Last time he didn’t know he had to hire his staff, he knew nothing. This time the staff was pre-organized and gathered essentially by project 2025.

That moment when Louisiana (in the U.S.) looks around and says wait, our laws are based on Napoleonic laws, we French based too right?

Israel has universal conscription last I knew and they don’t seem to give a hoot about bombing everyone. I don’t think mandatory military service makes them any less willing to go to war.

Hounding someone on something they don’t agree with just makes them shut down a conversation.

Using something like that brings the bias to light without them ending the conversation. You cannot assist someone with seeing bias in media who just blocks you. While it sucks, sometimes small steps help getting you going in the right direction.

About 1,500 liters of maple syrup

Was with you till the draft comment. I didn’t think anyone should be drafted. If the people don’t willingly enlist, either your cause is shit, or your benefits don’t offset the risks.

How I pointed something out to a family member this morning.

When Israel attacks housing units in a country it is in a “ceasefire” with, the media says they are “threatening the ceasefire.” If someone fires back. The media will say Israel is being attacked and the ceasefire was broken by the other party.

While that should seem wrong to many, it flies under the radar for many.

JD Vance said in the signal messages they don’t know who the Houthis are. So surgical operations can’t really exist unless they spot some equipment and can identify it’s purpose as being an anti ship weapon.

Really they are just bombing innocents more than likely and hoping for I don’t know what

Born in 89’. I’ve always hated PDF’s. Hey, do you want to enlarge your file for sharing? NO!

But you can make it so only people with money can edit it? NO!

Well we’ll let other people sign it for free, you just have to sit all of them down and teach them how to create a signature.

No, not that signature, that doesn’t count legally. We need you to buy a security certificate and link it to it.

Can’t I just create the cert on my computer?

Well yeah, but no one will accept it.

Fuck off me!

Decent digital currency wouldnt use much electricity and would stop hyperinflation occuring in countries experiencing extreme issues. Being that taxes are standardly on income and sales, where is it you are saying they are dodging taxes? (Bitcoin isn’t a good digital currency, but neither should a decent one be run by the country)

Recipes are just food chemistry i suppose.

A pint in the U.S. is 16oz. What’s a British pint?

For us it is 2 cups in a pint 2 pints in a quart 4 quarts in a gallon. (People seem to struggle with remembering that until you tell them quart as in quarter, or 4 in a dollar etc)

Weights are fucked, but I usually just remember 16oz is a pound. Only drug users and chemists remember 28 grams in an ounce. So an 8 ball (1/8th is 3.5 grams). And depending on where you are ranges from 110-240 dollars. So you go to the store and buy a bottle of liquor (sold in metric units, and the store owner will stupidly call it a half gallon) but it’s 1.75L, 1L or 750ml for $20-30. And you’ll pass out 2 days later super dehydrated upset you wasted all your money.

Well clearly we haven’t been efficient enough in starting conflicts with China. We need to find ways to hurt our trade with them even further

That was the Senate not Congress, but yes those are the numbers. The Senate holds terms 3x longer than Congress and thus do not represent their constituents as accurately. They are a not proportionatly representing the population which is why many believe they should be reformed. (1 member represent less than 600,000 people in Montana, while 1 member in California Represents ~19,000,000.)

So while the majority of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, where as in 2022 the majority had a favorable view, this takes much longer to get representation in the Senate. Are their representatives that vote against their constituents beliefs, sure. But when a change happens that fast it is very hard for a Representative based government to be able to move fluid enough to represent what the people want vs the payment checks coming from their campaign funders.

A dictatorship is not the answer, but we need voting systems that get accurate representation of the majority of the population much more efficiently. Unfortunately that would make us more of a democracy and the oligarchs don’t want that. Because we would vote to better the majority and shrink the wage gaps. Which inevitably makes it harder for them to control the media when they don’t have as much money to buy all of it. Making more voting go to help the people and not their pockets.

Yes support for Israel was bipartisan. With minority support of Congress to not support Israel.

Biden refused to break the law. If you want legislation to change taxes it has to go through Congress. It was 50 Republicans 2 independents and 48 Democrats for the first half and then 51 Republicans, 2 independents and 47 democrats in the second half of his administration. To fundamentally change things you either can do so legally by having majority support or illegally by overthrowing the government. Impeachment also takes at least 50% of Congress to file the articles. If Biden actually did something illegal he would have been impeached, yet while Republicans voted 50/51 against anything that mattered, they never could get all 51 of them to agree with impeachment, because Republicans were the ones who had to have agreed on EVERY piece of legislation that passed during his administration or it wouldn’t have passed. Saying he was currupt was always a publicity stunt.

I don’t think the title makes any sense. “Shift disaster prep to states”. It already is. FEMA as a federal entity cannot do anything on state property without direct assignment by the state. The states tell FEMA where when and what to do when there is an emergency. This is why Puerto Rico not having a proper plan set up was such a failure during Hurricane Maria. FEMA brought supplies, landed on airstrip. Had no legal rights to disperse any of it, and it sat for weeks. Pallets of water were on the side of the runway for a year while people had no access to clean water. I’ve been saying this for a long time, Florida has a great hurricane readiness plan. Every state should copy paste it and update it to fit it to their needs. Everything from building codes to dispersal is all put together to ensure quick efficient responses. It wasn’t long ago that Florida was a purple state with the Highest ranked Universities in the country. It’s just diminishing quickly

That and if you remember he’s been on calls with Putin for the last few weeks. Putin hired North Koreans to help invade Ukraine. NK and Russia were worried South Korea might assist in defending Ukraine. So naturally. Trump has to start scrutinizing Korea more

I installed a Linux server on an old laptop, then installed Jellyfin. It’s like a Walmart special from 8 years ago, so no graphics card outside of the integrated graphics. Doesn’t matter. I disabled sleep, and power saving settings on the Wi-Fi. I had a USB external 1tb drive hooked to it. The laptop doesn’t even have support for a 5ghz wifi connection. No issues at all. I can run 2 movies at 1080p in different rooms off the external USB drive without issue. Just go for it. I installed RustDesk on it so wherever I am I can remote to it, turn on the VPN and kick off a torrent for whatever movie someone mentioned while at work or what not. Then when I get home it’s there.

A good example is the post on here about tax brackets. Far more Republicans didn’t know how tax brackets worked than Democrats. But every mainstream language model would have gotten the answer right.