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This would be giving Biden absolute power. It's difficult to predict what any specific person would do in those circumstances.

There's a lot of evidence that Biden hasn't abused power when he's received it in the past, but imagine he's given absolute power, and then Trump wins the election. And then Trump threatens Biden and his entire family.

I don't know what Biden would do in that situation, but I know what I'd do.

The Vatican said Pope Francis had approved the document, which also reaffirms its condemnation of surrogacy, saying the practice represents “a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child”.

“A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract,” the document says. “Every human life, beginning with that of the unborn child in its mother’s womb, cannot be suppressed, nor become an object of commodity.”

The ethical problems with surrogacy are real, but they're not about the child. They're about income inequality and putting adult women through a physically traumatic, dangerous, and possibly life-changing experience for money. If we were able to use artificial wombs for "surrogacy" (I know, it's technically not the same thing), I think people would see it as nothing but a new type of fertility medicine.

Why not both? They could have something on those politicians and also be envied by them.

Unless everything we know about Russian intelligence is wrong, Putin almost certainly has kompromat on many politicians. There was an article recently from a politician about how after he was elected, he started being approached by young beautiful women, and he realized after talking to other politicians just how trivial an effort it would be to get compromising material on most of them.

According to George Clooney, he always saw Trump in NY bars trying to sleep with random women in the early 2000s. Trump was already a world famous "businessman" at the time who was into politics. Exactly the sort of person Russia could target and who would be easily compromised.

The idea that a state government is unnecessarily at the mercy of any corporation is hard to comprehend. Especially, as in this case, a foreign corporation.

Open source shouldn't only be the standard for governments. It should be the minimum requirement.

Those splice type of cheats require a highly skilled player who can play well for short amounts of time.

When you look at what she's done, she's beyond obvious.

She had an order overturned early on, and then, rather than changing the types of things she's doing, she changed the format that she's using to do those things. She started using these paperless orders that are more difficult to challenge.

She's favoring Trump as much as she thinks is possible to get away with. And if Trump is elected, some have been saying that he plans to appoint Cannon to the Supreme Court.

Adams knows it won’t be easy running as a Democrat for the House in the deep red northwestern corner of Montana. The district covers northern Lincoln County, a mecca for militia members or sympathizers and doomsday preppers. Republican Donald Trump won 74% of the county vote in the 2020 presidential race.

While Adams’ campaign may look like a fruitless undertaking, he doesn’t see it that way. For him it’s a chance to tell his own story — that of an “honest weirdo” who emerged from a traumatic childhood to find his own way in life. It’s also a chance to make the case for his own vision of how democracy and personal responsibility intertwine.

You never truly know whether somebody would be good or not ahead of time, but I initially feel good about a person who is interested in politics who seems to actually think of themselves as "honest".

They literally have this tag No2NatoNo2War. "No to NATO" right when Russia is invading Ukraine and threatening nearby NATO members? They're giving their entire game away.

Another thing is that I feel like the era of the private phone number has passed. I see the use case for phone numbers for businesses, but people just don't use them very much anymore otherwise.

Like, we don't memorize them. We don't dial them. They're just entries in our contacts.

At this point, we could create an alternative way of contacting private phones. Something based on whitelisting instead of blacklisting. Something that can be easily shared but not easily guessed. Something that would be easy to trace who called you.

All of these phone scams rely on the idea that a stranger can just up and contact you without any effort. It's ridiculous. If we got rid of that, we'd save people from untold billions of dollars of scams almost instantly.

"Bi" seems an apt description of her party affiliation.

Also what's with the circle around women vs. the triangle around men? Is this some meaningful gender related symbolism that I'm unaware of?

I wouldn't even try to defend OP, but I once heard someone say that if you have more than four apples, then it is also definitely true that you have four apples.

This is an old tactic, and it's been used by the oil industry before.

Plastics are polluting our environment? "It's not the industry's fault. It's because individuals litter and don't recycle. No need to have the government regulate the industry."

If they can convince people that it's their fault, then there is no need for industry to change.

I would say that he's probably mostly in touch with reality. He just doesn't care that he's hurting people and destroying the planet because he personally profits from it.

It must be the windmills turning them gay.

There is no reason to think this would be legitimate grounds for a mistrial, although Trump's team will probably pretend like it is.

I hate this entire topic.

For one, I feel like debates are usually very important, but in this specific case, we have two candidates who have already served as President. There is no chance to learn anything about these candidates from a debate.

Not only that, but they debated before, and it was an absolute shit show. But we've already seen them debate. It's hard to imagine what benefit we'd get from repeating that mess.

And Presidential debates have been useless for decades now. They get asked a question, and if the question has any bite to it, the candidates just ignore the question and try to make soundbites from partial speeches that they prepared ahead of time about any adjacent topic.

Trump bucked that trend by not being prepared, but just being an asshole and talking stream-of-conscious gibberish over all of his opponents. Biden more than held his own last time, but it seems to me that he's become more soft-spoken lately. I imagine just from appearances, it would seem like loud-mouthed Trump would come out on top this time. But being a loud-mouth is not really what makes somebody a good President.

The thing about a cat, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes.

Cats have very expressive colorful eyes. "Lifeless black doll's eyes," would be a better description of rabbit eyes.

That's pure evil, but one part stands out, not as the worst part, but somehow still stands out.

"and they are discovered." What's that got to do with anything? If this is from the religious point of view, then surely God knows what he did, so why would it matter if they're discovered. If it's from a legal point of view, then of course you can only redress crimes that are discovered, so there's no need to include that phrase.

So, including that phrase doesn't seem to have any relevance or benefit. Conversely, including a phrase like that does imply that if they're not discovered, then God doesn't care whether anything happens to the man. The girl has been violated and lost her virginity. But since they weren't discovered, there's no penalty, even from God.

The other thing this makes me think about is, "If the penalty for breaking a law is simply a fine, then the law really only applies to poor people." So, a person who can afford fifty shekels of silver can just pick any maiden he wants to marry, as long as she's not pledged to be married, even if he's old and gross. All he has to do is something terrible and then get "discovered." This section simply seems to legalize rape for rich people.

A while ago, there was a story about a man who made pretty good money from filing lawsuits against companies that ignored his do-not-call requests. If the laws still allow it, it might be a good way to make them stop.

I believe that all he had to do was to keep notes about the businesses and numbers that called him and when he asked them to add him to their do-not-call lists.