Thanks for the links. I hadn’t gotten around to really learning anything about this guy yet.

Most things sounded like basic things a government should do for people. The real “controversy” seems to be that he wants rich people and businesses to chip in more and not get quite as many special privileges at the sale of other people

The city owned grocery stores sound interesting. The one article said other cities have recently started testing the same idea. In Pennsylvania we have state owned liquor stores that have gotten better now that rules have been loosened to create some competition. They’ve traditionally been looked at as a monopoly, limiting selection and keeping prices high.

With it being just city owned stores, they’d seem to still have all the same competition that exists now, but the city could get volume pricing and not have to include massive real estate expenses into the operating costs. If it continues to be run for the benefit of the people and doesn’t line anyone’s pockets, it sounds like it could be a great benefit.

With the low cost housing, one thing I thought while reading is how do you keep those units from being scooped up by investors?

He’s really got a lot of lofty goals, and it seems like a very intense and complicated job if he gets to be mayor. I wish him luck!

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This one is equally good.

They’re available a bunch of places, but I didn’t see any from the actual NPS. There’s one site that looks somewhat official, but it is not.

Aww, you edited it.

He does run with the herd more than I’d prefer, but that’s just how he is.

I’d vote for Joe Bison for president. Love his initiative.

Lol, couldn’t find that, but I did see this one:

I don’t think he’d want the job, but he would do it were he asked and give it 110%. He’s no nonsense, a facts-based decision maker, and he listens to people’s issues and makes fair decisions if it’s what you want to hear or not. He’s also not too full of himself to admit when he’s been wrong. He seeks out experts on matters outside of his experience and respects their opinions. He loves his country and looks to do right by those that entrust him with a job.

He would also probably be unfortunately remembered as a terrible president a la Jimmy Carter, as he’d likely trust a number of people he shouldn’t to keep their word, he’d be too compromising for a lot of people, and I don’t think people would like his “lack of personality” they’d get from his public persona. I think Hank would be a top-notch cabinet member though! I would totally support him for any of a number of different ones.

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Pretty extensive product page

Nah, then they’d remember the East India Company.

It just takes enough time to go by that society forgets about this kind of thing and it can rise up from the ashes again.

The Pinkertons or military being deployed on strikers wasn’t all that long ago historically, but long enough that most of us don’t feel it could happen now.

I liked seeing my score in the beginning, as coming from being a long time lurker, it made it feel like I was contributing to building Lemmy.

Now my post and comment counts are higher than I ever would have thought, so I’m fine without it. As the score doesn’t count for anything, now I find it more satisfying to see my actual contribution.

Guys like Felder have been really repulsive to me as it seems to be a regular occurrence anymore. Running as a Democrat and then flipping Republican after the election. With local elections being so small and such little info on candidates typically available, it’s a real slap in the face of every citizen.

I just voted in my state’s primary yesterday, and most candidates I could barely find what their political affiliation is, as we can only vote for our registered party’s candidates, but people can file to be on both tickets. Most people aren’t going to be doing even that much research, which is also a huge issue.

Sutton’s website has very little actual info on him. The vague statements on his policies page reads centrist-republican, but accepting of green energy. I hope he can make positive changes to his district though.

That’s disappointing. I’m really hoping this isn’t the next presidential candidate we’re going to get.

Someone better check on this guy, he seems to have had the same type of stroke that Fetterman had.

I looked it up again. It started a bit before the Magna Carta, the concepts were established a butt better in the Magna Carta, but the Writ of Habeas Corpus, is from an actual in 1679.

There’s a ton more in the main Habeas Corpus wiki entry, but I’m at my limit of reading legal stuff for the day!

Tldr, any time we’ve suspended it has not been a good time for anyone! 😒

Best I can do for you right now is a slightly used Kamala and a Newsom. (sad laughter)

I was somewhat pleased the other day to see Andy Beshear being mentioned. I’m not an expert on Kentucky politics, but I used to listen to a show from Cincinnatti during Covid, and Basheer seemed to navigate issues in a largely red state well, and he seems to be on what I feel is the right side of many issues. Skimming his wiki page quickly, I don’t see any controversies, and actually a few more good things I wasn’t aware that he managed to accomplish.

There are still many powerful people with a lot to lose that I don’t think are interested in seeing the US go fully off the rails, plus the head of the MAGA cult of personality is an old and unhealthy person, so we may yet get to see the movement run out of steam naturally before it is too late. I’d like this BS stopped yesterday of course, but I don’t want a violent leftist government any more than I do a violent right government. I’m neither rich nor well connected, so either would be bad for me and the people I care about.

Constitution.congress.gov

Article I, Section 9, Clause 2:

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

Link has some discussion of previous court cases involving the second part of that clause: who can suspend it and for what reason.

I was reading the other day it is based off centuries old British law, originally created so a king couldn’t just stick you in the dungeon for no reason.

The problem now is we do have someone acting as king, and all the king’s men have spent the last 10 years calling these people outside “invaders” and with guys like Miller who exist purely to milk these legal vagaries, that language is most likely very intentional for that reason.

I really don’t want to see people crossing the line to war/terrorism. I guess it would be the fastest way to get impactful change, but likely at a high cost. Destabilization also seems much easier than establishing a new system that enough people are happy with without fracturing again. That’s also assuming the side we’re on comes out on top.

We don’t necessarily need something catastrophic to build back. We just need to seriously learn from the mistakes we’ve allowed, not just to smooth things over with words and by ignoring transgressions.

The compromising of things like voter data and social security databases has really disturbed me. Even if we have the best president in history next, how can we ever trust those systems again when an unknown number of people potentially have backdoor access to that info? I think a lot is going to need to be scrapped and rebuilt from zero if we’re supposed to have confidence in it. It’s not like the normal stuff like when we get a crummy EPA or FCC person and we can just roll some policies back or what have you, we have been severely exposed to unknown parties about many of the most private and personal levels.

Summary for you:

The Energy Star program falls under the division of the EPA in charge of climate change and energy efficiency. EPA head Zeldin, under instruction from Trump, is eliminating that whole wing of employees as their function is not something mandated by law to be done.

This is to support the initiative for more powerful toilets, showers, and other appliances, and also to further crush the federal workers unions, who were barred from participating in the discussion of eliminating all these jobs.

Trump had already tried and failed to kill Energy Star in his first term. In more of his stellar business sense, while this program cost $32 million, but saved consumers $40 billion in energy costs.

I hadn’t been to a McD in ages, but I took my niece and her friend to an event and they wanted to stop there. It was the most dystopian eating experience I ever had.

The interior was all off white and sterile (emotionally). There was no counter service, you ordered through a gigantic kiosk. Food took forever. As you said, the drive in and DoorDash seemed to be dominating the customer base. There were maybe 2 other tables in use during dinner rush.

The funniest/saddest part to me, was it sounded like there was maybe just 1 employee in the kitchen, and at any given time, either a manager was yelling at them or a machine was beeping out orders, I’m assuming from the kitchen timers going or orders coming through. So the whole time we’re waiting, which was a decent amount of time, I’m picturing this lone teenager being yelled out by a lineup of a middle age dude and a parade of machines.

Food came out cold and not great, but about what I expect from McD’s, which is why I don’t like to go there. The kids just each got a Sprite and fries, which we could have gotten anywhere else…

I honestly don’t care all that much that the food is standardized to such a degree, that’s it’s made out of strange industrial processes, or even that it’s always cold when all the other fast food places seem to at least have warm food. It’s that no matter what I get, I always feel like I’ve never actually eaten anything. My stomach always feels as empty after I’ve eaten there. I eat a decent amount of not great for me foods, but McDonalds is the only thing that consistently feels so devoid of any nutritional value whatsoever. It just blows my mind every time.

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