No. Therefore DESPITE NO HEATING FROM THE GLASS, the greenhouse heats up.
And therefore one of the simplest and dumbest denier memes "how can it make"things warmer? That breaks the 2nd law of thermodynamics!" is shown to be bollocks.
You see, if it were NOT proposed as an ANALOGY (look the word up, moron), your "complaint" that greenhouse glass isn't made of CO2 would stand up. But it isn't and it doesn't.
The proof of AGW is
1) CO2 causes heat to be trapped
2) If the sun's output remains the same, the earth will warm
3) We are burning fossil fuels, increasing the CO2 content of the atmosphere
The greenhouse is an analogy.
The greenhouse effect is the effect, and no greenhouses are required.
[parody]
No! silicon has 4 valence electrons, like carbon! silicon dioxide is just like carbon dioxide, with a higher molecular weight! glass is silicon dioxide! therefore, it should act just like CO2!
[/parody]
That's right, CO2 which is 100-fold less important than water vapor is somehow determinant of Earth climate.... on a planet covered with 80% oceans...
you understand that the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere depends on the temperature, right? Your argument is analogous to arguing that the furnace coming on has nothing to do with the temperature in the house dropping, because it's obviously determined by the thermostat.
Or to quote Neil De Grasse Tyson: "It's basic physics. If you keep adding energy to a system, but you slow down the rate at which the energy can leave the system then the system gets hotter".
"Greenhouses don't work by the so-called 'greenhouse effect!'"
"Yeah, the greenhouse effect is more like the way a blanket works"
"What? That's ridiculous!"
"No, they both reduce the rate of loss of heat"
"That's totally different"
"How?"
"If you don't understand, you're so dumb I can't explain it to you"
-Every comments column, everywhere, always
And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
I'm more concerned that a domestic party nearly got away with doing the same thing.
IF you believe the Russian hacker bullshit (and we have seen ZERO evidence of it), all they did was expose truth.
While the other party can lie their ass off.
Of course that suggests that either the other party has nothing incriminating in its emails, or else the Russians have a nice stock of things for later blackmail.
First...what exactly does the "Department of Energy" do for us in the US?
I honestly don't know and will look it up, but if anyone can enlighten me, I'd be interested in a quick read.
That being said...aren't the departments pretty much at the behest of the Exective Branch? Could the new President not just completely disband them with the stroke of a pen? I mean, these are NOT part of congress, etc. They are set up by the Exec. branch to help enact and follow laws from congress, but they really aren't constitutional established or protected government entities are they?
I may be wrong here, but that's my 30K foot level of understanding of these departments.
I'm sure they don't *have* to answer to a president-elect, after all, he's not president yet.
But come a few weeks, he will have that full power...and I'd guess pretty much anyone, even the whole department as an entity could be done away with pretty quickly?
None of this stuff is going to work. Not yelling about the popular vote, not pointless recounts, not baseless claims by the political leadership of intelligence agencies, not faithless electors in the Electoral College (you'll get a couple, at most.) You are not stealing an election.
On Jan. 20 Trump will be the boss, appoint the leadership and deal with any insubordinates and their insubordination. Trump thrives on firing people; it's practically a trademark with him. And no, he won't lose his supporters; we have no love for politicized science and the patron elite that rely on it to enforce their will, always the same; higher costs and more scrutiny, the Managed Decline.
It's going to be ugly. That's why we voted for a fighter. You want to take this to the next level and get to clappin, that's ok too; the alternative is not worth living.
Gosh, sorry to hear your life is so terrible. I'm sure Mr. Trump will fix it for you, no need for you to do some mass shooting.
Never underestimate the power of the status quo. In the end, the government is run by the people working in the various government offices, departments and such. The boss at the top makes big waves, but underneath, the ocean is calm.
The same was thought about Bush Jr. - he would destroy the USA, drive it against the wall, etc. etc. - in the end, he was a terrible president but the boat didn't sink.
Really? Because Trump voters think it's in awful shape. Of course they blame the Kenyan Muslim.
I call it a witch hunt against scientists by evil men, enabled by morons like yourself.
CO2 won't stop magically absorbing solar radiation and heating the lower atmosphere just because Trump and his science-hating peons get rid of the scientists. The universe doesn't give one flying fuck about Donald Trump or some halfwit who goes around by the handle SuperKendall.
What? You mean the whole brain trust who informed us that the reduction of Iraq to chaos was not only necessary for our safety, but would also be a good thing, because our liberating soldiers would be greeted with flowers and candy, and it would sow the seeds of democracy in the Arab world, and besides the war would pay for itself, might not be correct in their analysis of complex planetwide physical phenomena?
That seems somewhat essential to the story, yet neither the post nor TFA explains it.
The point is, it is extremely nonnewtonian. Left in a lump on a table, under gravity it will flow into a puddle over a period of several hours, or left in a container (it comes in a plastic egg shape which separates into two) gravity will make it conform to the shape of the container like a liquid, over a period of several hours. However, if you roll it into a ball and throw it at something, it is highly elastic and rebounds like a superball. (now you ask what is a superball)
I figure this latter property is what makes this application work, although maybe the ability to slowly flow into tight contact with things might also be involved.
Trump is, if nothing else, extremely adept at self-promotion, and so he wouldn't use this unless he felt it would be hugely popular.
Remember: Trump is a narcissist. Every one of his actions is motivated in convincing himself that he is powerful and loved.
He can't even suffer not winning the POPULAR vote. "It was those illegal dead aliens voting! Millions of them!" Apparently, in Trumpworld, at least half the illegal aliens in the USA went down to the polls to vote this year.
Simply put, the severity of the other things that you mentioned is so vast that it is simply beyond the capacity for most people to reasonably worry about them and still function in society. Text message spam, therefore, is more likely to be taken as a serious concern by people than environmental disaster or even nuclear war.
Android offers an option where you won't be included in case of nuclear war.
This counts as a pressing concern? That Trump has the power to send spam?
Never mind that he has stoking the worst bigotry and racial violence in North America in recent history. Never mind that he now has access to nookoolar weapons. Never mind that he's going to gut environmental regulations and oversight over the entire energy sector.
No! He can send us a text message! Everybody panic!
Is there an emoji for eyeroll?
The mirror image of his interview on 60 Minutes: "Mr. Trump, how does it feel to be the President-elect?" "Hey, I have a million more followers on Twitter!" with no trace of irony or sarcasm.
I recall the Republicans rioting before Bush was elected. Which helped get him elected. And flying the rioters in on planes supplied by corporate donors. And paying the rioters for their time. And pretending that it wasn't a partisan effort, it was the Good People of Florida spontaneously rising up.
https://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/080502a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2000/11/sweeney_and_the_siege_of_miami.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11... http://www.poetrywar.com/Music... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/20/a-gop-dirty-trickster-has-second-thoughts.html
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=28
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2242... http://www.washingtonpost.com/... http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/23/us/counting-vote-miami-dade-county-wild-day-miami-with-end-recounting-democrats.html
To be more clear, I now consider Democrats to be the equivalent of the "other side" in a war - they will still oppose every and any thing your side does, they can lose a battle and still wage war, incessant and total non-compliance, they will fight to the last man, and any victory - even pyrrhic - is still a victory. Any means are justified in the pursuit of their ends.
So... in other words, the Democrats are now going to do what the Republicans have been doing for the past 8 years.
The difference being that the Republicans announced explicitly that was their plan, stuck to it for 8 years, and are proud of it; whereas the Republicans are not accusing the Democrats of that being their plan a priori, and that's enough to find them guilty, proactively.
See also: "Hillary is going to take away our guns!", the proud follow up to "Obama is going to take away our guns!", "Bill Clinton is going to take away our guns!", etc. etc.
I hate pointless fear mongering articles. Best example of fake news there is right here on slashdot.
Trump isn't likely to abuse the alert system but leave it to slashdot to make an issue of it.
Trump won. Get over it already.
I'm so weary of all this one-sided bickering and sniping over Trump that I've decided that Democrats should be considered enemy combatants.
To be more clear, I now consider Democrats to be the equivalent of the "other side" in a war - they will still oppose every and any thing your side does, they can lose a battle and still wage war, incessant and total non-compliance, they will fight to the last man, and any victory - even pyrrhic - is still a victory. Any means are justified in the pursuit of their ends.
All the things an unruly child does, but forever.
In my mind the Democrats are *permanently* a party of dishonour, disgrace, and corruption. A group that simply gets no "benefit of the doubt" or "concessions of fairness" or anything like that. They are children, now and forever. We should treat them as such.
I was thinking through the recent news (last night) that Trump got Carrier to keep 1000 jobs in the US, and how I couldn't see a way to frame that in a bad light. Lo and behold! Recent comments on Slashdot manage to paint this as a bad thing. They even pulled out the Hitler comparison for good measure.
The Democrats are defeated. Leaderless and feckless, the only thing they can do is complain.
No plan, no leadership, and rife with corruption.
It's hard to see why anyone would be a part of that crowd.
"No plan, no leadership, and rife with corruption." Thank God that's all behind us, eh?
Except that Obama is perhaps the least corrupt individual to hold the Presidency since Jimmy Carter. Sure, he's a politician, and somewhat beholden to his donors - but in the scope of things, he's run a pretty clean administration. So in that light, using "Chicago-machine" to impugn him as corrupt? Why? Because he happened to come from Chicago? That won't fly. So I'm sticking with "Democrat" or 'Urban" or (dare I say it) "Black".
And I'm not one of those Democrats who's willing to chalk Trump's success up to racism. He certainly had the support of just about every racist you can find, but that doesn't make all of his swing supporters racists dany more than Obama's coming from Chicago makes him corrupt. What it does make them is less uncomfortable associating themselves with racists and a politician (and party) who courted the racist vote than they are frightened and angry in general about the state their lives and the ability of the government to do anything that might make it better. I doubt they expect Trump to make it better either - they just want him to blow a few things up. Judging by his cabinet picks, they're likely to be disappointed even on that count. Maybe he'll keep them on board with a steady diet of tweeted conspiracy theories and personal insults...
Opposition to Obama doesn't prove one racist. However, as with any behavior, if you have an obviously transparently bogus excuse such as "Because he's a socialist!", that puts you under some suspicion.
After all, there are people out there who are still insisting that Obama was born in Kenya, and/or is a Muslim, and still get upset when you suggest that their opposition is racially motivated.
I have been woken at 2am by idiotic Amber Alerts about incidents hundreds of miles from my home. If there was some way to block these messages, I would do so.
Blocking Amber Alerts on iOS is simple. Go to Settings -> Notifications, scroll down to the bottom of that page, unselect "AMBER Alerts" (and/or "Emergency Alerts"). I assume it's equally easy on Android.
But back to the subject at hand... I held my nose and voted for Hillary, but I'm getting really tired of these "Trump may do this" and "Trump might do that" propaganda pieces that are spewing forth across the web. I'm nervous about his presidency; but the election is over - let's see what he actually does, and then react if necessary.
I'm old enough to remember similar hysteria from back when Reagan was elected. Early on, his administration tried to do some pretty darn stupid things, like attempting to let ketchup count as a vegetable in school lunches. I remember Bill Clinton's early day missteps as well ("Sorry, we don't talk to the military"). But between the politics of Washington DC and the court of public opinion, the initial lunatic fringe crap gets self-corrected pretty darn quickly. The Republic will survive.
Well, he's draining the swamp by filling it with alligators. Thinking outside the box! Saving American jobs from going to Mexico by having the government pay companies to employ Americans, rather than socialistically have the government employ Americans! Thinking outside the box! Letting the free market work unimpeded by picking particular companies to pay off to employ Americans, rather than socialistically having the government pick winners and losers to get government funds! Thinking outside the box! Avoiding conflicts of interest by removing himself from running his businesses, and letting his children run them, and also letting his children be his unpaid presidential advisers! Thinking outside the box!
Only a complete moron would think that a recreational drug that alters your mood and brain chemistry is 'safe'.
Doesn't matter if it's alcohol or THC, these work by fidgeting with things in the brain that should obviously be left alone (for the sake of health - I think the recreational value is apparent).
We don't do surgery for the fun of it, we don't do blunt force trauma for the fun of it, why should altering our insides via drug or drink be considered 'safe' when no other internal alteration is, and who could possibly be dumb enough to think so?
No offense, a priori, but: Define fun. Define recreation. Define drug. Define recreational drug. Define safe.
Also: People get tattoos and piercings for the fun of it, get boob jobs and nose jobs and facelifts and so on, indulge in football, boxing, marathon running, and numerous other means of self-destruction for fun, get prescribed large quantities of a large variety of mood-altering drugs, including things whose mechanism is totally unknown other than handwaving talks about serotonin. Even further; if you note that the mood-altering drugs, legal and illegal, have a large overlap with drugs used as pain-killers with no moral qualms, the questions arise of what exactly is the mood which people are trying to alter, and do they maybe have a point.
Slashdot Mirror
No. Therefore DESPITE NO HEATING FROM THE GLASS, the greenhouse heats up.
And therefore one of the simplest and dumbest denier memes "how can it make"things warmer? That breaks the 2nd law of thermodynamics!" is shown to be bollocks.
You see, if it were NOT proposed as an ANALOGY (look the word up, moron), your "complaint" that greenhouse glass isn't made of CO2 would stand up. But it isn't and it doesn't.
The proof of AGW is
1) CO2 causes heat to be trapped 2) If the sun's output remains the same, the earth will warm 3) We are burning fossil fuels, increasing the CO2 content of the atmosphere
The greenhouse is an analogy.
The greenhouse effect is the effect, and no greenhouses are required.
[parody] No! silicon has 4 valence electrons, like carbon! silicon dioxide is just like carbon dioxide, with a higher molecular weight! glass is silicon dioxide! therefore, it should act just like CO2! [/parody]
That's right, CO2 which is 100-fold less important than water vapor is somehow determinant of Earth climate.... on a planet covered with 80% oceans...
you understand that the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere depends on the temperature, right? Your argument is analogous to arguing that the furnace coming on has nothing to do with the temperature in the house dropping, because it's obviously determined by the thermostat.
Or to quote Neil De Grasse Tyson: "It's basic physics. If you keep adding energy to a system, but you slow down the rate at which the energy can leave the system then the system gets hotter".
"Greenhouses don't work by the so-called 'greenhouse effect!'"
"Yeah, the greenhouse effect is more like the way a blanket works"
"What? That's ridiculous!"
"No, they both reduce the rate of loss of heat"
"That's totally different"
"How?"
"If you don't understand, you're so dumb I can't explain it to you"
-Every comments column, everywhere, always
And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
I'm more concerned that a domestic party nearly got away with doing the same thing.
IF you believe the Russian hacker bullshit (and we have seen ZERO evidence of it), all they did was expose truth.
While the other party can lie their ass off. Of course that suggests that either the other party has nothing incriminating in its emails, or else the Russians have a nice stock of things for later blackmail.
First...what exactly does the "Department of Energy" do for us in the US?
I honestly don't know and will look it up, but if anyone can enlighten me, I'd be interested in a quick read.
That being said...aren't the departments pretty much at the behest of the Exective Branch? Could the new President not just completely disband them with the stroke of a pen? I mean, these are NOT part of congress, etc. They are set up by the Exec. branch to help enact and follow laws from congress, but they really aren't constitutional established or protected government entities are they?
I may be wrong here, but that's my 30K foot level of understanding of these departments.
I'm sure they don't *have* to answer to a president-elect, after all, he's not president yet.
But come a few weeks, he will have that full power...and I'd guess pretty much anyone, even the whole department as an entity could be done away with pretty quickly?
Governor Perry? Good to see you here!
Let's hope not. Let's hope the crazy people pushing for this wake up and realize it would result in a civil war.
Hey, who remembers the Brooks Brothers Riot in 2000? That's what happens when elections don't make right wingers happy.
Let's hope
None of this stuff is going to work. Not yelling about the popular vote, not pointless recounts, not baseless claims by the political leadership of intelligence agencies, not faithless electors in the Electoral College (you'll get a couple, at most.) You are not stealing an election.
On Jan. 20 Trump will be the boss, appoint the leadership and deal with any insubordinates and their insubordination. Trump thrives on firing people; it's practically a trademark with him. And no, he won't lose his supporters; we have no love for politicized science and the patron elite that rely on it to enforce their will, always the same; higher costs and more scrutiny, the Managed Decline.
It's going to be ugly. That's why we voted for a fighter. You want to take this to the next level and get to clappin, that's ok too; the alternative is not worth living.
Gosh, sorry to hear your life is so terrible. I'm sure Mr. Trump will fix it for you, no need for you to do some mass shooting.
"There are 3 managers that I will fire when I become Energy Secretary: Jane, Rick and... [pause] ...oops!"
"I would like to thank the 3 people in the world most close to me; Mary, Griffin, and ... oops!"
Never underestimate the power of the status quo. In the end, the government is run by the people working in the various government offices, departments and such. The boss at the top makes big waves, but underneath, the ocean is calm.
The same was thought about Bush Jr. - he would destroy the USA, drive it against the wall, etc. etc. - in the end, he was a terrible president but the boat didn't sink.
Really? Because Trump voters think it's in awful shape. Of course they blame the Kenyan Muslim.
I call it a witch hunt against scientists by evil men, enabled by morons like yourself.
CO2 won't stop magically absorbing solar radiation and heating the lower atmosphere just because Trump and his science-hating peons get rid of the scientists. The universe doesn't give one flying fuck about Donald Trump or some halfwit who goes around by the handle SuperKendall.
What? You mean the whole brain trust who informed us that the reduction of Iraq to chaos was not only necessary for our safety, but would also be a good thing, because our liberating soldiers would be greeted with flowers and candy, and it would sow the seeds of democracy in the Arab world, and besides the war would pay for itself, might not be correct in their analysis of complex planetwide physical phenomena?
Low energy. Bigly. Believe me.
the wording you should use is "differently ables Flash"
That seems somewhat essential to the story, yet neither the post nor TFA explains it.
The point is, it is extremely nonnewtonian. Left in a lump on a table, under gravity it will flow into a puddle over a period of several hours, or left in a container (it comes in a plastic egg shape which separates into two) gravity will make it conform to the shape of the container like a liquid, over a period of several hours. However, if you roll it into a ball and throw it at something, it is highly elastic and rebounds like a superball. (now you ask what is a superball) I figure this latter property is what makes this application work, although maybe the ability to slowly flow into tight contact with things might also be involved.
Gasket-putty?
A lot of gasket sealants I've seen have been very dark (if lustrous) grey to black because of included molybdenum sulphide or graphite.
silly putty would be the world's worst gasket sealer.
ask for them by name.
Like telling people to check out Alicia Machado's nonexistent sex tape?
Trump is, if nothing else, extremely adept at self-promotion, and so he wouldn't use this unless he felt it would be hugely popular.
Remember: Trump is a narcissist. Every one of his actions is motivated in convincing himself that he is powerful and loved.
He can't even suffer not winning the POPULAR vote. "It was those illegal dead aliens voting! Millions of them!" Apparently, in Trumpworld, at least half the illegal aliens in the USA went down to the polls to vote this year.
Simply put, the severity of the other things that you mentioned is so vast that it is simply beyond the capacity for most people to reasonably worry about them and still function in society. Text message spam, therefore, is more likely to be taken as a serious concern by people than environmental disaster or even nuclear war.
Android offers an option where you won't be included in case of nuclear war.
This counts as a pressing concern? That Trump has the power to send spam?
Never mind that he has stoking the worst bigotry and racial violence in North America in recent history. Never mind that he now has access to nookoolar weapons. Never mind that he's going to gut environmental regulations and oversight over the entire energy sector.
No! He can send us a text message! Everybody panic!
Is there an emoji for eyeroll?
The mirror image of his interview on 60 Minutes: "Mr. Trump, how does it feel to be the President-elect?" "Hey, I have a million more followers on Twitter!" with no trace of irony or sarcasm.
I recall the Republicans rioting before Bush was elected. Which helped get him elected. And flying the rioters in on planes supplied by corporate donors. And paying the rioters for their time. And pretending that it wasn't a partisan effort, it was the Good People of Florida spontaneously rising up.
https://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/080502a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2000/11/sweeney_and_the_siege_of_miami.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11...
http://www.poetrywar.com/Music...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/20/a-gop-dirty-trickster-has-second-thoughts.html
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=28
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2242...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/23/us/counting-vote-miami-dade-county-wild-day-miami-with-end-recounting-democrats.html
So... in other words, the Democrats are now going to do what the Republicans have been doing for the past 8 years.
The difference being that the Republicans announced explicitly that was their plan, stuck to it for 8 years, and are proud of it; whereas the Republicans are not accusing the Democrats of that being their plan a priori, and that's enough to find them guilty, proactively.
See also: "Hillary is going to take away our guns!", the proud follow up to "Obama is going to take away our guns!", "Bill Clinton is going to take away our guns!", etc. etc.
I hate pointless fear mongering articles. Best example of fake news there is right here on slashdot.
Trump isn't likely to abuse the alert system but leave it to slashdot to make an issue of it.
Trump won. Get over it already.
I'm so weary of all this one-sided bickering and sniping over Trump that I've decided that Democrats should be considered enemy combatants.
To be more clear, I now consider Democrats to be the equivalent of the "other side" in a war - they will still oppose every and any thing your side does, they can lose a battle and still wage war, incessant and total non-compliance, they will fight to the last man, and any victory - even pyrrhic - is still a victory. Any means are justified in the pursuit of their ends.
All the things an unruly child does, but forever.
In my mind the Democrats are *permanently* a party of dishonour, disgrace, and corruption. A group that simply gets no "benefit of the doubt" or "concessions of fairness" or anything like that. They are children, now and forever. We should treat them as such.
I was thinking through the recent news (last night) that Trump got Carrier to keep 1000 jobs in the US, and how I couldn't see a way to frame that in a bad light. Lo and behold! Recent comments on Slashdot manage to paint this as a bad thing. They even pulled out the Hitler comparison for good measure.
The Democrats are defeated. Leaderless and feckless, the only thing they can do is complain.
No plan, no leadership, and rife with corruption.
It's hard to see why anyone would be a part of that crowd.
"No plan, no leadership, and rife with corruption." Thank God that's all behind us, eh?
Except that Obama is perhaps the least corrupt individual to hold the Presidency since Jimmy Carter. Sure, he's a politician, and somewhat beholden to his donors - but in the scope of things, he's run a pretty clean administration. So in that light, using "Chicago-machine" to impugn him as corrupt? Why? Because he happened to come from Chicago? That won't fly. So I'm sticking with "Democrat" or 'Urban" or (dare I say it) "Black".
And I'm not one of those Democrats who's willing to chalk Trump's success up to racism. He certainly had the support of just about every racist you can find, but that doesn't make all of his swing supporters racists dany more than Obama's coming from Chicago makes him corrupt. What it does make them is less uncomfortable associating themselves with racists and a politician (and party) who courted the racist vote than they are frightened and angry in general about the state their lives and the ability of the government to do anything that might make it better. I doubt they expect Trump to make it better either - they just want him to blow a few things up. Judging by his cabinet picks, they're likely to be disappointed even on that count. Maybe he'll keep them on board with a steady diet of tweeted conspiracy theories and personal insults...
Opposition to Obama doesn't prove one racist. However, as with any behavior, if you have an obviously transparently bogus excuse such as "Because he's a socialist!", that puts you under some suspicion.
After all, there are people out there who are still insisting that Obama was born in Kenya, and/or is a Muslim, and still get upset when you suggest that their opposition is racially motivated.
I have been woken at 2am by idiotic Amber Alerts about incidents hundreds of miles from my home. If there was some way to block these messages, I would do so.
Blocking Amber Alerts on iOS is simple. Go to Settings -> Notifications, scroll down to the bottom of that page, unselect "AMBER Alerts" (and/or "Emergency Alerts"). I assume it's equally easy on Android.
But back to the subject at hand... I held my nose and voted for Hillary, but I'm getting really tired of these "Trump may do this" and "Trump might do that" propaganda pieces that are spewing forth across the web. I'm nervous about his presidency; but the election is over - let's see what he actually does, and then react if necessary.
I'm old enough to remember similar hysteria from back when Reagan was elected. Early on, his administration tried to do some pretty darn stupid things, like attempting to let ketchup count as a vegetable in school lunches. I remember Bill Clinton's early day missteps as well ("Sorry, we don't talk to the military"). But between the politics of Washington DC and the court of public opinion, the initial lunatic fringe crap gets self-corrected pretty darn quickly. The Republic will survive.
Well, he's draining the swamp by filling it with alligators. Thinking outside the box!
Saving American jobs from going to Mexico by having the government pay companies to employ Americans, rather than socialistically have the government employ Americans! Thinking outside the box!
Letting the free market work unimpeded by picking particular companies to pay off to employ Americans, rather than socialistically having the government pick winners and losers to get government funds! Thinking outside the box!
Avoiding conflicts of interest by removing himself from running his businesses, and letting his children run them, and also letting his children be his unpaid presidential advisers! Thinking outside the box!
Only a complete moron would think that a recreational drug that alters your mood and brain chemistry is 'safe'. Doesn't matter if it's alcohol or THC, these work by fidgeting with things in the brain that should obviously be left alone (for the sake of health - I think the recreational value is apparent). We don't do surgery for the fun of it, we don't do blunt force trauma for the fun of it, why should altering our insides via drug or drink be considered 'safe' when no other internal alteration is, and who could possibly be dumb enough to think so?
No offense, a priori, but:
Define fun. Define recreation. Define drug. Define recreational drug. Define safe.
Also: People get tattoos and piercings for the fun of it, get boob jobs and nose jobs and facelifts and so on, indulge in football, boxing, marathon running, and numerous other means of self-destruction for fun, get prescribed large quantities of a large variety of mood-altering drugs, including things whose mechanism is totally unknown other than handwaving talks about serotonin. Even further; if you note that the mood-altering drugs, legal and illegal, have a large overlap with drugs used as pain-killers with no moral qualms, the questions arise of what exactly is the mood which people are trying to alter, and do they maybe have a point.