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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I really hope they just ignore him. I understand there are significant risks and consequences here but at a certain point doing the right thing has to trump whatever possible negatives would come about from disobeying an unjust law.

    Even if you did lose your medical license and paid a hefty fine I feel like you’d ultimately be fine. There’s gotta be a doctor out there that would revel in the fact they’d be known as the kickass doctor that disobeyed Ken Paxton. I’m sure you could pivot into something else. Might even be happier and richer making a YouTube channel or TikTok clock or whatever it is the kids are doing these days.










  • Yes. Even if he declassified them first. Because, again, the classification status of the documents does not matter. They are not his property to do with as he pleases even after he declassified them. Once he was no longer president all presidential documents regardless of classification status needed to be relinquished to The National Archives for archival purposes. This was not done.

    This all being said I’m merely arguing whether or not he broke the law. Which he very clearly did and should, imo, face consequences for it. If only for how alarming it is that he stole documents pertaining to US nuclear capabilites and military plans. Even if you argue that he CAN declassify them I don’t think it should be controversial to say that he absolutely should not have done so.

    Now whether or not he’ll actually go down for it is a whole other discussion entirely. And I’m not intimately enough aware of the case to predict one outcome or another. But he absolutely should go down for it.







  • Fully agree with you. Though I can’t imagine that a hardware company like Lenovo would be able to get two TouchPads working with games in any meaningful way; at least not without direct support from valve. Valve can only do it because they developed steam input with the two TouchPads in mind. Given Lenovo’s laptop experience I’d say the trackpad on this thing is likely just a mouse and can’t be configured as something else (which like you said is still a vast improvement over all these other non-steam deck handhelds that either poorly emulate mouse input with a joystick or worse don’t have any mouse control at all other than a touch screen). Though I guess Lenovo could have their own app that configures this stuff on its own. But I doubt that would come anywhere close to being as good as steam input. I also can’t imagine how cumbersome that kind of a solution would be; not to mention the almost guaranteed issues with game compatibility it would bring.

    This seems like the right way to go for Lenovo imo without them having to invest in their own bloated software.