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Anyone who's supposed to receive that money has standing and a federal judge can quickly rule that the status quo must remain while the case proceeds. The Trump administration can appeal that ruling but I think it would make it's way through the available steps relatively quickly.


The next steps are probably to cut funding anyway. I have a gut feeling that this is part of a larger power play that demonstrates that (this specific) President has no limitations on his power.


Those are transfer sizes, not sizes of the data at rest. Even transferred, the `srcset` for this image I picked at random includes a 178KB version; there's certainly a higher quality version stored, if not the original upload, something closer to it.

https://www.instagram.com/pet/p/C327eIguGRL/?img_index=1


Improvement of the ozone hole wasn't from millions of consumers making different choices, it was from government regulation and choices of the few leading corporations in particular industries.

Efficient lighting is a mix of regulation against worse lighting and individual consumer economic self-interest, lowering their electrical bill (and sometimes longer-lasting bulbs).

Neither of these are examples of large numbers of people choosing to sacrifice something for a common goal.


From the article:

> If you want to see a decent quick example of them in action, you can check out my game Jumblie and click the Settings gear button at the top.

It has the backdrop filter but it doesn't prevent page scrolling.

BTW, MDN's data on Safari's support for the unprefixed `backdrop-filter` property is wrong, it still sometimes requires using `-webkit-backdrop-filter` (works in iOS Safari 18.2.1, doesn't work in Safari 18.2 on macOS 14.7.1).


I have read the article, and saw the link, I simply thought it is so simple to actually add an example since the post itself is a web page.


That would require adding JavaScript to the page and some people don't do that in their blog, especially when it's published using a static site generator.


Your original message was "Inert should be used instead of overflow" which is incorrect because `inert` doesn't affect scrolling of the viewport. Your CSS rule example is a good way to demonstrate using the presence of an `inert` attribute on the body to determine when `overflow: hidden` should be applied to the body.

That section of the MDN article is somewhat confusing but if the dialog is opened using the `.showModal()` method, there's no need to add an `inert` attribute yourself, the browser automatically makes the rest of the page inert.

If a <dialog> that's meant to be modal is opened not using `.showModal()`, say by making it a `popover` and the `popovertarget` of a button, then you might set `inert` yourself (and remove it when the <dialog> is closed). However, you can't simply do <body inert> if that <dialog> is inside the <body> because then the dialog itself would be inert.


I was on mobile. I apologize my comment was insufficient


I'd want to pause any video playing while a dialog with such a backdrop is open.


In the case of Restream (or cases like their "stage"), thats not always doable. What about superfluous hero animations that marketing sites love to do these days? Pausing some generic canvas rendering logic is usually more annoying than you would want.


There are countless examples of police not knowing the law.

If you talk to them in person, it should be to get an idea of what they'll do, which may or may not have something to do with what's legal.

If you want legal advice, ask a lawyer with experience in the relevant area.


You don't want legal advice. You know where your stolen bike is, so you call the police. I think that's the usual process.

Probably they will verify that the bike is yours, and retrieve it, or they will say that they don't have the resources.

Are people imagining that the police will say that you can go take the bike, but then turn around and arrest you for theft?

Of course, if the police tell you "finders keepers; it's in the Constitution", then you can seek legal advice.


No. The police will offer you the option to come to the police station and fill out a report so you can get a police report number for your insurance claim. Nothing else will happen.

Police don’t usually investigate petty crimes.


> Are people imagining that the police will say that you can go take the bike, but then turn around and arrest you for theft?

People are imagining the police will tell you that you can't steal it back, when legally you can.

After all, it's the police's job to keep the peace. And things are more peaceful if I'm not busting up thieves' hideouts all guns blazing like Rambo.


I’m also imagining the police telling you that you can do something that is actually illegal, and then you get prosecuted for it. “The cops said it was ok” may not be an adequate defense.


A cop telling you it's okay to do something, and then getting arrested for it, might be one of the only times you can correctly claim entrapment.


So all Jessie Pinkman's got to do is ask the under cover police if it's okay to sell them meth and then they can't be arrested for it?

Entrapment is reserved for the police going above and beyond, eg "sell me meth or I'll kill your dog" where it can be argued that the entrapped normally would not do the crime.


Apparently there is “entrapment by estoppel” in which a government official tells you an act is legal when it isn’t. They have to be acting as a representative of the government, though; undercover cops wouldn’t count.

I still wouldn’t be very excited to try this defense in court.


> So all Jessie Pinkman's got to do is ask the under cover police if it's okay to sell them meth and then they can't be arrested for it?

No, this is about on duty police in uniform saying it's okay.


Don't you know the other rule of drug dealing? If you ask an undercover cop if they're an undercover cop, they have to tell you the truth? it's against the rules for them to lie about it.


That's a reasonable suspicion (though I think a lot of the contrarian comments are just people who want to complain about the police).

Working with that suspicion, especially given that this is HN, police saying "don't go steal it back" might still be very good advice, regardless of legal right.

For example (referring back to a scenario earlier in thread), I'm imagining a techbro crew, all jumping into one of their Teslas, and rolling up on misguided urban youth turf.

There's already a lot of misunderstanding and animosity, both ways, between stereotypes. And someone's attempt at "show of force" just escalated it. So, who will escalate the stupid further, and stab or draw a gun first.


They aren't even required to know the law.


20+ years ago, a coworker from Memphis said "y'all" was singular, "all y'all" was plural. I wasn't going to honor that but it was interesting.


As a Texan...that person's assertion makes no sense. I have never heard anyone else ever claim that y'all should be used as a singular pronoun.


Do you mean you wouldn't only use y'all for singular? I assume you would say "how y'all doing" to one person or multiple people.


I've spent a lot of time in the US South (Georgia and Tennessee) and cannot say I heard people every using "y'all" in the singular.


As the MDN article documents, you don't necessarily have to use JavaScript:

```HTML <form method="dialog"> <button>Close</button> </form> ```


I think they meant prevent the form submission on the `submit` event and use JavaScript to make the submission.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Forms/Sending...


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