1/ I want to warn anyone consdiering getting an @LGUS OLED flatscreen to absolutely avoid it. After 15 years with a normal LED TV, I finally "upgraded" to an LG OLED flatscreen for Christmas 2017. Within 7 months, the screen had serious pervasive burn-in.
2/ There was a giant dark spot in the middle of the screen, as well as horizontal and vertical bars always visible on the sides and bottom. It was especially apparent against red and yellow backgrounds, and discolored most other scenes.
3/ And yes, the TV was turned off every night. The "screen shift" feature was on. And we ran "pixel refresh" - all complicated features LG includes because it knows the OLED TVs are susceptible to disabling burn-in after a few months.
4/ After three months of wrangling with @LGUS technical support, they finally replaced the front panel with a new one, around October 2018. And guess what - after less than a year, the replacement panel is suffering the same exact burn-in as the previous one.
5/ And @LG@LGUS is now refusing to do anything about it. There are lots of websites and forums debating whether LG OLED products are susceptible to burn-in. They are. In less than a year. With normal, reasonable use and all precautions taken. I strongly warn against buying them!
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1/This piece says if Repubs keep objecting in Congress 1/6 session it's "possible, though unlikely, that the business of counting the votes wouldn’t be concluded in five days, at which point the Electoral Count Act says that the recesses for debating objections to votes must end"
2/ The joint session of Congress does not go into "recess" to debate objections, however, but rather "dissolves." A recess is only when Congress is done with its business for the day. Even when Congress is barred from taking recesses, it may still dissolve to vote on objections.
3/ In other words, the Electoral Count Act ("ECA") doesn't state that "recesses for debating objections . . . must end" after five days.
1/ This piece argues based on a precedent set by Thomas Jefferson in 1800 that VP Pence should present & count only the alternate unofficial slates of electoral votes from states like PA when Congress meets in joint session to count electoral votes on Jan. 6. The argument fails.
2/ Jefferson, as VP, presided over the joint session where electoral votes from the Election of 1800 were counted. Georgia's votes suffered from several technical procedural defects that were facially apparent.
3/ As presiding officer, Jefferson had the contestable votes counted w/o giving members of Congress a chance to object. This is allegedly a precedent for allowing Pence to unilaterally count whatever slates of electoral votes he wants. But the analogy fails for many reasons.
1/ A new Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate 100,000 curbside votes is flatly wrong & should be immediately dismissed. This legally baseless suit was filed by a Republican state rep, two Republican candidates, and a voter (not the Texas Republican Party) assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2040…
2/ In my view, the plaintiffs definitely have standing (though their claims are completely meritless). Candidates have a right to have their election resolved based solely on legally valid votes, & voters have a right to not have the weight of their votes diluted by invalid ones.
3/ From there on out, the suit's a tire fire. As the Complaint itself EXPRESSLY acknowledges, Texas law specifically authorizes curbside voting if "voting inside the polling location would create a likelihood of injuring the voter’s health." Tex. Elec. Code 64.009.
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1/ Wisconsin Governor Evers order suspending in-person voting appears to exceed his power under Wisconsin law. The state lacks a broad election emergency statute empowering election officials to modify the rules governing the electoral process in response to unexpected disasters
2/ The Governor's Executive Order 74 purports to invoke the state's general emergency statute, Wis. Stat. 323.12(4)(b), which allows the governor to "Issue such orders as he or she deems necessary for the security of persons or property" in an emergency. evers.wi.gov/Documents/COVI…
3/ The problem is, Wis. Stat. 323.12(4)(b) likely doesn't let him suspend/ignore state statutory requirements, for 2 reasons. First, Wis. Stat. 323.12(4)(d) lets the Gov "[s]uspend the provisions of any administrative rule if the strict compliance" would hinder disaster response.
1/ If an act is unconstitutional, and it's "clearly established" that the act is also a crime in which officers may not engage or that dep't policy would prohibit the act, then a plaintiff shouldn't have to *also* show that the act's unconstitutionality is clearly established.
2/ The "clearly established" law prong of qualified immunity is all about notice to officers & ensuring zealous law enforcement. The Supreme Court doesn't want police held unexpectedly liable based on activist judges' unpredictable ex post facto decisions to create new rights.
3/ But if there are already binding sources of law, such as state criminal law, that clearly establish an act as prohibited, then officers already know they may not engage in that conduct. They already have adequate notice they shouldn't be engaging in such conduct.