EmptySlime

Fuck the Big Light™

For real. I get migraines and one or my big triggers is lights being too bright. With good old Sol being the worst offender. Luckily everyone else in my house is some flavor of autistic/ADHD so pretty much everyone agrees.

Fuck the Big Light™

Technically we're a lot closer to that one at the moment. Well, not directly abolishing the Electoral College per se. I don't have the details handy at the moment because I'm on mobile and my phone keeps closing my Lemmy client when i try to tab out to do anything and I lose my comment.

But if you don't know about it, there's this thing called something like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Basically it's an agreement where states that have signed onto it pledge to give their Electors to whoever wins the national popular vote. It's set to take effect as soon as enough states sign on that they account for the 50%+1 electors to win the college. I'm sure I'm not going to get the number right but I wanna say last I knew they were like 20 something short?

If Biden just does it and waits to get sued rather than going to SCOTUS himself to get them to rule that he can divert the funds it opens up a bunch of problems for everyone. Not only does it still not save Biden and the dems time and resources as they still have to argue the case at every level it goes to and still have to be the ones to appeal it higher if any of the lower courts rule against them. But if they win it could arguably be even worse. Sure we stop the border wall, but what is there to stop a future Republican president from saying "I think Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, Section 8, or other federal social program they don't like are illegal actually and I'm not releasing the funds for them" and us then needing to sue him into complying?

Fun fact: My wife ended up with pretty severe malabsorption after her bariatric surgery. Her vitamin A levels went so low that she had almost entirely lost her night vision. For like 6 years now she's been taking upwards of 125,000IU per day and only just recently her vitamin A levels have gotten just barely into the normal range.

So what I'm saying is my wife could actually eat an appreciable amount of polar bear liver and be fine.

Taking the funding of those sections of border wall to SCOTUS would have wasted the Republicans time and resources... How exactly? It would be Biden's DOJ that would have to prepare some kind of legal rationale to challenge the wall funding. Then even if they came up with a perfect ironclad reasoning SCOTUS isn't even required to grant it cert to even hear the case.

I utterly fail to see any version of this where it wastes more Republican resources than Democrat ones.

Basically yes that's my understanding. When Congress appropriates money for something, the Executive Branch is obligated by law to spend that money on what Congress appropriated it for.

As much as I hate the whole border wall thing if Biden just said "Fuck Congress, we're not doing that" it almost certainly would lead to a world where the next Republican president uses that same idea to essentially end things like Medicaid or SNAP.

To my knowledge the only sections of wall he's built were funded by Trump's Congress before he left office. Meaning he had little choice but to spend the money on what Congress appropriated it for.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather not live in a world where someone like Trump can just decide he doesn't want to spend portions of the money Congress appropriated. He could just suddenly decide that the federal government isn't going to pay like Medicaid or SNAP.

Moreover, by their own stories not only did God intentionally make that person trans but God likely deliberately did so to test the people interacting with said trans person on if they could love the trans person as required by their faith.

But no. It's never that because the religious argument is just a post hoc justification for the hate.

Mozc is available on android? Guess I got some looking to do.

It appears to be from a personality type thing called Enneagram? It seems to be written in the standard XwY where X is the main type and Y is something called a wing which appears to be a subtype? Not totally sure since I've never heard of it before and this is just me attempting to research it.

Not gonna lie this one probably would have gotten me if it was on any other post. I feel like it could use a few more unnecessarily large words to really sell it.

Now there's a rule the certainly totally didn't come from a ton of people playing "Chaotic Neutral means I get to be a 'lol so random xD' murder hobo" type characters at all.

Now I'm not really a fan of forcing people to play Good alignment characters, but my god if there was ever someone that wouldn't be allowed to play anything but Lawful/Neutral Good at my table it would be Mr. "I can just be a Good Slave Owner" over there.