Ultimately, the rules work fine for what they were intended to do, which is prevent one branch of government from becoming much more powerful than the other two. However, they don’t work well against an entity like the Republican Party, which deliberately subverts multiple branches simultaneously. The rules against executive power have also been weakened over time due to congress ceding power to the president, something the founders hadn’t anticipated. They were prepared for greedy bastards that wanted to hoard power, but people giving power away to reduce their own responsibilities or achieve partisan goals was something they hadn’t even heard of.

I remembering having a crush on Hermione. Emma Watson was also older than me, though, and I remember thinking that adults perving on her was gross.

He never retired, he just became irrelevant.

Hang on, I think I’ve seen this episode of, uh, everything.

Something something torment nexus something something.

Officially, the British monarch can reject any bills that Parliament sends them, effectively vetoing it, but no king or queen has exercised that power since 1708.

Which makes sense because even 1080p streaming is garbage compared to blu-ray.

One of the founders thought we should draft a new constitution from scratch every few years and they created the ammendment system specifically so any part could be scrapped and remade in case there were problems. They clearly didn’t think it was perfect, just good enough for the time. They certainly didn’t expect us to slow down and stop with the ammendments, at least.

It varies a lot from woman to woman and from one pregnancy to another. Anywhere from, “That’s it? That wasn’t so bad,” to, “Oh, god! Kill me to make the pain stop!”

And if you’re looking at absolute numbers or as a proportion of the total population.

I’ve been expecting Vance to invoke the 25th two years and one month into Trump’s term for a while. I think it was really telling that nobody wanted to be Trump’s runningmate until his dementia got obviously much worse, then everyone raced to get it, including Vance.

“You forgot the first rule of the fanatic - when you become obsessed with the enemy you become the enemy!”

Vista was good eventually, but certainly not on launch. It launched with absurdly aggressive popups about for User Account Control and backwards compatibility was somewhat spotty, largely due to the security changes. By the end, though, it was actually really solid, to the point that Win7 essentially launched as Vista Service Pack 2 with a new taskbar skin.

State crime under most circumstances. Federal murder generally requires that it happen somewhere directly administered by the federal government or that the victim be a member of the federal government, and that last one is still only sometimes.

There’s also the possibility that Vance invokes the 25th two years and one month into Trump’s term. He gets to be either the guy that saved America or the guy who made the tough choice for the good of the nation. Then he’s POTUS for nearly two years and can still be elected to two terms. If this is his plan, he’ll start sounding half-way reasonable in six months.

We also have stripes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko's_lines

I’ll give one. Despite Sheridan and Delenn giving that speech about rejecting the Shadows and Vorlons and making their own way, the Vorlons won. The Army of Light, the Rangers, and the Interstellar Alliance are all in line with Vorlon philosophy, they run on Vorlon tech, most members were Vorlon allies, and they still oppose former Shadow allies and destroy Shadow tech when they find it.

Another is that the Shadows should have had their own Kosh, a character who was still comitted to the original goal and hadn’t succumbed to motive decay. Shadows believe in strength through adversity, so one setting up obstacles with the expectation that the cast would overcome them and grow stronger cpuld have been interesting.

Er, no. A Linux program from five years ago probably won’t run on a current distro if it hasn’t been maintained in four years. A Windows program released twenty years ago and never patched has pretty good odds of running on Win10 without even needing to touch the compatibility tab.

Which they could clean up, but it would mean killing backwards compatibility, which is arguably the only selling point of Windows.

The new body is distinctly inhuman, so it’s also transhumanism.