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Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

  • What do you suppose the president has the power to do in this case?

  • The building manager should (and may be legally required to) have a fire department approved emergency plan that specifically addresses this question. Usually, the plan will be for you to await rescue.

    A modern, up-to-code high rise building will have designated "places of refuge" that are designed to withstand heat and smoke, such as a pressurized stairwell with fire doors. In older buildings that don't have something like that, the plan might call for disabled people to go to the nearest (unprotected) stairway, or it might call for them to remain in their office/apartment and "defend in place". If possible, call 911 (or equivalent) to notify rescuers of your location.

  • I'm curious what the federal government can actually do in this situation. Most private leases are contracts under state law, not federal law.

  • rofl

  • A system being slow and inefficient makes defrauding that system similarly slow and inefficient. To affect an election run on paper ballots you have to somehow physically alter or insert thousands or millions of pieces of paper without being detected. This will mean spending large amounts of time and money and must necessarily involve numerous people.

  • Manual in person voting is not easily scammed on a scale that can swing an election. The slow, inefficient, in person, physical process is a security feature.

  • I would say that "electronic voting" means that the ballot itself is digital rather than physical. So, scantrons are not electronic voting and voter registries/ID/etc. are not ballots in the first place.

  • plea for 1/2 that was rejected

    The rejected plea was for 6 months.

  • That's not exactly what happened.

    Aaron committed suicide before his case went to trial, and so he was never convicted let alone sentenced. 35 years was never even likely; had it gone to trial there's every reason to think he'd have been acquitted outright, or at worst given a slap on the wrist. Not that he should have even been charged, of course.

  • Pizza and chocolate milk?

    I mean I like them both, but together?

  • And neither of us will be the first person proven wrong on our respective points.

  • You're hardly the first person to think they can kill their way to Utopia. It has never worked.

  • Normalizing political violence will inevitably, and possibly literally, blow up in your own face.

  • Not only is it normalized, but it's being weaponized. See, for example, the recent XZ backdoor which was equal parts hacking and a psi-op against the maintainer.

  • “He would say things similar to that on occasions to blow off steam. But I wouldn’t take them literally every time he did it,” Mr Barr said, adding: “At the end of the day, it wouldn’t be carried out and you could talk sense into him.”

    So either we're counting on people to refuse the president's orders, or we're hoping the Trump is more mature than he lets on?

    How about not electing people who would even entertain such an idea in the first place?