That’s not really the issue here.

Be careful what you wish for. MAGA will be taxing the country to ruin to pay Trump’s ransom, a la Richard the Lionheart.

The article itself mentions other comparable cases where it was never brought to trial. Prosecutors do not just automatically indict everyone who fires a gun at someone else. In cases where a clear case of self-defense exists, the norm is to not bring charges at all.

Most self-described Christians are Devil worshipers. If your religion preaches hate, you’re not worshiping God, you’re worshiping Satan.

Could just be he didn’t realize what an asshole he was being until he was called out on it. Most assholes will double down when called out on it. But a few unintentional assholes will actually admit the error of their ways and change.

I want to get a PhD and go by “Doctor.” Then, when people ask for medical advice, just start winging it.

Ok, so where’s your truck bomb, tough guy?

You’re using your powers to solve cosmic mysteries. I’ll use them for a something a bit more self-serving.

I will take my last meal in the form of blood pudding. A very large amount of blood pudding, made from at least 5 liters of blood. Human blood. Specifically the blood of the person set to perform the execution. Oh, and if you change your mind on who the executioner is, that invalidates my last meal, so I get another one.

Unfortunately, you have to. It’s in the Constitution, see the Takings Clause.

During the Revolutionary War, the Continental army caused a lot of ill will by simply seizing supplies from civilians without compensation. The army was desperate. They didn’t have money. So sometimes they just took what they needed.

In response to this, James Madison made sure to write into the Constitution that the federal government cannot take any property without paying its owner the fair market value of the property. The government can take your house in eminent domain if it needs to build a highway, but it has to pay you the value of your house in exchange.

I suppose the federal government could start up its own federal AI initiative, using government-owned data centers. But there’s no way for it to nationalize the AI companies without purchasing them at fair market value. And while there are plenty of things this administration is willing to ignore the constitution for, this isn’t one of them.

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Any examples of such kits or estimates of the cost?

Exactly. The big manufacturers love stuff like this. The more mandatory features, the harder it is for new car manufacturers to enter the market. Back in the day, guys like Ford started out by selling cars they built out of their garages. Ford was built by starting in a garage and plowing the profits back into the business over decades. But modern cars are just too complex to build that way.

Honestly, if I were a young high school student looking for a career path today, and I was interested in automotive repair? I would seriously consider starting up a mechanic’s shop specializing in ripping out all the spytech from personal automobiles.

I do find this attitude interesting. You don’t want yourself to be recorded, but you’ll happily record random pedestrians without their knowledge or consent.

Does your state have a lemon law? If you can, return the car as it’s clearly defective.

You’re incorrect. The key isn’t the sex part, it’s the premarital part. It’s called familial status discrimination. If you would fire an unmarried employee for a behavior, but not fire a married employee, it’s marriage and familial status discrimination, which is illegal. You can’t fire someone for being married, and you cannot fire them for not being married.

So you demand every staff member be celibate, that would be perfectly fine. But when you let married employees have sex, but you punish unmarried employees, then you are engaging in unlawful discrimination based on marriage and familial status.

So anyone that isn’t performatively woke is a sheepdog. He’s been involved in activism and community organizing for years, but because of his race and economic background, you’re stereotyping him. Any white male that isn’t flamboyantly gay or metrosexual is a conservative. You’re just going off vibes, stereotyping people because of their race, economic origins, and military service. There’s absolutely zero evidence that he’s going to take the path of Fetterman, but you’re making racist and sexist stereotypes about him. Any white working class male is “toxic.”

You’re just a bigot. I never thought I would actually meet the hypothetical anti-white or anti-male bigot conservatives like to crow about, but I suppose like anything, search hard enough and you can find any kind of person.

And I’m not throwing around words like bigotry and stereotyping lightly. That is literally what you’re doing. You’re judging this man a traitor simply because the color of his skin, his sex, and because of the culture he was raised in. He talks like a white working class people, and you stereotype all white working class people as MAGA.

How about you cite some of his actual policy positions, instead of just engaging in hateful stereotyping?

You’re just more concerned with style than substance. You care more about whether a candidate wears the right leftist tokens than actually advancing progressive policies. This person is running on a genuinely progressive platform, and you’re letting yourself get distracted with performative symbolism and irrelevant bullshit.

Oh, I know how limited the power of the English crown is. I just consider any kind of inherited legal power to be an abomination. If you wanted a role like a king, and they were duly elected, even for lifetime terms? I suppose if that was your custom, fine. But it is inherited power, the act of establishing one class of human beings as legally above or superior to another class of human beings to be an insult to the very spirit of humanity. I think simply being a monarch, or one with any kind of inherited title with special legal rights, is a crime against humanity. To believe that you deserve special legal privileges, simply because of who your parents were? That is the height of arrogance. If there were any good monarchs they would renounce their crowns in shame.

Sorry, I consider myself a militant anti-monarchist. That’s just something I believe. The only good monarch is a dead one. No exceptions. They all deserve to have their heads in baskets!