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I love SwiftOnSecurity.

There’s a bunch of these huge warehouse-like caves in Missouri, some are more natural, but many have been developed. They are super valuable because of the natural climate consistency.

An example near Kansas City: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis

You’re not wrong, the problem is that the binary division was created when the initial constitution was written. And we have to function within the structure of the system as it exists now in order to improve it.

The system today suffers from a bunch of ideological debt over decades and centuries and there is a significant faction that likes that debt just the way it is because it benefits them.

One party is trying to do that and replace it with an authoritarian oligarchy, the other is trying to maintain a democracy and often improve how representative it is.

Because our first-past-the-post presidential system makes it so that it is exceptionally unlikely that any one not affiliated with the 2 largest parties can get any level of support at the federal level.

If we had a semi-parliamentary system where power was vested in the group that had the most votes in the assembly, you could see more jockeying for third parties at lower levels that still caucuses with one of the two primary parties. But as long as we have separate branches and a system where you have to get 50%+1 vote, we will only ever have 2 parties.

Erm, well, since It’s actually originally Latin, The actual acronym stands for Requiescat in Pies. 🎩

$5 says some fact checking site says it’s a lie because Trump himself didn’t sign legislation, he just put the judges on the court.

We can remember it for you wholesale.

I knew I was going to get every downvote I got. He’s got an Elon Musk-like cult of personality in some tech spheres and even implying that he’s not 100% right will get dogpiled by white knights.

I had the same experience as you and there were at least a couple opportunities where I had close acquaintances that actually knew more about topics that were more outside of his wheelhouse who confirmed that he was just regurgitating things that were common misconceptions or “close, but not quite”-type inaccuracies but doing it as though he possessed absolute authority. I’ve even seen others try to correct him on those in the past when they knew more and his responses were not the way one responds when you’re actually interested in fact over the art of the diatribe.

I don’t have anything real negative against him and he’s definitely done quite a few things that end result in a positive improvement, but I’m also thinking he’d probably benefit from a bit more humility.

There’s a group of people that are really upset that this is on the internet, honestly we’ve so soured on the use of shock imagery in general that in some countries like Sweden we’ve formed a small political party. Just look up the “Lemon Party” to see our plans on what to do about these sort of shock images.

Yeah, I was a bit slow there.

He always strikes me as the kind of person that confuses his moderately deep knowledge of a limited topic set with the type of thinking that makes him an over-confident expert on a much larger variety of topics. Like when economists start making declarations about climate change science.

Sorry, it was a joke that needed quotes, the “friend” was me. I find it vile and only good as an ingredient in other things like deviled eggs, not as a sandwich condiment itself. I am glad others (like my wife) like it, but [shivers]

That’s true for Miracle Whip too, and that stuff tastes like goblin cum (or so I’ve heard from a “friend”).

Look behind you, a Three-Headed Monkey!

Probably different if there’s a justified direct connection between the procedure and necessary care to preserve life.

So instead of providing one example, your response is “do your own research”?

Ok.

What about if George Carlin didn’t vote in this election…

I’m pretty confident he won’t be. And to make an assumption about his hypothetical practice in a situation he never encountered is simply ascribing your views to his with a false veneer of authority.

Oh, I’m well aware as my other comment indicates.