It sounds like your asking the question from the perspective of someone with a parliamentary system where the prime minister is chosen by the majority party or coalition. That is not the case in the U.S., the president is elected completely independently from our legislators.

While there is a provision to remove the president due to incapacitation, and there has been talk of applying that to Trump’s mental decline, the bar is high. The vice president and a majority of the cabinet (which were chosen by, and serve at the pleasure of, the president) have to petition Congress and if the president says no disability exists both houses of Congress have to agree by a 2/3 vote to remove him for disability.

The more likely route is impeachment, but this is also a high bar. A simple majority in the House of Representatives impeaches the president, but that just means sending him to the Senate for trial where a 2/3 majority is required to convict and remove him.

Don’t hold your breath for it.

Word. I am very much not a fan of Iran but the attack was unprovoked and killed a fuckton of kids. We deserve every “bad” term in that deal, and then some.

I read this and for two seconds I thought “Oh, someone with some empathy and morals that shouldn’t be doing this, how nice,” then I remembered what species I’m a part of.

That sounds like a Pishtaco from Andean folklore.

Totally off the point of the thread but I only know about pishtacos because I just read a couple books by Richard K. Morgan (the Altered Carbon guy), Thirteen and Thin Air, which are sci-fi with a bunch of Andean culture and folklore which I had never run across before. The reason for all the Andean stuff is the first space elevator was built down there (needs to be at the equator) and because of this many of the workers, including Mars colonists without special skills, are from the Altiplano. So on Mars, even hundreds of years later, that culture is very prevalent, including having Quechua as a major language. And because of all the money flowing through the region local Quechua speaking organized crime families get very powerful. Lots of fun (made-up, I assume) local expressions in the books like “Pachamama’s tits!” and “Fucked by Supay’s cock”.

Russia has been one big slow societal collapse since forever. In The Big Book of Russian History every chapter starts with “and then somehow things got even worse.”

He had to talk about it terms of the universe, as opposed to the world or the nation, because that’s how far you have to pull back to smooth out the bumps and discern the slightest of arcs.

Thanks for the recommend, I’m looking forward to watching it. I don’t know how I missed this, it was back when I still assumed everything HBO produced was good.

You ain’t wrong, but this is shit done within the settler communities to other Jews, not the Palestinians.

I’m not agreeing with the other guy, or that I don’t, I’m just saying your comment doesn’t follow from his unless the FSM guy claims to be a new prophet of the same God.

Does he claim his teachings are a new revelation from the god of Abraham?

Oh no, obviously overall they’re quieter, that’s why you can hear all that stuff. It’s always been there, just masked by the engine. I’m saying IC engines act as a kind of white noise machine that drownes out the rest, and in the absence of that, my only option is louder music.

And again, I’m not knocking EVs in general, they’re superior and I’m making the switch next car purchase, but if it was possible (I know it’s not) to get Rolls Royce levels of sound proofing without unreasonable costs, I would prefer it.

Thank you for your diagnosis Dr SaveTheTuaHawk, rest assured I’ll give it exactly the amount of weight it deserves.

I’m pretty sure most people find irregularly spaced high-pitched buzzing noises unpleasant; smoke detectors don’t play lullabies for a reason.

The lack of engine noise making every road sound and creak from the car audible is a common complaint. Just because EVs are superior, doesn’t make them perfect.

I do wish they had better soundproofing though. No engine noise means you hear all these annoying sounds from tires on the road unless you turn your radio up to ear damaging levels. On my commute there is an area that had temporary lane markings during construction and the method they used to remove them roughed up the tarmac in a way that makes the tires go “meep meep meep meep” while you drive over them, and they’re right where most tires are when driving in the middle of the lane. When I drive my IC car I can’t hear them, but if I’m driving my wife’s EV I either have to hug one side of the lane, crank up the radio, or have my nerves set on edge by this horrible sound.

EVs all day in general, I’ll make the switch when the time for a new car comes, but this aspect of them does suck.

Daytona has a long racing history that goes back to before the speedway was there. Back then they used to race on the beach because it’s long, straight, and flat. That’s where the tradition of driving on the beach comes from and it’s considered part of the local culture and a defining aspect of that part of Florida. That’s why there is so much resistance to getting rid of it.

In college I didn’t hang out with my classmates much, I mostly hung out with townies. Obviously not all townies were dumb, but some were very dumb, nice though.

I think Tony being Rogan’s cabin boy was the subject of a few jokes aimed his way by the other performers.

Why, what did they…ooohhh

No, no, not a capitalist dictatorship, socialism with [insert name of high school] characteristics.

That, and my definition of wealthy encompasses more than just billionaires. I’d include centimillionaires, at least.

Edit: the best info I can find says there are about 65k centimillionaire households.

That’s where making them give their wealth away comes in. The homeless shelter thing is more of a “fuck you” than a practical solution.