Well, they’d be thrown in with the rest of islands of the Caribbean on that one. That’s something that should change regardless.

Generally yes, but not in Puerto Rico. If they move to the mainland, they can vote for any elections there, but while living in Puerto Rico, they only vote for members of Congress that serve a mostly observational role.

It doesn’t, and the reasons for being that way are long in the past. The originally US wanted to avoid any state having the capitol at a time when states were more independent entities than they are now. People weren’t really meant to live there at all. Politicians and there staff would travel in from the surrounding areas. Of course, it’s evolved way past that, and the citizens of DC deserve the full representation of statehood.

I’m not sure if that’s right or not, but there’s been some loopholes around DC’s status before. For example, all members of Congress are considered city alders for DC. In practice, they delegate that to local elected officials and everything works like a normal US city.

Same trick here. Delegate those EC votes to follow the popular vote of the city.

But it doesn’t have an airport. Or a car dealership. There’s a car dealership a few blocks from the Capitol building, but it doesn’t have one.

(This was an actual argument from the GOP on the floor of Congress.)

They reached a majority vote in favor of statehood in the 2020 referendum. We’re waiting on Congress. There’s supposed to be another vote in this general election.

Make them a state, or give them independence. The will of the people of Puerto Rico should decide, but the current status is untenable.

What an incredibly stupid thing for them to say. This was an official election rally, and they 100% vetted every joke before he went out there. If they didn’t, they’re incompetent. So either way, their own weak ass defense is damning.

And then it dominos into other things failing.

I can’t take them seriously after learning where their name came from. Which is a discarded song from Disney’s “Aladdin” that was later revived for the stage musical. Yes, really.

I’d rather see it run like the USPS. Let it be a quasi-independent company owned by the government. Even though Congress fucks with the USPS, they don’t fuck with it like they do NASA.

Just to head that off, SpaceX doesn’t have competition at this point. ULA can’t match the Falcon rockets, and Boeing has their fingers in that pie. Blue Origin is staring at a corner and appears to be wanking itself. Virgin Galactic is only interested in space tourism. There’s a bunch of little companies trying to get past the R&D stage, but nobody substantial. NASA’s own rockets are an expensive boondoggle because Congress can’t shut up and let them do their job.

SpaceX is it. Nationalizing the company would not only get rid of the company’s biggest problem (the meatsack ego at its top), but would also do an end run around Congress treating NASA as a jobs program with pork in every state.

Or a very good one. If it’s too big to fail, then it’s already a problem.

You’re aware Linux basically runs the Internet, right?

Did I fall into a 1999 Slashdot comment section somehow?

[citation needed]^/s

McDonalds onions aren’t setup to be cooked/caramelized. They generally don’t have to be. Raw is fine if they’re not covered in shit.

Their onions aren’t any good, but that’s a different matter.

I put a bike on a trunk rack on the back of our Toyota. It thought a bike was behind the car and kept slamming on the brakes while trying to back out of the driveway.

Then there’s the lane assist that jerks the wheel while going through construction zones, because the lines on the road don’t match up with where you need to be.

Trade secrets don’t need to be enforced much by law. You can create an ad hoc trade secret regime by simply keeping your secret between a few key employees. As it happens, there are some laws that go beyond that to help companies keep the secret, but that only extends something that could happen naturally.

It actually did, but not in a way people expected at the time that movie was made. It changed a lot underneath the hood.

At some point, there will be a serious effort to put offshore wind on Lake Michigan. I fully expect to see idiots on Xhitter saying it’s going to kill all the whales.