If you want to prosecute someone who has previously been pardoned, then you'll have to figure out how to get the courts (that is, the people who would be doing the actual prosecuting) to ignore some of the highest rules by which they operate.

I'm not saying that that could never happen, but a) it sure sounds like an uphill battle and b) it's not the same thing as the president (one person) doing whatever they feel like regardless of the law.

In the US, quality of health care is not really a problem. The problem is that the cost is too high, and also availability (in part because of the cost).

> Frankly, dependency cooldowns work by free-riding on the pain and suffering of others.

I suspect there are some reasonable points to be made here, but frankly, I pretty much stopped reading after that. Way too simple minded.

I'd say SQLite is one good example:

https://sqlite.org/chronology.html

Regular releases for over a quarter of a century now, and it's renowned for its reliability.

More likely you’ll return to an industry utterly swamped in technical debt.

> a single president

It's a lot more than "a single president". It's the two thirds of American voters who either voted for him or couldn't be bothered to vote against him, even after having seen how he behaved in his first term.

That's why he's not the biggest problem. He's more of a symptom than a cause. He won't be around for ever, but even after he's gone, most of those same people will still be around.

I love the music on defcon but could really do without the sporadic interruptions. At first it was ok but gets old after a while.

Remember your 3-2-1.

Personally, I still like these defcon sound bites, even though I've heard them plenty of times. They are part of the atmosphere that the stream wants to create.

Agree about the lyrics. Phillip Glass is one of my favorites for flowing. His style usually involves a lot of repetition, which I find meditative.

Steve Reich is my favourite of the minimalists. Electric counterpoint and Music for 18 Musicians are regulars in the line up.

Yes, Music for 18 Musicians is such a wonderful companion for sustained focus. I look forward to checking out Electric Counterpoint more closely.

Reducing the frequency of mail delivery would have a much larger impact, since most of fuel is probably consumed by last mile delivery.

Delivering less mail each day doesn't really make much difference if the mail carrier still has to come to my neighborhood 6 times a week.

Fewer mail carriers could hit twice as many places in a given time-frame and reduce overall gas usage.

> the price of oil has gone up considerably (that may have been an actual objective)

Even Trump isn't that dumb. There's a reason he dialed the tariffs back so much; price hikes lose elections.

If there's one highly visible product of whose price all Americans are keenly aware, it's gasoline. And on top of that, it affects the price of pretty much everything else too.

I thought the tariffs would be his undoing but jacking up the price of gas is even worse for him.

Why would he care? He's not going to be up for re-election anyway and besides he's not paying for his own gas. But the price of oil going up helps russia in a considerable way and that could well have been one of the drivers (and apparently carrying water for Netanyahu).

> He's not going to be up for re-election anyway

I would not assume that he won't try to run again, nor would I assume that his party would not support it if he did. Though I do agree with the rest of what you wrote.

(1) he has to stay alive until then

(2) he has to overcome an absolutely massive approval deficit

(3) he has to be able to run a credible campaign

(4) he has to get around the term limits

(5) I would expect there to be a fairly large number of people to be very upset if he did

All in all I don't think his chances for re-election are > 0. But I agree with you that he might try, by hook - or by crook - to hold on to that chair.