[–] 7 points 5 months ago

You should try to read one! Skim it, I mean.

I haven't read this opinion specifically (and some of this probably won't apply), but generally:

They explain all of the relevant procedural stuff in detail, and even justifying how things are being handled, with citations. Then the basics about what happened, the arguments on each side. Discuss the relevant laws and relevant edge cases. They will talk about new submissions to the court, and basically tell the story of what happened legally (there was a hearing on x date, defense submitted new evidence on y date etc). Then they sort through all the bullshit as judges, saying what's accurate/a good argument and what's not. Then write their actual opinion. 100 pages is pretty standard from the ones I've seen.

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  • [–] 89 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    For anyone else wondering what the ruling was based on (other than trump being a narcissistic loser):

    In a 94-page opinion, the judge said the Kennedy Center's board of trustees, made up of primarily Trump loyalists, violated the 1964 federal law that created the center, arguing the statute makes clear "the Kennedy Center must be named for, and is meant to honor, President Kennedy alone."

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    It's definitely one of mine!

    It's quite a visceral look at how radicalization works, and how groups manipulate members and potential members through control of language, artificial camaraderie and especially, having an enemy.

    And the end is amazing. When Chakotay sees the scary looking alien (can't remember the species) on Voyager, all that fear and hatred still comes back to him even though he knows he was manipulated. Because being de-radicalized isn't just like flipping a switch. It's easier to learn to hate than unlearn it.

    Obviously it could be better - as with most Voyager eps to be honest - but it's definitely one of the ones I look forward to most on a rewatch.

    Edit: I glimpsed a comment, now nullified: the nemesis is the Kradin

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  • [–] 76 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The first [of 3 catalysts], were the deaths of five adult males and one adult female - for reasons unknown - in 2014, which could have disrupted social networks and weakened social ties across the subgroups

    They assassinated Archmonke Ferdinand!

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    It's been a while so bits of this might be wrong. Manifolds give me PTSD.

    A euclidean space is one where pythagoras' theorem is true, like on a piece of paper. Even if you roll up the paper, everything still works the same. The angles of a triangle still add to 180 etc

    But the surface of a sphere doesn't work like that. You can't fold up the paper into a sphere, it's fundamentally different. Geometry changes a bit on the surface too, and you have to modify pythagoras theorem for it to describe triangles in one of these spaces. And the internal angles don't add to 180 anymore.

    These are non-euclidean spaces, aka Riemannian spaces.

    So the meme is saying "ha ha you're in a non-Euclidean space, it just looks like that because you're small, dumb dumb! Why don't you draw a big triangle, measure the angles and then cry yourself to sleep?"

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    The meme is funny, this isn't criticism of that.

    BUT this general point always rubs me the wrong way. Do people realise how fucking big space is? The observable universe contains so many fucking planets that we don't even know exist, some of which have their own oceans we know absolutely nothing about. We have literally no idea what like 95% of the stuff out there even is (dark matter, dark energy).

    And that's just the observable universe. The rest of it likely comprises even more space than the observable universe. And that isn't "stuff we don't know yet," it's literally "stuff we could probably never know based on the laws of physics."

    Like we know surprisingly little about the ocean. That is shocking. But there is no need to make such a bizarre claim to get that across.

    OK, rant over.

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