FDR used his bully pulpit and leveraged the wide availability of radio to have his “Fireside Chats” and speak directly to American voters. FDR only signed legislation and carried it out, he did not write it. The president does not make permanent policy, he carries out the policies set by Congress.

This.

American history books have whole chapters dedicated to the lead-up and aftermath of WW1 and WW2. You won’t even get a paragraph about the lead up to the Vietnam war.

The “War of Northern Agression” started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.

13th Amendment (mostly) abolished slavery. 14th establishes birthright citizenship and requirements to serve in public office.

You must become the hell you wish to see in the world.

Some clarification…

The president does not make permanent policy. Congress makes permanent policies.

Asking for the permanent policies Biden enacted as president is like asking for the length of the 4th side of a triangle.

Why the fuck would they care about dental issues? Those are elective bones that only rich people should have anyway.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/wmi-command-line-wmic-utility-deprecation-next-steps/4039242

I don’t think “deportation” is the reich word to use at that point.

Yeah. It’s been deprecated for a while, but I’ve been running into some 11 systems where it is totally gone.

Have fun remembering a whole buttload of random PowerShell cmdlets to do the same fucking thing as that one tool.

I’m mad WMIC is gone. That thing was fucking useful, so of course Microsoft went out of their way to get rid of it.

There is a long list of people I would prefer to have as president over Harris. She was not my ideal candidate. But, Democracy is a compromise, and she was the only option that was viable to beat trump on election day. Regardless of how you feel about her, trump is objectively a far worse option. There was one clear and correct course of action on election day to beat trump and prevent this nightmare from happening, and people couldn’t get off their asses or get over their ego and fucking do it.

Bro, all you gotta do is die and all your credit card debit is gone. If you just keep paying the bills, then the debt stays the same until you miss a bill, and then it gets worse. If you die then the debt goes away. Why keep perpetuating the cycle? Dying is the only way to get rid of debt.

That’s what your post sounds like

Immediate collapse. No one would take the deportees long term. There would be a huge swell in support for the deported people, but very rapidly other countries would shut their borders. The only way to realistically deport that many people is to get them to self deport by intimidating them.

I’m not so sure this question is hypothetical anymore.

“Rollable” solar panels are still pretty stiff. You would need a beefier mechanism to handle the extra forces required. They also have a pretty significant “minimum turn radius” so they would need an entirely new design for their mechanism to work without damaging the panels.

They do make personal solar array with a surface area comparable to your umbrella idea, but those would take days to charge a cellphone, so the charge you get walking around for a few hours is negligible.

It’s a cool idea, and would be a fun project to build and show off, but it’s not going to be marketable or practical without a whole lot of development in solar, battery and umbrella tech.

Elections are a compromise. Democracy by nature is compromise. FPTP sucks, but it’s the system we had, so you either have to work with it, or burn shit, and not nearly enough nonvoters or 3rd party voters are out here burning enough shit to convince me that they are actually against the system. So in reality they were just naive idealists who couldn’t stomach voting for the best viable candidate, and saddled the rest of us with that orange shit-stain instead.

2024 wasnt about voting for Harris. It was about voting against Trump. If you didn’t vote for Harris, then you didn’t vote against trump.

Hell yeah. Nitpick away. Push for actual left politicians. Go canvas for a candidate who better meets your ideals. Don’t forget to vote in primaries and local elections.

Also don’t forget that we need to actually make it to having elections for the next 4 years to even start trying to turn this ship around.

Ads in the 90’s and 00’s would just layer toolbars onto your browser. Is still have a a nervous twitch when I see a thick toolbars or animated cursors.

Goodput vs shitstream.