Can the president unilaterally change the names of anything he wants?

Maybe for things inside his own country. Though the affected local governments may object.

But for bodies of water that contain international waters, and that border other countries? Fuck no he doesn’t.

There is no legal mechanism to compel private companies to use the new name.

There is also no legal mechanism to require any other country on the planet to pay attention to Trump’s stupid and pointless attempt at renaming it.

Problem is, bullshit like this also kills people outside the US borders - people who didn’t get a vote in this but will be negatively impacted.

but we are all being boiled together.

Including those of us in other countries who didn’t get a vote in your elections, but who are about to be absolutely fucked by the results.

Sorry to the people who voted against this, but the other 2/3 of your fellow citizens doomed you to the global distrust and anger that your country has earned.

How many other examples would you like?

is brevity no longer the soul of wit??

Maybe, if that’s your only goal.

Trying to make any sort of nuanced or subtle point about anything important is pretty much impossible in such an artificially limited format, though.

Sure, simple political memes can be done in a compact frame, but actually discussing the framework surrounding that meme, or trying to correct a bit of misinformation is not really possible to do under those same limitations of time or character count.

I’m constantly surprised that those fools haven’t run out of money yet.

Stupider, yes, but they seem to have learned one thing - fire all the competent people and replace them with lackeys who won’t try to interfere with implementing your intrusive thoughts simply because they’re illegal or pointless or impossible to do.

For our non-American friends, subzero in Fahrenheit is actually cold.

Is it?

I’m looking out the window at my thermometer telling me that it’s -27C right now.

Nothing is permanent

Maybe not, but some types of damage can take a very long time to heal.

I guarantee he will be the first US President to cause more suffering to his own citizens than foreign citizens.

It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that he could accidentally start a war somewhere in the world. Or make an existing one much worse than it already is.

Personally, I never saw the appeal of TikTok anyway.

Then again I also was never interested in Twitter.

I guess my attention span isn’t short enough for that type of sites.

Once you see people start defending Russia it’s over

If that’s what you are looking for, the .ml server has you covered already…

Electro chemical machining can make a barrel.

Yes, but that’s not 3d printing any more.

It’s a separate process requiring separate tools, materials and skills.

Or the metal parts needed to make a “3d printed gun” function as anything other than a random suicide generator.

You can’t print 100% of a functional gun on a consumer printer unless you are willing to accept it blowing up in your hand after a shot or 2.

shown that but I guess Americans didn’t want to be outdone on stupid self destructive acts.

The percentage of Americans that are aware of Brexit, let alone the problems with it, is vanishing small.

They’re getting emboldened by the criminal in chief (elect).