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Conservatives are genuinely such disgustingly cruel, depraved monsters. It makes me sick.

Why do the beautiful souls have to leave us, and not the ugly ones?

Ironically, the reason she refused the pardon is a reason to pardon her.

I mean, the law firm executive orders read like they were written by a first-year who flunked Constitutional Law three times in a row. If a law firm can’t appreciate how easy they would be to defend against, and what great PR a win would be, then they can’t be helped - and worse, can’t help anyone.

I remember when they switched map links to (ew) Apple Maps. That was a huge downer.

Well, that makes perfect sense. After all, America is drowning in an overpopulation of competent health workers! /s

Oh, the joys of being old! I remember the GWB years, when PBS was pressured into a Both Viewpoints era and suddenly they had “experts” extolling the virtues of Trickle Down Capitalism.

If you stand for something, like PBS has, it’s always a terrible idea to cater to the opposite. Liberal law firms that settled with the Trump administration have found that out, Target is finding it out, and PBS might do, as well.

It’s so weird that we have to go through hoops and loops to get rid of this stuff! I was sick of my Android responding to a long press of the power button, meant to shut it down, with a Gemini prompt. Took me an hour to figure out I can’t get rid of the function, but I can switch back (for now) to old style Google Assistant.

If you have to force functionality down your users’ throat despite them not wanting it, you already lost. Gemini is Google’s Clippy, just less iconic and more also-ran.

We may very well in the future, of course! But maybe at the rate technology develops, it could be smarter to start working on it when the threat becomes visible.

I venture the uneducated guess that satellite to satellite might be the next space defense frontier ahead of space to ground.

I think it’s because the threat model against which a Golden Dome defends is just not that plausible any longer. Given the distances, a space-based ground defense can only protect from long-range attacks, like ICBMs. Unlike in the 80s, the technology to intercept and destroy ICBMs safely is now probably there, but the threat of all out nuclear war is much reduced.

It boggles the mind that the only sanction for willful violation of the Constitution of the United States is a judge having to beg to have the guy brought back.

There really should be jail time for anyone in a position of power that knowingly ignores people’s rights.

Oh, great. Took them only a month and a half to decide. During that time, Trump’s tariffs have shown to be political and economic poison.

Now he gets to walk away with the threat of imposing tariffs still in his pocket (since it takes the judiciary that long to make a call), but the ability to blame “Liberal Activist Judges” if things don’t work out.

Imagine the utopia of milk and honey the USA could have been if ONLY the tariffs could have been enacted like the Constitution wanted! /s

It’s not just that kind of service. There are media properties to tariff - movies, shows, music. There is software and consulting for enterprises to tariff. There are financial services to tariff.

The USA is the biggest exporter of services in the world, by a huge margin. Trump can pretend all he wants that it’s only goods that matter, but the moment US services are going to be hit with tariffs, the wailing will begin. All his ultra-rich friends made their money on services.

Hold on to your chairs, incoming Presidential pardon!

The three commandments you mention are from the Ten Commandments, Old Testament stuff. There is one commandment listed before this one, and it’s to love God above all else. The ellipsis at the end of my quote stands for, “than these.”

There was a time, almost exactly 2000 years ago, when you could take for granted that people loved being alive and loved themselves. So much so that a source from the period said, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater […]”

Maybe the big question should not be whether someone can consent to being brought to life, but why on earth we find ourselves in a world where people question what was so obvious in the past. That is, the problem is not whether we should have children or not, but how to ensure that the children we have, love living in the world we make for them.

Never smoked anything in my life, having one side of the family wiped out prematurely by nicotine, all of them.

Lived in Colorado. The pros outweigh the cons a million to one. The biggest positive was the massive reduction in DUIs, since people drink in bars but smoke weed at home. There may be a reduction in harder drugs, too, given how much easier and cheaper it is to get weed. The tax revenue from weed sales is huge (was bigger, though) and because the laws were changed after Colorado turned liberal-ish, the money was mostly allocated to great causes.

Government loves having a law that can be selectively enforced and is broken by a lot of people. Taking it away is a huge plus, especially in times where the government is looking for easy ways to control the population. Even before now, White people caught in possession or smoking marijuana rarely got more than probation, while some Black people were three-striked for the same.

The only downside is that it still smells bad, and I am still not sure that hacking up your lungs is all that sane or safe.

Yes, it appears that young humans can have very negative reactions to weed, and that it can affect their brains negatively. That would absolutely be a problem if legalization increased week use among teenagers, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

I think the reason not cited was that he was a “DEI hire.” Being of African descent is a real career killer these days.