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Supreme Court ruling shields presidents on official acts
  • According to you, a person thinking logically and operating in good faith. All an authoritarian needs now is the judge, who can be appointed by the authoritarian themselveswith little oversight, to say whatever they want to do is an official act. We have an irrefutable king again in other words

  • I'm getting old
  • The Thrawn book trilogies are probably the closest I've found to Star Wars being sci fi. There is a specific focus on real world physics in a way that is very absent from everything else Star Wars especially when they write about space battles. Only things that stay firmly fantasy and require that suspension of disbelief are, of course, the Force and Thrawns preternatural ability to read an enemy's battle tactics from their species artwork

  • The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers
  • Increasing social security taxes would be very unpopular, increasing the age for retirement would be very unpopular. There's no way to reduce the amount of money social security costs without pissing a lot of people off.

    The obvious solution to the problem is to make more citizens out of people who want to work here and benefit from everything our taxes pay for. Even aside from how much they would be paid (which should be a fair honest wage) the taxes off the top would go up faster than social security costs as long as people kept coming in and costs stayed stagnant

  • What you do when you have TOO MUCH free time?
  • I had the same thought for a while, then I started playing dnd and subsequently DMing. Now any extra mental bandwidth I did have goes to solving open-ended people problems my players give me while we're playing.

    Side benefit is I've felt more empathetic and patient with people since starting because I have to constantly put myself in a character's head when we're role-playing. I imagine that makes one seem more personable and cool to be around possibly helping with the unemployment too

  • Is climate change making Florida's flooding worse? almost certainly yes
  • On one hand I want a series of hurricanes to rip across the state making florida a barely livable swampland for a few months to perhaps shake people out of apathy and get the property investors out of the fucking housing market down here. On the other I'd like it if I could insure the imaginary house that I can somehow afford after I win the lottery please...

  • YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers
  • Oh sure servers do cost money but Google wants to have their cake and eat it to with the creators that make people actually want to use the site despite all their bullshit. Changing standards of what is and isn't not acceptable coming from the top has made every creator dance and squirm to escape the very real eventuality of having weeks of work mean nothing. Google doesn't respect the people making the product they are selling so I refuse to respect the bill they try to send me

  • Leather cuff bracelet

    Fitting a braided bracelet like this is terrible btw

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    Or maybe just sleep...

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