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How does an error that specific happen on accident?


It wasn't that 'specific'. The part left out started in the middle of section 8 with "To provide and maintain a Navy;"

Do you think the current administration is wanting to remove its ability to provide and maintain a Navy?

Looks like a simple copy/paste error to me.


Trivially, of course. To purport otherwise as this author has leads me to think, not remotely for the first time lately, that people would be wiser more often to heed labels saying things like "take with food" and "do not operate heavy machinery." (This last is a stretch, I grant you, but I've seen what folks in their 20s call upper body strength these days, and any mechanical keyboard with a steel baseplate likely now qualifies.)

I anticipate with mild annoyance your like insistence on calling my claim, that this is an example basically of a US government employee half-assing a job that sucks and they hate, a "conspiracy theory." It isn't, of course. It's just that I understand what to be afraid of and you don't, so you're constantly terrified and incapable to reacting to any development other than as a kicked dog, and I'm Wittgenstein's lion. Oh, not for the sake of the damned mangy cat! But there's nothing I can say that you are able to understand, not at the moment at least.

You're way too scared for today and not nearly enough for half a decade from now, when we'll all be wishing we had made the most of this time while we had it. You could do better, but you probably won't, because even right now you're wasting the same time being angry at me for tossing off a read like this.


> Trivially, of course

But how though?

That's supposed to be a static piece of text. Nobody should be required to do work on it, nobody should have access to work on it, unless the actual constitution changes.


How the hell am I supposed to know? It's never been my job to redesign, maintain, or otherwise care about that website, thank goodness. Presumably their CMS sucks in one or more of the same ways as any other.


Again, that's a static piece of text, no CMS needed. I'm all for not attributing to malice what can be equally explained by incompetence, but it's been many administrations in charge of this website and somehow it never happened before. I'd say that some eyebrows need to be raised.


Five out of 46 administrations is "many?" But sure, I can see that you'd feel that way. I'm just saying it's a really silly thing to feel that way about, versus the many much better reasons for similar trepidation you imagine yourself escaping by avoiding the news.


“Caring about things is dumb” is such a lame response to “at least thirty years of government didn’t fuck this up, so why is this one so incompetent that it did.”

The language you use to dismiss the concern is certainly cute, but maybe put down the thesaurus for a bit. It’s not doing you the favor you think it is.


Who said caring about things is dumb? I'm saying it's pointless and unhealthy to make a big deal out of this nonsense, which is totally irrelevant to the ongoing destruction of the republic and concurrent real collapse of American hegemony throughout the world. That is a big deal. This is chickenshit.

The Constitution is not being curtailed by mere edits to a website, and only a child could imagine otherwise. But if you think I'm being an asshole about it, you can say so without the circumlocution.


your prompt could use some tuning


Thank you! :smile: Can you recommend any specific enhancements or changes that might improve my next response? :student:




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