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I mean, no joke I could see a large screen built with acoustics in mind. Less so for personal home use, but like DJ/large venue stuff? That actually kinda' makes sense, y'know? Audiophile screen could be a legit thing. Not so much a peripheral incorporation thing as shape and material made to facilitate acoustics.

So hey, with a day of early voting and actual election day left, Texas has, uh. Surpassed its total 2016 voting turnout. That's neat.

Depends on the local jurisdiction, actually, I think

Some places have limitations on what they'll accept as a legal name. Monster Mash would probably clear, but some joints have legal precedent regarding other people being able to stop you from naming a kid something or another.

But broadly speaking, yeah, you can mostly name a kid whatever. Think you could be super mean and probably force a name change on them repeatedly until they become old enough to legally challenge it, too, heh.

Yeah, got those where I'm at around landfall. That plus the subsequent tornado watch meant I didn't get as much sleep as I'd like last night

Which is, uh. Pretty minor compared to how Louisiana apparently got shat on again, but still.

If I'm about $80 richer now than I was a month ago, is that progress or stagnation?

I mean, does being 80 bucks richer meaningfully improve your financial situation? Make it more likely you can actually manage an emergency without going into debt (probably not, that's all of 9ish k over a decade)? More likely you can maintain food and shelter? If yes, then progress. If no, stagnant. If not beating inflation, probably just screwed

Quote from: Zanzetkuken The Great on October 27, 2020, 11:59:58 am

If you look at the overall Federal budget, a large chunk of it is a case of Mandatory spending from Social Security/Medicare that would be brought down to the state rather than federal level.

But how are the states going to pay for it, is my question. Are you assuming a lot of savings from turning them into state-led programs, lower benefits, or something else?

Lots of them mostly wouldn't. Pay for it, that is. Real question is whether the subsequent "lots of people die or suffer crippling medical complications" due to loss of benefits or access outright is considered a feature or a bug by the folks making the proposition. Least most of the ones I've encountered consider the worse off folks ending up dead or even more miserable to be more feature than anything, so...

'Course, the same thing applies to all the things beyond healthcare and elder support the fed provides to the varying extents it does. The general idea encounters a nasty reality when you consider more than one or two states in the US would fail and fail hard without the amount of federal support they get, heh.

Which, I guess if you want to see the US cracked open like an egg and scrambled to shit, that might be a desirable end goal. Shame about all the people that'd have to live through it, for however long they do.

I mean, you can try.

About the only one I can think of off the top of my head is the figleaf to folks that want the US kneecapped. If you consider it being weakened as a positive and the immiseration of its populous as an acceptable price to pay for it, well, there's one. Don't think there's any other ones, though, especially not consistent ones. The man's character, behavior, and actions current and past are mostly just kinda' shit.