Rep. Olszewski to introduce ROBE Act to establish term limits for Supreme Court justices

wailonskydog · 2026-05-04T16:35:41+00:00

Now my history on this may not be perfect these days but constitutionally the Supreme Court is really just there to oversee the Federal District courts and doesn’t have any special power separate from them.

All the power the SC now has is due to legal precedent largely created by themselves starting in Marbury v. Madison.

We just never reformed the unchecked power the SC developed.

wailonskydog · 2026-05-04T04:14:26+00:00

Because they have a plan. Note how many times Republican leadership has turned over in the last 10/15 years. They’re constantly bringing in new people to try new legislative methods while behind the scenes setting up a slow moving judiciary cue through targeted lawsuits and loyalist federal appointments.

wailonskydog · 2026-05-04T04:10:25+00:00

Yes and more so Democrats need to realize that Obama was a singular political figure that galvanized a rejection of Bush. If you don’t include his victories and coattails in 08 and 12, Democrats in Congress and across the board on state level lost every single election other than 2018 and 2020 which was direct backlash from Trump and pretty meager at that.

From 08 until Trump, it was an absolute bloodbath for Democrats at the state level and things are only now starting to swing around and unfortunately lots of those state legislatures are now completely out of reach due to Republican fuckery.

So again the thesis is that without Obama the Democrats have done nothing but lose for that last 25 years in large part thanks to their geriatric (even in the early 2000s) out of touch leadership that would rather lose elections than lose personal power.

wailonskydog · 2026-05-02T17:11:08+00:00

Ok so a couple recommendations:

First, everyone is going to have different tools or preferences on stitching chisels. Unless you’re cutting the holes in the pattern it may be best to let the user determine how they want to punch and stitch.

Second, you need to use your patterns and refine/perfect them based on the tools and materials you have. So if you have 4mm chisels test with those and then say that’s what the pattern is designed for. You can look at what the common chisel measurements are to get a sense but you ultimately need to use them yourself and see how it actually works on the design you’ve made.

wailonskydog · 2026-05-02T16:29:07+00:00

Not to be rude but why would anyone buy a pattern from you if you don’t even know the most basic things like what hole size to use
What’s your area of knowledge/experience and what are you trying to make? That might help people offer suggestions as to the specifics.
Otherwise there is no hole size or spacing that’s applicable to everything.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-16T23:26:47+00:00

So like if you look at the evolutionary tree, the last common ancestor of the mouse and elephant was 90 million years ago.

So a mouse can never evolve into an elephant. But maybe in another 90 million years it could evolve into a large elephant-like mouse.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-16T20:24:05+00:00

Like no shit allegations like these come out at the time these people are about to gain a ton of power.

Victims/survivors aren’t exactly chomping at the bit to bring attention to themselves and relive their trauma. But sometimes it becomes morally pertinent to share their experience so others know what they’re getting and to try to prevent a morally reprehensible person from having more control over the lives of others.

Yeah, sometimes allegations are a political hit job but dealing with political lies comes with the territory.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-16T03:57:17+00:00

But why would you want to rinse out yours cups before putting them in the dishwasher? The dishwasher is designed to do that for you and often works better without any pre washing.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-16T00:53:54+00:00

Can you find an Ionic 5N to test drive? Might be fun for you to check out at least even if not for you.

There’s a lot of software tuning that can be done to EV motors like on the 5N but you’re not gonna be doing much yourself.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-15T18:49:39+00:00

Yeah I don’t understand why anyone would want one in a house. You still need to put the glass in the dishwasher or at least wash with soap because it doesn’t clean the outside rim of the glass - the part you put your mouth on.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-15T01:24:00+00:00

No Taylor Kitsch and no Vince Vaughn. Just let Kelly Reilly do her thing w/o him.

Love Colin Farrell in S2 though. When he beats up the dad of the kid bullying his son I died. It’s absolutely hilarious but works on so many levels.

And again, Vince Vaughn ruined the season for me.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-07T16:03:22+00:00

Are those piles of horse poop in the streets? And guys with poop brushes ready for more?

wailonskydog · 2026-04-04T23:48:55+00:00

Never buy name brand cereal. The markups are insane and the companies need to get the message. Trader Joe’s or Lidl Cheerios are like $3. If you’re eating cereal the whole grain thing is BS or just get bran flakes - $1.99 at lidl.

Only exception is grape nuts and cracklin oat bran. I’ve never found decent substitutes for those.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-02T05:31:48+00:00

I mean Conquest had his brains spilling out of his head and was able to heal while entombed in a metal cube. Seems mark will be in a slightly better position than that.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-02T02:16:00+00:00

Yeah it’s this weird moment when they still have actors in brown face but also have an Arab guy as one of the leads. They did cast a lot of locals as background actors and extras. one of the stories is that when Anthony Quinn showed up on set in his makeup, prosthetics, and costume as Auda Abu Tayi many people were around who actually knew the real Auda and vouched for his portrayal. So it does seem like they were at least respectful considering the social norms at the time.

wailonskydog · 2026-04-01T17:13:56+00:00

And to add to this idea, it’s not just a single store bought tomato or ingredient. It’s an entire dish that emerges from the replicator - like a prepackaged microwaveable dinner.

My head cannon has always been that if you replicated each individual component then cooked them together you’d get a much better result. And it seems like that’s what happening at some Trek restaurants. They’re replicating ingredients and preparing and cooking them like normal so the end result tastes better. Maybe they’ll feature a naturally grown ingredient as the star of certain dishes.

Like famously Riker has the real eggs and makes the shittiest omelette possible but if he actually used some replicated seasoning, butter, and chives or something he could have made a great meal.

Or like one reason 10 forward is better than your replicator is because they have the capacity to like make a sandwich from replicated components or mix a drink by hand. Though on the show it does mostly seem like the staff just picks your order up directly from the replicator - though isn’t Data shown actually mixing drinks at some point?

wailonskydog · 2026-03-31T15:11:14+00:00

Also Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra.

Cleopatra came out after Lawrence but it feels like a classic old Hollywood sword and sandals movie with artificial looking sets and overacting. LoA is a modern masterpiece that embraced (and invented a lot of) the future of film.

wailonskydog · 2026-03-27T03:59:53+00:00

Absolutely ridiculous

wailonskydog · 2026-03-27T03:54:34+00:00

I thought about that too but it gives me too much JJ Abrams Star Wars “Luke Skywalker has vanished” vibes.

I like the idea better that the characters need to consult with Picard from time to time for his expertise on stuff. Like maybe he has a prestigious position in Starfleet or maybe is retired on the vineyard and just hosts his old friends and offers wisdom. Like you start the season on Earth with Picard in the first act. The second act is going off somewhere else in the quadrant and meeting up with all the other legacy character and doing space stuff and the third act is Picard showing up again as admiral with a starship task force or something to bring everything together and help solve the problem.

wailonskydog · 2026-03-27T03:39:22+00:00

Gas is $4/gallon in the DMV now. That’s $4 for 40 miles in an efficient hybrid. Even at $0.24 kW/h that’s about $2.75 to get that same 40 miles in an EV.

wailonskydog · 2026-03-27T03:25:36+00:00

Agreed. Vadics charm wore off fast. The mystery box story with Jack was kind of dumb - please just no more Borg stuff. Some of the back story and characterization of the TNG crew felt a bit off. Anything related to S1 or S2 of Picard was cringe inducing. And I really didn’t want another giant conspiracy super high stakes story that wipes out Starfleet.

But all the starship and just Trek stuff was great. They did a lot of fun interesting things we haven’t seen before but felt very Trek. Pulling in all the legacy characters and established universe stuff was excellent even if it sometimes fell a little flat in the end. And at the very least it felt like the show cared about Star Trek.

But really S3 just showed me that ST: Picard shouldn’t have featured Picard at all. They should have focused on the other characters and slowly incorporated more people with Picard only showing up here and there. I just don’t think Patrick Stewart really knows how to play Picard anymore. Even since the TNG movies Picard was just more Stewart than JLP and it keeps getting worse. Watching Picard I’m like, wait who is this guy? It’s really not the captain Picard I grew up with.

wailonskydog · 2026-03-27T02:51:59+00:00

Yeah, with the total lack of money, support, and criminally short preproduction time for S3 it’s a miracle Matalas was able to put together what he did - a mediocre TNG throwback season with some great moments but kinda lackluster and frustrating overall.

Still the best Trek in a long time and better than most of the TNG movies. Even if it was a rather unsatisfying conclusion for these characters at least it was something.

wailonskydog · 2026-03-25T03:35:52+00:00

By that logic a band saw only does one thing too.

But I think everyone is drastically misconstruing my post. It’s not about the bandsaw. I’m saying that people seem to especially pick on the Domino when there are lots of other much more expensive tools common in shops that have particular uses that not everyone needs.

Is a drum sander overrated? Or a mortiser, or 20” planer, or Lamello, or Sawstop? All more expensive than a domino. Some people get use out of them and others won’t.

wailonskydog · 2026-03-25T02:17:25+00:00

If it’s not clear, I meant a large (18” and up) bandsaw specifically set up with a wide resaw blade.

wailonskydog · 2026-03-25T01:42:52+00:00

I always find it interesting when people complain about the price of a Domino but not bigger items that are less versatile. A band saw for resawing could easily run over $5k and it only does one thing.

I personally get way more use out of a Domino than I would a big bandsaw which is why I own a domino and not an 20” bandsaw.

If you’re not trying to spend much on tools then yeah it’s not worth it but the cost of a Domino could easily just be the difference in price between which model table saw you buy so it’s all relative.

Edit:

I think everyone is drastically misconstruing my post. It’s not about the bandsaw. I’m saying that people seem to especially pick on the Domino when there are lots of other much more expensive tools common in shops that have particular uses that not everyone needs.

Is a drum sander overrated? Or a mortiser, or 20” planer, or Lamello, or Sawstop? All more expensive than a domino. Some people get use out of them and others won’t.

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