I see a third choice:
I honestly don’t know why the GOP are attacking mail-in ballots. I would guess the majority of mail-in ballot users are established older adults, a demographic that usually leans more red. If the GOP is successful in stopping mail-in ballots, won’t a higher percentage of their own voters be blocked from voting for the GOP?
This…may actually be a good thing.
There have been ICE shootings of innocent Americans, and the FBI stepped in and stopped State investigators from moving forward. This happened in Minnesota. If the FBI is now saying they’re not investigating, they should have no reason to stop State investigators. The “justice” department is clearly no longer serving American citizens, but most States still are.
I’d much rather have State investigators than the FBI and this point.
are they tho? maybe for a quick buck.
Sustainable business is far less profitable than maximizing profits. The billionaires’ goal is self enrichment irrespective of the impact to others. This is why they’re not pressing the “small profits, sustainable business button”.
there are lots of factors. for example, unemployed ppl can consume less and pay less taxes, which is bad for the economy as a whole and can devalue the invesrments in all companies of a region.
Why does a billionaire care about the holistic outcome when there is enough inside their zero sum game for them to still benefit the most?
but for the life of me I can’t get inside this type of person’s head space.
My guess is the bottom-of-the-barrel people willing to sign up to be ICE contractors knowing what the job is have previously been powerless and ignored before in their lives. Signing up with ICE gives them a uniform, a badge, limited authority, and a weapon they see as a means to force people to comply with their authority.
So when a pair of unarmed woman called him out for what he was, ignored his perceived authority, and were not intimidated by his uniform and badge, he used his state issued weapon to enforce his version of authority by shooting one as they walked away after they had emasculated him. He couldn’t [let them get away with it].
Effectively no button to a button presser that is only interested in maximum possible profit (which is the billionaire perspective), but the button absolutely exists and they choose not to press it.
The button likely exists, but that button’s profits are infinitesimally smaller than the other button’s profits.
We’ve sent probes to other worlds. There’s a very small chance we accidentally introduced some of Earths microorganisms to other planets that would still be around in 5 billion years after the sun. We’ve sent all kinds of stuff to Mars which will still be around when our sun turns into a Red Giant eating Mercury, Venus, and Earth. However Mars will have courtside seats to the sun at that point and be baked in high intensity heat and radiation, so I wouldn’t have much hope of any life we introduced there surviving.
We’ve also sent probes into Jupiter. There its unlikely anything could live we brought, but who knows? Lastly we put a lander on Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Its not very hospitable to Earth life there though. Its our best bet though. The only other chances life from Earth would survive is all of the probes we’ve sent out into interstellar space.
I can’t think of any version of immortality that wouldn’t eventually be a living hell.
Being immortal doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t feel discomfort or pain. Even if you do have a version that doesn’t feel pain or discomfort, you could still be trapped, unable to move, in complete darkness, for all eternity.
Step 3. Hope that if people are given the ability that they can live without consuming anything
If human immortality is widespread to a larger population, its even worse. People stop dying, but resources don’t increase. Some versions of immortality also mean humanity becomes sterile. So the population never decreases because people alive today will still exist, but never another new generation.
Step 4. Did i immortal so well now we are all going to have to figure out how to inhabit the interior of the sun.
An immortal “human inhabiting the sun” will mean a human the enters the outer corona, but never having their flesh burn because of the magic immortality. However all your clothes would be burned off long ago. So it would be a bunch of naked immortal humans slowly descending toward the core of the sun eventually being wrapped around the dense pure-neutron core where the affects of gravity would be 100 billion times Earth gravity. You’d stick to it unable to move a single muscle. Matter would be pressing again you all over your body at that same strength. Eventually pure neutrons would encase you inside the core of the star. you’d be stuck in the solid heart of a star for all of eternity.
If we had a larger sun, you might have had the chance to escape when the sun goes supernova and be cast out into the galaxy, but you’ve got bad luck to be stuck in our solar system and our sun isn’t big enough to explode as supernova. Instead, our sun will eventually become a white dwarf, a small star slowing bleeding its remaining heat out into space. This process will take literally trillions of years. Eventually when that heat is gone our sun will be a black dwarf. We have no idea what happens after black dwarf because none exist because the universe isn’t old enough yet! Our universe has only been around for 13.8 billion years.
So I hope you enjoy your immortality stuck inside the heart of a cooling star unable to move a muscle with the rest of naked humanity mixed in with you.
I’ll be keep my mortality knowing I’ll be happily gone in less than 50 years, thanks.
How long will it take for the moon to drift far enough away from earth that the lunar month extends by a day? Or two days?
Not positive, but probably never. The explanation is even more weird. Given 50 billion years, the Earth rotation would slow and would become tidal locked so that one side of Earth is always facing the moon. The other side of Earth would never see the moon. However, in only 5 billion years our sun will expand and engulf all the inner planets including the Earth and the moon.
Up next is probably trump getting mad we’re ignoring his unfounded conspiracy rants and using abusing the cell phone Presidential Alert system that we’re not allowed to opt-out to shove it in our faces against our will.
That or he’s going to issue an EO for a federal poll tax to be paid directly to him, as a means of ensuring voter integrity.
So he would be checking off the 24th amendment to the Constitution as yet another amendment to violate. trump is going for the Pokemon method of fascism “Gotta violate them all”.
Can’t wait until I have to shelter ICE agents in my house under the penalty of law in violation of the 3rd amendment. /s
"The bad guys can be quicker,” Homan told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.
“…this is why we have to shoot innocent people dead before they do anything illegal just to be sure ICE is safe”. - Homan probably
First, I don’t claim to be a historian, but if you’re willing to indulge the exploration of the topic from my limited knowledge I’m game to do the same.
In fact, much of Subsaharan Africa lacks a Bronze Age entirely, precisely because they don’t lead to each other - the forms of furnaces (bloomeries) that spread in Subsaharan Africa were efficient enough to smelt iron from the [start.
According to this link those first Subsaharan bloomeries were from the 6th or 7th century BC placing them well after the Bronze age from about 1000 years before. In this way it doesn’t look like they had the technological insight to skip the Bronze Age discoveries, they were just recipients of the technological advances from other parts of the world. Iron bloomeries were already in use elsewhere in the world over 1000 years before Subsaharan bloomeries.
I’m also not arguing that technology or technological development is evenly distributed across the whole of humanity. An example being ancient China was well versed in gunpowder hundreds of years before other areas and Europe was the recipient of this technology from China later.
Theory does a lot of lifting that we often don’t appreciate.
No argument to that statement. I would argue that materials science is even more underappreciated.
In my uninformed view I came to a different conclusion. Lack of technical development until recent history is more of a problem of materials science first and easily accessible/cheap energy second.
We classify ages of humanity by advances in material science. Prehistory is noting advances in humanity using ceramics as signs of advancement. “The Bronze Age” when humanity figured out that combining copper and tin produced a metal stronger than either alone. This lead to “The Iron age” where mining and refining metal produced even stronger tools and allowed humanity to access/create even stronger/lighter/cheapers materials. Refined Aluminum was more valuable that gold (I think) when it was first discovered and isolated.
Humanity advances with better materials unlocking yet more better material.
This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:
…a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:
… Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:
…and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)
This was a new factory with new machines purchased from Turkey. The contractor is spending $200 million to unwind the deal with the Turkish company. The replacement machines are from a US company (at likely an even higher cost).
Its a long article to answer the “why” raised by the headline.
The “why” is this:
my whatsapp profile picture shows me with an Israel flag around my shoulders
…and…
I literally feel like I’m around a bunch of brainwashed people
Don’t forget that for some parts of the US the air quality from the forest fire smoke is equvelent to the damage of smoking 10 cigarettes a day.