Used to deliver. Two small, neighboring cities have a lot of their major streets named the same: chestnut, maple, things like that. Completely different streets, they never came anywhere close to each other. One city used three digit house numbers, the other used four digit numbers.

Very often, I would get sent to places 1234 Maple in Threeland, or 567 Chestnut in Fourville. Addresses that I knew didn’t exist, but the app would still place a pin and expect me to be there.

After a few confusing attempts, I learned that if I tried to deliver to the intended address, I’d get a violation. If I just “delivered” to the GPS pin, I’d get paid.

Got so much free food…

Best Buy is great.

Never thought I would ever read that. They were famous for their pushy staff. I absolutely hated going there. The last time I was in a Best Buy, Amazon was still a bookstore. I had a cart with $2000 worth of products that I couldn’t buy at Staples, Office Max, or Target. The cashier pissed me off so badly with their persistant warranty upsell that I left everything at the register and walked out.

There’s 2 choices: Literally everyone gets provided with the basic needs by the government.

Exactly. That’s where we should be right now. It’s commonly known as a “Universal Basic Income”, but it should be thought of as a “Citizenship Dividend”. The government should be compensating each of us for the use of our individual political power, much like Alaska compensates its citizens out of its Permanent Fund from oil revenue.

But being hungry should be motivation enough to work at least the bare minimum.

That’s actually a big part of the problem. People motivated by the desperation of “hunger” are willing to accept bare minimum wages without complaint. They allow themselves to be extorted, and in doing so, they drag down the wage expectations of everyone around them. Why should I pay you a living wage when I can just hire that lazy asshole at a poverty wage? You want actual money; he’d work for literal peanuts if he’s hungry enough.

I don’t want that lazy asshole stealing from me. I don’t want desperate people in the labor market, dragging down wages. I want them at home, eating Doritos, drinking Mountain Dew, and playing CoD in their parents’ basement. If the government is going to give us each a Citizenship Dividend, he can afford to buy his Doritos and Dew: I’ll go ahead and sell them to him.

The actual answer is that in western culture, it’s generally taken as a given that stealing is wrong. It’s in the 10 commandments.

So is “coveting”.

Hoarding is applied coveting, in the same way that engineering is applied physics.

And for a long time, we did indeed, understand that coveting was wrong. We implemented actual, progressive taxation to prevent it. We used to have a 91% top-tier income tax rate. We had that rate in the most prosperous decades of US history.

In a democracy, political authority flows from the body of the people to the government. All power wielded by the government is borrowed from the people. We The People invest our political authority in government, which uses it to provide services and justify the collection of taxes.

We are each owed a return on that investment: A “citizenship dividend”. That “lazy asshole” who chooses not to do anything else is already owed a basic subsistence for the use of his political authority. He shouldn’t need to steal food or do anything more for society to merely maintain his existence.

While I can’t really advise going to the USA right now, it’s not like they will confiscate cash above $10,000.

https://travelhost.com/airlines/class-action-lawsuit-to-stop-tsa-and-dea-from-seizing-cash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States

In the US, you should never have more cash on your person than you can afford to lose.

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That authoritarian crackdown will lead to an even larger anti-auth response. The reality is that the anti-auths can see and raise any authoritarian escalation, just like France did ~250 years ago.

The ruling class needs to figure out how to step back from the precipice, and fast. Bread and circuses incoming.

Guess I have to buy another paper tomorrow.

Unfortunately, they can only create that commission if the president signs it, or they have a veto-proof majority, or they send it to JD while Trump has executed Section 3 of the 25th.

Impeachment action is limited to “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”.

Impeachment is not permitted for simple incompetence.

Congress is only empowered to remove the president by convicting him of a criminal act. Congress does not have the power to remove the president for dementia. Dementia is not a “high crime” or “misdemeanor”.

To remove the president for dementia (or simple incompetence or other non-criminal disqualification) requires the 25th amendment. The VP needs the support of either the majority of the cabinet, or a majority of “some other body” that Congress has established for the purpose.

Flux. Flux. Flux. Flux. Flux.

Your joints look like mine when I don’t have any flux.

Get yourself a couple liquid flux pens, some paste flux, solder braid, and a squirt bottle of rubbing alcohol to clean up.

Flux is about 75% of a clean, perfect solder joint. Get the flux right and everything else gets easy.

Learn what “wetting” means. Compare a drop of water falling on waxed paper vs on a paper towel. The water drop does not “wet” the waxed paper; it just beads up on the surface. Solder does exactly the same thing.

If the substrate is not hot, or if it is dirty, or has an oxide layer on it, the solder will not “wet” the substrate. Flux cleans the surface and removes the oxide layer, so that solder will wet the hot substrate.

You want to look at the shape the solder pool takes at the very edges. If the solder beads up, forming a convex, ball shape, it didn’t wet the surface; it’s a “cold” joint that may fail. If it forms a concave, “dished” shape, it wetted the surfaces, and has formed a strong joint.

The trick is to get all parts of the joint hot at the same time, without overheating anything. Flux and a well tinned (“wetted”) iron make that easier.

The problem comes when a public school’s IT department is deciding whether to go with a FOSS option, or a commercial OS. As the IT team has full control over the FOSS OS, the school will be held liable as the OS provider. They will select a commercial OS to avoid liability under these idiot laws.

I agree, he likely won’t be able to hold MAGA on his own.

However, it’s also likely that this is his only chance at the presidency. If he comes to that same conclusion, he may very well take his shot.

IIRC, a few swing states have signed on. I’d count them as red for these purposes. But yeah, to make this work, they’re going to need several red states that they aren’t going to get.

Nothing in here about a commission.

There certainly is, you’re just not understanding what role that commission will perform. The commission is the “some other body” that Congress may provide to serve in lieu of the heads of the executive department.

A Congressional majority could just announce the President unfit and kick power over to the VP immediately.

No, actually, they can’t. Incompetence is not an impeachable offense. They would have to hold what is effectively a criminal trial in the Senate. They would have to find him guilty of something beyond a reasonable doubt. That’s the evidentiary standard they would have to meet.

With the 25th, they merely have to indicate they have lost faith in his ability to perform the job. That’s it.

His tweets threatening nuclear war with Iran are not enough to impeach him. He technically has the authority to make those threats. He can’t be impeached for those threats.

Those same tweets are a perfectly valid justification for removing him under the 25th.

Very clear?

Wisconsin law explicitly allows 16-18 year olds to carry rifles and shotguns, without supervision, so long as they aren’t violating hunting laws. Want to know the easiest way not to violate a hunting law? Don’t hunt! If you aren’t hunting, you aren’t violating a hunting law and can carry a rifle at 16.

Why does this matter? This is why Kyle Rittenhouse is not in prison for carrying a rifle to a protest. The judge ruled that 17-year-old Rittenhouse could only be charged for carrying that rifle if he were using it to poach game. When he dropped the underage weapon charge, everything else Rittenhouse did in Kenosha became legal.

Very clear? No. It’s complete horseshit, derived from convoluted legislative revision and does not actually reflect the intent of any of the writers. But it is the law.

Don’t get me started on presidential term limits or birthright citizenship.

Every appellate court reversal; every supreme court decision is the direct result of unclear law.

Yeah, the only way the compact survives is if it would not have affected the outcome of an election. If it will have an effect, every red state in the compact will have legislation on the governor’s desk by election day, calling for the immediate withdrawal from the compact, before the EC meets. That legislation will be wildly popular among the voters of those states.

The compact presumes that the individual states officially publish their popular vote count prior to the EC vote count. An unaffiliated state (or multiple states) can unilaterally declare that they will not officially publish their popular vote count until after the EC meets. The members of the compact cannot provably know the popular vote count; they cannot provably know that they will be casting their votes for the winner of the national popular vote, as required by the compact.

That theoretical possibility is sufficient justification to overturn the whole compact.

Further, if there is every a scenario where the compact actually changes the outcome of an election, any state that would be forced to switch its EC vote will see their populace pushing for immediate withdrawal from the compact, before the EC can even meet. They will have legislation drawn up and ready to sign on election day, releasing their electors from the requirements of the compact.

As a theoretical exercise, the compact is interesting. As a practical alternative to the EC, it utterly fails.

Yes. The 25th explicitly requires the involvement of the VP.

It could be argued that the Speaker of the House could do it if the VP position were vacant, but the 25th does not explicitly consider that situation.