I never understood why uniformed officers need to always cover their faces, even in broad daylight…

If nobody tells them to do anything then they will sit and wait to help the winner.

Probably, yes. Because, by its nature, the US Military is not going to involve itself in politics. Trust me, you REALLY do not want the military to be a political entity.

I mean, could you imagine some Generals deciding to set domestic policy for a county, just because they disagree with the County exec somewhere?

Otherwise, they will react to their order, from the person leading the violent insurrection, in some fashion.

Yes. This is accurate. They will either side with the executive, or not. And, at that point, they may side with the opposition. But it’s a hard slog to get military leadership to jump onto a side in politics. Like, we’re talking “Someone invaded a military installation, and started shooting, and trying to take it over” kind of thing. Or “The president ordered us to round up all civilians in City X”…

Why would they suddenly be “given orders” next time trump decides to violently overthrow the US government?

Being given an order to either aid, to to specifically stand out, or whatever, is a decision point.

but you are actually saying that the US military won’t do anything unless they are ordered to.

Yes, they will react to the order, in some fashion. That’s what I’m saying. They likely will not react to nothing.

No, I mean they were not given any orders, is what I’m saying.

Being given an order to do something, they can choose to obey it, or not. Hopefully, they’ll go with the moral choice, whatever it is, in the case of the order being given.

The US military wasn’t ordered to do anything, which was the issue.

An order for them either way to act, or to not act, would have been a point.

Eggs are used all over cooking… baking, many recipes call for egg, and yes, breakfast.

I just do gram.social. works good enough for me and my cannabis account.

Naive of you to think the SCOTUS needs any sort of legally logical reasoning. They quite obviously do not. Stare Decisis means very little to this court.

Even the most devout cultists understand that culling 7% (and rising) of the population in a country with a negative birth rate is a bad move.

Except…

COVID-19.

1 million+ dead. And they were OK with that.

Those restrictions never apply to the ruling class. The purpose of the law is to protect but not bind them, while binding yet not protecting the working class.

Child marriages were never banned in the US. Hell, the GOP has been pushing to lower the age of consent from 18 already, and carving more and more pedo loopholes into the law.

Like, it’s not being a pedo, if you raised her from aged 4 (ie, child from previous marriage), and married her at 16, because “She loves Daddy so much!”. Or, it’s not being a rapist if you’re a good swimmer. And, well, divorce… That’s pretty hard for some women, in some states, already.

You’re sounding like one of those people that says “ummm ackshully it’s GNU + Linux, not Linux”

No, I’m one of those people that understand that a DE is not the OS. A DE is a component one can install, but doesn’t have to, in order to have a fully functional OS. Most certainly one does not require Kate in order to have a Linux OS installed. I have thousands of linux machines I manage that DON’T have Kate installed.

If you install a distro with KDE, you will have Kate. It’s an OS program.

Weird, because I only have Kate because I asked for it to get installed. It didn’t come along for the ride when I installed KDE.

Pahahaha, that’s not what defines whether a program is an OS one or not. You can run paint on Linux if you wanted to. Based on your definition, Paint therefore isn’t part of the Windows app suite.

Paint comes on the MS Windows ISO (Or did), and with zero choice given, ever, MS Paint gets installed.

I installed MX Linux yesterday, and Kate was not installed.

I installed KDE on Freebsd a couple of weeks ago, and Kate was not installed.

Let’s get back on topic - do you think a normal user will hear “Kate” and think “ah, that must be the text editor!”, do you think they’ll hear “Dolphin” and think “ah, that must be a file manager of some kind!”?

I don’t think any of that matters, tbh. Every user will have things to learn, once they switch to a new OS.

Using social media is far removed from operating your own publicly available social media server.

This coming from someone who is trying to get more mastodon usage in higher ed. Profs aren’t the ones who operate these things. Merely getting the approval to get the project started is an immense task.

It’s part of the KDE Plasma desktop.

KDE is not “The OS”.

Would you say the Dolphin file explorer isn’t an OS/system app

That is correct. Dolphin is not a part of “The OS”. Case in point, you can install Kate, and Dolphin, on FreeBSD. And on Windows.

Having vi is a part of the POSIX specification, therefore, it is a part of the OS.

Most scientists aren’t allowed to do stuff like that, or purely just don’t have the time.

Kate isn’t a part of the OS, though… the text editor that is a part of the OS is called “vi”.

What does “Excel” do? What does “Steam” do? What does “Balena” do? What does “Conky” do?

We did.

Boxed wine.

However, bottle design is pretty refined, and they are quite reusuable.

It’s like that to push you to buy two of them.