No. He can’t do tariffs without legislative approval. This is where the house would impeach him due to his blatant disregard of the constitution and the breaking of his path of office. Or the Supreme Court would step in to strip him of his illegal power.

… except the legislature and courts are captured by his party. The founding fathers were fucking idiots for thinking that “each branch competes against the others” without considering what would happen if allies captured all the branches. All of the safeguards against “hasty action” have become the cuffs that bind us against stopping this. They really did just make a king with a troublesome government in his way. And now the government is stepping out of the way.

Yeah, so yeah. Wild speculation. Those are some interesting dots, but they don’t make your unicorn even if you connect them all.

Requires a presidential signature, like most legislation. It could only do anything if it had super majority votes, thus making it veto proof.

Showing that there’s more senate support against this policy isn’t nothing, but I do take your point.

This is some wild fucking speculation. You got any basis for this claim or just vibes?

34% of single-family housing are now rented out. We’re not building enough housing, a fact that hasn’t changed since the housing bubble collapsed. So, a lack of investment in new property, large funds putting money into existing properties instead, and less risky homeowners overall means we don’t really have a housing bubble. We have a supply shortage, leading to high prices. The correction for that isn’t a crash.

Kitty!

Episolon was from 2020. Current named storm is Hurricane Melissa, which is far beyond E in alphabetical order.

No phones in bed. No matter what. That’ll help with the sleep, at least

Exactly. Sexy costumes are now mandated by weather.

Heat advisories are not just for the heat, but for heat outside of expectations. You wouldn’t give a heat advisory for a 90°F day in Florida, but in mid-autumn in southern California? Definitely appropriate.

People might have their ACs off for the season, and the temperature is dangerous if no precautions are taken.

And now, of course, it begs you to animate it in use

I was just taught it to “pop goes the weasel”.

Stim pack. Does that make sense? No. Does that matter? Apparently not

Thank you for keeping me honest. I’ll update

Morpheus’ last line in the movie is “Is this real?” People have taken it and run with it. That coupled with the Oracle’s explanation that choice was the key to the current matrix’s success led people to believe that both the matrix and “the real world” are matrix instances and that the only way out would be to realize that fact and then reject the system wholesale. It also explains why Neo’s abilities still work in the real world as well. And again, explain the fucking batteries line.

The robots don’t want conflict between humans, they want humans to accept their false reality without question. That allows them to keep as many humans as possible. A utopia (from a machines idea of utopia, mind) wouldn’t be the most seamless thing. If everyone around you gets whatever they want and there’s no interpersonal friction from that, it wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny. Putting thought into it would reveal that something must be putting its finger on the scale in order to cause this result. That would wake people up to the fact that this isn’t reality.

They even over corrected with the second matrix and made humans these cowering things to the monsters that went bump in the night. That’s where the maravangian and his pals come from. The issue with that one is humans in constant fight-or-flight are hard to control, so they eventually do things that cause them to awaken as well.

Someone who is trans has a built-in reason to question their reality if they’re kept in their biological body (“why do I feel like I should’ve been born a girl”, etc). So, by putting them in the body that matches their perception, the machines reduce conflict between the system and humans. Reduces the likelihood that any one person has any reason to question that their reality is real.

Smith is a character in the world. He’s explaining things as he understands them, but most importantly in order to break Morpheus and get him to give them the info they want. He’s trying to get him to buy into the idea that the machines are superior to humans.

The real world is messy, gritty, real. The matrix is what humans want for themselves. A reality that most of us can accept without issue. We see this time and again in the matrix movies.

How does what I said run counter to the metaphor?

Bruh. Think through the thought for a moment before you dismiss it as something that wasn’t thought through. People with gender dysphoria often question their existence. The robots don’t want people to do that, cause they’ll start finding the seams. So yeah, everyone meshed with their gender (assuming it could fit within the binary parameters of the 90s) because the matrix wants to be as stable as possible.

She was a woman in the matrix because the robots wanted as little possibility for people to question their existence, so everyone identified with their own images. There was no gender dysphoria in the matrix unless you were nonbinary.

As first time relatively green directors, the studio had a lot of say over what they got to include. Often to the story’s detriment. Humans were originally processors instead of batteries (which makes a fuck ton more sense)