That is infuriating.
The 90s
It’s strange being old enough now to remember a world that not only younger generations believe did not exist, they deny that it could possibly have existed.
But what’s “impossible” now lived and breathed once. The marks of that era’s passing have like glaciers carved the landscape in which we now dwell, and the light and shadow of that time have imprinted on the future as if on film. Now we play out the end of that movie, with the actors therein not realizing they are on a stage built by others they deny were even real.
Golden
For my friends and allies, comity and grace.
For my enemies, the sword. Or space laser — whichever is more convenient.
Similarity
Why does it make progressives so angry that people are not all exactly the same? What is that all about? Seems absolutely insane to me. But I guess I don’t have that kind of brain damage.
Back Send
Send them all back; remigration now.
More Honest
If economics were a more honest profession, we could do a lot more to shelter people and the economy from the now-inevitable negative effects of AI. But it’s not so we won’t.
Same Day Service
Back in the 1990s, some 19-year-old girls I knew slept with three people on the same day. I’m not recommending that, but times are so very prudish now compared to then.
Deva
Zero.
Hamas and Gaza got what was coming to it. If I’d been Israel, there would’ve been nothing left. They were restrained compared to the devastation I would’ve brought.
What Against
That is substantially true. A lot of the US left isn’t for anything. It’s just against the US.
Taken
The problem is most normal people aren’t killers, even under duress. It’s just as likely that the gun gets taken away from her and then used against her. This is mostly a good thing — a society of killers looks more like Iran or “Palestine” than what we have in the US.
Another “hypothetical scenario” for you, one that was very close to a lived experience for me:.
Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks, bolstering origin-of-life theories.
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower.
The Bureaucracy Blocking the Chance at a Cure.
Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies.
Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student.
Taiwan’s bid to export drones free of Chinese parts is taking off.
Progressive Policies Are Inflationary.
The Fed Keeps Getting Hit With New Shocks in Its Yearslong Inflation Fight.
How Should We Remember the Hippies?
Social Security benefit cuts are coming — and they will hit current retirees hard.
This will result in the great disemboweling of white-collar jobs.
No All
Agreed that it was a deliberate test, and our so-called “allies” failed. We do not need that oil. In fact, our refineries cannot even process that type of crude. But they do need it. That they’d rather do what they think is spiting us rather than send some rickety-ass nearly-useless frigate to “help” is quite telling.
Sized Up
That’s about the size of it.
Vileness
I have alas seen far more violent things, but it was disgusting and utterly vile. I’m glad every one of the demons who did that to Shani Louk are dead now. The world will not miss them. If there is a hell, I hope they are in it.
Sinclair
It’s happening. And as I mentioned below economists will lie to you about that it will happen, lie to you while it’s occurring, and then for good measure lie to you after it’s done tossing you and everyone you know into the street.
It’s what they do because it’s exactly what they are paid to do.