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What would the implications of a US constitutional amendment excluding corporations as persons and the constitutional rights that affords them?
  • Many different kinds of organizations are organized as corporations. Charities, newspapers, churches, etc. If the amendment was not carefully written, it could be construed to deny important rights, such as press freedom or religious freedom, to organizations that really ought to be protected. Similarly, the protections against unwarranted search and seizure or taking of property for pubic use without compensation should probably continue to cover corporations.

    Really, the only problem I see WRT corporations having constitutional rights is the decision that political spending is protected speech. The other constitutional rights are generally not problematic.

    So maybe something like this:

    1. No person, whether natural born human or legal fiction, shall spend, donate, or otherwise make valuable contributions to any candidate or campaign, if said person is not entitled to vote in the election for such candidate or campaign.

    2. Only natural born human beings shall be entitled to vote in any election.

  • TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal
  • From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.

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  • TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk can recover broken drive partitions, PhotoRec can recover deleted files even if the partition table is borked.

  • why so much Star Trek?
  • There's an entire Star Trek instance (startrek.website) that followed the /r/daystrominstitute community from reddit during the Exodus.

  • Worf was never a fan of those PSAs
  • There are Federation time beacons. The E-D resynchronized the ship's chronometer using one after they got stuck in a time loop in Cause and Effect. They, however, did not use it when they lost a day in Clues.

  • What's the greatest videogame of all time?
  • Left4Dead2. Infinitely replayable, multiplayer without being toxic (except Versus mode), simple enough for n00bs to not be a burden most of the time.

  • What's the best way to insult someone with a gift?
  • A large bottle of cologne. Plausible gift that makes them think they smell bad.

  • Is it better to quit, or be fired?
  • You can collect unemployment after quitting if you have a good cause for quitting.

  • What's your "weird flex"?
  • I'm the building superintendent.

  • What's your "weird flex"?
  • My landlord pays me to live in my apartment rather than the other way around.

  • What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies?
  • PSA: gog.com sells versions of Armada and Hidden Evil that work on modern systems.

  • What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies?
  • The Voyage Home is the first movie I remember seeing. I was around 3 years old and my parents took me to see it at a drive in theater. It remains my favorite Trek movie.

  • What is your Star Wars hot take?
  • Because that would violate the prime directive.

  • New from Hasbrah
  • Whenever you notice something like that, Q did it.

  • Tell me your favorite line from Futurama?
  • Shut up and keep looking apologized to.

  • What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?
  • "Here come the test results: 'You are a horrible person'. That's what it says, 'a horrible person'. We weren't even testing for that!"

  • Of Biblical Proportions

    An elderly Catholic priest dies one night peacefully in his sleep after a long life of serving God, and finds himself standing at the pearly gates.

    "You were such a pious and holy man in life," began St. Peter, "that as a reward you can make one request of me before leaving behind your worldly cares and entering heaven."

    "Well," says the priest, "I'd like to read the original manuscript of the Bible."

    Even more impressed now than before, St. Peter grants the request and takes the priest to God's own private library, before leaving him to his studies.

    Shortly afterward, the priest lets out an unholy shriek. St. Peter rushes into the library and asks, "what is it? What's wrong?!"

    And through gritted teeth and streams of tears the priest cried out: "Celebrate! It says celebrate, not celibate!"

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    TIL Joe Satriani's "Crowd Chant" was meant to be called "Party on the Enterprise"

    It would have included loops of Star Trek sound effects, but Paramount lawyers said no.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Satriani#Musical_themes

    Thank you for your attention, Bajoran workers. This mandatory cultural appreciation moment has been noted on your time cards and will be deducted from your food ration.

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    What is my purpose?
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    charonn0 Melllvar @startrek.website

    Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

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