A lot of people have idealized versions of these agencies in their heads, they don’t really understand the reality of it.

Yes. But when you need a transfusion to live it’s still a good deal for you. Besides, you can always just donate blood later to bring your levels back down.

Honestly, maybe it’s time for progressives to take over the Republican party primary and start moving them left .

Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government, yes. They make the laws carried out by the executive branch. “Feds” refers to federal employees.

So yeah, members of Congress are feds, though not the ones you are used to seeing at your door.

What do you think Congress does then?

Do you not think the feds could pass a law saying that sellers have to keep a list of everyone who buys guns or ammo?

Honestly, I’m really curious at this point why commenters here are so absolutely convinced that they couldn’t.

If the government wants you to have to show id to buy ammo, it’ll happen.

Unless you are manufacturing your own ammunition, you have to interact with someone the government has leverage over.

All they have to do is grab a copy of the NRA membership roster and mandate that gun stores turn over sales records for purchases of guns or ammunition.

I guarantee they can get you on a list pretty quick if they want to.

Sir, this is a Lemmy.

Helicopters can glide too it’s just a little harder. When a helicopter loses power and needs to glide the first step is to aim it at the ground to pick up speed…

Step 2 is to pray you have the height to pull it off.

And if you forgot to properly sign up for a long distance plan your calls were at “market rate” instead of the very reasonable price of about fifty cents to a dollar a minute.

Why, need a good number to hand out when you aren’t really into someone at the bar and they won’t leave you alone?

Let’s be honest, neither is perfect, but only one party is gutting all the parts of government that actually help anyone.

There’s a difference between being two faced with foreign policy and actively breaking the machinery that let’s your own government function.

I’m on Garuda, every game I have tried has worked great, sometimes I just have to choose a different proton version with an easy pull down menu. The only game I have given up is Destiny 2, because they say they will ban anyone on Linux because of their anti cheat.

Thanks AI.

“we’ve shut down the entire mechanism of government and it’s still not working and we’re all out of ideas!”

Depression aside… That age is also just a hard time of your life filled with change and so much responsibility. I know it doesn’t help you much now, but there’s a good chance things will improve for you in the next five years, at least a little.

We’re rooting for you. Good luck.

I switched from Bazzite to Garuda to get away from it being immutable. It’s been great.

I use Garuda, you just install the Nvidia version and the updater handles updates automatically whenever you run it.

Easy peasy.

Xfce user, here to represent!

I love it and haven’t had any trouble. Try it out!