Pennomi

Yeah, you need 38 states to ratify it. If we go by governors (so I don’t have to do a ton of research, but it’s probably representative of legislatures), only 27 states are Republican controlled. Good fucking luck getting a partisan amendment through.

Constitutional amendments also have to be ratified by the states. That’s not trivial.

It’s in the constitution. It’ll take a lot more than that.

The USA became dominant by letting the world fight itself to ruins, then entering into the war late and declaring victory. TWICE.

Being the only mostly undestroyed nation after a world war is immensely profitable.

The guy in the blue shirt is a dirty liar.

We don’t typically do that here, but Trump has certainly been talking with the world’s leader in defenestration.

It’s certainly true. Trump’s also close with Musk these days, and Musk certainly will pressure him to allow Grok to vacuum up all the data for free.

I don’t think this will make much difference honestly, we already have very little regulation here. It probably means that there will be copyright exemptions for training models. And honestly eroding copyright bit by bit is okay in my book.

What we should be worried about are the human rights that are about to be violated.

Listed didn’t mean anything unless it’s bought though, right?

We can still try to obstruct via filibuster and other mechanisms. (Republicans have already shown us how to do it effectively.) But certainly no progress can be made for the next four years.

Nah, Russia could barely handle a Ukraine with heavy restrictions on how they could use weapons.

Poland could kick Russia’s ass.

In the short term, Russia will probably be pacified, because they got their guy in office. Long term that causes an escalation in the new Cold War going on. Ukraine is probably fucked - they probably can’t survive four years with diminished support.

Tensions with China will escalate quickly, since Trump promised to enact absolutely bonkers tariffs.

Palestine is probably fucked, since Trump seems to want Israel to escalate the conflict. Netanyahu seems quite pleased.

I’m not as doom and gloom about the environment though - economics will continue to force renewable energy. As we all know, money has a whole lot more power than Trump ever will. He can slow it down, but economics always wins.

Barring something extreme, probably so. There might be legal challenges available but it does not look like Pennsylvania was close enough to possibly flip.

Only one candidate said they want to be a dictator if elected, and (spoiler alert) it wasn’t Kamala.

It’s not an exemption for one person if you say that a felony related to undermining an election stops you from being able to vote. I think that’s fair enough.

In this you’re solving 8 wordles at the same time. So green letters are in the correct place, and yellow letters are in the word but in the wrong place. It may help to focus on one at a time like a normal wordle, and see how many you can get solved before you run out of guesses.

Play the Britannica Octordle instead? https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/

The problem is that a judge, by virtue of being human, is incapable of impartiality.

If there were some sort of computer code that turned the legal system into a hard science that would be amazing, but I doubt that’s even possible.

I still don’t understand why NASA doesn’t make the lunar lander themselves, they are great at landers. Then contract out the ride to low lunar orbit.

I know it’s unprecedented, but surely a few Falcon Heavies could put a transfer stage, service module, and lander into LEO, to be assembled in-orbit. Heck it’s not even that unprecedented since Apollo had to be reconfigured in-orbit as well.

Yeah, this might fundamentally change the goals of Artemis, but it seems like relatively low hanging fruit compared to the bonkers complexity we’re trying now.

A good deal of the miracles happen conveniently off-screen, and mostly become “true” because the whole group tends to unanimously trust the mythos.