VegaLyrae

I never have been able to.

I used to be able to boil my water with electrons from a nuclear reactor.

Now that I moved, all my electrons get excited by high tech coal… Oh…

If you cannot trust yourself, then do not provide yourself temptation

If you don’t want abusers to have rights, then just make it a felony.

It’s really that easy.

Mother Jones: these ads are killing people

Also Mother Jones: please disable your adblocker

Just softening them up for 2027

Everyone does it eventually

Only superpower left who hasn’t tried to invade them at some point in time.

It sucks and I canceled it and subscribed to it through YouTube which means paramount gets 30% less money.

It seems like we’ve actually grown further from treating it as such.

For the first half of US history the constitution was more often than not tightly interpreted.

I imagine many things we take for granted today would not stand under the same level of constitutional rigor without an enabling amendment.

Honestly I wouldn’t mind going back to a stricter interpretation, but we do need to get back to making amendments.

Not to say that the 2nd amendment, as written, isn’t totally wild.

However I do want to mention that the Continental congress was petitioned by John Belton in 1777 to purchase his 16-shot musket. It also had a not-quite-magazine that could be replaced very quickly. The 16 shots could be fired as quickly as the user could pull the triggers (yes it had multiple).

Given this, it seems likely that the people writing the constitution ten years later had some idea of rapid fire weaponry.

Just 20 years after that, they sent Lewis and Clarke expedition out with a relatively rapid firing airgun.

It is reasonable to say that rapid fire weaponry was contemporaneous to the constitution writing era.

Yes thankfully we have 911 by text in much of the USA now

In the 10th and 5th circuit it is iirc.

It’s still on the forms and the ATF can probably arrest you for it, but as of last month you would have 2 federal circuits of precedent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2023/08/10/drug-user-cant-be-barred-from-owing-firearms-us-court-rules/

US gun owner here:

It 100% warrants a call to the police.

Sounds like assault with a deadly weapon, and if he took it out to show, then it’s brandishing. It doesn’t matter if it was non-firming because the target didn’t know that, and typically these laws are written to be what “a reasonable person would believe”.

Also, at the time this happened he was a known user of Marijuana and thus not eligible to own a firearm, as that rule had not yet been struck down.

That’s the beauty of the “can’t hold the position consecutively” rule.

It doesn’t matter what age, party, or how long you’ve been in office.

You can always run for a different office, or wait for the next term to run again.

You’re right, it’s never as long as this. I am young, though so I don’t know how it would show in an ancient man hahaha.

I don’t see the appeal in insisting everything is fine. I would rather see my leaders saying “hey, I don’t feel good so I’m going to take some time to get healthy”.

I do have to admit, after getting concussed I also appeared to freeze but I was thinking hard of what the right word is to say next.

That said, probably anyone in concussion recovery should be on leave from legislating. The brain will heal more slowly, and your work will be of poor quality.

That’s all before getting into the actual politics of having a gerentocracy.

I know a lot of people have talked a out adding an age limit, but it seems to me most of the ancient ones are skating by on incumbent effect. If we had term limits it would resolve that. Alternatively something like the Virginia Gubernatorial rules where you cannot hold the position successively.

Makes it so annoying to only want it for star trek only to have them delete some of my favorite star treks

Very car-brained to not consider a car heavy machinery.