Yeah I see it as left open so it can swing either way depending on the election, and that worries me. As a kid I was naive, I thought we had the perfect uncorruptable government, and here we are proving even the nine people who are supposed to be the least corrupted people - are some of the most.

Goddamn people like that are the worst. They try to justify it with so many excuses. “Oh I just can’t motivate myself”, “I have problems I’m getting through”, blah blah blah. That all makes sense, and I would accommodate. Just tell me you’re going to be late, or tell me that I should get started without you. It’s plain selfishness just assuming people will wait around for you.

If you trust the courts, that works fine, but they have proven all year how the court is definitely partisan and corrupt now. The court shouldn’t swing in either direction - they should be only beholden to the constitution, and justices who take money are no longer just listening to the constitution

The real problem isn’t what this does right now, it’s how vague and open it is to interpretation. Official acts aren’t described anywhere in it, and they’re explicitly allowing other courts to decide rather than call out things that are obviously wrong for someone with that much power to do. Rather than cracking the door and opening it when needed, they swung the door wide open, and it will be up to courts to close it later. That vagueness is the terrifying part, who knows what acts will be “justified” later.

Very well thought out reply, thank you. I’m absolutely alarmed, zero people should be above the law, and I think this puts us on a very dangerous path, but if we all collect our heads we can still keep our current president, and maybe work some stuff out from there.

I’m absolutely annoyed with the Biden talk, like no he isn’t my favorite candidate. He’s just not openly calling for overthrowing democracy, so that’s my choice. I don’t worship my leaders, and in a 2 party system I just choose the least worst. He’s the least worst.

I keep thinking back to Carlin. He called it in the 90s. “We don’t have leaders, we have owners, they own you.” Two big things keep me from panic attacks right now. One is that the true owners of the country right now are corporations, and they want stability and you to keep paying, which is oddly comforting in terms of what’s going to happen. The second is that it’s not over yet, we just need to all go out and vote for the least horrible candidate we have! Huzzah!

Yep! Instead of a loofa washclothes are the thing here

But I was one of the good ones!

“It only hurts the people I don’t like” and “I would be exempt from this”.

I have no idea why any immigrant or Hispanic would want this. He’s directly targeting all of them. There are no exceptions, there’s no points you get. This is his stated platform

Ah yes, we had a friend like that. We stopped inviting that friend after a while.

God forbid they use their money to just build their own green power plants. Then the shareholders might not get as much

In America a washcloth is a small hand sized cloth you use in the shower to clean your entire body, or your face

You see it’s funny because… Ah nevermind

Yes, if you pass the gpu into the container

OH MY GOD every time I hear some Midwestern person tell me how proud they were that they drove 20+ miles (one way) to save <$1 per gallon on gas. They’re so disconnected, gas is just a requirement of living. Distance does not compute in their calculation, it’s just “yup I saved money”.

Even if you did save money, that’s an hour of driving. Even at minimum wage was it worth your time to do that?

Especially because Europe doesn’t do washclothes, so as an American I had to learn VERY quickly what they were for

Definitely. I try to make way if they’re just trying to get an honest shot, and if they’re doing it respectfully. The people who do it and get in everyone’s way doing it (like on a crowded sidewalk)? Nah, just walk right through, can’t expect everyone just to move for you because it’s photo time.

(I know this is a joke, but there are people who think this way)

I’ll never understand how people think their photo is the most important thing, and get upset when people don’t clear out of a public place for it.

It has to be one of the easiest things I’ve ever turned off. It’s not like I’m mucking with registry settings, it’s literally a toggle

The mysterious child that was never to be referenced again

I’m sure there was a threshold they had set for that, but I doubt it ever made it. For Microsoft something can’t just be very profitable, it has to be insanely profitable