Microwave imaging is used militarily, and in 2025 the US military did a public test of the Leonidas microwave weapon system to simultaneously knock out nearly 50 drones.

Acting President. One part of the 25th amendment that’s actually been used a few times (Section 3) is related to anesthesia. When the President is going under general anesthesia they can formally tell congress they’ll be temporarily unable to discharge the duties of the office, so the VeeP becomes acting President.

It’s been done 4 times - all related to the colon, funnily enough. George HW Bush was Acting President during Reagan’s colon-cancer surgery. Cheney was Acting President twice for W’s colonoscopies, and Harris was Acting President during Biden’s colonoscopy.

Between all 4 instances it still adds up to like 11 hours total that a VeeP has been Acting President.

The other parts of the 25th Amendment that have been used are Section 1 (Presidential sucession in case of death, resignation, or removal from office) for when Nixon resigned, and Section 2 (Vice-Presidnential succession) following Spiro Agnew’s resignation and Ford’s elevation to the Presidency following Nixon’s Resignation.

Section 4 (removal by the cabinet) hasn’t been used. It probably should have been when Reagan was shot and incapacitated, but Bush was on a flight and wouldn’t have been able to do anything, so it was tricky.

It definitely should have been used with Ttump on January 6th - and about 900 other times.

The little ones were worse in my experience. They tended to turn better on the axles and with couple guys spinning on the outside you could really get them going, then have the people riding move to the inside and it blue-shifts.

Isreal stopping it’s assault on Lebanon was one of Iran’s conditions of the 10 point-plan to end the war in 2 weeks, so Israel decided to accelerate the bombing to wipe them out before the 2 weeks is up.

Honestly, it’s especially troubling with a cease fire. The lesson taken from there is that openly threatening the mass-murder of civilians is a legitimate strategy.

Harris at least held the powers of the office for an hour one time while Biden was under for a Colonoscopy. So that’s something.

Congress can and should have her ass dragged in there by force if she refuses to appear.

Some things require years of specialization and simply can’t be done by novices. You don’t want volunteer engineers, pharmacists, etc. Some of those specializations are also unpleasant. We need to support people and not require that all humanity be profitable, but we also need to incentivize people to do shitty and/or difficult jobs. That balance is extremely difficult to find, and the most effective solution we’ve found is paying people for that work. There’s an incredible imbalance in our system right now that values non-productive ownership over all else, but the solution to that isn’t saying “Fuck it - nobody gets paid and it’ll all work itself out.”

The easiest solution is to tax the shit out of the uber-wealthy. Right now we have lower classes defined by income and an upper class defined by wealth. If we remove the wealth and make work and productivity more valuable than ownership, it moves us much closer to equity.

Everyone can’t do everything, and some specialized jobs with specialized skills are extremely unpleasant. Are you suggesting that we just hope things get done, or that we force people to do it while giving nothing in return.

One is delusional - the other is just slavery.

Sure is a good thing doing this dishes is the most complicated and least-pleasant thing people can do…

Who’s gonna volunteer to go through years of training specializing in commercial diving in wastewater to treatment plants for free?

“We are not a theocracy, and God willing, we never will be” is a fascinating statement.

It’s a call for a secular state from a religious perspective, and I think I actually like it a lot.

They were way more repairable though. We had a gas dryer that lasted 40 years and was only replaced because we moved somewhere without gas.

It was basically a big egg timer with an electric motor and a gas burner. You could fix anything on it with a crescent wrench, screwdriver, and off-the-shelf components from the hardware store for about 9 bucks.

The replacement dryer has had to have $1000+ circuit boards replaced more than once.

Officers who commit war crimes CANNOT be let off the hook if we end this madness. They are required to refuse illegal orders, and they should be held to account.

We can no longer afford to let people off in the name of national healing. Anyone complicit in these crimes must be severely punished - otherwise we’re just sending a message to future despots that there’s no risk to pursuit of their goals.

I would’ve been totally in favor of that criticism if it had simply been about fashion.

All we know is the screen isn’t using HDMI 2.1.

Most exams are measurements of neither. They’re a test of knowledge.

I saw Dear Evan Hansen in like 2019. The staging was kinda neat, and the vocal performances were spectacular.

The story was… something.

Do they even keep it dry back there?

Probably a tricolor silk filament of some kind.

My dad had a treat is his shirt pocket once that the dachshund found one time.

Now any time she hops on someone’s lap she checks to see if there’s a hidden treat in a shirt pocket.