Rhaedas

His ego seems to be hurt easily, but that won’t do much overall.

I mean, they’ll try. The one scene that comes to mind is Superman in handcuffs, then breaking them to prove he’s there of his own free will.

Yeah, I’m sure they noticed a difference. /s

I guess we need to take the power back. Someone should write a song.

We’ve approached the time where the meaning of laws is more of a guideline towards our own actions. A law without official enforcement is just words on paper.

The second strike was murder. But so was the first strike. Even if they were running drugs, this is not how you handle the situation. If the only solution is to blow it up, then you’re looking for a reason to shoot at things, and the second attack proves that.

This is no different than the police problem we have domestically, where shoot first, don’t bother asking questions later because they’re dead is too common.

But that won’t make the FBI better, it will just… oh right, it was never about that.

This time it wasn’t projections, but prediction.

I can’t fault her using it in any way to profit. She’s given us warning, we’re not listening, might as well ride this to the end and make some money doing it. While still warning us of what’s pretty damn obvious now.

John Connor: We’re not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean. The Terminator: It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.

Everything seems to be a surprise for this guy.

On a positive note: imagine how large scale and resilient the US economy is to not yet be nose first in the ground already. Don’t mistake me, it’s bad and heading that way, and lots of damage and people have been hurt, but even the bankruptcy king who can ruin businesses that run themselves couldn’t immediately tank it.

It’s like the bull ran through the china shop a few times, and while there’s debris on the floor, there’s still a lot that hasn’t been knocked down. Oh wait, here he comes through again…

No. Please stop.

Politics loves our short term memory. They just need the right timing of some media story or crisis and people forget everything before.

Good question. There must be some limit, otherwise you could use refiling as a loophole to keep extending the limitations forever.

David Kipping introduced me to the idea that the window of opportunity for intelligent life may be far smaller than we used to think. It’s a companion to the Rare Earth hypothesis of having so many variables that MIGHT need to exist to make things work, but assuming all conditions are good for what we consider hospitable, how long a planet has before the star changes and how soon basic life starts is not that long cosmically.

Simply put, new life after whatever this climate run stabilized to won’t have a billion years before the Sun begins to change. Not turn into a red giant or dwarf, those are far off still, but it will begin its path towards those long before the actual event, and conditions here will worsen for a teeming biosphere.

To quote “Hamilton”, life only gets probably one shot. Maybe two or three if it’s fast, but we can probably count a few of the mass extinctions that set things back for that.

Isn’t China doing better than the rest of the world in steering to renewables (which have their own issues)? The real problem isn’t what we’re burning, it’s the demand. It keeps going up, so even advances in better energy sources dwindle in their growth compared to the total need. But reducing demand is antithesis to a good economy, so we aren’t even considering that. Must tech out of this! (Not working so far)

If only it was just humanity, it would be fine. A dead end species. We’re taking everything with us, which is the real crime.

Welcome to the internet? Anonymity allows anyone to pretend to be anything, so they are more the carrier of a message than some authenticity based on a name. And where there is a market for a message, people will consume without regard for who said it, or even often without validating the message itself. Caveat emptor baby.

Maybe when younger he played it. I think at this point it’s on autopilot from what he used to understand (some things you don’t forget after doing it for so long), and it’s driven mainly by ego. Which those in power understand how to use by inflating and feeding to get what THEY want.