Bahnd Rollard

Grow up…

But they copied the french, they were just less elegant about it.

You could do some division and call him .95744…

Dont worry, the people wearing the hat wont understand it anyway.

Yah… After Nixon closing the Boston naval shipyard in retaliation for not voting for him, Massachusettes has done a fairly good job at isolating itself from federal shenanigans.

They will have a rough time when the dept of education gets completely doge’d but they will fair better than many other places because this is not their first rodeo.

Seconding Sea of Thieves, its a fantastic family game or thing to bring everyone along for. There is no “leveling”, the only thing playing does is give you more fancy pirate drip. Game knowlege goes a decent way, but people just being handed a controler and told to act like a pirate will not feel overwelmed.

Calling it now, insider trading (If that wasnt obvious already, look at the market 30 min. before the announcment)

Vermin Supreme will fight this policy tooth and nail. He will not allow anyone to gum up the works of this great nation. With his pony army and mystic dental arts, he will stop this maddness before cavities take root.

Warning: this coffee enema is very hot.

Holy forking shirt balls.

Dito, still have RIF installed on my phone so every time I click a reddit link im reminded of what they did with a 403: forbidden error. I like it better over here anyway, nicer people who give a shit and fewer bots (or atleast fewer obvious ones).

If nintendo’s price points are anything similar to Lenovo’s from last week, ~50$ US of that is from darth cheeto and his tarrifs.

Not trying to be political, lemmy sorta has that covered already, just pointing that out.

(Source: Linus’s crew pointed it out earlier in the week Link)

Happy thoughts my dude.

Japan is sending us some new cherry trees for our birthday. (I know its more complicated than that, but take the little moments when they happen)

Woot

At the time of posting, he is ~5 hours out from the record.

Edit, 3 hours, I cant read clocks…

Thank you, you are a gentleman and a scholar.

I guess it is in a traditional sense, but they are very infrequent these days due to the senates rules and their collective lazyness.

IIRC the current version of the filibuster is a combination of two rules (procedural rules of the senate, not laws).

1. Votes on bills cant be done while a senator is talking.
2. You cant force them to give up their speaking time (which is how ever long they want it to be) unless 60 members of the senate vote to get them to stop.

Back in the day, you actually had to be talking the entire time, but in the senate’s lazyness they changed the rules to streamline the entire process. Someone to just say they are going to filibuster something and they have the vote, to see if the matter gets dropped or not. I think its a squares vs rectangles sorta thing, a filibuster is done with the intent to kill a bill by not allowing the voting process to go forward, this appears to be doing the same before they brought anything to vote on. The outcome is still the same, the senate does nothing.

This pokes at one of my biggest gripes with it, if there is a big guy with pearly gates upstairs, and doing good in life is a reward, does that mean you only do good things because your paid? It cheapens the entire philosophy and moral compass they proport to have.

On that topic. Religions does have philosophy, but it requires more effort than just showing up to what ever service you attend, I personally only know 3 religious people who have even read Aquinas (which is sad, because his work is a good read even if christiantiy aint your jam). For everything else religion is a crutch, its easier to scare kids into not steal things and acting with good-enough morals than it is to plonk a tomb of Plato or Confucius in front of them and tell them there will be a quiz on ethics at dinner.

Their family dinners must be fun… /s

I get you. In light of recent events I ended up looking for answers in a philosophy text book and landed on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his social contract.

There were two points to me that stuck out, the first was that Rousseau how systems of governance become increasingly difficult the larger the group (modern communication would probably make this easier) and that the public will must be inclusive of all, not exclusive.

Looking out at the US today, I feel like it utterly fails in this philosophy (even though founders like TJ were a fan of his work), and while lot of places also fail, but the US at this point in time feels completly anathema to the concept of empathy, ethics, and the public will. Unfortunatly, the solution that historically tended to go hand in hand with these enlightenment ideals also got a bit choppy with kings, fairly revolty and that is a hard pill to swallow.

IANAL, but because this was done on a third party encrypted chat app, doesn’t it also violate the federal records act or something? If this was any other administration they would have been launched out of a cannon for that alone, not just the breach in security.