Buttigieg / Bessent

Preface: I am not pro-China by any means.

Interestingly, China might be a positive factor there, sort of? They seem to be aiming heavily for renewables, probably as much for economic as for climate change reasons. But with the way slightly more cleared for them to even more heavily reach out to developing countries, they might opt to invest in green energy in those developing countries. Undoubtedly to their own economic gain, again. But the net effect of China on global energy might be positive (good) from a purely greenhouse gas perspective.

I was curious about the wording in the headline, which could be taken to mean that billionaires collectively equal the emissions of one million people.

But nope, the article does confirm in its first line that it’s a million per billionaire. They go on to describe that lifestyle alone would leave billionaires at the “thousands of times more” level, but the proportional effects of the entities they have investments in is what takes them to a million.

He’ll get 'em all mixed up. Rearranged, out of order. Screwed. Bungled. Maybe even some critical parts missing.

Seemingly, no. Bald eagles were taken off the federal threatened/endangered lists in like 2007, but there are other, more specific protection laws in place protecting the bald eagle.

Gotta love those folks. We could have Earth at one end, the Sun on the other, and they might pick a spot 46 million miles out in space to find the middle way.

Rotating GMs in the same campaign can work with some differences in things like this, sort of like different directors/writers for episodes of a TV show. Some weeks, there might be characters who seem favored by the gods or cast into the deepest pits of misfortune, and then the other way around the very next adventure.

Probably some of each. Some few might be literal retellings, some are exaggerated, some are just made up.

What in the Scott Pilgrim…

They call that a circle merc.

It is, however, what led to Batman…

This is her maybe getting off the bus, saying “I just thought this was going to the mall…”

“It’s not Trump.”

“Okay, prove it!”

“UM… oh look, a squirrel!”

“Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.”

Reminds me of this.

We accept a limitation on access to voting based on age. This has a hard, numerical boundary, and we can argue over what the boundary should be, but while a given age is in law it is simple and basically fair across all genders, races, cultures, languages, etc.

When you introduce a barrier like a literacy or knowledge test, you inherently restrict people from some or another culture, race, language, or whatever more than others. There is an inherent bias to how the test is written, presented, and judged. With all that wiggle room, people in power who want a certain outcome can see that the parameters of the test are arranged to fit their desires. There isn’t a version of this free from the potential for significant interference.

That, in a nutshell, is why there is always a strong argument against ANY such test as a requirement for voting. Some people may know better than others what policies will help people more, or at least think they do, but that doesn’t actually give them any more right than others in an equal democracy to make those choices.

The problem comes in when the necromancers promise skeletons for manual labor stuff to make society better, then they take public funding and ultimately the skeletons start making soulless derivative art and writing plays/stories that barely (or don’t) make sense.

It was more a response to what you said about Hegseth:

Even if Pete Hegseth was discovered to have made sex videos and they were leaked on porn hub, and then he responded by posting more sex videos he made more recently… this would probably do nothing to harm his career.

https://youtu.be/Ji1XoTsd4DU
(Start to 1:08)

https://youtu.be/h5Ug9r4AxpM?t=31
(Start time pre-set at 31 seconds, watch until 1:32 or the end)

I feel like this is how Trump thinks he sounds. Semi-cogent, explaining full thoughts for rhe most part. The reality is so much more stilted and involves vertical leaps between topic layers with little warning and almost no rhetorical device.