terminalshort

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by terminalshort 6mo ago
My "plan" is don't make big long term plans
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
The doesn't cause acid rain version is called "clean" and that seems pretty fair to me when the other version causes acid rain.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Smart people know that you can't predict or plan for anything on anywhere close to that time horizon. The only plan is be adaptable.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Depends on the mutation, but it could be as little as 1. A single mutation could turn the virus inert, therefore making it legal.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Because it's the government they voted in. Typical American take. Wanting no responsibility for the adverse effects of your decision.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Didn't happen
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
The fact that Iran has now launched missiles at civilian areas in a dozen or so countries unrelated to the war shows that this is clearly false.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Yeah, things change. What do you propose to do about that? The only people who lose are the ones who can't accept that they may need to change careers to make more money.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
To use your example of someone working on the plumbing of an accounts payable system, who is passionate about that? The supply is near zero. That, like most jobs, is going to need to be done entirely by people who are just doing it for th
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
The mall cop much more so than the ICC
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Yes, the US and not just the presidency. If it was just the presidency then he would have been impeached by congress for usurping their constitutional authority.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
They have the power to enforce laws
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
If you and I, the president, congress, and the judiciary agree, then yes, and that's kind of the situation regarding the laws around starting a war.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
No it's not and neither is Afroman's statement. But the comment I was replying to said it was a fair statement, not merely that it is not defamatory.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
That's exactly correct. Laws are not a physical entity and therefore their existence is predicated entirely on collective agreement.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Of course it's not defamation. But that's not what you said. You said "seems fair"
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Of course I can. He even uses the same trick of not calling it a "war"
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Congress made its mistake a long time ago. Power is very difficult to reclaim once it has been relinquished. And it didn't even take a Caesar crossing the Rubicon in our case.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
It isn't obeyed or enforced and, therefore, is not the law. I won't read it as there is no point in doing so because it is not the law.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
It's been the established president since the Korean War when the US began ignoring the constitutional provision that gave congress the power to declare war. Additional examples are the Vietnam War, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq I & I
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Add what you like. I can't possibly take anyone who uses the term "climate denier" seriously.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
You can't be an agent without realizing it and you don't get to call me silly when you list having a foreign wife as evidence that someone is a foreign agent.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
You are naive for assuming that the government aren't the bad guys with guns. Just ask the 30,000 Iranian protesters that were slaughtered if you don't believe me.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
US law, which is the only relevant law to discuss the actions of the president of the US.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
I care less about what the UN says is legal than I do the local traffic cop
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Sounds kinda like why they founded the League of Nations
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
That sounds great! In the US the phrase you used "mailed to my sthlm address" would never mean anything other than physically sending a paper bill to your house.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
The laws of human behavior are certainly less fundamental to the iniverse than the laws of physics, but, since we are humans, they are equally as binding on us.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
Yes that is clearly the case. Obviously Putin told Trump to start seizing his oil tankers recently.
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by terminalshort 6mo ago
History shows that Europe can't trust any inside powers either...

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