PrinceWith999Enemies @ PrinceWith999Enemies @lemmy.world

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Yes.

If you're a fan of mindless action, if you don’t have a single brain cell in your head, this is the film for you.

It’s always someone robbing a store that gets shared. It’s never some guy in a cowboy hat stopping a store for wage theft, which is an order of magnitude or two greater drain on the economy than armed robbery.

And probably less dangerous too.

I think the faster your connection, the less you can get away with for drive space. At one point, I was living in a place where the absolute fastest available internet was 1.5 meg dsl and where my actual connection speed hovered around dialup levels. I had massive amounts of local storage because I didn’t want to download anything more than once, and nothing was more soul crushing than getting a game on dvd so I didn’t have to worry about downloading it, and then still have to wait while it downloaded gigs worth of patches. Buying a game meant days of downloading, which I’d have to let run while at work because literally nothing else could be happening while a download was occurring. I now have gigabit ethernet.

I moved completely over to a steam deck for pc gaming. I rarely even think about how long a game takes to download, even in the case of a game like BG3 (which is great, btw - it’s a shockingly legit successor to the BG franchise and this is going to be one of those games that people remember for a decade or more).

In any case, I bought a deck with 512G a few months ago, and grabbed a 1tb card for it. I haven’t downloaded my entire library onto it, much less any non-steam games, but I find that the ability to go from thinking about playing a game to playing it in about the time it takes to get and eat a sandwich vastly changes the equation. Non-AAA games download in minutes.

Anyway, upgrading your internet speed may not be something available to everyone, because many places still have crap infrastructure, and some ISPs still have data caps. Mine thankfully doesn’t because I ended up moving so much data downloading to my new deck on top of 4k video streaming that I would be blowing through it monthly.

If you can’t upgrade your speed, upgrade your storage. You can use cheaper external drives with physical platters and either store games on there that don’t throttle on low rate io, or at least store the install files for games that you can then move over to your ssd. Back in the day when a 40mb hdd was considered large, we used to write scripts that would compress and uncompress games on the fly. I think wing commander with the voice pack by itself took up most of my drive.

tl;dr Think about investing in one or a few tb of external storage.

The world is closing in
And did you ever think
That we could be so close like brothers?
The future's in the air, I can feel it everywhere
I'm blowing with the wind of change

This is just Vivek pulling back from his earlier statement in which he said Trump would definitely show up for the debate because Trump is not a coward. Now he’s saying it’s fine if Don does not show up because there’s plenty of time.

There is at least one coward in this narrative.

And honestly, this just goes to show how much of a grift running a presidential campaign actually is. No one thinks they can defeat Trump. Few are even debating him. They’re spraining their ankles in the race to show how much they love and agree with him. His political opponents.

They’re just working on their brands for speaking tours and media jobs. They’re campaigning, just not for the office of president of the united states.

I’m not sure what you’re intending to ask with this question.

Is it theoretically possible for an American citizen to take on a role that would characterize them as a legally defined enemy of the US?

Yes.

Has it happened that American citizens took on roles that made them enemies of the United States?

Yes.

Are all American citizens enemies of the United States by grace of being American citizens?

No.

Does a citizen making a violent attack against the United States with a terroristic intent or with the intent of overthrowing the democratically elected government mean that the citizen violated 14.3?

No.

Is a person who has taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and having engaged in an attempt to overthrow the government by means of force, or who has aided enemies of the United States including those engaging in such acts or attempts, fall under Section 3 and is thus barred from holding public office without a Congressional removal?

Yes.

That is not what makes their actions the actions of an enemy. They’re enemies whether or not they’re also oath-breakers. They will have to face the consequences of their actions as combatants, terrorists, or however their actions are classified. s3 is an additional bar from them again holding office, since they’ve already demonstrated their propensity to destroy that which is entrusted to them.

America’s Fuckup

So they’re not only taking felony charges for the illegal work they did, but they didn’t even get paid for it? Rudy had to have been paying his staff, right? Meaning he was actually paying out of his own pocket for the privilege of working for Trump?

When they read Trump’s statement about “Who knew healthcare was so complicated” to Bernie Sanders during an interview, he laughed so hard I thought he might fall out of his chair.

To quote George Bush after hearing Trump’s inaugural address, “That was some weird shit.”

I think that Trek plays with ideas like this by creating throw away alien races. By that I mean they’re not foundational, but rather are used as a cardboard cutout to illustrate a point for the plot of an episode.

For the tech angle, I think there’s a couple of candidates. The Bynars, for instance, had an intimate coupling of technology and society - and here I’m mostly thinking about the way they were floated in TNG.

At the other end of the spectrum you have the Pakleds. Although they have a high tech space faring society, their grasp of the science and engineering that the tech requires is… rudimentary and primitive. They’re not creating new technologies.

If your mother reminds you of MTG, you might want to think about supporting her opponent in the next election.

While the Dems do need a deeper bench, you don’t get there by trying to primary a sitting president. It’s not going to bring anyone new to the ticket. There are several problems:

1. You’re going to lose. People who primary Biden are not running because they want to be president, because they know there is not path to victory.
2. Biden is already the compromise candidate. Fox screeching about how Biden is a communist doesn’t make him one. Republicans moving so far to the right that they’ve passed over the event horizon doesn’t make Biden a communist, either. You’re not going to get republican defectors, because just being a democrat is the bad part.
3. The only thing a primary run will do is hurt the Biden campaign in the general. You can’t win, you can’t recruit more voters to the ticket.

You aren’t deepening the bench by doing that. We had a wide array of candidates going into 2020, and we decided on a center-right safe choice for electability. You don’t deepen the bench with a failed presidential bid against your party’s incumbent.

You deepen the bench by moving people from the House to the Senate with the full support on the democratic committee, replacing people like Feinstein by pushing them out the door if necessary. You do it by advancing younger people to positions of leadership in the party and in national and state congresses. You do it by making sure people like Newsom get air time and national exposure.

I support out of state progressive candidates wherever I can, and I think we need a better organizational tool for doing so. I liked it when the Pod Saves people were trying to help identify the seats that could be flipped, and I’d like to see that extend to the state governments. We need a cohesive strategy designed to take back state governments and judgeships as well as federal offices. We will not get there by running in a primary against an incumbent president.

Sand sharks always ride in single file to hide their numbers.

The last time this came up, people pointed out that the GA governor does not have pardon powers.

I agree, but I was concentrating on the Roddenberry-verse, since I think we started with the idea that it would be something apart from his conceptualization of the world-building he was doing.

In fact, I think that Lower Decks is a comedy, and one of the organizing features of the humor is poking good-natured fun at Roddenberry’s conceptualization of the universe and the Federation. It’s not outright parody in the sense of Galaxy Quest, but the non-Trekness is deliberately used as a source of humor.

I think that’s the pivot point. The US Army is worthy of endless parody and it doesn’t have to be good natured. We’ve hit a weird part of our timeline where we (as Americans) are idolizing our military as heroic icons. As someone who has been there, I’d rather go back to what we had in the 70s and 80s (not the institutionalized homophobia, but the skepticism of civilians). Starfleet was created at a time of such skepticism, and was set up in deliberate contrast as a near-utopian future. We’re coming to a different place now, where any given soldier is a selfless defender of freedom around the world but Starfleet is getting a more comedic and skeptical treatment.

Anyway, I’d really love to see the idea get a treatment, but it’d be tough to balance the Trekness with the MASHness.

The problem is that they’re not really trekking anywhere at that point. I remember that being a big criticism of DS9 when it was first airing. DS9 partially made up for it by having a very cosmopolitan setting and the occasional offworld episode, but it wasn’t until a few seasons that they were regularly having adventures off station.

Interestingly, I think DS9 was also the most war-related series, at least of the first four. Voyager had their ongoing Odyssey combat adventures, but not a larger war the way the Dominion War was portrayed. Generally speaking, wars with the Klingons or Romulans just provided context for episodic plots, not drive a multi-season story arc.

I even think there were several MASH-like episodes - stories like Nog playing medic, Jake as a war reporter, Kira being forced to evict that farmer, and some others. They showed the cruelty and absurdity of war, but of course without MASH’s humor. And I think that’s what made MASH, MASH. The bitter, jaded, drafted doctors and medical personnel using humor as a defense. It’s not war that’s non-Trek so much as that kind of human attitude (even if it did surface in later episodes of later series). There’s no Burns and Hot Lips versus Hawkeye and Trapper kind of dynamic in Starfleet.

Come to think of it, Q was a literary trickster character, like Hawkeye. They both had a bemused but sometimes quite angry disregard for authority and did what they could to show it up as absurd. That analogy never occurred to me before. Q is what Hawkeye would be given the power of a god.

Yeah, I’m just saying that arguing occupational differences being a class protected by the 14th is as bizarre an argument as I’ve heard, and I suspect it was done for the headlines. I’m shocked it was a close ruling, but then I was shocked by Roe being overturned.

Various specific restrictions on firearms and accessories have been found constitutional. I know we’re in the Calvinball version of SCOTUS right now, but this particular finding is at least in line with historical findings.

They’re called mini aux speakers. The sound quality will be absolute crap and it will stick out like a giant goiter, but they’re pretty cheap and easy to find. They used to be used for mp3 players and walkmans that didn’t have a built in speaker.

Be cautious about carrying it in your pocket. Bending over and sitting down with it plugged into your phone can put stress on your aux port and kill it, leaving you worse off than when you started.