Anyone from Dragonball.

Or Love Hina. There’s some great choices there.

Or else?

I did some translation of children’s books. It went well. I learned some new vocab surrounding medical topics (still seeking care in a foreign country, sigh).

I also got some ear training listening to numbers at stores.

Oh! And I realized I can almost understand the train arrival loudspeaker at the main train station for the most common announcements. That’s very helpful.

It relies mostly upon people feeling shame about being denounced. Being impeached is mostly about an official denouncement.

If you don’t care, then it means nothing to the individual. It then falls upon the citizens to actually give a fuck about their country having leadership who is more positive than negative. What we’ve learned in the last handful of years is that about 30% of voters would vote for a king if that king hates the same people they do. Another 30% don’t care who runs anything, so a king is fine with them.

So… A ruling monarch the US will have. It’s nearing the end of the Republic and Orange Fürher has crossed the Rubicon. Apparently no one cares enough to really deal with it, but we’ll surely see lots of walking around on a weekend as to not cause any inconvenience.

Yes, I feel No Kings is the right message, but the actual wherewithal to enforce the Republic isn’t visible yet.

It’s kind of a vote of no confidence that then requires the US Senate to hold a “trial” on whether to remove. Essentially, the House (a more general populace representative body) says "he is bad and should be reviewed’. Then the Senate (which more represents the states, not the public) decides whether to agree and then a removal happens if they do.

Otherwise? It’s just the Senate saying “he’s fine and we’re okay with it”, which is what the Republicans are. They’re okay with crime and hatred of fellow Americans as long as it’s their people doing the hating and criming.

Someday the USA might be as good as Iceland or Lithuania. Of course, if it slips a bit more it’ll fall behind the international diplomatic powerhouses of Romania and Bulgaria.

This kind of tech has been floating around the research world of smart home tech for over a decade now. Various forms of EM deflection and field deviation modeling have been used to be headcount sensors, gesture sensors, and body position modeling. Yup, it’s out there. Normally, it takes multiple antennas in particular positions to work, so it’s still a more controlled space kind of thing than the whole world. That said, it’s possible to do, so head’s up, we’re in for a rough ride going forward on the privacy and monitoring fronts.

But only to decide the color of the cover on the report we might write!

That’s conservatism in it’s purest sense. “The law should protect, but not bind, the in-group while the law binds, but does not protect, the out-group.”

Authoritarians (The Authoritarians book) does a phenomenal job digging into these kinds of mentalities. It completely predicted where we’re at, and did it using decades of research up to when it was published in 2007.

Looking back, his research was spot on for what was coming next in the US.

And much much much quieter!

Which is why Texas (state of freedum) regulates owning said devices. Can’t let women actually experience happiness.

Aside from the wealth concentrating in the hands of a few, there’s also noting that it’s “working full time”. More people are stuck into part time or multiple part time jobs to make ends meet.

They’ve left dual citizenship and the five year normal path to citizenship intact… for now.

Suspicion? This has been the goal of right wing and conservative think tanks for decades now. The end goal of conservatism is monarchy. “Plenary Authority” is just a fancy way of saying “The King can do anything he wants”.

“fascists seek to ally with fascists now that US fascists are publicly out as fascists”

Windows 95/98 sucked shit. I liked the games, but the kernels were terrible.

I dual booted or ran two machines Linux (RedHat 5.2 to 6.2, wtf was up with 7?), then whatever worked (usually Debian based) for a while. Mostly used Linux alone for years, but used Win7 for a bit. That one was okay, but Microsoft can’t build dev tools on their own OS to save their lives.

It’s been Linux Mint for a long time now on desktops and Debian/Armbian on servers.

Basically, I’ve been mainlining Linux since about '97 and it’s doing me just fine. Works great for my kids and wife. We’re a mostly Linux household. It saves me a ton of headaches. Easy to install, patch, and almost no other maintenance.

Because the people in charge of straightjackets want this.

It turns out that road design has significantly more impact on speeds and safety than posting cops everywhere. Who’d of thought that?

… Except everyone who does actual research on the topic, of course.

Conservatives are, and have always been, about power over others. We kept their more evil nature’s focused externally for a while with cold war, but without an external threat to point them at, they always turn on their neighbors eventually.

Too many car farts makes air go hot hot.

Danke für die Gedanken.

Nein, ich habe kein Oktoberfestbier getrinken. Ich trinke fast kein alkohol. Aber, ich bin in Berlin und Oktoberfest ist klein hier.