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A lot of them simply won't believe he actually lost, so he wouldn't be overturning anything, but correcting.

The faith of children is also a recurring theme in the Bible.

Matthew 18: 2-4, for instance

^2 He called a child, whom he put among them, ^3 and said, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ^4 Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians: 13 (one of the most-quoted chapters in the Bible, and a beautiful description of love even if you don't have faith) also compares the difference between childishness and adulthood to the difference between the partial understanding of the universe we have now to true understanding.

13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

In order to see the magic of Narnia, childishness is required, because to see it as an adult is to see beyond the fantastical. In understanding, the ability to see the magic is lost.

My Galaxy Note 8 is a backup phone. It was a flagship when it launched, yeah. But even so, it's 7 years old, the last update for it was over 2.5 years ago, and it's still chugging along like a champion.

They don't though. Private security, PMCs, and private prisons all operate here.

Hell, even the Pinkertons still quietly exist, and they specifically provide security and investigation services for corporations and are still used to investigate and intimidate union leaders.

Smartphone design is mostly a solved problem. Take today's screens and processors and throw in a few features from the past (removable storage, IR blaster, and headphone jack) and you have a 10-year phone.

I used to get a new phone every year because phone got way better each generation.

My phone is top-tier from 2021 (Z Fold 3), and I have had zero temptation from the newer versions. All they really have is faster processing, but since all apps are designed to run well on budget phones from 5 years ago, there's no reason to upgrade.

There are private ambulance companies, but those usually aren't the ones that respond to a 911 calls.

In most areas, private ambulance companies either handle non-emergency medical transport or have contracts with places like nursing homes where they're needed often enough that they can offer a less-expensive ride.

Paramedics generally work for the fire department, and ambulances are dispatched from fire stations. The driver on the ambulance is often just a regular fire department chauffer who drew the short straw and is working ambulance duty that shift.

You know how we make houses safer from fire? Fire Code and the IBC. Know how who enforces Fire Code? Fire Marshall.

And it's not only fires that require emergency vehicle access. If an ambulance is called to your house, the FD needs to know they can actually get it there.

And what if there's a utility outage and an excavator and crane are necessary? What if the street needs repair and a concrete truck has to get access? There's all kinds of reasons large vehicles need to access homes.

And none of that makes the streets less-safe. It increases visibility and gives more maneuvering room in an emergency.

I talk about the prevalence of online ads 30 years ago when Linux was first getting a GUI and wasn't supported by any major hardware companies, and you respond with this bullshit?

Fuck right off with that argument.

You didn't just move the goalpost you changed fields, leagues, and sports.

He can investigate crimes as President, but he cannot attempt to circumvent the counting of the vote.

Certifying the vote is the duty of the legislative branch (Pence was acting as President of the Senate - a legislative role), and if it needs to be stopped due to legal reasons that's the jurisdiction of the judicial branch.

Separation of Powers requires that the President cannot officially act in that situation.

Furthermore, he didn't investigate any allegations that people had voted for Trump illegally.

But the biggest smoking gun on whether it was the President or Candidate Donald Trump is that Trump specifically excluded the official White House counsel from his meetings but did include his personal and campaign lawyers. That says that not only was he acting outside his official duties, but that he knew he was acting as a candidate.

Rose-colored glasses, dude.

The internet was full of never-ending pop-ups that opened 2 more windows every time you closed one 25-30 years ago, and the viruses they carried fucked your computer to the point you had to do a clean Windows install. Spam.filters didn't work and you'd get 500 unfiltered spam messages a day, and since you were on 28-56k using a POP3 system it took an hour to download them before you could sort through them.

Shit's bad now, but it was way, way worse back then.

The scale goes from "No professional training" to "Doctorate in Medicine."

So to be on the far right you need to be an MD, but having a different doctorate will still be above "no professional training"

It's a weird scale.

Also, it's wrong. Dr Horrible has a PhD in Horribleness, and Doctor Zoidberg has a doctorate in Art History.