At it’s core, yes, absolutely.

It should have checks and balances. The problem is that those checks and balances rely on people to take action. As you’ve stated, in this case, Congress should be the ones to stop unlawful power grabs by the President and start the impeachment process.

This shows very clearly that the people who are tasked with the duty of keeping those checks and balances in place are either unable to act (Democrats), or unwilling to act (Republicans). This sad reality means that the system is fundamentally broken to the point that it is liable to collapse. Trump/Musk/Vance are already making large swaths of the American population very unhappy with what they’ve been doing in the first 100 days. The only alternative to four+ years of this is basically a revolution at this point. Given how many “fans” they’re making in the Whitehouse, that possibility doesn’t seem impossible.

I’ve worked in IT for most of my career. I’ve seen some shit. I’m on the older side of “millennial”. Not old enough to be on the cusp, but almost immediate after. I have had computers as a part of my life since I was young enough to remember, starting with a 286/386 that my dad used at home.

One thing I’ve noticed is that most companies shit doesn’t stink. What I mean by that is that all of them, to some extent, hide, cover up, or otherwise deny that their product has any issues whatsoever. I did a lot of VMware training back in the day, there were good reasons for that, but I won’t get into it … anyways, all of their training was about how it’s supposed to work. There’s zero material about what to do when it doesn’t work like it is supposed to… Even “troubleshooting” courses are designed to help you fix the configuration of the system using only methods sanctioned by the company, because any fault or flaw in their product must be because you aren’t using it right, or you simply don’t know how.

I’ve known so many millennials, especially in the tech space, that had to fix their own problems because the product, and the company that made it, believes that their shit doesn’t stink. There’s nothing wrong with their product, you either don’t know how to use it, or you aren’t using it correctly,

Meanwhile, here in reality, all their shit sucks to all fuck, and their product is little more than hour garbage.

Yay?

I’m not American, but it seems to me, that to get to where you currently are, the legislative branch probably needed to be already busted.

This just shines a spotlight on how busted.

Fair enough. I honestly just think they can’t see the forest because of all the trees in the way.

They’ll cry foul on someone insisting on being called by they/them pronouns, arguing that it’s an incorrect usage of they/them, or whatever the argument of the week is, then immediately use they/them pronouns for an individual in a different context without batting an eye, or even realizing what they’ve done.

Ignorance and hypocrisy.

Culture war, race war, nationalism wars…

As long as it’s not a class war, they’re okay with it.

Thank you. I’m elated to hear that most don’t get offended at genuine mistakes.

That’s all I really needed.

I still don’t get why people have such an issue calling people what they want to be called.

You don’t balk at a guy or a girl named Robin, or Alex, or any of a hundred different androgynous names…

But you take issue with “he”, “she”, and “them”?

Why?

My only problem, and to be clear this is entirely my problem, nobody else’s, is that I’m so dumb, I frequently forget and call someone he/she when they prefer they/them. I fuck it up sometimes. I try, but decades of societal norms are getting in the way of me getting it right sometimes.

To every person who identifies as they/them please forgive me because I’m going to screw it up. Just correct me when I say it and hopefully in time my brain will stop making this mistake.

I am not LGBTQA+. I’m just some boring cis.

I approve of this. As long as anyone is incapable of doing things that others can based on gender or other trivialities like race or skin tone, the fight continues.

Also, but equally as important is bodily autonomy. You want to do, or not do something with your own person? Neat. As long as it doesn’t harm anyone else, you go for it.

This is the justification.

My only comment to that is: the “women’s washroom” sign isn’t going to stop an attacker.

I think I’ve already watched this. Interesting stuff.

Pretty much everything gets it wrong in stone capacity. Some get very close, but fall short of representing radio in reality.

Just don’t.

As a qualified amateur operator, I’ll just say: that problem isn’t exclusive to die hard movies, nor die hard 1.

People are slowly waking up that “us vs them” includes a LOT of “us” as they learn who “them” are.

I’ll just say, compared to my day job, I’d rather be a goat farmer.

This shit is fucked.

You son of a-

That sucks.

That is a stunning lady.

People come in all shapes and sizes, and you’re all unique and beautiful.

Be you, there’s only one of you.

I’m not disputing any of that. I’m just saying that it seems like it wouldn’t work super well.

I’m just some guy on the internet. I’m expecting an opinion. I don’t wish to suggest we should do away with it because it’s probably not the most helpful thing we could do; not at all. Keep it, use it, be happy and hold a parade.

I still think that it’s not as effective as it could be because you’ll always have air leak, and probably enough that putting a small hole in a fire break to run a cable probably won’t make things much worse.

Code says you have to seal it, so that’s what you’d be obligated to do. I’m only questioning if there’s better options that would be more effective. That’s all.

Oh, I’m not saying it’s not functional in stone capacity. I understand the physics and what is trying to be accomplished with it, but unless it’s done with pretty tight tolerance so any air leakage between the upper and lower spaces is as close to nil as possible, then it’s not going to be super effective.