Grew up there, I think I would have gotten over it if the fuckers didn’t try to follow me and destroy the rest of the country.

And if you try to explain why they’re so incredibly stupid, for instance, because their diet doesn’t offer enough Niacin (Pellagra), or because they have a catastrophic hookworm infestation that causes developmental damage, they try to murder your scientists for ‘insulting muh southern heritage!’, instead of just adding supplements to their flour and wearing slippers outside.

Pike is the ultimate Starfleet captain, which is crazy.

TNG’s chemistry was all over the place for the first 3 seasons, after TBOTW they locked it down perfectly, Enterprise’s too actually. DS9 nailed the chemistry best till SNW imho, LD too I guess.

I don’t think that’s the game being played now, the new meta is forcing your enemy to be so busy tearing themselves apart that you are free to act anywhere in the world.

If Russia wins in Ukraine, then the Sino-Russian axis can start taking a more active stance in the middle-east, and Israel has to deal with Iran without a blank cheque from the US, and even Saudi Arabia has to make compromises.

It’s in all their interests that the US fall to utter chaos, and Trump is the Lord of Chaos incarnate.

The argument against that is that Iran actually had a chance under Obama to rejoin parts of the global order, and was open to that.

I think one mistake we all make in geopolitics is to see countries as monolithic, I suspect Iran has political factions that want to bury the hatchet, and factions violently opposed to the same, much like every country has different opinions among themselves.

… Why?

I get that Trump was a worse person to deal with, but they were probably still better off with him, he was so erratic the rest of the world edged away from us.

Because China executes at a rate 100x the US, that we know of, believed to be 1000x.

No person, no prisoner. --Stalin

Also, Tibet and Xinjiang.

2 things:

1. It’s more the determinacy, a GC randomly fires up and your systems stops for some long amount of time. There are pauseless GCs but that’s a different nightmare.

2. The kernel has things similar to GCs. They’re used for more specialized tasks, and some (like rcu) are absolute nightmares that have take decades to get working.

Babylon 5: paved the way for real serialized arcs like lost and everything else we have now. Groundbreaking. Gave us Mollari.

Farscape: Watching a human kick ass and go mad in space. Never get off the boat, man, never get off the boat!!!

Snw is personally amazing, it’s an attempt to rebirth trek from scratch. It’s not ds9 or the best of tng, but pike really nails it so you don’t care.

Picard season 3 is solid, especially the first half, otherwise don’t bother with s1 and s2.

Trump’s coin dropped already.

Same.

I used the pine book pro for a bit, it was completely viable as a wifi terminal.

But the pinephone is still just more of a cute toy

No, they have many other plans, mostly to try to create legal arguments at the last minute for why the election should happen but was illegitimate.

Basically 2020 on steroids because they have the money for lawyers already.

But also, there’s hope this is trumps last hurrah, and after this the party will magically go back to only caring about tax cuts and gun rights, like this was all a bad dream.

I think you massively underestimate how hard paleoconservatives are trying to delusionally rationalize their way out of this so they can both get the votes of the racist, violent dixiecrats, while always pretending they aren’t actually a part of the party.

They just want to get back to that again.

Because boomers are on Medicare, and they believe in their principles that socialized medicine via the government is absolute evil!!!

They’re not obscenely high, they’re obscenely high for our lifetimes, I grew up in the 80s and these are adorable.

But I actually agree with you, our economy has a lot of really f-d up things because we lived on free money so long, we needed to wean slower because otherwise really, REALLY bad things were going to happen (SVB was the tip of the iceberg).

It won’t become a civil war.

But what it absolutely will become is a bargaining chip: ‘yes we lost but give us this or we provoke actual violence’, etc, ad nauseum.

We’ll need ‘demonstrations’ for this to reach maximum effectiveness, so they’ll arrange them.

He was a massive idiot, he personally decided agriculture was being eaten by birds, so he demanded every peasant kill a quota of birds.

They did, and were immediately hit by the largest locust infestation in modern history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign

He killed 50 million Chinese purely because he was an epic moron with an incredible ego.

14% admit it.

Closer to 40%, probably more.

The south started the Civil War because they lost an election, they’re not that far different now.

The problem with the 2nd amendment isn’t that it wasn’t updated, it’s that it was.

The 14th amendment incorporated the other amendments such that they did not only restrict the power of the federal government upon the states and citizens, as the founders intended, but also restricted the states (so you couldn’t have southern states being evil to their citizens).

But the 2nd amendment was incorporated radically under Heller, when it should have been incorporated in a more moderate way, such that regulations were possible, within reason, not the wild-west that Heller imposed.

The 13th should have been reinterpreted by the courts such that many of our current forms of incarcerated service were considered beyond the line and became de facto slavery, particularly when imposed by southern states as they were.

Honestly the fundamental problem with post-bellum American jurisprudence was giving southern states any benefit of the doubt of being remotely human when they repeatedly violated every such standard.