I would cry tears of joy if I woke up and found that President Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was having his inauguration parade exactly as shown in the image.
To make it interesting, ignore the figurehead and any global elite child sex slave trafficking ring they may or may not have been a part of. Consider the background characters instead.
In this image you have Luke Wilson playing a character who is known to be the smartest person on the planet, and who saves lives with their knowledge by teaching the people how to do things like water their crops, AND who got dragged into the position rather than being a cutthroat ambitious asdhole.
In a similar image of the real world you might have somebody like Stephen fucking Miller.
"I'm sure this is Constitutional," said no one ever.
It sure sounds a lot like something the president would say! Or, it would be something he'd mindlessly repeat to the cameras after Miller or whoever wormtongue'd it into his ear beforehand.
I'm afraid that if we see them invoke the 25th it will be because Trump finally has SO much baggage that they can blame damn near everything on him and quietly continue along the project 2025 trajectory with the likes of Vance and Johnson playing choir boys.
It's kind of annoying that 51 people lost their jobs to tariffs and they only write an article about the rich guy at the top of the family empire. But I'm sure that the 50 other families' quests for food and shelter and medicine were pretty boring compared with the breakage of the boss's money-generating machine he inherited.
Granted, he is the one who most deserves the leopardsatemyface recognition.
The New river also formed a beautiful gorge where we humans built an awesome bridge and some scenic overlooks. If you find yourself driving through that southern region of WV, it is worth a detour!
I might be wrong here, but judging by a clip I saw yesterday there wasn't an actual vote. Schumer stood up and said something like "I think we should just unanimously pass it through" and then somebody else asked if there were any objections. There were none so then it passed or something.
I can totally see conservatives processing it that way.
You know how they are always looking back to the good old days when they may have had it worse but people unlike them had it a LOT worse? Well if you keep going back as far as they want to take things, to being ruled by nobles or royal families, taking a wife in her teen years was absolutely nothing. And true servants of God need not be limited by the laws of man or some bullshit.
Consenting adult males, however, have penises and cannot make babies. So it is an affront to fragile conservative sensibilities as well as fragile conservative gods.
Yeah and to take what you were describing further, we can't ever really be sure our lives existed at all. If the universe was created in its current state 5 minutes ago, we would have no way to know.
But anyway, the ease of accepting one's own continuity from day to day is part of the teleporter problem. It's at the heart of it, honestly. I think it's a given that the copy of you that comes out the other side will believe that they are the original you and will assume your identity and life without skipping a beat.
The concern is the likelihood that you experience a quick death by being vaporized while the copy of you experiences the "created 5 minutes ago in current state with memories intact and can't prove otherwise" phenomenon.
I'll also add that as far as we can tell, our conscious minds are emergent properties of our physical brains. Losing consciousness while verifiably keeping your brain in a specific spot is quite a bit different than disassembling your physical brain and reassembling it somewhere else.
If we instead had evidence that our souls/identities existed on some other plane and our brains were more like antennas, I might think differently.
Sending human sounding emails and IMs at work isn't difficult. Just remember that single exclamation point so that you don't sound like you're droning on! Then add a professional closing sentence to round out your completely adequate professional message.
Somebody should describe the insane hack to these youngins where you can make a collect call to your parents from a pay phone and tell them your name is "HEY COME PICK ME UP!"
It's like you can send information to somebody across town without having coins in your pocket!
Ah yeah, the perfect gift for a little kid, something with non-deterministic behavior that they can't make do the same crap over and over, lol.
And yeah, the potential algorithm influenced flow of information into or out of the household is a big concern.
But the saddest thought for me is toys like these taking the place of parent-child interaction in some of the most significant relationships in our lives (for those of us who have kids). I think we mostly all know that we mostly all spend too much time zoning out in front of screens. But I have really broken myself from constant phone + games + TV this year, and it makes it all the more apparent in those around me. (note that I still use phone/games/TV often, but I spend much more time on other tasks and hobbies)
I was just watching some informative stuff about jet engines the other day, so I appreciate what you're saying even more than I normally would, lol.