Yeah, but this isn't analogous to giving a kid one beer, it's more like getting them a fake ID so they can buy their own. One is a one-time event, the other is continual access.
To what, exactly? The answer to that question matters quite a bit.
Kids clearly learned this sort of behavior from cartoons. We must BAN CARTOONS! Won't someone think of the children?
No, I'm not serious, and the fact that I'm having to say that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about how utterly stupid all of this is becoming.
Or the administration could ask congress to pass a law to this effect. Like we used to do back during normal Republic times. Could have done that with the tariffs and then they'd have been legal.
Tariffs, deportations, attacks on drug boats, wars... almost all of the illegal shit the Trump administration has done could easily have been made legal by the GOP-controlled Congress. Early on in Trump 2.0 I wrote several letters to my very MAGA Senator, Mike Lee, begging him to sponsor and support legislation to do exactly that. Not because I thought the things Trump wanted to do were good but because I saw huge potential harm to the Republic if Congress just allowed the executive to flout the law.
Of course, Lee never responded to me. At all. And never lifted a finger to provide actual authorization for Trump's lawbreaking -- and, of course, Trump never asked the GOP Congress to do it.
The only reasonable conclusion is that Trump and the GOP (and SCOTUS) don't want the president to be constrained by law, and so Trump is deliberately doing all of this without Congressional approval in order to firmly establish the precedent that he doesn't need Congressional approval. He's doing the same thing now with the Iran war, having run out the 60-day clock but refusing even to ask Congress to authorize him to continue. GOP leadership is waffling, making up stuff (not found in the law!) about how the 60-day clock "stops" during a temporary ceasefire.
The truth is that Trump wants to be King, and the GOP wants him to be King. If Mike Johnson and John Thune wanted to, they could make Trump's actions lawful, but they want him to be able to ignore the law.
It'll help exactly as much as Unreal experience helps if you apply at a Godot shop.
In case your answer is "Well there aren't many Godot shops", then why is that?
Yes, but some things are universally inappropriate. The sexualization of minors, letting minors consume things that cause developmental problems, giving adults the opportunity to f-k them...
Sure, and for those really severe issues we draw hard lines in somewhat arbitrary places, based on broad averages. And for some of them we also don't get too aggressive about parents who transgress the rules in small ways -- for example, if you let your 15 year-old son have a beer on a fishing trip you're technically committing a crime but no one is going to prosecute you. The same is true for helping a kid to bypass age checks to access social media or whatever.
The government could, in theory, pay child psychologists, to gather information about the child, perform interviews and analyses and produce a recommendation/strategy...
I cannot think of anything more dystopian.
You lack imagination, then. And, how would this be any different from school counselors and similar who regularly do these same sorts of things, though typically with a focus on education rather than, say, maturity for social media use?
And we'll have a dumber populace as too many will turn their brains over to AI and have no further use for them.
Yes, it is. They have a cashier on the intake manifold and another on the exhaust. With the proper "vetting", the AI nutters can operate with impunity. I estimate a "vet" will cost several billion dollars.
Well, there's hope, la Presidenta destroys everything he touches. The only question now is how he will accomplish this. He'll do it in some unique way most people would think is too stupid to do.
They don't really. Any debris caused by Starlink are likely short lived enough that crap in the orbit will be gone by the time a replacement is launched. Also Starlink doesn't need every orbit to get complete coverage so losing a bunch is meaningless. In fact they lose on average a satellite or two *every single day* without coverage being affected. Literally several hundred satellites deorbit from their constellation every year.
SpaceX could replace them faster than Russia could take them out. That would be a war of launch capacity and cadence, and SpaceX outlaunches the rest of the world combined.
I'm curious what you think you're replying to with that? Your reply has no bearing on the actual comment you're replying to. Are you just a bot?
They were replying to me quoting Trump literally saying that he planned to do that. Even team up with Iran to do it.
So, you have to regularly drive a distance that's in the narrow range that's beyond what an EV can do, but under what an ICE can do on a single charge/fillup? OK. So it sounds like you would be best served by a PHEV (taking care of course that it's a legit PHEV that can actually drive on battery power without running the ICE engine to provide extra power to the wheels).
As for:
What else am I supposed to get from that?
Whatever you might supposed to get from that, I don't see any rational way you get "screw them."
But knowing the industry-standard tools might make the education pay off a little better.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
