That process is more dangerous because it’s less constrictive. Going through the legislative branch limits it to one amendment and is a drawn out public process. At a constitutional convention the representatives can debate and pass anything they want to with the required 3/4 vote without public notice or input. I don’t trust our current political system not to add corporate written amendments to the constitution if they have the chance to do so without public review.

Absolutely. I usually do some gameplay straight to experience the game as intended and add cheats gradually to see how much difference they actually make but cheats are just part of customizing your experience to make the game as enjoyable for you as possible.

You’re younger than me, cheats weren’t stigmatized when I was young. Warpzones in SMBros were basically required to call yourself an experienced player and mastering the Konami code was a basic gaming achievement. I’ve always viewed learning to use cheats and exploits to be one of the things that transitioned someone from a casual player to a gamer.

They’re still in the early stages when they go after the liberals, immigrants, gays, trans, and disabled. Don’t worry, they’ll get around to openly criminalizing racial and religious minorites. They just have to ease into the more controversial targets and tactics.

Hemp derived THC was unintentionally made legal in a 2018 farm bill. These products have been available pretty much nationwide since then.

I can see covid in that graph!

With line item vetoes we’d never pass another appropriations bill and we shouldn’t. If the president can just mark out whatever he doesn’t want in a budget and keep the rest then legislative negotiations are meaningless. Influencing the power of the purse is basically the only power that the minority party has in congress and with a line item veto the only real option they have for exercising that power is to shut it down completely.

He’s pretty much directly responsible for the atc problems. Their union went on strike during his presidency and he did mass firings and union busting. It takes years to fully train and qualify an atc and the job has an incredible amount of stress. They aren’t easy to recruit and train. We’ve had a national shortage of atc since his firings. If he had negotiated with them in good faith we wouldn’t have had a sudden shortage that we couldn’t catch up from then and their working conditions would have improved making them easier to recruit and train.

Switched a bit before it shut down. Lemme.ee felt like the best fit on lemmy for me. It was well run and the devs were mostly neutral on lemmy disputes and controversies. It was exactly what I think a general use instance should be. I’m happy on fedia. It’s run in a similar way and the devs communicate with the users well and were responsive when I had an problem. I actually like fedia a little better just because I like kbin/mbin better.

I’m a little concerned for fedia though. When I came from reddit I started with kbin.social then I went to lemm.ee now I’m on fedia. I hope the curse has run it’s course.

I like Saucony. The have wide versions, are comfortable, and hold up well. I get shoes from their Cohesion series which is one of their less expensive lines. $60-$80 on Amazon.

The US has one of the oldest living dialects of English. Linguists argue whether Appalachian English is a mostly preserved dialect of 16th century Elizabethan English or an unusually conservative dialect of 18th century Colonial English.

Y’ont folks ta git back ta talkin right have em talk hillbilly.

13. There were thirteen colonies that declared independence and became the first thirteen states. Also George Washington predicted exactly that and tried to stop the formation of political parties and normalize the appointment of political rivals to cabinet positions to prevent it. Unfortunately he wasn’t successful in either of those things.

He used to be moderated at least somewhat by concern for his legacy. I think that the abortion ruling ended that. He knows that that ruling is going to be talked about in a similar manner to Dredd Scott and that it alone would nullify anything that could be argued as a restained and responsible exercise of judicial power. When you sign on to a partisan ruling that strips fundamental rights you give up on legacy. Now that that’s not a concern anymore what he’s protecting is his position in the conservative movement. He wants to make sure he stays in a position of power when the Nazis take over.

The majority of scholars agree that while Josephus likely mentioned Jesus, the more explicit references to his divinity and resurrection are the product of later Christian interpolations, aimed at enhancing the narrative to align with Christian doctrine.

https://www.bartehrman.com/josephus/

Josephus was born shortly after a historical Jesus would have died. His mentions of Jesus in his writings was from more than sixty years later when christians were an active and growing cult in the region where he lived. I agree that Jesus was likely a historical person but Josephus is only a point of evidence for it. It’s the easiest known mention of Jesus and not too much after he would have lived but Josephus’s writings are far from proof of a historical Jesus.

Momma doctor Jones is an obgyn. Chubby emu is a pharmacist who is a professor in a doctorial program and biochemical researcher. Chubby emu is especially good, his videos are presentations of case studies which includes explanations of terminology and chemical processes.

Chubby emu is still making videos. I’m not familiar with medlife crisis but I’ll look them up. I can also recommend DrMike and mamma doctor Jones.

For a long time I thought that a rotary phone was one of those old wall mounted phones with the horn that you had to crank to make a call because all of those “things people born after 19XX don’t recognize” lists had rotary phones on them. I was born after 19XX and basically everyone I knew had one of these so it couldn’t be a rotary phone.

100% was privately owned. It was owned by the monarch.

Philosophical communism, most famously described by Marx, is a utopian state where government has withered from lack of need as society evolves from capitalism to socialism to communism. That of course has never existed.

What most people mean when when they say communism is a corruption of the idea that has been used by Lenin, Mao, and others to create governments that they claimed would lead to communist utopias. Even that corrupted version requires that the proletariat, the people who sell their labor, become all of the people and be empowered as equals. It requires, at least rhetorically, that the government be subservient to the people and that the people equally control the means of production. Did any of the governments that we identify as communist ever live up to that? No state has ever actually claimed to have achieved communism, (e) in fact most haven’t even claimed to have achieved socialism. The USSR considered itself to be the most socially advanced state post 1961 and called itself a developed socialist state.

Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?

E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?

Who would throw it away? Most likely the states, possibly the military, and least likely but possible, a popular movement of the people.

In the event of the collapse of the federal government the states still have their individual governments. It’d be painful everywhere and especially painful in most red states but we wouldn’t necessarily have a total political collapse.

I do agree that it’s extremely unlikely to happen.

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