DomeGuy

John Adams was in the hall of presidents, and has Nixon beat by more than a few years.

https://www.oldest.org/people/founding-fathers-of-the-united-states/

Alito doesn't write defenses or arguments. He writes justifications for the outcomes that his neo-pharisee dominionist buddies would most prefer.

A few years ago I put my position on the Republican party into a relatively pithy saying it's really easy to remember.

" No Republicans. No excuses. No exceptions."

Feel free to share and steal without attribution.

In modern usage, the word "family" does not mean a group of people who share s common ancestor.

Instead, it refers to one or more children and those adults who take full legal responsibility for raising and caring for them.

If all Musk does is chuck money at his "baby mamas" but never actually spends any time caring for or speaking with or being a role model for his descendants, he's not their father. He's just a sperm donor with some money.

(I don't know if "carry them around as assassin deterrent" is enough to qualify. The only real people qualified to judge anyone's parenting are the adults their children grow up to be.)

Scaling small things up is always a logistics and repeatability issue. Always.

We had.technology to put a capsule of three men on the moon for a week before most humans alive today were born, and yet we haven't gone back because while both "number of humans" and "length of stay" are fairly simple ideas to scale up, we never had the logistics to create and fuel the one.saturn V launch every other day that a permanent moon base would need.

Heck, the Internet is full of ground breaking improvements that were "buried" by the challenge of scaling up out of a lab.

If conservatives had actual values, they'd be screaming as loud as the left. Some do, and did,.but Liz Cheney was chased out of Congress for doing what she felt was right.

Individual exceptions do not at all argue against the sad reality that "conservatism" is just regressive bigotry, and as such lacks any collective principle worth bothering to learn or debate.

Why should anyone take claims of "conservative values" seriously when they are routinely discarded whenever they stop being convenient?

It was done as a matter of course by essentially every president before Trump. I think the tradition stretches back to Truman, after FDR died in office.

Biden, Obama, W, Clinton, and HW all did so. Not sure about Regan, whose Alzheimer's was hidden at the end.

It's hard to say without knowing what country you're in now. PRC is an undemocratic system to be embraced, escaped, or endured, but so are PRK, Iran, and a bunch others

OTOH, Canada or the USA were designed on the assumption that you'd agitate for the form of government. If you're in either one, especially if you're a citizen, you should definitely argue for the government you want.

The rest of the world is an interesting mix of "started undemocratic, embraced democracy" to "started democratic, embraced autocracy."

Update: this is, in fact, hilarious.

If it keeps up my smartwatch may either cure my tinitus or else inflict it upon all those nearby.

That's... A bold idea which may or may not be hilarious.

If I slam the button at the end do two more random notifications go out?

I would guess that it's actually a jargonification of extant words.

Merriam Webster includes a neat etymology section on the definitions I linked, that traces both words to the Renaissance (ish). The entry for "maze" does note an alternate definition as a neurological test with at least one dead end, but (1) that doesn't match the claim OP's article headline makes and (2) scientific jargon is not common English.

(If jargon WERE common English, we'd have an entirely different argument about tomatoes being fruits or vegetables.)

It's not for cooking, it's for tool testing.

If you want to test how well someone's fancy cleaning detergent works on stains, or if their claim that a new knife shape makes spreading easier, you want a very standard peanut butter.