It’s more subtle than that though. The Federal government can only call out the army in very targeted ways, and states already only obey federal laws that come with funding.

The official union won’t disolve easily, but many of the practical benefits of the union may erode quickly.

The supreme court probably won’t stop being the highest in the land, but executive orders and federal laws not backed by military action could quickly lose their current influence.

Heck, I’ll even do that for a company I like!

That’s a point I had not considered. Twitter is resume poison, at this point.

Astroturfing, data-harvesting, I feel like they’re all made to fuck us over in some way.

Voice of Ron Howard cuts in: “They were.”

Yeah. We hate our social media, and don’t trust our government. Everyone else should absolutely ban our social media, yesterday, if not sooner.

Yes. Like a straight line, truth and morality are attained through constant refinement. Like anything worthwhile.

A straight line is defined by what it is not. It’s hard to be 100% sure that any given line is the shortest distance between two points, but it’s easy to tell which between two compared lines is the more direct.

We should never hold our current path so sacred that we won’t re-evaluate. But we should always choose the best path we know, and be brave enough to stick to it until we learn better.

When I went to do the final test I was a little worried it the handle might not work correctly so I made sure I had my phone, my leatherman, and a bottle of water “just in case”.

Lol. I’m glad I’m not the only one who has had to bring a Leatherman into the bathroom, just in case. Pretty much the exact same situation - I had repaired the door latch recently, and I didn’t trust it yet.

That toothpick trick is genius. Does it hold?

It does hold. I didn’t believe it, but had one that was so bad I had no other option to repair it. Now it’s like new.

A toilet needing fixed ought to be included in some kind of universalist core moment of existence theory.

We won’t all build a deck, but everyone with the privilege of using a toilet is someday going to need a toilet to be fixed.

I have found fixing a toilet to be a slow but relatively simple job, which let my thoughts wander…perhaps too far, honestly.

Yeah. I troll through old Wing Commander-lile titles for good SteamDeck support every so often, but then I realize that I also want to play with 3 friends.

Whoever gets this done will get my money.

In the meantime, there’s Empty Epsilon which is Star Trek, rather than Wing Commander and there’s Starlink: Battle For Atlas, which at least has solid local co-op on a docked Nintendo Switch (but is sadly buried in DRM on SteamDeck, while also badly overpriced.)

“Customers only care about one thing: barely functioning AI crammed into every facet of their lives. We all know this. That’s why anybody who’s anybody has slapped AI onto their product. AI phone, AI refrigerator, AI stick. If it doesn’t have AI, what the fuck are we even doing?”

Finally, someone gets it.

Our dumbass in chief is full of shit. He’s dangerous in a lot of incompetent ways, but this one is safe to ignore (at least for now).

Yeah. Bought an election for a bum who doesn’t understand loyalty or how to pay his bills. Lol.

What a Dumbass.

Well this is going to cause some confusion when you and I get our IDs printed… Can’t be helped, though.

Heh. No harm done. I’ve already been thrift shopping like crazy. Lol.

Yeah. I have JellyFin and a NAS, and I love it, but I’m so lazy about backing up my DVDs.

Ooh. I was forgetting that. Something to look forward to.

Ooh. Good to tip. Thanks!

I mean, fair point. But their super yacht still won’t be quite as nice as it could have been.

Lol. Yeah. That was my reaction, too. Then I realized they’re also less than $30.00. I love mine so much. It’s simple, but it’s so cool.