Suicidal how? It’s not like the modern republican party, at least those in congress, is likely to impeach their own president, and seeing as he’s term limited, if Trump got another term, he would have had to throw out the constitution completely and unambiguously to do it, at which point he could simply throw out the “election” part too.
When I started my current job, my boss and one of the older guys there asked me “star trek or star wars” after I mentioned liking sci fi (they preferred the different franchises respectively and were looking for a tiebreaker for their banter or something I guess). Got a laugh out of them by replying with “stargate”.
Tbh I don’t think I actually listened to music at that age, of my own accord rather than hearing what someone else around had on anyway.
I’m fairly new to using Linux, is there an Ubuntu for every letter of the alphabet?
Is the one on the right even real? Looks like that “waxy” vibe AI images sometimes have.
Unions would be useful even then, and if american history over the past decades is any indication, strong unions might be necessary to keep those laws too, lest capital use it’s influence to erode them without an organized force to counter it.
I’ve recently come to the position that really, there isn’t truly such a thing as incorrect grammar. There’s grammar that doesn’t fit the norm for the people one is speaking to, and if it’s different enough to impair the ability for the intended audience to understand what you’re communicating it can be impractical or inadvisable, but since grammar isn’t an intrinsic part of the universe outside of human creation, and since the way it’s used changes whenever people “break it’s rules” in numbers over time, it can’t actually be wrong. After all, someone could view something written in a very closely related foreign dialect as another similar language written correctly, or one’s own language written incorrectly, and there isn’t really a non-arbitrary way to decide which is the case.
I just kept the names from the shelter, in case the cats were used to them already.
The notion that he was killed, or intentionally allowed to kill himself, or similar, isn’t that the government just hated him so much for his crimes that they wanted him dead. The suspicion goes that he had evidence on some or all of his clients, that he might’ve revealed for one reason or another, and was presumably killed to protect them.
They’re not feeling sorry for Epstein, they’re mad because they got told “there’s a bunch of child abusers out there, to include some percentage of the rich, famous, and politicians running the country, and you’re never going to know who they are, nor will they face any penalty”, and they want to see something done about it.
Further, it can tie into existing political polarization. If you know some percentage of especially the people in politics are abusers, but you don’t know which ones, the natural tendency is going to be to assume that it’s mostly the side you don’t like (because of course, one already trusts those people less than one’s own side).
This gives one an excuse to hate the other side even more (this isn’t to say that this issue is evenly distributed and doesn’t actually affect one side more than the other, but that the everyday supporters on both sides both think, rightly or wrongly, that the list is predominantly the politicians and celebrities that they don’t like, and view it as a potential chance to see those people removed from power and punished for a deserved reason).
The one person I’ve met IRL to have a Wikipedia page (as far as I know anyway) got one from writing books and arguing with people (as in like formal debate type ones), so maybe becoming an author? It’s not exactly easy but it’s not unattainable for the typical person either I wouldn’t think.
The traditional notion of a Dyson sphere/swarm isn’t using the thing to power earth, or launching the construction materials from earth for that matter. You would literally deliver enough power to overheat the planet that way.
The idea is that you mostly live in space habitats by that point, so a given solar array is just powering the habitat it’s attached to, or one nearby (or for one farther out, you can have some satellites that are just big, thin foil mirrors that focus sunlight from a wide area onto a solar array). You probably build these from asteroids and such, since again the energy cost to launch material from earth is prohibitive. A bit like how it would be cost prohibitive for a single city on an empty planet to engage in a project to colonize and build new farmland and cities across the entire world: they wouldn’t actively build with that goal in mind, so much as they expand a little bit, and a bit more with the surplus gained by that expansion as the population grows, until one day their descendants run out of empty land to expand to. A Dyson sphere is just the end state of this for a solar system rather than a planet.
It probably does take thousands of years, or more, and a corresponding level of effort, but that’s nothing compared to the life of a star, so if you have a species that’s got the technology to build a civilization in space, they have the time.
Why do you need a more powerful energy source, while you have a star going that’s gonna release free energy anyway? A Dyson swarm need not be a single project, it can be assembled gradually by just adding solar power arrays until there’s eventually no place left to put one.
Maybe the surprise is there to scare the shit out of the person using it.
Looks better than those canned cheeseburgers I guess
Is cane sugar actually any healthier than HFCS?
It was more like hyperbole on my part, I was using that as a catch all for whatever kinds of things a business could abuse it’s position by doing. I didn’t want to just say “be able to do businesses or not do business with whoever they want”, because I wanted to say something more broad than just applying to payment processors, even if choosing not to do business with someone and thereby shutting them out of much of the economy is the way a payment processor would do this .
I don’t think that businesses, not being individuals, should actually have the same rights as individuals I guess. I don’t really agree with the idea that a corporation should be able to do whatever it likes by default, simply because I think corporations in general have too much power to be trusted with such.
I mean, when your service is fundamental enough to the economy, and centralized enough to make just going to an alternative a major hassle, if an alternative without a similar policy even exists, then why should they get that say? The power to effectively ban the sale of certain types of thing, or force media platforms to censor certain types of content, is the sort of power we generally reserve for governments, not private entities that can do whatever they want. Honestly they’re important enough these days that they should basically be treated like some sort of public utility in my view.
Honestly, maybe slightly justified by the nature of the setting? The number of ships that seem to exist in universe, compared to the number of entire planets full of people to draw crew from, is so low that one must imagine that the entry requirements can be exceptionally high. One could also imagine better technology might imply better education technology as well as more refined techniques for using it.
They’re not, they’re saying that other people are going to do that, and that them doing so will create problems for unrelated jewish people long into the future.