cattywampas

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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 points 31 seconds ago

American cheese (provided it's good quality) is just cheese, milk, and sodium citrate.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

And when the courts said Trump couldn't send in Marines and National Guard to enforce state laws did he ignore them and do it anyway? Nope, he fell right in line and obeyed the ruling.

Checks and balances - even with a conservative majority Supreme Court - is what got federal troops out of LA and what has kept them out of my home city of Chicago. So yeah, I still have a little faith in the system.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fully agree that it's not enough. But people who run around saying the Trump administration is just doing whatever they want, are not being challenged on it, or are winning those challenges are just reading headlines on social media without really paying attention to the news.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

There actually is a lot stopping that. Are there federal troops in LA and Chicago right now? And why or why not?

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world -2 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

wtf has any of that stopped him from doing so far?

Have you seriously been paying so little attention to the news that you don't know that the answer is "a whole lot"?

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

States run their own elections. "Cancelling the election" is not a thing that ever could or would happen. Nor is a new constitution, as that would require 34 states to even call a convention and then 38 states to ratify one.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Well in theory with a big enough campfire it would work. So you weren't entirely wrong.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Like people everywhere, most of us are pretty chill.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

There's a Calvin and Hobbes strip about this. I think it's the run where their house was broken into and Hobbes was missing. Calvin came to the same realization and I remember it really sticking with me as a kid.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This happens occasionally when they're discussing the past in Star Trek. I'm reminded of some season 2 episode where they've lost power or whatever during an emergency and Pulaski tells them to make some splints. One doctor responds "that isn't medicine, that's barbaric" which gives me the same vibes.

I don't think the writers intended this, but it does give us a reminder that people always view the past through the lens of the present and it can be easy to dismiss or disparage the way people have lived throughout time.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All laws are made up.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Skyrim. Yeah I know there's a ton to do and the real game is side quests and leveling up etc etc. But after I killed Alduin I kinda looked around and was like "wait is that the end of the main quest?" First game I ever had to google if I had beaten it.

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