This is easy to get around.

Just start any order with “In my capacity as president, I decree that…”

This reminds me of something…gaining favor of the ruler is key to your advancement.

I hear those checks and balances are starting to look a little unreliable.

Ok, fair enough.

I’m not from the US so my understanding of your system is surface level.

Could he give himself the power to do this?

What is to stop Biden from cancelling the upcoming election?

Being now his powers are effectively unchecked, couldn’t he just call off the election as an official act. Rather than stupid shit like ordering assassination or deploying the military, just say “I’m cancelling the election until such time this ruling is overturned and a constitutional amendment is enacted that states that the president is not immune from criminal prosecution”

That is not how time dilation works.

The guy seems fine after treatment… Not a great experience though.

Don’t forget the 15 minutes of inexplicably staring out the window, when you sent them to put something warm on.

Now imagine they’ve got stocky muscles, spikes, and they want to kill you.

You mean like a pissed off 3yo when you are trying to trim their finger nails.

I have come through this, you sound like you are in a similar position to me.

One thing that helped for me was, imagine yourself 5 or even 10 years in the past, looking at a person in your position. What would that version of you think of the current you? If it is something like “when I have what that guy has, then I’ll be happy”, examine why your level for “happiness” has changed over that time.

Also stoic philosophy is great, the wisdom of 2500 years helps.

That word “supposed”, you are not “supposed” to feel anything…you feel what you feel, accept that. Rather than valuing getting tasks completed, try to change your value to something like “I’m a dependable person”, I am the type of person who you can depend on to help get that project across the line, but sometimes higher priority things will come up.

The lucky 10000

There is also the harry potter version, any time travel is woven into the only timeline. The past is “edited” to always have included the events time travel.

This can be considered similar to the branching method; where the original branch without the events of the time travel simply ends; only the “new” branch continues.

The type of person that wants someone that can’t think for them selves…isn’t really that high on the mental flag pole of life.

But the saying is code for a bunch of stuff, I really doubt that they mean they are searching for someone with severe brain damage and has trouble performing even the basic functions of life.

Oh I understand the 2yo wants the big cone…I don’t want a 3ft psychopath, and I have the money!

This is why you get a half kid size for your toddler.

Watching that much soft serve go into a 2yo, with the resulting crazyness 5minutes later is not cool.

Some years ago, I was walking with my GF through the supermarket, we were looking at the sweets section, right at the end of the isle, when I let a very stinky fart go. I learned over and said we should go.

We walked to long way so we didn’t have to walk through the cloud, 30-40s later, just after we had rounded the far end of the isle we heard:

Female voice: “oh my god, was that you! That is discussing” (loudly) Male voice: “no, it wasn’t me”
Female voice: “why are you lying to me, you are always lying to me!” (Angrily)
Male voice: “but it wasn’t me” (also angry)

I think I may have put the final nail in the coffin of a bad relationship with a fart

My partner and I still laugh about it 16 years later.

While you may not agree with the argument, this was certainly a “groundbreaking” argument when it was made.

Using pure logic to make a coherent argument for the existence of God, Avicenna lived between 970 - 1037, it was definitely “new” when he made the argument.

Quantum theory is only “controversial” to the general public, mainly because we haven’t found a way to explain in simple terms things like superposition, entanglement, quantum tunneling. Quantum theory is spectacularly successful, though incomplete.

Even the “simple” stuff like the uncertainty principle takes a detailed understanding to properly grasp why there are pairs of properties that are inherently linked, and that information about one dictates how much you can know about the other. e.g. position/momentum and energy/time.

Funnily, I only run AMD now for the same reasons, except with Nvidia as the PITA. Always ongoing driver issues, power management or fans running like jet turbines… Last 3 machines AMD, no issues with the GPU’s/drivers.