Ill preface this by saying I have no preparations at all, but that said, in the event of societal collapse I think I would much rather have a semi full of ammunition and shit. I dont think my birth certificate or a house title will go far in the apocalyptic dystopia
Air conditioning works just like a refrigerator in that the cooling is accomplished by the compression and decompression of gas. The outside temperature has no effect on the ability of the unit to cool the inside space. Air conditioning just vents to outside, it doesnt use outside air. The same is true for a window unit as it is for a central system
It’s worth copying that whole section, rather than just the first sentence. This shit is horrific and blatantly racist
The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so. Questions can include “What is glass made of?” and “What is the name of the big staircase in Rome?” Nellemann argues that the tests are culturally specific and a poor way to measure innate intelligence. “There is a lot of stigmatisation of people from Greenland,” he says. “We don’t know why we should use these tests for parenting.”
When Keira was given the test, for Zammi, she says she was told it was to see if she was ‘civilised enough’
He even goes so far as to compare the tests to a tool of fascism. “You take only one kind of people as the ‘real’ ones. We only choose the white, or ‘real’, Danish people.”
The supreme court has discretion to elevate a case to themselves immediately if they so want to. Just like they have the discretion to refuse to hear a case at all. They just rarely exercise that discretion and mostly take cases that come to them on appeals.
So really the moment it becomes a lawsuit, the SCOTUS could elevate it to themselves (given the severity of the situation and the need for immediate resolution) and make a ruling without waiting for it to come to them on appeals.
I would assume that ruling would go exactly how you expect tho, certainly
Its the same as the election between Obama and McCain, in ways a lot of people dont realize.
Obama, by virtue of having a non-traditional name and not being white, was hounded by birthers despite being born an American citizen clear as day with absolutely no question about it.
McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone the year before people born in the canal zone were granted citizenship at birth. Arguably he was not a citizen at birth under the definitional requirements of the constitution to be president. He was naturalized as a citizen retroactively.
Palin is part native, and was pretty heavily involved with Alaska Native movements that rejected US sovereignty and thereby rejected claims to citizenship. But no one talked about that either because shes also largely seen as just being a white American.
And yet Obama, who was American thru and thru from birth without question, never was involved with Hawaiian sovereignty movements, is the one whos citizenship was questioned.
“White makes right” is the rule of law to these people
For now, the justices narrowed the lower court rulings to only block Trump’s order as applied to the 22 Democratic-led states, expectant mothers and immigration organizations that are suing
What in the “patchwork of enforcement” is this bullshit? I remember taking a con issues class like 15 years ago when the first patchwork issue was weed legalization, and how much time we spent going over the fact that having the law apply massively differently across state lines is one of the main reasons we have a supreme court in the first place; to prevent that stupidity.
Now that stupidity is the name of the game. Its the defining characteristic of our modern legal system. Weed, abortion, even citizenship… god help us all
Really if anything its just because we are a service based economy primarily. We dont manufacture much here other than two types of things: 1) specialized goods and commodities that fetch a high enough price to make paying American labor rates worthwhile; oil products, cars, complex electronics, airplanes, etc. and 2) very inexpensive things that would be a pain in the ass to manufacture millions of and then ship all the way here, like plastic containers and shit like that. And those manufacturing processes dont often involve a ton of people, like building cars or whatever.
So since we make hardly anything here compared to what we consume, we have no choice but to import a ton of stuff. Tariffs were never going to solve that issue.
If anyone with half a brain wanted to level out our trade deficit then they would have duly supported the manufacture and export goods that it actually makes financial sense for us to produce here. Even with tariffs, the economics of the situation wasnt going to push Levi’s to open an American jeans factory. For that to happen jeans would have to be so expensive no one would be buying them anyways
Not every country is quite as ridiculous with private property. For example in Scandinavian countries they have the “everymans right”, which basically says that, within reasonable limits, owning property doesnt mean no one else can pass through it or use it to fulfill basic human needs for a few days
Literally, between the GAO and Inspectors General alone there is constant oversight of most of what the federal government does. Thats not even nearly every form of oversight, those are just agencies whose entire job is finding any waste or fraud. Of course before DOGE was even started Trump first kneecapped those parts of the government.
If we want to talk about waste and fraud we should be looking at the president who spends as much time as possible golfing on his own properties, spending government money on his team staying at his own properties…
Callin it what it is