stewie3128 [he/him]
We have cameras to see if the mail has come yet, which of us moved the big broom, check in on things while we’re out of town, etc. They can be useful even if you’re not in a risky neighborhood.
ETA: We have no firearms, because we don’t have any interest in maintaining the proficiency necessary to ensure that we don’t accidentally kill each other. Even aside from that, we have no interest in hunting, and the likelihood that a gun would ever make a positive difference during some remotely-possible home invasion is basically unmeasurable.
The Psychologists in my family only refer to Myers-Briggs in an anecdote from grad school: it was used as the ideal example of how to design a terrible test.
They say that, if you’re going to do a personality test, long-form MMPI is the best of them, but personality tests are just academic exercises that don’t tell the therapist as much as they could learn by just talking to the patient.
He’ll step down, next guy will come in and start passing legislation. It’ll be another fight over legitimacy, but they’ll pass some bill about funding Israel, the Senate will take that one up, Biden will sign it, then we’ll effectively never need a speaker again. Israel gets its money, and the government will still shut down on November 15.
Fuck this stupid government, seriously.
I’d love to know under what conditions this proposal is constitutional.
The supreme court is a right wing sclerotic fistula providing passage to creeping fascism, but reinterpreting Article 3 Section 1 is a tall order. By only saying that justices shall “hold their offices during good behavior” the Constitution is traditionally read to mean that only impeachment, retirement, or death will end a term.
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But by simply subtracting the number of kids I’d otherwise have by one, I’m preventing 21 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year.
https://www.pawprint.eco/eco-blog/average-carbon-footprint-globally
There is simply no way to make enough lifestyle changes to offset that. I’d have to live car-free for 55 years to offset just a single year of a theoretical child’s existence… and that kid is going to live for 70-100 years.
Obviously those things are on a different scale, but there are 3.7 million children born in the US alone every year.
That means it would take 193 million people -per year - switching to an entirely car-free lifestyle to negate that.
Or 400 million people per year switching to a plant-based diet.
Billionaires and the military doing bad stuff doesn’t justify the ecological harm of enlarging the human population.