‘Departments’ such as the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, the State Department etc. are under the umbrella of the Executive Branch. Each Department has a Secretary. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Urban Development etc. The Secretaries act as liasons for their respective department and report directly to the Chief Executive (president). Given the president is Chief Executive he can give orders to the Departments which “they have to follow” provided they are not illegal or are beyond the department’s budget. These issues, in principle, would be handled by the Judicial and Legislative branches respectively.

All that said, since the president is “in charge” of the Departments he can order them to do whatever he wants in addition. Typically, the president “tells” the Departments what he “wants” done and they will address that issue. An Executive Order is more forceful.

From a constitutional perspective, the problem with Executive Orders and Departments is that they aren’t addressed at all. Constitution establishes the existance of the branches of goverment and lays out general rules, but it doesn’t have anything to say about the structure of the executive branch or even how many judges are on the Supreme Court.

The only way executive orders can be addressed is by law. The legislative branch would need to write amd pass it with 2/3 majority vote to bypass a certain presidential veto.

Did you move on though?

Some people like to talk to each other. Like people who are people?

Level of experience is itself relative

Allow me to introduce you to Wheaton’s Law

https://bbs.archlinux.org/ btw

tardigrade

I for one welcome our rust overlords

When you say bookings, do you mean microsoft bookings? I tried it, but I can’t figure out how to get it to use more than one calendar

Why not with screencap?

Interesting. I’ll try it out!

“Hoisted by your own petard” is from Hamlet. Equivalent to “It blew up in your own face” but with more of a cause of hippocracy

There are a lot of good Texasism. I was living in Texas when I first heard “Oh bless her heart.”. Mean either she’s a good person, or she’s dumber than dog shit.

But does the pope shit in the woods?

That’s one that always bothered me too. When I say “Jesus fucking Christ” I mean it. Which is it’s own weird ism when you think about it…

Find an attic to live in and start writing a diary

Do they know everything about you minute to minute? Email to email? I can imagine that is data they might want to have. The data you are presently creating. You always have a footprint, but you can always make your feet smaller while you walk. Or some better allusion. Leave me alone.

Tired of Gmail? Switch to Kmail!

HVAC

Colors you can differentiate from one another by type (power vs hand vs misc) and see from a distance so they hard to misplace. I use dewalt for powertools, kobalt for hand tools, and bright, but different colors for everything else e.g. pony clamps, neon craftsman levels. This makes it easy to put everything away, and spot when you are looking for them in the middle of working and you don’t know where you put something. Several thumbs up for a random, but interesting question!