in the US. Until we ditched transit and began driving everywhere, she had no idea where we were or in which direction we were heading. Nowadays she makes suggestions from the back seat regarding which road is best and which stops we must make on the way.

That, my friends, is anecdata; but so is every citylab article. The world can’t be described by a naive generalization that, ironically, even a child can see through.

uiri · 6 years ago
I grew up in Toronto and relied primarily on public transit growing up. As a kid, I would have a good mental model of the area around a subway station but as soon as we went underground it was like a wormhole to another part of the city. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I had a good model of how the areas around the different subway stations connected with each other.

Did you rely primarily on the subway system before you ditched transit?

uiri commented on Over twenty percent of cable TV bills are bogus fees, study says   vice.com/en_us/article/zm... · Posted by u/elorant
ceejayoz · 6 years ago
It should be noted that VATs can be implemented in a progressive manner. Give everyone (or anyone under a certain income) an exemption that covers VAT for necessities, exempt items like rent/utilities from it, etc.
uiri · 6 years ago
It's better to give some rebate. Say the poverty line for an individual is $12,000 and sales tax is 10%. If you want to exempt 1.5x poverty spending from the tax, it is better to give everyone an $1800 sales tax rebate than trying to write exemptions.

u/uiri

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