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Which is insane. I could travel overseas and, while I'm there, not even be bound by the laws of my COUNTRY that I am officially a citizen of and not the other one. State-to-state is supposed to be more free than even that, not less.

Overturning Obergfell is a moot point because it's not what's propping up same-sex marriage anymore. The Respect for Marriage Act superceded it, and—I've said it twice before in as many weeks but I guess it bears repeating—it's not going to be repealed anytime soon by the same Congress that...

I have a fair amount of money saved up, and despite my bank informing me that I'm finally eligible to move it to a new account that pays non-bullshit amounts of interest, I have half a mind to pull it all out and invest it overseas instead. Trouble is, I already did that the last time our...

On the subject of AI and law enforcement—and I could swear I already posted this months ago when I first showerthought of it but I guess not... You know that "zoom and enhance" thing from all the crime shows that's complete bullshit but enough people watch those shows that it's causing problems...

So how long before the rest of the world just bans travel from the US for health reasons?

Man, I know people joke about our beds being too tall, but...

This isn't shielding him from anything. His sentence was already pronounced, and double jeopardy applies just as much to the guilty as the innocent. Unless you're saying this gives him the opportunity to flee the country along with everyone else Trump has it out for, which he couldn't do from...

If he tries to sell Alex Jones the account and let him keep posting under it, the Onion can just nail him for trademark infringement. Trademarks expire if they're not being actively used, and the Onion almost definitely bought InfoWars specifically to erase it from existence, but I think there's...

Also I imagine just about any library will have it in circulation. People forget that those things carry DVDs, and some of them are even still playable!

I went to the Exchange (local-ish secondhand media/collectibles store, think GameStop crossed with an independent record store) for their Black Friday Weekend sale; saw that their meager GameCube game collection had three copies of Metroid Prime. They've NEVER had more than one copy of any...

Showerthought: Would Trump even be allowed to impose tariffs on Canada or Mexico? I thought NAFTA, and the USMCA that replaced it, makes it impossible to do that without negotiating a new trade agreement. Which obviously Canada and Mexico are not going to agree to if there's nothing in it for...

Well, car parts. No one ships entire cars over the ocean anymore except to places like Australia. Other than enthusiasts buying foreign cars that are over 25 years old for the novelty value.

That might not be a bad idea, honestly. Only four months after voting out the previous ruling party in a landslide, and zero months after seeing proof that the current ruling party is exactly the same, maybe they'll take a hint and vote for someone else for a damn change.

If you revoke birthright citizenship, then there goes the citizenship of literally the 90+% of Americans who didn't come here in their lifetime and go through the naturalization process. Which means once his ego achieves its final form, he has grounds to deport everyone who refuses to...

Literally nothing. Just like what's happening as a result of being convicted of 34 crimes earlier this year.

At least we have four years of precedent for the idea that Trump isn't interested in deploying the military against other countries.

Knock on wood, but one thing Trump fortunately doesn't seem interested in doing is getting involved in any wars, so he probably has no reason to care about the military's effectiveness anyway.

Yeah, I love to remind people who are opposed to remakes on principle—especially remakes of video games from the '90s or 2000s—that the version of The Wizard of Oz they've actually seen was the FOURTH film adaptation. (I actually have a collector's edition DVD that includes the other three as...

Is this implying that parents don't still plunk their kids down in front of movies they saw as kids? If not, good lord there's more wrong with the world than I realized. That's what weirds me out about all these remakes. The original movies are still out there. You can buy the Blu-Ray off the...

I'm starting to wonder if any two people in charge of the parks have a clue what the other is working on. They just renovated the MuppetVision theater last year with new seats and a better projector, and they just closed the Lightning McQueen Racing Academy next door to the Rock'n'Roller Coaster...