VikingHippie @ VikingHippie @lemmy.wtf

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That settles it: I'm just not in good enough shape to be a zookeeper. I think I'll be a baseball player in stead.

I like that having the link there implies that some people might not know that the civil war happened or, even more inexplicably, think that it happened indoors 😄

Except the first one wouldn't work, for the reason described above.

Banning them from holding stock would probably help a lot, though. Too bad that it won't happen as long as oil boy Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi's even more corrupt protégé are the Dem leaders of the two Chambers and their Republican counterparts continue to be even worse 😮‍💨

Yeah, exactly!

IMO, ranked choice voting, publicly (and only publicly) funded elections and outlawing partisan and otherwise discriminating gerrymandering would be much better solutions.

Will probably never happen though, since the people in charge of reforming the system are themselves amongst the main beneficiaries of the corruption inherent in the system 🤦

Yeah, the most realistic (but still extremely unrealistic) way of achieving it would be a constitutional convention.

Besides it beingunrealisticto even make it happen, that would be a horrible idea though, since there being little to no framework about exactly how it would work, which means that unscrupulous politicians (*cough& Republicans cough) could potentially add or remove several other amendments.

All that to say that this is probably the most effective method currently available. As a bonus, the SCOTUS overruling it would probably cause such an uproar that Congress would attempt to introduce a new way that CAN'T be blocked but doesn't require changing the constitution.

Pretty sure that the only check on SCOTUS has always been "just trust them, bro".

Frankly it reflects very poorly on the public debate that there hasn't been any major debates about actually doing something about that for almost 250 years, grumbling about specific decisions not really counting..

You would be right on both counts.

That being said, term limits for members of Congress to solve anything is one of those things that sound good on the surface but could actually make everything even worse.

It's supposed to decrease corruption by incumbents being less entrenched, but it could be the cause of much MORE corruption by making the revolving door between corrupt business interests and corrupt politics spin faster..

This is just an aside, but I love how oversight means making sure mistakes/abuses don't happen too much but also means mistake 😄

Absolutely.

The text is perfectly legible when you click/tap the pic rather than just rely on the preview and if the rest bother you so much, there's a link to the original under it.

You know, just debating whether to kill a volunteer in order to befriend the cult of God President Reagan for their oil. So all in all a pretty standard morning 🤷

(I'm playing Wasteland 3)

Fair enough, but how many other cake recipes call specifically for vinegar or anything containing it? I'm genuinely asking as a mystified person who doesn't bake 😄

All of. Admittedly, how well it fits depends on your accent 😄

Yeah, that literally sounds impossible 😄

What's upnilla?

I run in AD4K most of the time, but in the most demanding games, it's too detrimental to my ADFPS

Serves Rudolph right for convincing his parents, Mr and Mrs Reindeers to name their son "The Other"

Does that work? 🤷

That's actually legumes 🤷

I think that might actually be a well-written reply...

You could've told me olive that earlier!