2024-06

Journal for 2024-06. Preceded by 2024-05. Followed by 2024-07.

2024-06-01

2024-W22-6, 2024-153, Sat

2024-06-02

2024-W22-7, 2024-154, Sun

2024-06-03

2024-W23-1, 2024-155, Mon

2024-06-04

2024-W23-2, 2024-156, Tue

2024-06-05

2024-W23-3, 2024-157, Wed

2024-06-06

2024-W23-4, 2024-158, Thu

2024-06-07

2024-W23-5, 2024-159, Fri

2024-06-08

2024-W23-6, 2024-160, Sat

2024-06-09

2024-W23-7, 2024-161, Sun

2024-06-10

2024-W24-1, 2024-162, Mon

2024-06-11

2024-W24-2, 2024-163, Tue

2024-06-12

2024-W24-3, 2024-164, Wed

2024-06-13

2024-W24-4, 2024-165, Thu

• I learned that the company that makes the Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Ltd (?)) went public with an IPO.

2024-06-14

2024-W24-5, 2024-166, Fri

• Created Company song article to list various company songs I have heard of.

2024-06-15

2024-W24-6, 2024-167, Sat

2024-06-16

2024-W24-7, 2024-168, Sun

• (16:01+00): Updated GNU TeXmacs page.
• (17:47+00): I made a post on the TeXmacs forum answering some questions regarding shortcut conflicts.

2024-06-17

2024-W25-1, 2024-169, Mon

2024-06-18

2024-W25-2, 2024-170, Tue

2024-06-19

2024-W25-3, 2024-171, Wed

2024-06-20

2024-W25-4, 2024-172, Thu

2024-06-21

2024-W25-5, 2024-173, Fri

• I posted List of Opening Arguments episodes to echo my personal notes on episode names and numbers.

2024-06-22

2024-W25-6, 2024-174, Sat

• (20:31+00): I made a comment about the stare decisis doctrine of Precedent in the context of explaining why the Comstock Laws have not been removed completely. In its whole, the comment was:

Laws on the books made invalid by precedent do create ambiguity. Ambiguity is problematic because it introduces an element of unpredictability to a system. The US legal system, with its Common Law tradition, deals with that ambiguity with the doctrine of stare decisis]. (Latin: Stare decisis et non quieta movere: “to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed”) which says similar court cases should be treated similarly unless a higher court determines that the precedent was wrongly decided or societal changes warrant a different interpretation. The Comstock Laws (i.e. omstock Act of 1873) generally prohibit sending any material or literature useful for or promoting contraceptives, abortion, or pornography. Over time, various Supreme Court cases have affected the applicability of these prohibitions, but have not eliminated them completely:

• Griswold v. Connecticut (1965): Married couples can use contraceptives from an expectation of marital privacy.
• Stanley v. Georgia (1969): Possessing obscene materials is not a crime in itself.
• Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972): Unmarried couples can use contraceptives from an expectation of privacy.
• Roe v. Wade (1973): Women have a right to have an abortion.
• Miller v. California (1973): Local communities may define what is acceptably lewd.
• Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992): States may indirectly deny women abortions through inconvenience.
• Lawrence v. Texas (2003): Consenting adults have privacy as far as sex between them is concerned.
• Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022): Roe v. Wade overturned. Women no longer have a federal right to an abortion.

The Comstock Act of 1873, despite being mostly narrowed over time by the above cases, has been recently applied. For example, in Texas, punishment from USC 1462 (“Importation or transportation of obscene matters”) was applied in a 2022 child pornography case in the context of sending obscene materials over the Internet. If enough Supreme Court justices decide to overturn the above cases, then the Comstock Laws could be mostly reinstated. However, the process would likely be extremely contentious and stall after enough people vote out the political faction pushing to make their lewds, contraceptives, and abortions illegal.

Basically, old laws are like legacy code; old libraries that are dependencies for many newer laws which require the version history of the entire stack to be interpreted properly. Yes, it is a baroque tangle, but until people lose faith in the judicial system and replace it in a revolution, society runs on it.

2024-06-23

2024-W25-7, 2024-175, Sun

• Added Hololive Production.
• Added List of stories that break the status quo

2024-06-24

2024-W26-1, 2024-176, Mon

2024-06-25

2024-W26-2, 2024-177, Tue

2024-06-26

2024-W26-3, 2024-178, Wed

• I made a wandering unix epoch color clock. See here.

2024-06-27

2024-W26-4, 2024-179, Thu

2024-06-28

2024-W26-5, 2024-180, Fri

2024-06-29

2024-W26-6, 2024-181, Sat

2024-06-30

2024-W26-7, 2024-182, Sun

• Added Permaband, CCP Gamesʼs in-house musical group that ended around 2019 after CCP Guard left.
• Added Electrical engineering notes.