The supreme court blocked Biden's attempt at loan forgiveness two weeks ago

If the legislative has delegated the execution of certain fiscal policy to the executive, and given the executive certain bounds within which it can operate on that fiscal policy, then the executive is within its prerogative to do so.

The legislative branch has been abdicating power to the executive for some time due to its own consistent deadlock. I don't think that's a good thing, but it does mean the executive often ends up with some limited purse string control.

The room is pitch black, you're relying on dark vision, and you just failed your perception check. I can definitely see this happening outside of bad DM'ing, and I think the PC being sus of a blank room in an otherwise dangerous dungeon could also be in character.

You can't really outsource to the US in that way. Launching with SpaceX is outsourcing to the US. Your other options are just picking a different US launch provider, which is still a private company. The US government isn't providing launch as a service in the way that SpaceX or other launch providers do.

I feel like it'd make gift giving more difficult, but more meaningful- you would have to give people actually customized things, something you made or something you think they need that they haven't noticed. Harder, but shows more thought than giving generic-consumer-item#528

I know this is a meme, just made me think

The 14th is a reconstruction amendment btw, it wasn't drafted or ratified by the founders.

Program management system for the entire division? Excel. "Agile" task tracker? Excel. Requirements manager? Oh no no, that one's written in a word document with no version control. I have trauma. Use tools made for the thing you want to do, please.

I'd assume it's a Federally levied property tax, the rebate applied to Federal income. Could be on the basis of the county assessed value of your property though.

Sounds like what the old Kirkbrides (think the stereotypical big Victorian asylum) were originally intended to be before we overcrowded them and made them closer to prisons.

Was thinking of this pod while reading the post. So good

A friend would use "theydies and gentlethems"for dramatic effect

The president can't just appoint whoever they want. Officer commissions have more oversight than say judicial appointments. They have to be approved by the Senate (eg this situation) and also have to meet requirements for the position/rank set out in regulation by congress. So a president could theoretically only promote the most conservative officers in the pool, but it's already a small pool.

Even so, as we see here, it only takes one senator to block promotions. This isn't even a fillibuster, the Senate passes this routine stuff through bulk unanimous consent.

Stenographers usually use something pretty similar so I doubt it. The ones I've seen (to be fair, live captioners, not stenographers) use something that's closer to a piano than a normal keyboard, and it types full words rather than letters, but also has a regular typing functionality. Pretty cool to watch honestly.

Rents are skyrocketing because demand is high and we literally do not have enough housing for the number of people we have in the places they live.

Suddenly dumping more money into the economy would just increase the price bar on that demand, and prices would go up more.

Prices can increase for a lot of reasons, and going up from one doesn't stop them from going up from another.

The actual article is in The Hill

I just started Silo last night, really enjoying it so far.

Alternatively, I've met plenty of people who are so desperate to climb the ladder that, even knowing full well their deficiencies, they climb to a level where those deficiencies become detrimental for everyone around them.

If you aren't a good organizer, and climb into an organization centric position, that's 100% on you. If you aren't a good leader and take a coordinating position, that's on you. If you aren't good at lining up blind screws, and you knew that was a core competency for your job when you took it, that's on you. It's not that I expect you to be "smart enough to overcome" whatever you're bad at, but you shouldn't be in positions where something you're bad at, but can't overcome, is a major part of your duties.

At that point, yes, I'm going to be "mean" and directly point out your deficiencies.

Can you tell I had a fun meeting today?

We call em worksonas

Really big fan of functional jetpack nerf, makes you actually build your ships and base to be walkable.

Usually we play with Aryx, defense shields, nano build and repair, fsd supercruise, and hacking computer for warfare.

Resource nodes, pipelines, and scarce resource/se world gen for economy. Makes you travel around, colonize planets, and ship resources, but allows you to set up infrastructure over time to automate most of that and have a consistent resource supply.

I'm interested in an oxygen nerf and 3rd person nerf to add even more building constraints, but I think that's too much for most others on the server. It'd be cool to force smart pressurization practices and camera usage/battle bridges, the same way jetpack nerf forces walkablility.

They could store the families in a separate underwater bunker built on the ruins of a death cult's sunken wizard tower too.