It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing. Fighting a “losing issue” is exactly how you persuade people you’re right about the issue. That’s called “leadership”.

I want these stories to be true, but nobody expected the previous election disasters, and people are stupid.

Symbols are easier than actual people. Nobody is just one thing, and complexity doesn’t travel well. Revolutionaries are either lionized or demonized, and so it becomes easier for the critics to ignore valid points while simultaneously being easier for the supporters to ignore atrocities. Rather than an objective, complete understanding of the man, you get polarized factions that don’t see each other as people.

The fuck is Grey Baby syndrome?

Despite some Republicans ostensibly trying to do the right thing, the effort failed because Fetterman is a piece of shit.

Ok but maybe was there a map to a treasure printed on the back of the hard drive?

I think we got a preview during Covid of just how selfish and lazy people can be. Stay home and wear a mask outside was far too much to ask of the American people. People murdered people over masking. Little piece of fabric over your nose and mouth, and only when you’re inside a store or public building. “No, I’d rather you be dead.”

When the water runs out and the air is toxic and the grocery shelves are bare, it’s going to be chaos.

I think the joke is that management thinks the jobs replaced will be the workers. But even CEOs work for the capital class.

We are going to avoid doing the hard things until the hard things are forced upon us. There’s too much profit in keeping things status quo, so any attempt to make the world a better place is met with the unified forces of unfettered capitalism.

Starting and ending every prompt and response with Sir probably doesn’t help.

There’s dozens of us

I agree, but without the linit, they own tens of thousands.

Corporations can still own up to 350 homes per investor group, and they can keep the ones they already own.

Right, but then it’s not really “without fuel.” It’s hopefully less fuel, and if you can run it on solar panels, it would be without resupply, but nuclear power could also provide long-term functionality. As always, the most fuel is spent getting things into orbit.

For me, the exciting bit is the magnetic radiation shielding. If we’re going to leave earth behind, radiation shielding is currently a significant missing piece of the puzzle.

Except right now, superconductors only work at very low temperatures, and keeping things at low temps in space requires energy.

Well, not that shocked.

Good that it’s being brought back, but this is exactly what conservatives count on to spackle over their own deficiencies.

Also, kicking down the door leaves evidence and usually require some sort of justification or approval. If they have a key to a backdoor, they don’t have to tell anyone they were inside, or ask for permission to use it.

Then this conversation isn’t about you. Many places have exceptions to minimum wage for tipped employees. That, plus tip-out policies means that serving a customer that doesn’t tip can actually cost the server money.

We’re talking about the problem of tipping culture and complaints about being expected to tip too much. If you live in a country that pays waitstaff well, then this conversation isn’t about you. You can self select based on context clues.