Off by one error I could believe if the articles are displayed through an array and not a purely plain text in a div. Off by two error I think not.
Off by 2 and a half. It makes no sense.
Turns out, all the Republican “constitutionalists” ever meant was that they wanted to be able to yell slurs and kill brown people with impunity. They just had to hide it behind noble-sounding language until the right Nazis were in power.
“coder” (stupid person term for what I do) here: No, this wasn’t an accident.
Hear me out. They may have some shitty convoluted markup, and they wanted to make a change to make it “more maintainable” or some shit.
But it was so poorly laid out with no separation of html and CSS they needed to copy and paste it but by bit, and the junior they paid to do it wasn’t really paying attention and missed a chunk.
Possible.
Or, and I think more likely, someone used an AI agent to make some change and it deleted a whole lot of shit, nobody checked what changed and they “shipped lots of changes, they have the best changes”
I don’t think it was an amendment, so that part of the Constitution probably hasn’t changed in 200 years
People should read up on the leadership conflict currently going on at the Library of Congress.
On May 8, 2025, two days after Hayden had given testimony to the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on House Administration,[80][81] via email and without any explanation, she was abruptly fired by President Trump … No replacement of Hayden has been nominated. Principal Deputy Librarian Robert Newlen,[86] who would have served as interim librarian was fired and Trump named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting librarian of Congress and later fired the deputy librarian and copyright office director (Perlmutter and Newlen), appointing senior DOJ officials Brian Nieves and Paul Perkins as respectively, for the interim. This has been interpreted as an attack on the separation of powers.[87] Perlmutter has sued to dispute the legality of the dismissal,[88] as the Register is appointed by, and responsible to, the Librarian of Congress.
So currently there are two conflicting acting directors of LOC. One appointed by Trump, whom noone at LOC accepts, and one librarian, who does the actual day to day administration.
It is curious that the article doesn’t mention who is speaking for the LOC, they are just twitter messages by the LOC account. I bet that while the Trump sycophant has no power over any of the librarians in LOC, he is in control of the LOC twitter account and the website, with some external techbros doing his bidding, and that is all he has to play with, yet unsurprisingly enough still managed to turn everything into shit just with those slivers of control.
The actual staff of the LOC are just doing their library thing (their youtube channel has been very active lately with some knowledgeable and interesting stuff), while this piece of shit is busy doing his Trump shit.
How the fuck can Trump just fire anyone he pleases, yet when fucking Biden was in there it seemed he couldn’t even get rid of the fucking gardner???
Dems are all for following tradition. Oh sir you can only fire the gardener in the fifth Tuesday of a month. Vs Republicans who say fuck it.
Because they realize that rules are just words on paper. They mean precisely nothing when the people in charge of enforcing them are the ones who are breaking them.
Right? They are calling on states to blatantly gerrymander their districts, which is bold-face illegal and should get them immediately removed from office.
It used to be the people’s responsibility to hold politicians to account. Nixon didn’t resign because he felt bad - he resigned because his support collapsed. If you voted for a congressman or senator who refused to impeach Trump, you voted for making politicians above the law.
Still is, but you nailed it. People wanted a criminal rapist who was best friends with the world’s most notorious child predator. None of what he is, was remotely hidden, every bit of it was clear and obvious. Everything that he’s doing, is things he said he would do.
It’s still the people’s job to hold them accountable, but most people you know just wanted this (if folks couldn’t be fucked to stop this, they need gave a default stamp of approval).
Curious “coding error”. The only “coding error” I can see here is that they already prepared the site for future changes they plan, and just executed them early.
We have been working to correct this and expect it to be resolved soon
Lol, this is a static site. A 5 minute change. Even if they have a process to run all changes through review and testing before deployment (which they don’t or else this kind of “coding error” wouldn’t have happened), this is fixed same-day. They’re lying.
If it was run on like, GitHub Pages, you would do a rollback.
I have support for rollbacks in my site cause I have blue-green… I never use it, but I do have it!
review and testing
TBF, who would write a test to test whether or not parts of the fucking Constitution had been removed?
It’s sad that they think editing some html will in some way further their agenda to ignore the actual document.
And it’s sad that they might be right.
Yes, a mistake. Which just happened to wipe out the exact parts of the Constitution that the President has been ignoring.
You know what? I’m going long con on this. I think some badass Librarian deleted those sections so that we would have to acknowledge publicly that those rights are indeed guaranteed in the Constitution.
Very conveniently selected “error” I’d say.
It’s like seeing a toddler with chocolate on their face denying that they just ate chocolate.
I can fix that error for a measly $2M.
Woah, don’t low ball yourself when it comes to grifting the US government. You could easily add some zeroes to that number. Throw out enough techno babble jargon bullshit and viola $60 million contract.
The pitch could be “We’re going to build a custom AI software that will synergy with recent SCOTUS rulings via a hyperloop of information that is encrypted with 600 bit. Going to need to a quantum computer to break that encryption. Which were going to need to build. Everything will be handcrafted to AI specifications. The custom AI that will be built.”
I’ll ensure HTML 2.0 compliance for $1 billion. You have to have that certification icon. :)
MAGA: “Coding error.”
Translation: “The intent was to mark those sections deprecated for future deletion, but due to incompetence, the future version was published instead. We will revert that change until the legal formalities have been resolved.”
“The dog ate the cookies!” said the toddler caught with chocolate on his face and his arm in the jar.
Classic error ID10T. Happens all the time when there’s a short between the keyboard and chair.
This came up in the thread last night. Why would you dynamically load content that, practically, never changes?
It ACTUALLY never changes. Even if it’s Amended, the Amendment is an addition, nothing gets removed.
See: Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3:
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.”
It’s annotated, so it’s possible that the annotations could change.
Annotations could be a separate call based on a simple section tag with an id, very compatible.
That’s what the s html element is for:
<s>strikethrough</s>strikethrough(not to be confused with
/sfor sarcasm)you can also use markdown to strikethrough by putting two swintons on each sideswintons
Ha! That took me a little longer than I care to admit, but I actually lol’d.
Still waiting on that tag to be canonical
<sarcasm>sorry not sorry</sarcasm>The default CSS style should do a text transform to:
sOrRY NoT sorrY
AbsoFUKANlutely
That and using # for Trump headers like so:
TRUMP ISN’T RACIST, YOU’RE RACIST!
So hot right now.
So brown people can be detained and deported easier. Duh.
Because not all documents are immutable and it doesn’t make sense to have a one off system. It is the same reason that most websites use the same CMS system for the “about us” page that might change one every two years as well as every single article and calendar.
But also… having an immutable document also feels like one of the best unit/sniff tests you can have.
because this is an annotated version of the constitution with legal analyses. those texts need to be updated occasionally with new case law.
It’s almost like the base document can be loaded without annotations and never change. Then have the annotations load separately on top of the base page preventing even this odd “could be a tech issue” problem.
Don’t accept their blaming tech for it. There is no reason that those annotations should even have been updated at this particular point anyway.
I said nothing about accepting tech problems or assigning blame. it’s simply a sensible design for a website that is occasionally updated to use dynamically loaded elements.
I mean, there’s been court cases pertaining to those sections recently.
This came up in the thread last night. Why would you dynamically load content that, practically, never changes?
I would not be surprised if some 20 year old “vibe coder” touched it, since they don’t know shit about computers they made bad choices.
Yes, the correct way to display a short simple document like this is plain html with bog-standard structure and indexing/metatext markup plus device and accessibility targeted css. That is it. Any scripts or references should fail fully gracefully back to web 1.0.
