These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.

And that’s on them, not Trump. Took you long enough to get there. — NOS4A2

But there are people willing to act on all of the above, to abide by someone else’s dictates, up until and including throwing someone in jail because he made certain sounds with his mouth. — NOS4A2

Their gag order is censorship. — NOS4A2

If others are forced to move at the sight and sound of words, what’s your excuse? — NOS4A2

What you don’t mention is all the sales and all the ads that do not influence you. — NOS4A2

I suppose that reveals more about you — NOS4A2

Are you the type that buys a product when you see an ad for it? — NOS4A2

Not a single one of them has caused or influenced a goddamn thing. — NOS4A2

Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith revealed Tuesday that they have proof an “agent” for Donald Trump tried to cause a riot in Michigan to stop the vote count in the 2020 presidential election.

Smith indicted Trump in August for his role in the January 6 insurrection and other attempts to overturn the presidential election. Smith’s team said in a Tuesday court filing that an unindicted co-conspirator, identified only as “Campaign Employee” sent text messages on November 4, 2020, to an attorney working with Trump’s campaign at the TCF Center in Detroit, where ballots were being counted.

“In the messages, the Campaign Employee encouraged rioting and other methods of obstruction when he learned that the vote count was trending in favor of the defendant’s opponent,” prosecutors said.

Joe Biden won Michigan in 2020 with 50.6 percent of the vote. Trump was just a few percentage points behind.

According to the filing, around the same time the employee sent those messages, “an election official at the TCF Center observed that as Biden began to take the lead, a large number of untrained individuals flooded the TCF Center and began making illegitimate and aggressive challenges to the vote count.” Meanwhile, Trump himself began pushing false claims about the TCF Center.

But they can let a racist DA… — NOS4A2

I may be needing to adjust my view here because there is no object. — AmadeusD

the absence of anything but that one mind exists in scenario 1. — AmadeusD

I still end up with the answer "Not existing isn't a state of affairs". It's talking about a non-state-of-affairs. — AmadeusD

So it's not like it actually frees up the use of the literal verbose name of the variable itself. It just makes it so "Ok now I have to use use '$name2' or '$variable2' instead of what comes firsthand in mind." as far as secondhand development/utilization of a framework goes. — Outlander

I agree with the statement that “something is a state-of-affairs only if it exists” — Bob Ross

Intense Israeli air strikes hit the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, including in areas where Israel had told people to seek shelter, residents and journalists on the ground said.

If you agree to that, we can put the whole issue of truth to the side and just talk about how statements refer, right? — frank

Edit: except that if you're a physicalist and you endorse correspondence theory, then for you, true statements are going to have to refer to physical things (or things that reduce to the physical.) — frank

So we're dispensing with talk of the T-sentence and directions of fit, right? We're now directly addressing this argument for moral realism:

1. premise: Correspondence theory of truth
2. Moral statement M is true.
3. because of correspondence theory, M corresponds to a state of the world.
4. therefore, moral realism.

Do you agree with that? Correspondence theory is not rooted in physicalism. It was first expressed during the "age of essence" by Aristotle. It's blind to ontological commitments. — frank

It is a fact that "santa does not exist" because what the proposition is referencing about reality is that there is no santa in it, and this is true. — Bob Ross

Instead use a prefix so it would be

$_name — Outlander

and by 'fact' I mean 'a statement which corresponds to reality such that what it refers to about reality is there' — Bob Ross

Yes. In order to know that there is a difference between two things, one must have access to both in order to compare them. — creativesoul

If they choose to break the code, even unintentionally, perhaps they shouldn't even be coding in the first place. — Outlander

I had to Google the "readonly" stipulation. What realistic (or even atypical) case scenarios can you provide that warrants its explicit use? — Outlander

class Person
{
  public function __construct(public readonly string $name) {}
}

$person = new Person('Michael');

echo $person->name;

class Person
{
  protected $name;
  public function __construct($name)
  {
    $this-name = $name;
  }
  public function getName()
  {
    return $this->name;
  }
}

$person = new Person('Michael');

echo $person->getName();

I'd much rather a default function-level based "error handling" (ie. not integer detected therefore, perform this) than a top level PHP error that breaks whatever the user is doing (and often the site or at least the specific action page in the process).

Hopefully things haven't changed too much... — Outlander

class Person
{
  public function __construct(
    public readonly string $name,
    public readonly int $age
  ) {}
}

the SQL stuff is a bit yikes to me. — Jamal

I see you're using Typescript. — Jamal

By the way, amongst the front-end frameworks, I've found Svelte to be the most enjoyable to work with. — Jamal

"One cannot move pawns backwards."

Is "objectively" true, but only in the context of playing a game of chess. Once that context is removed, it is objectively false: after all, I can move the piece backwards just as easily as any other direction. But note that the form of the sentence is no different than:

"One cannot transmute lead into gold."

Which is not dependent in its truth on any particular context.

So the question is, are the truths of moral statements context dependent or context independent? To satisfy a moral arealist such as Bob Ross I think they must be context independent. But either way, the form in which the statements are posed cannot tell you that. — hypericin

4 is required to get from the facts of hte matter, to the judgement about htose facts. — AmadeusD

If nothing existed, that would be a state of affairs that included Santa not existing. — AmadeusD

The brute facts remain:

1. We exist
2. We can be harmed
3. We can harm others.
4?????? (this is where i'm not seeing any work being done)
5. One ought not harm. — AmadeusD

Which is extant in the state of the physical world - Santa isn't in it. — AmadeusD

That is a physical state of affairs. — AmadeusD