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Louisiana becomes 1st state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

States can establish religions. Federal government can't.

Over the last 150 years, the Supreme Court has pretty consistently found that the Bill of Rights applies to state as well as federal government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

See especially https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everson_v._Board_of_Education:

Everson v. Board of Education ... was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that applied the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to state law.

Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount | ChatGPT thinks lawyers don't get paid enough, apparently in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Automating anything blindly carries the risk of unending buckets of water or a universe of paperclips.

Nutty -- I was just chewing on that similarity myself.

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount – Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] doofusmagoo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just "El Reg's" style; they've been that way for years. Don't let their pseudoinformality fool you, though, they know their stuff.