At this point I dont think anyone could fault California for taking their ball and going home. God knows the western half of the country would probably go with them, solving any potential water issues.

It feels like were headed for civil war 2.0

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an FBI SWAT team smashed in a front door and set off a flashbang grenade, pointing guns at a couple and terrifying a 7-year-old boy before realizing they were in the wrong house.

The FBI team quickly apologized and left for the right place, with the team leader later saying that his personal GPS device had led him to the wrong address

Imagine breaching someones house, flashbanging them, and pointing guns at them and then just being like “ope, sorry” as if you are a pizza driver knocking the wrong door

Any military member who is court marshaled has a JAG representing them, just like there is a JAG prosecuting them. A system that gives you someone with far more time to deal with your case than a public defender, and even some private attorneys.

Like the movie A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise is a JAG

It’s because of that new update where they fucked up the task bar. Look what youve done, Bill

A “landslide” (which it wasnt even lmao) propped up by 10-100x the normal percentage of bullet ballots? For the first time ever in the history of our electoral system.

Bullet ballots normally are 0.1-1% of all ballots cast in any given district. In many key districts in swing states they made up 10% of the ballots cast. 10%! That is a statistically impossible increase without some kind of explanation. Like if there had been an entire movement pushing for people to only vote trump and not for the party at large.

But hold on, there was supposed to be a “mandate” given to the republican party. Then why would so many trump voters only vote for trump and nobody else? Because it was bullshit.

It would be relatively simple to manipulate the machines to scan a ballot, then wipe all of the selections, and fill in only one selection for the presidential ballot. The presidential ballot is the only election that is ubiquitous across all districts. They couldnt make something complicated enough to properly fill in every ballot, so they went with the hack and slash version. The end result is 10-100x the normal number of bullet ballots that we would normally see anywhere.

Logical proof? Who the fuck bothers to wait in line to vote and then only votes for President and nothing else? The role that arguably has the least direct impact on anyones daily life, in comparison to local and state government

Or how about the fact that every runoff race so far in places that went to Trump, based heavily on bullet ballots, has consistently resulted in a democratic candidate being elected? Does that not seem odd? Supposedly trump loving country like Iowa voting for democrats? Looks a lot like those expert polls showing Iowa would go blue were 100% on the money. Foul play has never been so mathematically obvious

Maine and Minnesota being on the list of ivermectin nutjob states is not great. Of all the M states, Missouri is off but those two are on?

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

Libertarian attempts make it pretty obvious why libertarianism fails wholesale. Everybody says “live and let live” at first, but as the author notes in that article it must inevitably devolve into “arguments over who is living free in the correct way”. Which is blatantly antithetical to the concept they started from.

And if they didnt devolve into those arguments, then they would just all drown in a sea of trash and angry bears. Libertarianism is fundamentally flawed and inherently lose-lose no matter how it plays out. Governance is actually important. Whoda thunk?

Everyone cant just be free of their neighbor. If your neighbor feeds the bears you will deal with the consequences too. Probably worse ones, since you arent so friendly with the bears (from the bear perspective)

ChatGPT must adhere honorably to the rules that its making up on the spot. Thats Dallas

Yes but the powers are being enacted in furtherance of the emergency, not in hindrance of it

Google AI recently told me that capybaras and caimans have a symbiotic relationship where the caimans protect them so they can eat their feces

An alliability one might say

Waxing the crokinole board must be something one could find on canadiansexacts .org

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Most substances that have any kind of enjoyable aspect tend to be very bitter and have an alkaline taste. Think of like coffee, we cut it with stuff or sweeten it with sugar. Pure alcohol would taste terrible, thats why we have beer, wine, and spirits. Its all alcohol but nowhere near entirely alcohol.

Also, not all substances are able to be used by your body in same way or with nearly the same level of efficacy. Some things have high bioavailability when snorted, like cocaine, but many things have no bioavailability when snorted (even if they do when consumed orally). Likewise you cant smoke just anything, as not everything can be absorbed through your lungs

That said, sugar and salt are probably the most commonly eaten substances that also jack up our dopamine levels. We just dont think of that as drug use. Spicy food can also be just as addictive, as eating really spicy food releases a lot of endorphins and makes some people feel great. Is that substance use? I think most people would say no, because were also doing it for the flavor. But my nervous system would say yes

They dont have to do anything, they arent looting. The cops are visibly watching the people who are looting the gas station. The cops can still go after those people later. No one really cares to make a fucking scene out of a bunch of chips and pop getting stolen. The protesters have no reason to stop protesting

“America was founded as a christian country”

You mean back when Christian people were so rabid that they thought of Catholics, the OG jesus folks, the way this lady sees any non-christian religion?

Maryland was created as the birthplace of religious freedom in this country specifically because catholics had nowhere else to go in the colonies without getting harassed. Ultimately, the concept of religious freedom would be elevated to a higher place of importance than christian snobbery by the time America was forming a country. Religious freedom was part of escaping the thumb of the King of England and other monarchs.

So, on the one hand, Miller is truly going old school by being a bigoted fuckhead. But on the other, she seems to have no idea that “America” would not exist if people hadnt been willing to tell the bigoted majority of protestants to shut the fuck up, and force them to live and let live

Are children the target audience of the article?

Are children likely to be detained independently of a guardian?

My birth certificate doesnt have a photo of me on it either.

DLs and other photo documentation are easily faked in comparison to a SSN.

My comment was meant in the assumption that you have a normal form of ID as well. While your ID could easily be faked to show your picture, only you should know your social security number. Thereby identifying the validity of your photo ID.

Regardless, many government databases should have your photo ID from drivers licenses, passports, etc, tied to your social

I have literally used only my SSN to prove my identity to a game warden before. I didnt have my ID because I was out fishing in a boat. We got checked for licenses. I gave him my social and all was good. ICE should be no different than that

Its not a “boomer” issue. Its a rich vs poor issue. The most common age group of people buying up tons of property in order to make it short term rentals are 30-40. Maybe 50. But certainly not over 50.

The short term rentals are especially evil because they take good starter housing stock off the market, reduce long term rental availability, and basically strangle every local economy that they exist in.

Apartments and normal long term rentals are largely owned by corporations at this point also. Not by boomers. Few people rent from an actual person anymore, unless its an airbnb