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Republicans on the panel voted down a series of proposed amendments from Democrats, including one that would bar the deportation of U.S. citizens, with Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) calling it “batshit crazy” that such a resolution would even be needed to stem the tide of problematic deportations.

Beyond the immigration priorities in the bill, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) drew attention to the very last provision of the bill — one that would limit the ability of courts to enforce contempt orders issued against the Trump administration. Goldman accused the Trump administration of flouting a Supreme Court directive to “facilitate” the return of mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“You would think that [my Republican colleagues] would say, ‘Huh, let’s make sure that our president is actually following court orders, because if he’s not following court orders, then why would anyone else follow court orders – and our entire system breaks down.’ That is clearly what Donald Trump wants to do. He wants to be a king who gets to make all of these decisions himself,” he said.

Crossposted from https://feddit.org/post/11661559

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/164272

The core of the new Dungeons & Dragons rules have been released into the Creative Commons so you can use them when you publish your own D&D material

Last year, Wizards of the Coast announced that when the three core books that formed Dungeons & Dragons' updated 2024 ruleset were out, the essence of those rules—the System Reference Document, or SRD—would be made available under a Creative Commons licence. And now, it has.

This is a big deal because, while D&D's 5th edition rules SRD was previously available under the terms of the Open Gaming Licence, or OGL, it was potentially subject to revision. Letting the basics of the most popular tabletop RPG be used by third-party developers—who could sell their creations and retain the rights to them—had made more niche publications like Weekend at Strahd's and the Uncaged series possible. But when a draft of a possible restriction to the OGL leaked a couple of years ago, the community reacted with outrage.

Releasing this new SRD, version 5.2, under the Creative Commons—specifically the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0)—means it can't be taken back. And third-party publishers citing it only need to include a single sentence rather than the whole chunk of text the OGL required.

SRD 5.2 also includes more stuff than SRD 5.1 did. It contains multiple feats rather than just one, for starters. It also includes the 2024 update's weapon masteries, 20 more spells, 15 magic items, rules for playing a goliath or orc, and a bunch of additional monsters—the 2024 version of the Monster Manual added a fun rule where a troll's arm or leg could get cut off mid-fight and keep attacking you, which is now part of the SRD, as are rules for Bugbear Stalkers, Swarms of Crawling Claws, Vampire Familiars, and more.

What's not in the SRD are rules for trademarked monsters like illithids and beholders, or the artificer class, rules for bastions, or for playing an aasimar (a person who is part-celestial being, and a counterpart to the tiefling's part-fiend). "These exclusions are based on brand identity protection, licensing strategy, and intellectual property rights", Wizards of the Coast explained in its FAQ.

It's still a chunky 361-page PDF. If you're not looking to create your own D&D material but would just like to learn how to play, Wizards of the Coast also uploaded the new D&D Beyond Basic Rules to give you a way in if, say, you've put 100 hours into Baldur's Gate 3 and would like to take this thing out for a spin around a table with your friends.

Baldur's Gate 3 romance: Who to pursueBaldur's Gate 3 multiplayer: How co-op worksBaldur's Gate 3 endings: For better or worseBaldur's Gate 3 multiclass builds: Coolest combosBest RPGs: The greatest you can play now

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Yup, it’s weed. I got high. Then I ate some crackers.

Hell yeah.

7/10

It’s not even a real challenge. They’re either too easy, or they instakill, which just ruins the entire experience.

The whole, “Ahh, you thought I was dead, but now I’m changing” bullshit gets old, too. They’re granted a new, full health bar. Neat.

It doesn’t seem like they’ve done much balancing at all, unless they’ve nerfed builds. That’s about it.

Had a user here on the Tankie thread that was obviously just being contentious for the sake of it, and being insulting to users here.

I hate being that person who bans, deletes posts, etc. It seems kind of authoritarian to me. So please, lovely Lemmings, be cool to each other.

Yahoo UK has the story, but Yahoo in America says it's 404'd. 🤔

Aside from the more obvious reasons that this is terrible, I also have selfish reasons for being upset about this (I'll edit this later).

This is the first time I've smoked this strain, and holy shit, it's nice.

Pretty strong, but a nice, happy high.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39093288

The doge[.]gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”

Doge[.]gov was hastily deployed after Elon Musk told reporters Tuesday that his Department of Government Efficiency is “trying to be as transparent as possible. In fact, our actions—we post our actions to the DOGE handle on X, and to the DOGE website.” At the time, DOGE was an essentially blank webpage. It was built out further Wednesday and Thursday, and now shows a mirror of the @DOGE X account posts, as well as various stats about the U.S. government’s federal workforce.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32356197

I used ChatGPT to make a short list of major world events that have occurred since the decade I was born. The list is obviously incomplete (there's so much happening right now), but it paints a pretty decent picture of how fucked this world has been.

Also worth noting that DeepSeek stopped at 1989, cleared the list, and said, "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else." Imagine that.

•	1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in the U.S.
•	1981 – Assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan
•	1982 – Falklands War between the UK and Argentina
•	1983 – U.S. invasion of Grenada
•	1984 – Assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
•	1986 – Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
•	1986 – Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the USSR
•	1987 – Black Monday stock market crash
•	1989 – Tiananmen Square Massacre in China
•	1990–1991 – Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
•	1993 – World Trade Center bombing in New York
•	1994 – Rwandan genocide
•	1995 – Oklahoma City bombing
•	1999 – NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
•	1999 – Columbine High School shooting in the U.S.
•	2000 – Y2K scare
•	2001 – 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.
•	2001 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
•	2003 – U.S.-led invasion of Iraq
•	2004 – Indian Ocean tsunami kills over 230,000
•	2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast
•	2008 – Global financial crisis begins
•	2009 – H1N1 (Swine flu) pandemic
•	2011 – Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan
•	2014 – Rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
•	2014 – Russian annexation of Crimea
•	2016 – Brexit referendum in the UK
•	2016 – Donald Trump elected U.S. President
•	2019 – COVID-19 pandemic begins in China
•	2020 – COVID-19 pandemic spreads worldwide
•	2021 – U.S. Capitol riot on January 6
•	2021 – Taliban retakes Afghanistan
•	2022 – Russia invades Ukraine
•	2023 – Turkey-Syria earthquake kills over 50,000
•	2024 – Ongoing geopolitical conflicts (Ukraine, Israel-Gaza)

Finally got around to setting up a local Jellyfin server, then setup Tailscale to access it remotely while I'm out.

Setup was super easy — way easier than I anticipated — including the basic setup of Tailscale.

All those poor idiots who voted for these people are being duped by the very people that they trust. You love to see it.

Edit: This isn't a complaint; just an observation.

Totally random thought, but I see so many people wandering around down voting regular posts that are pretty benign. I also see this a lot on another message board that I'm on.

Disagreeing with people is totally fine, and down voting them as a form of disagreeing makes total sense. But with the nature of some of the posts, down voting just seems completely pointless, so I'm wondering if it's just trolls going around being negative. 

I'm going to preemptively down vote this post. 

More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time.

Trump acting like his Austrian-born idol. God, I hate this timeline.

I don't expect this community to actually go anywhere, since it's basically a repository for random stuff I find interesting.

But! In the unlikely event that it picks up, please be cool to each other.