Boddhisatva @ Boddhisatva @lemmy.world

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...and he can pardon anyone who enacts his will...

Only for federal charges. If people are breaking state laws to push his agenda, he cannot pardon them. It's a little thing, but it's something.

The FBI has been trying to get out of that building for at least eight or nine years. The intention was to move to a new building in the DC suburbs but Trump killed that plan in 2017. He wanted them in that building because it was near his hotel, I gather. The FBI then put forward a plan to modernize the J. Edgar Hoover building but the cost estimates on doing so appear to not have been, shall we say, entirely accurate. I guess the new plan is just to dump the D.C. office all together. Trump is making enough on meme-coins that he doesn't care about the hotel revenue.

I honestly cannot help but assume that the Trump admin has some nefarious scheme in motion that will somehow hurt the American people and undermine the nations security, they always do after all, but that building has been falling apart for well over a decade.

Interestingly, apparently no one knows where the phrase comes from. This is a rather interesting article about the topic that lists a large number of possible origins. Two of them could be very loosely interpreted at killing someone, or well someone dying anyway.

In the days before a safety fence was installed on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, people would commit suicide by jumping from it. The deck was on the 86th floor.

and

There are those who claim the term refers to 86 inches, the standard depth of a grave in the U.S. So to 86 something is to bury it.



That second one isn't likely very true. Graves have always been referred to as 6 feet deep, which is 72 inches. Also, they're not dug that deep anymore in the USA.

None of the others could in anyway be considered a threat. I suppose it comes down to usage though. If people in some region have been using it as a threat, then maybe it could be construed that way when used by someone from that region. But it still seems like a huge stretch to me.

Fair point but I'm not sure that naming every permutation is possible. We might be better off trying to make do with charts or something.

No I haven't, actually. I was stopped by the price-tag before I ever got near one. I didn't realize they were that big.

“The head of the FBI, [and] he doesn’t know what 86 somebody means?"

He seems to have a better idea than you or any of the conservative talking heads. To 86 something means to throw it away. 86ing someone means to throw them out, or for the bartender to cut them off. I have never heard it used to suggest killing someone.

Please always remember, this woman took an untrained one-year old puppy, that she herself failed to train, to a gravel pit and shot it to death because of the fact that it was untrained. She also wrote about it in her book because she thought it was something to be proud of.

First, I would like a Ford F-150 Lightning. I looked at one once but there's no way I could afford it.

The other think I wanted to say is, GMC Hummer EV...? An EV Hummer? Really? Who is buying these? Someone who feels the need to take up as much space and use as many resources as possible but still wants to hang out with the cool kids who want to save the planet?

I think trying to define it is fairly pointless. We love what we love and we lust what we lust. Rather than defining it, I wish we could all just accept that and stop hating people for having different preferences.

It's expected to be 6.7 million kilometers away from the Earth at its closest approach. The average distance to the moon 384,400 kilometers. It will be well outside that, around 19.5 times the distance to the moon?

Honest question, if the moon isn't a threat, and the asteroid's path is confidently calculated, is this really a dangerous asteroid? Or is it only considered dangerous because in some distant century it might hit Earth?

Thanks. I did read it. Hence my comment.

This law, misguided as it is, is based on the proposal that all life is sacred. With that is mind, I have a modest proposal.

Since the poor woman is brain dead and the hospital has no choice but to keep her alive, there are some ways they might, um... extend the benefits of keeping her alive beyond the immediate area of her uterus. Her bone marrow is constantly producing life saving blood, for example, so a "donation" every few days would do her no further harm at all and the blood banks are always in need.

She also has two functioning kidneys, I assume. She only needs one to be kept alive. Anyone who is pro-life should obviously support taking one of them and using it to save another person's life somewhere, in the USA of course. Now, some might suggest taking both kidneys and keeping her alive with dialysis but I think that would increase costs and reduce efficiency. I think the hospital should wait until nearer her due date before taking the second kidney. Likewise, she has two lungs. Obviously she doesn't need both so we can take one of those right off. Since she will never wake up again, her eyes are of no use to her anymore. Those should go to someone in need right away.

Skin is always needed for burn units and she has plenty. Now, it might seem cruel to just remove some of her skin, even if she can't feel pain anymore, but I have a solution for that too. Bones and other tissue are needed just as much as skin. I recommend the amputation of her legs and arms so that the skin, muscle, blood vessels, and bone tissue can all be used to save lives. It might be best to leave one of the arms for nearer her due date though since keeping it attached for now would make it easier for the nurses to maintain IVs and make those regular blood "donations".

This is just what I've come up with off the top of my head. I'm sure professionals in the industry could come up with other ideas. Hmm, actually, it occurs to me that medical professionals might not be inclined to aid in brainstorming more ideas like these as their college educations tend to leave them somewhat liberal thinking. Most likely the state legislature will have to get involved again and come up with more suggestions.

Top of my head? Brainstorming? The ideas just keep coming. Is there any use for her hair? She doesn't need that. What about her teeth? I know she's brain dead, but that doesn't mean there isn't some brain tissue that couldn't be harvested and put towards a good use without risking further harm to the most likely already non-viable fetus.

I think it's clear that this woman and fetus' misfortune can be turned to the good of us all. I think we should all contact the Georgia state legislature and demand that they take further pro-life steps in this matter. People are suffering and dying on organ donor wait lists and the legislature has the power to step in and demand that this woman's parts be put to life-saving use!

P.S. If the fetus does end up being brain dead too... well, we can put a pin in that for now.

Debtor's prison if the GOP has their way.

"Whereas I have never met the truth and have no relationship with it at all." He probably went on to say.

Personally, I've never heard the expression to "eighty-six" something to suggest violence. It just means to get rid of it or throw it away. This is a huge waste of time, but I guess that could be the title of the memoir anyone working in this administration.

Thanks! I did not know that.

Sorry, misunderstood.

...it somehow dilutes the argument against AI ads.

I didn't think it diluted the arguement. They were just disagreeing with the prior poster. At the end, they even state:

But AI ads will make me never go back.

Nope. They'll dump him in a shit-hole detention someplace. Let him rot for a few weeks or a couple months, and then either release him to await a trial or deport him to El Salvador, claiming that his tattoos mean he's in MS-13. Why? It's not about him. It's about setting an example. The goal is to make the idea of coming to the USA so scary that people, particularly brown people, are afraid to do it. It's working too.

I don't know. You can't overdose on Vitamin C. Rubes don't like a cure-all unless it's really bad for you. Vitamin A is the new panacea.