This is why Congress passed the War Powers Resolution. It’s an open question whether the law matters.

Every President says they are not constrained, Congress says that they are. The Supreme Court says, “this is a political question, not a legal question, so the executive and legislative have to sort it out”.

Sort of. They can be, but are not always.

We have a good one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think we’re agreeing. I mean, if your neighbor paints their mailbox with a rainbow then that’s something that will make your house harder to sell.

I have a cherry wood cabinet from the 1890s that I use to store food. Every day I take a box of cereal from it and put it back.

I don’t think that raising kids was ever easy.

I think because for most Americans their home is their single largest asset - usually their only one with any resale value. So they jealousy guard against anything that might reduce the value, like a neighbor who does anything out of the blandest, most ordinary things.

Need more JPEG!

Meh. I’m over 50 and my knees are fine.

Good episode for sure. Well… most 99% Invisible episodes are good!

There’s always a chance to get swallowed by a wormhole and get retrofitted by a machine civilization.

Since Mars is one of the bodies in the solar system that might support life, I think that it’s morally wrong to send humans there. That will contaminate Mars.

We have plenty of work to do colonizing the moon and asteroids. Let’s wait a few hundred years until we have done really, really thorough investigation of Mars before potentially wiping out tue alien life that might be there.

Reality is stranger than fiction:

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I just use restic.

I’m pretty sure it uses checksums to verify data on the backup target, so it doesn’t need to copy all of the data there.

We’ve had 4 of 5 cats die before reaching 6. 😢

The 1980s were before the DMCA. In those days if you bought an expensive piece of electronics both seller and buyer expected that you owned it.

Yeah I did the same. Pity!

Yes I literally have to pay when I produce more than I use, like every day in April.

I looked into batteries, but they cost 10 times my annual power bill, and of course they wouldn’t replace all electricity, so would take like 20 years to be cost neutral.

I’m considering buying a high power laser and turning it on to consume extra electricity. I’d rather send photons back into space than pay the power delivery company.

Part of the problem is that our models of knowledge were flawed. The basis was the information deficit model; the assumption was that people were missing data, and that if they learned more they would shift their understanding.

It turns out that this isn’t a good fit for human psychology, but approaches based on it still persist today.

Another problem is a fundamental misunderstanding of world views. People on the left tend to think that equality is a good thing and should be a goal. People on the right do not believe in equality. Not in the sense that they opposed it, they literally don’t believe it is possible. So any attempt to improve the lot of the worst-off is interpreted as an attempt to disrupt the hierarchy, ultimately ending up worse off for themselves. “You’re just jealous and want to be in charge.”

I think that there are communication strategies that can work, but maybe not. Humans have suffered under hierarchy for millennia, and maybe we are too flawed as a species.

It may seem unfair that the left would have to put so much effort into communicating with the right, who doesn’t give a fuck. That’s true, but the forces of hierarchy have had many more centuries to refine their propaganda. And what the left asks is for change and growth, while the right merely asks for a return to the way humans lived for most of civilization: a powerful few getting all the benefits and most of humanity struggling to survive.

You can consider using Armbian x64, which is very similar to Ubuntu minus Snap.