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  • What is the thing labeled with an “F”?

    In the first panel, it appears to be a laptop. But in the third panel, it shows that he’s closed it, so in the fourth panel, that would mean that the boss is looking at the bottom of the laptop. But that doesn’t look like any laptop that I’ve ever seen.

    Did Henderson attach this paper to the bottom of the laptop?

    Or maybe is it not a laptop? Maybe it’s just a manila folder, and between the 3rd and 4th panels, he opened it up to show the boss the contents of the folder. But then, I guess it could be one of those tablets that can be used like a laptop, and he’s folded the keyboard around.

    Or, does Henderson have multiple things labeled with “F”?

    We may never know what the F this is.






  • Of course it can be enforced, and was planned to be enforced from its inception. All three branches were designed to have a hand in enforcing it. The legislative branch in creating laws to enforce it, the judicial branch to adjudicate it, and to a lesser extent, the executive branch. It was all enforced from the beginning.

    If you’re saying that a conspiracy of government officials can choose to ignore the constitution, and that’s the reason why it can’t be enforced, then that’s true for every government’s constitution.





  • I now think that anything Congress does to cede its authority to anything should be inherently unconstitutional.

    Congresspeople on the day they first walk into office have less power than most people probably expect. They don’t sit on committees. It’s difficult to introduce legislation. Many of the important bills they vote on are giant monsters of bills and they have no option except to vote along party lines.

    So individual congresspeople are put into a this conundrum. If they want to benefit their constituents, they have to play along with their party leadership. If the executive branch has too much power over the party, as Trump does, due to his controlling all the money, then essentially, the executive branch controls Congress.

    We need to get rid of all of this ceding of power not just to the executive branch but also to anything else, like political parties, or even to rules of order, like how the filibuster works today. There are all sorts of ways that Congress today has less power than specified in the constitution.


  • Wait am I allowed to feel or should I not

    There are different types of meditation. Some outright encourage emotional feeling. Like there is a meditation where you just try to project love onto everybody in the world. A lot of people say “meditation” and mean “mindfulness meditation,” and in that case, you’re supposed to be aware of the sensations around you, but let go of other thoughts. So, you might have fleeting feelings or emotions, but without a conscious thought to maintain them, you also tend to let go of the emotions.

    Probably the thing that unites types of meditation is that they are an attempt to control your attention.


  • I’ll level with you. A car wash mode is a great idea. It makes sure the windows, mirrors, wipers, and various sensors on the outside of the car like the opener for the charging door are in a good state for a car wash. I think every modern car should have a car wash mode.

    What’s not smart is that the Cybertruck is vulnerable to completely dying from garden-hose-based attacks, in general, and that they “fixed” it by using car wash mode, as if water never gets sprayed at a car at any other time. They’re abusing the car wash mode.

    To summarize, car wash mode: good idea. Abusing car wash mode to hide glaring design/implementation defects: shitty idea.


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    Although I don’t agree with his politics at all, I remember learning about this concept from Ron Paul, of all people. He was being interviewed, and the interviewer said, “You vote ‘no’ on every spending bill, but then inside the spending bill, you have made all sorts of earmarks,” implying that this made Paul a hypocrite.

    But Ron Paul said, “It’s my job to make earmarks for my constituents.”

    That’s when I realized that there are two things in play, “The world as it is now,” and “The world as in my ideals.” Ron Paul’s ideal world had virtually no government spending (again, I disagree with his concept), but the world that he lived in required him to spend the government’s money on his constituents.

    It’s for this same reason that I feel like fighting against gerrymandering in America, locally, if the gerrymandering would benefit you, is a losing proposition right now.

    As much as we don’t like it, it’s currently legal to gerrymander for a wide variety of reasons, so the good politicians will be trying to make gerrymandering, as a whole, illegal, while making sure to gerrymander as much as is legally allowed at the same time. It’s not hypocritical. It’s just that we live in that world. If people complain, you just say, “Look, here’s the bill/amendment that I support that makes gerrymandering completely illegal. Those are the laws I want in place. What I’m doing right now is doing what my constituents think is best for them. If you don’t like it, then make sure my bill/amendment passes.”