The last war by US Congress was declared in June 1942, against Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. US Congress has not made a formal declaration of war since then.
Yes, we call those “blank checks” to the executive branch. The Germans even have a word for it. We did it with Vietnam and it did not go well. One would have thought the generation in Congress would have learned their lesson given most of them lived through that shitshow.
It goes without saying that military resources can defend themselves when fired upon, there’s plenty of precedent going back well before the formation of the US. The AUMFs were not that. They were very clearly blank checks to wage literal wars anywhere the executive desired while providing the flimsiest of evidence - and Shrub did just that. See: Iraq.
Everything is turning into disgusting subscription services. Most recently I saw home printers that required a monthly subscription service in order to print....
Watch out for direct injected cars, which is virtually all of them now except for electrics. Many don’t have traditional fuel injectors in the intake manifold anymore, and because of poor PCV systems, oil vapor carbonizes on the intake valves, causing problems. This is generally around the 40k-50k mile mark, potentially sooner if people don’t drive their cars on the freeway for extended periods after startup. Some newer cars have addresses this by adding supplemental fuel injectors in the intake (some audis, some Toyotas) but it’s not a widespread practice, of it will ever be.
I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro....
Install Ubuntu and be done. I’m able to print to my brother network printer with no special drivers. I installed a gnome tweaks package to do some minor tweaks in gnome, and I did rip out the Firefox snap thing to install Firefox from a package so I could use my kpxc plugin, but that’s the only major change I made. Hell, Dell (laptop) even provides firmware updates via the package manager so your bios gets updated properly. Best Linux desktop experience I’ve ever had over the past 5 years and I’ve been daily driving Ubuntu since 2004.
Does your county/state still run elections in a FPTP process? If so, work to change it. Instead of doing nothing but holding your nose, work to change the process so you can actually realize better candidates.
Isn’t modern gaming great? Can’t run your own servers, you’re stuck using some spoonfed services by an authoritarian corporation who also forces you to lease the use of your network connection even after you have paid for Internet access. The people who came up with these grifts are truly genius because plebs eat it up.
it is Mr. Biden’s reinvigoration of the government’s role as the nation’s most important investor that may endure as a turning point in the nation’s political and economic history....
That’s a function both of poverty and the lack of quality public education. Most don’t understand how elections are run, and most don’t understand that in order to change our two party paradigm, they need to change the local election process. FPTP needs to be flushed down the unclean toilet of history and we need to implement RCV or STAR. Both will be complicated and either choice will require thorough education of the public, but it’s the first step towards breaking the deadlock of the Democratic or Republican parties.
Dems rip Biden for launching Houthi strikes without congressional approval (www.politico.com)
Youtube has better anti-adblock now. Other than Invidious, any way around it? Purging and re-dowloading the ublock stuff didn't work
Families in disbelief after hundreds of bodies found buried behind Mississippi jail (www.pbs.org)
How long before Windows becomes a subscription service?
Everything is turning into disgusting subscription services. Most recently I saw home printers that required a monthly subscription service in order to print....
US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA (arstechnica.com)
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (1971) (youtu.be)
Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (arstechnica.com)
Trump vowed he’d ‘never’ help Europe if it’s attacked, top EU official says (www.politico.eu)
I'm so frustrated rn.
I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro....
Hobbes OS/2 Archive to shut down in three months – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
The announcement on hobbes.nmsu.edu...
RFK Jr. backs out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson said they're not attending (www.cbsnews.com)
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Xbox confirms it’s banning Baldur’s Gate 3 players who auto-upload sex clips | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
GOP Secretary of State Melts Down When Asked To Explain Bid to Throw Biden Off Ballot (www.rollingstone.com)
Jay Ashcroft flopped when faced with the most dreaded predicament amongst grandstanding blowhards: a follow-up question...
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The Seeds Joe Biden Has Planted (www.nytimes.com)
it is Mr. Biden’s reinvigoration of the government’s role as the nation’s most important investor that may endure as a turning point in the nation’s political and economic history....
Roger Stone Spoke With Cop Pal About Assassinating Eric Swalwell and Jerry Nadler (www.mediaite.com)
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Trump businesses received millions in foreign payments while he was in office, report finds (www.theguardian.com)