charonn0

joined 2 years ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No matter how hard I choose to do so, I can't fly by flapping my arms. It's a physical reality that is not really up to me, even though it in part defines me (featherless biped that I am). Having a license to flap-fly from the government is really beside the point.

That certain characteristics change over the course of my life does not imply that those characteristics are necessarily a choice. My height has changed dramatically, for example, but it was never a matter of me choosing to grow taller.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago

Still waiting on his replacement for Obamacare.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 16 points 6 months ago

This was always going to be DOA. US courts can't provide the relief they sought.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"Please" is short for "if it pleases you" or "if you please". It's used to turn a command into a request. It's probably not used on Lemmy, etc. because we're not requesting things of each other a lot.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

AAAAAA(h)... now I get it.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Well, good for the bloody holodeck.

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