Thanks. I couldn’t figure out how to say that without sounding like an asshole. You managed it flawlessly.

I wish I could disagree with this analysis of the current state of our punishment system.

I agree with that view, but you just kinda picked rabid collectivism, over rabid individualism. You seem to have missed the forest for the trees. Yes, if we are all prospering then you will be prospering as well is literally collectivism distilled into its base form.

Protesters at the courthouse have that portion covered with banners

That appears to be a Macintosh 128K and I can confirm that the one my dad got in 1984 still functions. It’s not really useful for much these days, but it does work, and you can play Math Blasters, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and it even has a monochrome paint program.

Chinese ships, Russian crews, All Registered In Ireland!

American components, Russian components, All Made In Taiwan!

Rabid self interest, and collectivism are kinda mutually exclusive…

Them and Sweden. Sweden used to be kinda ambivalent about the whole thing cause they have SAAB

If the search was, in fact, improperly conducted, it then would be an illegal search and seizure. At that point all evidence obtained by the search is inadmissible in court. They may have just torpedoed their case just with the search alone.

The documentary is a whole other legal can of worms that I am in no way qualified to even begin to analyze.

Some Lemming has put a United Federation of Planets flag on their pole. They did say that they weren’t able to find an outdoor version of the flag so they have to replace it once a year.

That’s still too late. As a post yesterday pointed out. Doge is the result of Homestar Runner being somewhat illiterate.

In English “they” is neutral. It’s also both singular and plural.

Do not give tents directly to people in Fremont, near San Francisco. Give them to the charitable organizations, or you may face fines and arrest. The Fremont City Council has decided that homeless people aren’t people, don’t deserve help, and it is a crime to try to help them with any camping supplies.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fremont-homeless-ban-controversy-20163355.php

Out here in San Diego, The Coronado Bay Bridge still has the toll booths from the 1960s. In the early 1990s they finished paying for the bridge, and lifetime maintenance, and haven’t collected a toll since.

When I first started DMing as a kid, my dad told me the best thing I could do to prepare was just know the whole world. He then told me about an adventure he was running where the players, for literally no reason, started digging in the middle of a tunnel. There was a whole dungeon set up for them ready to explore, and they went 50’ into the tunnel and started digging their own tunnel.

We were the first modern democracy. No one did the math on how FPTP works until over 50 years after the country was founded, and by then it had already produced our two party system. IIRC, they did the math to determine if the US was a fluke, or if that was the natural conclusion of FPTP voting.

I believe Tywin Lannister had something to say about that

Wish I could. Only reason I know about it, is that it was mentioned briefly in the Navy Nuclear Power Program training materials.

No, but some guy proved that we could use that to our advantage. If you don’t use the magnetic constrictors to compensate for the heat from the fusion expanding the vessel, you can have it enter fusion and leave fusion several times a second. Wrap the thing in copper wire coils, and you have now got your vessel in a state of flux, and producing enough power to blackout your local grid, and get lots of fines from the feds in less than 5 seconds of runtime. He obviously didn’t continue working on that particular method of generating power with a Tokomak