VegaLyrae

Not to say that the 2nd amendment, as written, isn't totally wild.

However I do want to mention that the Continental congress was petitioned by John Belton in 1777 to purchase his 16-shot musket. It also had a not-quite-magazine that could be replaced very quickly. The 16 shots could be fired as quickly as the user could pull the triggers (yes it had multiple).

Given this, it seems likely that the people writing the constitution ten years later had some idea of rapid fire weaponry.

Just 20 years after that, they sent Lewis and Clarke expedition out with a relatively rapid firing airgun.

It is reasonable to say that rapid fire weaponry was contemporaneous to the constitution writing era.

Looks like a covered utility trench, ironically with the cover off.

So a trench.

Eggs are expensive and I've never seen anyone wear a kimono to high school.

A cowboy kimono sounds kinda interesting Mashup tho.

I explicitly support this and encourage the cultural exchange.

If someone wants to come to America and wear a cool cowboy hat and shoot a wheel gun, please, enjoy. Have fun. Welcome.

Companies don't trust their workers because they don't treat them well enough to earn their trust.

So to avoid the trust issue they just implement more and more draconian techniques to make up for the lack of pay/vacation/respect.

It honestly might even be cheaper than just being nice to your employees. So yay? Profit?

I personally do not trust any company provided equipment. I would never do anything untoward within the eye of their cameras. I work from home and I set up a second wireless network for all my work gear, and firewall rules to prevent them from talking to anything on my networks. I also use an external webcam that is usually turned off (electrically, as in no power flowing), and even my microphone goes through a sound board that can completely turn off. Bonus points is that I can also turn my mic down on my board, or pad it to hell and back and even if the meeting software lies about me being muted, I know for sure thanks to my trusted hardware.

Sounds like an arms race due to mutual distrust.

Surveillance cold war?

Don't tell anyone but I hid a networked kadis-kot program in the diagnostic database. Look for "Aft Tractor Beam Polarization".

If you get the grounding box you can have an antistatic collar for the dog and a strap for the human. Plug both in and you're both at the same potential.

Alternatively the human can touch the banana plug side of the strap, as the in-built resistor will "slowly" equalize the charges between you. I say slowly because in human terms as soon as you touch its already done.

@boogetyboo

The ugg boots may be electrically isolating as well, so a heel-strap is typically worn in ESD environments to overcome insulated soles. In combination with a grounding floor mat, this works without having to think too much about it.

Additionally, you can get a humidifier and maintain a relative humidity above 40%. Thankfully you don't need insulation to do this!

Source: nasa esd training

That's the beauty of the "can't hold the position consecutively" rule.

It doesn't matter what age, party, or how long you've been in office.

You can always run for a different office, or wait for the next term to run again.

You're right, it's never as long as this. I am young, though so I don't know how it would show in an ancient man hahaha.

I don't see the appeal in insisting everything is fine. I would rather see my leaders saying "hey, I don't feel good so I'm going to take some time to get healthy".

I do have to admit, after getting concussed I also appeared to freeze but I was thinking hard of what the right word is to say next.

That said, probably anyone in concussion recovery should be on leave from legislating. The brain will heal more slowly, and your work will be of poor quality.

That's all before getting into the actual politics of having a gerentocracy.

I know a lot of people have talked a out adding an age limit, but it seems to me most of the ancient ones are skating by on incumbent effect. If we had term limits it would resolve that. Alternatively something like the Virginia Gubernatorial rules where you cannot hold the position successively.

Yep, door already has a hole in it, get a cheap kwikset at the big box and slap that in there

At this point maybe we should spin off a new uniformed service from the navy nukies. The Uniformed Nuclear Energy Corps. Federally run nuclear power!

In the interim, build some generator ships to supplement any city with a port.