Science. Threat analysis. Entertainment at our silly ways.

If they have abundant resources and energy, sending probes wouldn’t be a challenge.

I’d enjoy Katie Porter. Dunno if she’s ready for something like the presidency, but I’m ready for a president like her.

Replace the mature trees at any cost. If those don’t “take” do it again.

And again. And again. Until the soil accepts the fully mature trees.

Onve they’ve lost millions, I hope they’ll serve as a proper cautionary tale.

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Obama broke Occupy. Biden and Clinton are vocal about not supporting the anti-genocide protests (except to say the protestor have specific rights).

There are no political leaders sympathetic to protests here. Only those who could maybe be cowed if we really fought. If that was likely, the FBI would infiltrate and agitators would create reasons for enforcement.

We’re talking Floyd levels of riot that would remind people of Jan 6th and leave people feeling justified. MLKs proymtests were NOT popular at the time… We’re looking for something and someone like that. Closest we’ve got is Shawn Fain.

My riot, for now, is my vote and my tepid support of formerly-Dark Brandon. He’s done a lot. More than most. But Garland was a shit pick. And now we’re here with trials delayed all over the place because Garland dithered.

We* should be free to own as many guns as we want.

*You know.

“When you’re a star…”

Thank you for saying this. This fact is missed so often and it’s vitally important to understand US politics right now.

This is the same conversation my wife and I just had. Funerals are for the living. That’s not to dismiss them, I think they serve a purpose in helping the living reconcile to their new normal.

I want neither a religious leader nor some physicist with vague “energy” platitudes as a speaker at my funeral. But I think that’s the thing. Death is personal. We want different things. And that’s it’s own beauty.

For me… I want an atheist with an understanding of pain, suffering, delight and nothingness. Someone to, without lecturing, explain that in my view I was not here for eons. Then, for a brief period I lived. I stumbled, loved, and grew old. I relished my moment. I saw it for what it was and made what I could of it. And now I return to the nothing.

Selfless, selfish, nurturing and angry. I did it all. I stayed at home for vacation, I traveled. I was poor. I had a season of money. I lived my moment. I am at peace with that. It could have been far, far worse.

And while returning to the nothing may seem ghastly to some, to me it has beauty. Symmetry.

Even this happy life has struggle. One day, the struggle ends.

I mean yeah, but… No?

Their stories are different. It’s like saying that three fan fics by three different authors that use a select few “same characters” actually have the same characters… When they behave in ways that are incompatable with the other fan fics.

That’s kinda the problem. That and geography. They all think the same patch of land is super important. And the land around that is important, too.

This is one of the ways that those "same characters (gods) " were incompatible.

When you back away from it all, it’s the God of Abram/Abraham. But the details matter to adherents. And the details are quite different.

The us and them created by those stories is essential to understanding this. And the land grabs. And the killings. And the rationale.

He has to be part of an opinion in order for this to work. That opinion stands the test of time best if he can put forth a legal opinion that supports his preferred answer.

“Congress shall”… I wonder if that’s part of his thinking.

legally carry a gun

Watch states try to find ways to allow him within their borders.

Arby-tration

There’s a fast food restaurant called Arby’s that serves those sandwiches.

I wonder when AI will be designing its own chips. Or parts of its chip.

Rhetoric aside, we are a republic with democratic features.

The republic parts help them hold disproportionate power. And, to their credit, they know the power of words.

I don’t usually see the same discipline among Democrats. Maybe I’m missing it, but I’d love to see it.

If cable didn’t kill the Fairness Doctrine, the internet would have, I think.

If Europe can’t get this right, let Putin have Europe.

I’m kinda tired of Europe acting like this is something the US is for and why they keep us around.

While they pay for oil and gas from Russia.