Rhaedas

John Connor: We’re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. The Terminator: It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.

Everything seems to be a surprise for this guy.

On a positive note: imagine how large scale and resilient the US economy is to not yet be nose first in the ground already. Don’t mistake me, it’s bad and heading that way, and lots of damage and people have been hurt, but even the bankruptcy king who can ruin businesses that run themselves couldn’t immediately tank it.

It’s like the bull ran through the china shop a few times, and while there’s debris on the floor, there’s still a lot that hasn’t been knocked down. Oh wait, here he comes through again…

No. Please stop.

Politics loves our short term memory. They just need the right timing of some media story or crisis and people forget everything before.

Good question. There must be some limit, otherwise you could use refiling as a loophole to keep extending the limitations forever.

David Kipping introduced me to the idea that the window of opportunity for intelligent life may be far smaller than we used to think. It’s a companion to the Rare Earth hypothesis of having so many variables that MIGHT need to exist to make things work, but assuming all conditions are good for what we consider hospitable, how long a planet has before the star changes and how soon basic life starts is not that long cosmically.

Simply put, new life after whatever this climate run stabilized to won’t have a billion years before the Sun begins to change. Not turn into a red giant or dwarf, those are far off still, but it will begin its path towards those long before the actual event, and conditions here will worsen for a teeming biosphere.

To quote “Hamilton”, life only gets probably one shot. Maybe two or three if it’s fast, but we can probably count a few of the mass extinctions that set things back for that.

Isn’t China doing better than the rest of the world in steering to renewables (which have their own issues)? The real problem isn’t what we’re burning, it’s the demand. It keeps going up, so even advances in better energy sources dwindle in their growth compared to the total need. But reducing demand is antithesis to a good economy, so we aren’t even considering that. Must tech out of this! (Not working so far)

If only it was just humanity, it would be fine. A dead end species. We’re taking everything with us, which is the real crime.

Welcome to the internet? Anonymity allows anyone to pretend to be anything, so they are more the carrier of a message than some authenticity based on a name. And where there is a market for a message, people will consume without regard for who said it, or even often without validating the message itself. Caveat emptor baby.

Maybe when younger he played it. I think at this point it’s on autopilot from what he used to understand (some things you don’t forget after doing it for so long), and it’s driven mainly by ego. Which those in power understand how to use by inflating and feeding to get what THEY want.

Correct, read it wrong, I had seen the rest of the part about it remaining banned except for certain historical works. For now.

They didn’t go so far to include the Confederate flag yet. I guess that hits closer to home still, even though the two can sometimes be seen together.

The sign of a true idiot is when they fly either of these beside the US flag.

There’s always evidence of tampering. It may take some time but once found it will come right back to him. This is just all he has left now to buy more time. What he’ll do while that clock is running out is the next question. We’ve seen part of it, the authoritative shift.

Yep, going to play this as “I was always for releasing them the whole time” but “oh no, the mean DoJ says no one can see anything right now”.

“I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.”

Never throw a meme together in a hurry, it’s like typing a reply and hitting post before you check what you wrote.

Euro Gray is a weird one. Given the naming conventions for gray/grey, it ought to be “grey”. Must be a US color referring to European styling.

Think of the childre… oh, we’re not doing that now?

Yeah, we don’t import anything. We’re smart like that. /s

They probably don’t even have time to read the contents of the bill they are voting for.

cough PATRIOT Act

I always wonder, there wasn’t enough time to read through it and debate it because we had to act quickly, but damn, someone sure wrote it quickly. Unless it was there all along, waiting for a crisis.

Not even suggesting the crisis itself was a conspiracy, only that they were ready to jump on anything to gain power.