The Christians who live by their principles generally are fairly discreet in doing so, both because that’s one of their principles and because they’re embarrassed by the ones who don’t.

Neat.

Although… Why 4 L of water? There has been a persistent gym-trainer recommendation for folk to drink the whole recommended daily allowance of water as a distinct supplement, even though most other foods and drink supply adequate hydration on their own.

Water is great as a snack-alternative for caloric reduction, however, not to mention it’s use in thermal regulation. My understanding is just that they “you’re dehydrated unless your pee is clear” folks are operating outside the mean of medical advice.

The marks on the.bottle are definitely interesting, though.

Wow. What a committed dooner.

Since this very depressed person says they’ve blocked me there’s no reason for me to respond to them, but if you’re casually reading this I would like to point out that the poster demonstrates some dramatic ignorance about US politics. Specifically:

• It’s an unelected US Federal Attorney who is refusing to vacate their position. There is a federal AG who is a member of the President’s cabinet, but the state of Virginia directly elected theirs in off-cycle years, and Democrat Jay Jones was just elected for a term starting Jan 14. It’s entirely ordinary for the lame-duck incumbent to still be in their position, and even to be a bit of a nuisance on the way out.

• Each two-year Congress starts when a simple majority of elected reps meets literally anywhere,.with the first order of business as swearing in new members and establishing the rules for the new Congress. There’s very solid precedent for what to do if some don’t show up or even if there are no house re-elects: the recent days-long impasses over Republicans picking a speaker, for example.

• While MAGA does appear to be a fascist group willing to ignore rules, it’s also one built on a theory of constitutional authority and American democracy. There is no precedent for them ignoring elections, even the ones they don’t like – just the various traditions and courtesies that are entirely outside the constitution. If Trump tries to cancel the 2026 or 2028 elections, expect that some currently-MAGA allies and voters would harshly react against them. (Especially with the already-apparent fault lines over the Epstein Files.)

I think that it’s much, much, much more likely than civil war or cancelling elections to just expect the sort of harassment and bad-faith shenanigans that has already been done, both in pseudo-aoarthide states like Texas and in “purple” states where Republicans hold jerrymanderrd legislature but lose statewide elections.

You are of course free to make up your own mind and even be a doomer like @ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world . But I don’t think obsessing over the eminent breakdown of American democracy is either health or useful.

You’re jumping the chaos a whole generation of facts early. And mangling two distinct foot-guns from the American right.

Sure, Trump could trigger a violent civil war. But so can King Charles. And just like with Parliment, the game for what happens is entirely known–and makes his own gruesome death more likely than any other action he could make

Either MAGA participates in an election they might lose, or they trigger a civil war they would likely splinter over. Whether that civil war is against a nominally elected Congress of non-MAGA states or against the governors of non-MAGA states is almost a moot point.

The only thing that makes any chaos possible from Trump calling for an election delay is internet chattivists insisting that his blathering would have some chaotic effect.

Elections of non-local jurisdiction aren’t ran by local areas. If Florida or Texas cancels elections their blue urban areas go as unrepresented as their red ones, and if red localities in California or New York try the same they wind up with Democrats winning a bunch of seats they otherwise wouldn’t.

Sure, you might have some members of the current Congress try to retain their seats, but absent an election 100% of the House and 1/3 of the Senate become private citizens in January. They could fuck around and help Trump start his civil war, but there’s no “chaos” there. It’s a very short constitutional crisis, that either ends in the unelected losers going home or the same violent civil war Trump could start tomorrow by claiming that the DNC is a terrorist organization.

And a violent civil war would have plenty of chaos, but none of it would be electoral.

Yes. And yet staring at twenty years of them reporting the weather would not at all improve my understanding of global warming. Especially if that observation was stretched out over twenty years.

Accurately recorded and identified specific observations are necessary for scientific progress, but their mere collection is not sufficient for understanding.

Science requires us to speculate, predict, test, and refine. And if all we do is observe without even having made a prediction, we’re not even testing.

If Trump calls to cancel elections, and some red states don’t hold them, the.correct response is “ok, you have left X seats vacant in congress.”, which would be worse for Republican power than a 20-point D swing. (Especially since it makes the 2/3ds vote for removal after impeachment correspondingly lower.)

If Trump rolls out ICE to physically stop elections, then we’re in a state of violent civil war. Which cannot be collectively planned for.

This isn’t abortion or gay marriage being overturned by the court. It’s a very straightforward bright line whose precedent was set during the US civil war, and there is zero benefit to spending any time spreading the presumption that cancelled US elections mean MAGA peacefully stays in power.

If understanding was caused by direct observation we wouldnt have local weather-persons who doubt global warming.

Did the growth outpace inflation under Biden?. The only thing I found in your link was a graph that ends with Biden’s first year that showed flat funding for ICE, plus some assertions about its total decades-long growth.

You’re absolutely right that ICE should be replaced with a few hundred bureaucratic functionaries to stamp passports. But I don’t think we get there without clear partisan blame.

why would Biden increase the ICE budget

The null hypothesis here would be with “inflation”, and simpler explanations than yours would be “because Trump cut the funds” and “COVID lockdowns”

You may be right, but if you want anyone to accept your theory you need to provide sufficient evidence to overcome the simple answers.

Just because a family is going to predicably do the wrong thing doesn’t mean that the wrong thing is somehow right.

“In reality, they’re going to both be wrong and argue very loudly that they arent. Take some time to contemplate a good redirection when they try to blame you instead of the facists.”

Stackexchange sites aren’t intended as forums, they’re supposed to be “places to find answers to questions”.

The more you get away from stack overflow itself the worse they get, though, because anything beyond “how can I fix this tech problem” doesn’t necessarily have an answer at all, much less a single best one

There’s nothing direct in the law that stops a state from creating ruinous taxes if they choose. Or Congress, for that matter, although they’re slightly more constrained than the states are.

As you note, the biggest check against excessive state taxation is economic flight to other US states. But that’s more a consequence of state action or an argument against the same rather than an issue that our hypothetical billionaire could seriously raise in court against a hypothetical billionaire tax.

That clever accountant (who may be a lawyer, but would be wearing a different hat here) wouldn’t help at all if, say, NY imposed a 99% revenue tax on any social media company that also issues a cryptocurrency. Such a rule would also bite Facebook, reddit, X, and Bsky, however, so there’d be considerable lobbying against it.

(And the trick isn’t to have the lowest taxes, but to keep your taxes low enough that the savings for moving don’t offset the loss from what you miss. Which is why movie studios and effects shops are largely still in CA but the actual filming is often elsewhere.)

Not that senator Kelly is at all being fairly treated by the facists in charge, mind you. But the lever they’re pulling is one that exists for an intentional reason.

Consider the absurd: you served in the US military long enough to earn a pension, then left the country and joined an evil terrorist organization waging violent war against the USA.

Should the US still need to pay out your pension, or should there be a way to cancel or suspend it for your treasonous acts?

The original food pyramid was designed when starvation was a major concern, and so makes sense in that context.

The “my plate” was a fair adjustment that refocused on quality of food in a world of plenty.

I have no idea what a “upside down pyramid” is supposed to be.

How is “significantly worse” not different?

States can and do drive whole categories of business out of their state. Self-service gas stations in NJ, wine stores in PA,.etc etc

And while you’re right that the distinction between a penalty and a tax is mere semantics, it’s not something that would keep CA from just imposing very high taxes on the rich or NY from continuing it’s “we tax NY source income for all”.

Trump having his NY corp sell all of its NY assets to a FL corp would still keep those NY assets and revenue subject to NY taxes, same as any other FL corp doing business “in” NY, though it would move the non-NY revenue to a different treatment.

https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/ct/ctidx.htm

If your business is incorporated in New York State or does business or participates in certain other activities in New York State, you may have to file an annual New York State corporation tax return to pay a franchise tax under the New York State Tax Law.

There are no less than two separate court systems the billionaire could use – CA’s own, and the federal courts. Plus maybe those of whatever state they fled to.

Since the 5th amendment is what requires states to pay for property they seize, this isnt a CA only thing that could miss the federal court like CA’s “all beeches are and have always been public” rule.

Kind of. But if it’s not “fair market value”, the owner can (and will!) sue to either block the seizure or be paid the difference. Plus expenses.

Nazisim wasn’t existentially anti-jewish. It was just an evil philosophy looking for an enemy to attack, and would have as happily focused on Romani, Apache, or Poles if they were more present in Germany.

Zionism is that same evil philosophy, spreading among Jews instead of Germans.

Ethnic nationalism is just bigotry enshrined into law.