It would not have been impossible but it would have been problematic. I mean he could send troops with the war powers act. Its possible but not really something he could realistically do.

this gets into a completely seperate thing. He could not give them it without congress but the US only very reluctantly restricts commerce. Its a very different thing to say im not going to fund your war and im not going to sell you stuff when dealing with a long time ally. And no you don’t just throw away diplomatic relationships easily. If countries did they would have stopped having dealing with us in trumps first term.

I actually feel one problem with the modern age, in america in particular, is this idea of everyone doing everyone for themselves. doctor, accountant, lawyer, mechanic, it guy, plumber, electrician. Initially gas stations pumped the gas, checked your fluids and tires, and would top you off as part of the service. no one did that stuff. if your tv broke you called in the tv repairman and you got your milk from a milkman. people were expected to know their jobs and not necessarily everyone elses.

I for one find your explanation very fitting.

I know tons of people even 30 years ago that could not check the oil on their car and would call triple A or their insurance company for a flat tire. Heck I had a friend we practically had to beg to bring his car in for an oil change and that is just a number and calendar date to keep track of and most places put a little sticker to give you that information.

what gets me is would the hamas attack and thus the isreali response happen without putin. Im very suspicious that he was not pushing on making more chaos globally to get our of the cluster fuck he started.

yeah its not like republicans tied ukraine aid to aid for israel or anything. /s

thank god trump one and so now the genocide is all over.

I was thinking this was a bit leopards ate my face.

yeah. I want the company to support it as a linux device to.

I think there is some sort of automated system being used often because I have seen the same spoken word by a character some up as different words and sometimes its even almost a catchphrase yet it comes up with it differently.

every time I see these my first thought is if its linux. If its not linux its not a steamdeck competitor.

but not a surprise to the people who actively voted against him and his party in order to not have them in control.

it doesn’t have to be independent but if a company owns hospitals they can’t own insurance carriers or pharmacy or practices. There should actually be an other category to represent middle man areas of healthcare like cobra as well. You can own one segment but not multiple segments.

I got annoyed because it would crash and then when you would be placed at the start and have to fastforward but then when you got to certain points in the fast forward it would flip to commercials. to damn annoying.

One of the biggest misses of obamacare is that it should have not allowed any company to be involved in more than one segement. Pharmacy - hospital - insurance - providers. Besides the republicans kicking out the one leg so they could later say its flawed (yeah they flawed it) and is a failure, this allowance of monopoly is killing healthcare.

I babysat younger kids at 13 while the parents went out and got back after midnight. Nowadays I think leaving a 13 year old alone would get someone in trouble much less have them be the one watching the other kids.

I agree. Combined with what people are used to but apple showed thats not much of a reason.

honestly no other word just sums it up. real world is not as exact and is two words. actuality. not online. none are as satisfying.

for myself I have always been sarcastic and in meatspace was also well known for devils advocate as well. I actually try to curb it as much as I can manage with online because of how what I view as sarcasm seems to be part of a variety of folks actual beliefs.