https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3748639
Download the paper, read pages 10 and 11 for context.
Kepabar
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There is a record of the Senate debate on this amendment.
One questioned 'Why doesn't this include the president?'.
Another senator replied 'It does under the section of anyone who holds an office'.
The response was 'Ok, I was unclear on that'. And the debate carried on.
So the writers obviously intended this to include the office of the president.
If she were trying to have children, sure then I can believe medical science could make that happen.
But menopause happens in part because the body runs out of viable eggs. The body doesn't produce more over a life; you are born with your supply.
Why would medical science have given her more eggs at some point?
Good. Embrace me technology.
Hasn't happened to me yet, but I know it will.
Sucks; but to be honest most of the YouTube things I watch have been moving off YouTube for awhile anyway.
First Reddit, now YouTube. This year is a year of change for my Internet habits.
It's not even about that.
Like 99% of women have hit menopause by 55, and the number of births for mothers over 50 with no medical intervention in the conception process is extremely low. So low that Wikipedia has an article detailing specific women it's happened to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_over_age_50
This wouldn't be a huge deal, except a major plot point is that it was an accidental pregnancy neither of them planned for. So it's not like she was getting any kind of fertility treatment.
While not impossible it just makes Jacks conception extremely unlikely
Fuck yeah, go watch Picard S3.
It was a fun ride.
You don't really need to watch the other two seasons first if you don't want to; the only thing you won't have is the backstory on why the hell Picard knows Seven and who Seven's kinda girlfriend is.
Right, Jack is the result of Picard and Beverly finally getting together after the events of Nemesis and Insurrection.
Now, that does make Beverly 55+ when she had him. But future medicine and all that I guess?
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She had no other children at this time.
If referring to Jack, he wasn't born yet.
So there is already a thing with Windows 11 where you can, as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription, upgrade your Windows 11 machine from Pro to Enterprise.
The idea of having the base OS be a subscription is really just a stones throw away.
... but the Pro -> Ent activation process is really a PITA and often randomly PC's will revert back to Pro after they've been ugpraded, so I guess we'll have fun with that.
Because he can't be trusted to share power.
McCarthy had two choices:
Do what the freedom caucus wanted and never see anything pass the Senate.
Make a deal across the isle and get some work done.
He dragged his feet, hymed and hawed and eventually caved in on option 2 as it's the only reasonable one.
Then he proceeded to attack those who he just made a deal with the very next day.
He could have instead said that real leadership is finding compromises that move things forward but he's lose MAGA voters who see the government burning down as an upside.
So he sold his soul, again, to those crazies and yet again proved he isn't reliable.
Does this benefit the House as an organization?
Absolutely not. But the clown show that will follow in the next few weeks will make the GOP look horrible at least.
And maybe, just maybe, some of the more sensible parts of the GOP will come to the Democrats with a power sharing deal that will completely neuter the freedom caucus once they see how hopeless their situation is.
Actually, it really might in this case.
A number of the justices currently sitting on the supreme court are (or claim to be) originalists.
Meaning, the original intent of the writers is the correct interpretation. Evidence showing what that original intent was can be very useful with judges like that.