As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.

There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.

Oh I know it has happened, and those type incidents are why the UCMJ now explicitly has the don’t do illegal shit clause.

I was talking here to the 2k or so that deployed recently in LA.

No Marine obeyed an illegal order, and that’s the whole point of this thread.

They were used in a very narrow scope as defined by law, protecting specific government buildings.

It was Trump being a bully and grandstanding, but other than the optics we’re talking about, it was really a lame event.

The vast majority of the 2k Marines did what Marines always do when they don’t have specific orders on a shit deployment, the sat around or caught up on rack time.

Not wringing my hands, in fact I never stated whether I was actually against Trump bombing cities, I just answered what was stopping him.

That was the question, and the answer is still the same.

As far as my lifting a finger? Well, short of the usual civic duties like voting and such, I’m not getting involved.

The chances of me personally firebombing anything is functionally 0.

I certianly expect someone else to handle this for me, the men and women of the US military who aren’t going to a US city into fucking Dresden.

My suggestion was to rely on the mechanism which has handled this type of issue without fail since day one.

Yours is to encite random acts of partisan violence.

I’m going stick with my plan thanks.

Well, let’s see.

It won’t be his moral fiber.

It won’t be China or Russia the only two military powers that have a chance to have any influence on CONUS affairs.

Maybe his desperate desire for public approval as I suspect major ordinance dropped on a US population center isn’t going to poll well, but I’d hate to count on that.

Me? Stop the president from doing literally anything? You vastly over estimate my powers.

If your point is that this mechanism won’t work, then I’m assuming your point is that nothing can stop Trump.

Doesn’t mean my answer was wrong or clueless, only that the means to stop him has failed.

If you think something else is stopping him, I’d be very curious what that might be.

Remind me again how many Marines opened fire on civilians.

The chain of command goes from the secretary of defense all the way down to the most junior enlisted personnel.

You seem to assume I meant the joint chiefs or some small hand full of senior commanders.

Generals don’t pull the trigger, and as someone else pointed out, the logistics involved with bombing a city includes hundreds of service members.

Not sure where you get off calling me clueless as my initial response exactly answers the original question.

If not for honorable service members respecting their oaths and the UCMJ, there is literally nothing stopping Trump from bombing Chicago or LA.

He is commander in chief of the US military.

The US military stresses disobeying illegal orders.

So the simple answer is the US military chain of command respecting their oath to the constitution over loyalty to Trump.

That ok, it’s not doable for me to pay for music, movies, and video games I won’t own.

Either a veterinarian or an architect. Ended up in tech, but should have architect in my title with my next promotion.

Lost a lot of cool old stuff in a fire a few years ago, so I’m guessing my original N64.

That, and the meta data shows the files were edited in Adobe

This isn’t a problem, as it is well known that Adobe Premiere is not designed to modify video.

I’d say 1975 was a damned sweet spot for me. Medicine had advanced literally just enough that the life saving surgery I had at birth was a success. I had access to but was forced into the tech and comms revolution. Was right in time for the second wave of skating boarding, and got to be in on the very ground floor of snowboarding.

I honestly can’t think of a better time to have been born.

For 40 years now, few things make me as happy and exhilarated as riding a skateboard.

Lots of variables here, but sure, if its something you are comfortable with, go for it.

One thing about short term high paying work though, you have to be good about stretching your money.

Can be real easy to spend 8 months of pay fast when you earn it fast.

The benifit of steady work is steady income.

Dominick the Donkey.

Was on a very short holiday CD at a very long job.

I believe the point was to meet someone through those hobbies / activities vs using the dating apps.