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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • it didn’t surrender anything

    It absolutely has. The he executive has literally no authority to impose tariffs - that’s Congress’ job. The executive has no authority to not spend money that Congress has appropriated - yet he is

    These are easily blockable by Congress and should be in articles of impeachment.

    Additionally Congress gave the president the ability to gain “temporary powers” during an “emergency” - and guess who gets to declare what constitutes an emergency? The president. And SCOTUS has blocked Congress from even being able to take it away without the president having a veto.










  • Congress has long ago decided to stop being a coequal branch of government. Same now with SCOTUS… They’ve ceded so much authority to the executive that they almost can’t fight back now. Impeachment is the only option left and Republicans won’t/can’t. Our remaining hope is that Democrats will/can in 2 years. AND that significant reforms follow that will limit the president again.

    Otherwise, we’ve become Turkey. A representative republic in name only.




  • The problem is that you really only see two sorts of articles.

    AI is going to replace developers in 5 years!

    AI sucks because it makes mistakes!

    I actually see a lot more of the latter response on social media to the point where I’m developing a visceral response to the phrase “AI slop”.

    Both stances are patently ridiculous though. AI cannot replace developers and it doesn’t need to be perfect to be useful. It turns out that it is a remarkably useful tool if you understand its limitations and use it in a reasonable way.