SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

that is such a small edge case that it’s not necessary to talk about them

Did you manage to overlook this point?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In general, stay out of the ducking way.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

kind of my point. Trains need accurately measured time in order to run properly.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tell that to the trains.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

Your last point is wrong, at least as you have stated it. Evaporation time is based on surface area, and the required power is based on volume, but you expressed the amount of water as a length.

Still, metric is way better.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

The leftist version of such people wouldn't be a propagandist, but a whip. Someone to help herd the cats, as it were. Someone to help keep the important things in mind in the midst of the "flood the zone" technique that disperses our efforts.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago

Tenth Amendment, might apply here.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

when it quits bring entertaining.

It's utility for the original purpose, communication without limits, (or checking for coffee) is being diminished, and at some point, ill stop using it for that. But as long as there are jokes and titties, it will still be a source of entertainment.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 0 points 3 weeks ago

Italy was a constitutional monarchy under fascist rule.

And the US is, theoretically, a democracy, and if we aren't under fascist rule, we will be soon enough. Fascism can spring from any form of government.

your second paragraph is something only ignorant bootlickers say

So you feel that Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump was as stable as any government needs too be? No improvement to be made there?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The reason one has a constitutional monarchy is to try to split the difference, I think, and get the best parts of each system.

But I'm with you. No kings.

As it is we in the UK are stuck with a mind-meltingly wealthy, influential and unaccountable family who have extremely questionable members and histories.

They influence laws to benefit their own ends, they shield abusive behaviour and individuals, and they do it all in the name of maintaining a tradition that fundamentally says that some people are simply “better” than others.

We have these too. Is just that they are more unofficial.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't choose such a system, I think, but I can't say that there aren't at least a few half decent arguments for it.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

A constitutional monarch may have a wide range of powers, depending on the constitution. It doesn't automatically mean "powerless figurehead."

Given the way the US has been recently, I'm willing to admit that there may be some benefit to having a leader in some position of power that had been there a long time, and has, more or less, been training for the responsibly since birth.

Of course, there are plenty of arguments against such a leader, but the least of which is how much you have to stretch the word "training" to make it fit that sentence above.

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