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28 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

The Executive nominates.  The Legislative confirms.

The Legislative impeaches.

 

There - those are your "constitutional checks" on the Supreme Court.

Also, and this is the important one, the Legislative enacts laws, including Constitutional Amendments, which the Supreme Court must follow (can overturn a law based on constitutionality, but not an Amendment because it IS the Constitution). It's why the Supreme Court was finally forced to decide for Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka.

34 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said:

That's what I have resorted too. Anytime I watch a movie or game alone, it's wireless headphones all the way. 

I was using noise-canceling headphones myself, but that made it so much easier for the ninjas to sneak up on me at night.

3 minutes ago, LazyPiranha said:

Why is thirteen kids doing something news?

Greta Thunberg was drunk and couldn't be reached for comment.

1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

unrelated

 

There's our solution. Let's deport Musk to China.

I've got Dad Jokes I haven't even thought of using yet!

2 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

If wishes were ponies...

Wait, we're giving away ponies???

2 hours ago, MarSolo said:

Musk.

Cruz.

Gaetz.

Shapiro.

Trump.

Don Jr.

Eric.

And we forgot Tucker.

 

Two Mount Rushmores of Punchable Faces.

Man, I never make it on the good lists!

Just now, Jason said:

 

Is it naive optimism to think this coming into effect in June 2022 is perfect timing to galvanize D turnout?

We live in a current society of people who want instant gratification, and if they don't get it, they pretend the institutions of government don't exist. That's what's happening right now as we head into the midterms. People are pissed off because a slim majority of a broken Democrat Party isn't getting them first class service on all their wants and needs, so their response is turning to apathy and taking their ball home while holding their fingers in their ears. Unless the Democrats rally and rally hard, the Republicans are going to stomp them during the midterms, even though there's no rational reason that should happen for anything the Republicans have actually done in their own favor or interests.

1 minute ago, Jason said:

Do you think Biden will finally get on board with packing SCOTUS once this goes through?

 

I suspect Biden is never going to get the opportunity. After the midterms, he'll be lucky to have enough senators on his side to effectively run a filibuster.

6 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Bad law anyways.  Congress needs to address this problem.  

Any time the words "forcing a woman to" begins at the start of a sentence, you're advocating for something that should never have become law. But America has never been about being concerned with a woman's perspective. And I suspect, we never will be.

I've kept up on most of Marvel's stuff, although I haven't bit the bullet on watching The Eternals yet. There's just nothing about that part of the franchise that excites me. It seems almost as if they're just trying to create IPs in hopes of creating IPs. Black Widow was ho hum, and Shang-Chi was decent but extremely, and I mean EXTREMELY formulaic, even to the point where I thought to myself, "you know, the only thing missing from this movie is Michelle Yeoh" and then Michelle Yeoh showed up. Not that I minded, but it kind of showed how uninventive they were being with this new part of the franchise.

13 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

Which is why I've watched everything with subtitles for years. Helps with old movies too, but the center channel and dialogue took more center stage than the audio/visual onslaught of a lot of today's movies. 

 

I'm so used to subtitles now I don't ever even register them, I know how everything is spelled, and I never miss a thing.

I seriously rely on both subtitles and a sound bar in order to watch television. I'm not sure how I survived before these two technologies.

1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

With the machine the right-wing has built in the USA, they could have 41% of the population frothing over Froot Loops removing artificial dye in under two months.

 

 

Don't touch my Froot Loops.

Don't touch my freeeeeeedoms!

The problem is that Chris Cuomo is actually a pretty good reporter and interesting to listen to (I listen to his broadcasts over Sirius radio), but having said that, I suspected for quite some time that his coverage of his brother was going to bring him down, too. Or at least burn him pretty badly.

Just like Trump, we deserve the America we're building for ourselves.

It's looking more and more like they're going to overturn Roe v Wade this time or soon after. Republicans have been vying for this for decades, and they've now set the stage for how it can actually happen. After this, they'll start going after quite a few civil liberties, because, well, that's just something they do, almost as if they don't have a choice, and most definitely don't care about who they burn along the way.

As someone who actually studies elections, the real problem with any age limitation on voting is that even older voters tend to be massively uninformed about practically everything politically. We'd probably get better election results by just having a lottery, but we're so predisposed to believe that elections are better just because we've never actually participated in a lottery other than high odds games that involve money payouts. Adams was a strong proponent of lotteries and wanted to integrate them into our system, but the other founders vetoed him (by voting for something else, ironically).

2 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

I DO know what the basic premise is but that's it.

See if Empire will give you a brain wipe, and then you should be fine before watching it.

1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I'm going to check out SEE, FOR ALL MANKIND, and the Octavia SPencer show that is escaping my memory at the moment next.

When starting For All Mankind, do it without learning anything about it (if possible). That's what I did, and it made the experience SO much better than it probably would have been had I understood what they were doing from the start.

It's not just the hardness of the surface that causes people to run on the street, but also the fact that when you're running on the sidewalk, every block requires a different surface to adjust to (sidewalk to street back to sidewalk again). By running on the street, the pavement remains the same all the way through the run. Back in the days when I was doing serious running, my choice was always the dirt to the side of a road first, the road itself and then the sidewalk last.

So far, I have watched the whole first season of Foundation, half of Invasion, all of Ted Lasso and about half of For All Mankind. I watched half of the first episode of Servant before I stopped watching it (and won't go back to it as I found it awful). So far, I've been underwhelmed by Invasion because of really bad, slow writing. Everything else about Apple Plus has been awesome, however.

21 hours ago, EternallDarkness said:

 

 

while a section or two tended to feel a little too long, I loved King's take on time travel and have actually read through this one a number of times

Great book. The TV adaptation wasn't bad either and was pretty spot on with following the book.

34 minutes ago, legend said:

Overall enjoyed it. I will be pretty disappointed if they don't come out with a Zeroth-law justification for Demerzel's actions and make zeroth-law central to the story. I can imagine some ways that would play out, but if they just threw the four laws into the garbage can, it's missing some of the most important points of the foundation-robot verse.

That was one of the thoughts I had when she killed the priestess. It really bothered me because of how important the laws were to Asimov's work AND the fact that he incorporated the two universes together in Foundation.

I've kept mine since Day One started.

I know this is not the norm, but I've had game pass since it released, and honestly, I think it's been a waste of money for  me because I don't play any of the games on it. Part of what bothers me is that they remove games, and I kind of like having my games for whenever I want to play them. Plus, I have a tendency to just buy games on a whim, which kind of makes Game Pass somewhat useless to me. The only game I ever tried on their service was Humankind, and it felt way too much like Civ, so I never bothered playing past the initial part of the game to even experience more.