Fourteenth Amendment Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

I don't get how you square those two together.

There's a war going on right now in Ukraine, helping them win it will make Russia launching a next war less likely and further off.

https://xkcd.com/1138

Star wars a new hope started out with Luke as an everyman. But since then it's all become about the bloodline. Rise of Skywalker is especially bad, tearing down the anyone can be special and saying you can only be special because of your bloodline.

Last time I checked, corn flakes weren't that cheap. My go to is still rice.

Victim blaming at it's finest! Ukraine gets invaded, it must be their fault!

Relevant xkcd as always

https://xkcd.com/435/

Without nato membership, nothing prevents Russia from trying again once they've regenerated their forces. Russia has already broken their promise to

reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine

So Russians pledges are worth less than nothing.

https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/2-23-22_ukraine-the_budapest_memo.pdf?m=1645824948

They're also recruiting from prisons and promising freedom afterwards, right? That probably doesn't help.

I wonder how many times this needs to be reposted and downscaled to no longer be true. It looks like this is already not the original resolution of the picture.

Op Sec was fantastic from Ukraine. With that and Russia ignoring what info on troop buildup they did have, they managed operational surprise.

If this was just a DUI or something, the driver is going to have a very very bad time.

Crypto trade

There's where all the money went I guess. Gotta steal toilet paper to leverage that crypto position. (After you've already lost everything several times)

To be clear, you don't need any of those things to enjoy either movie.

You never know when they'll dump. Hoping you can dump before others do in a pump and dump is not usually a good bet.

Stages of climate change denial:

1 it doesn't exist

2 we aren't causing it

3 it isn't that bad

4 we can't solve it

5 it's too late now (so might as well go on consuming oil)

We can't just throw our hands up and give up because we don't know how bad it will be yet. So we should still try everything we can to stop ghg emissions and sequester those already in the air.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial

Probably more effective to give to a food pantry to avoid the corporate profit cut, but the thought is very nice.

Genocide is definitely politics, but should definitely be talked about.

You only need a graphing calculator because you're not allowed to use wolfram alpha, desmos, or Matlab. Since you're mandated to use graphing calculators, (sometimes even specific models) there's no incentive to make them cheaper or better since you need to buy them anyway.

You just need to move the hyphen:

Kim Jung un-bans hotdogs for North Koreans