Just totally shut down land trade through the center of the continent? Wars have been fought over less lol

It looks just like the Tik Tok ban to me. Racist/Nationalist nonsense that doesn’t solve the actual underlying problem, which is lack of regulation in the US

“the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/

My empire for some real Jedi politics in mainline canon

I’m making an informed decision! It’s a bad decision, sure, but it’s an informed one!

That’s the republican playbook. Do everything you can to destroy the government, and then point at the rotting corpse that’s left as evidence that government doesn’t work

Cropping a farside comic to poorly remove the signature is a new level of shitpost lol

I don’t know what app they’re from, but I’ve definitely been sent videos that are the way you described

It’s this kind of “absolutism” that got us democracy in the first place

Lower Decks is my favorite Star Trek since DS9. When it came out though, I was super against it. Didn’t think Paramount had any right to be making fun of Star Trek after Discovery season 1. You can tell Lower Decks is made by people that love Star Trek though.

This last season, they did a classic Audience-with-the-Klingon-High-Council episode, and when I saw it, I exclaimed to my fiance, “Yes! I love Klingon bureaucracy episodes!” and then later in the episode, there was almost that exact same line

Strange New Worlds has been finding their feet too. We got a courtroom episode on Augment rights, that really felt Star Trek, and they’ve had some original stories as well that I’ve really loved, like Among the Lotus Eaters. There have been a couple episodes I haven’t been a fan of, but what Star Trek hasn’t had those?

If you’re open to it, I recommend giving both shows another chance!

Human rights are not “micro-things,” what the fuck? And “maybe if we let them build the camps, they’ll let us have healthcare,” is a wild take

It’s not just recent. MLK wrote about it in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail in 1963, and he referenced some considerably older sources as well:

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

And in another section:

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

Humans are really good at normalizing things. It takes a lot to push someone from theoretical opposition to direct action. It’s harder to get to that point for those not directly suffering the worst oppressions. Dr. King talks about that too.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

Launched in 1995, the brand takes its name from the original location of Costco’s corporate headquarters in Kirkland, Washington.

Give me a cup of Mek anyday

I don’t think regulators are a good example for something we have too many people doing, but otherwise, this is great

I reverse engineered this, by thinking about what I would do if I was in the Pokemon world, since whatever economic system Pokemon has means that 10 year olds can support themselves with hobby income while traveling the world, and basically every adult makes their living through their special interest. So now I’m working towards becoming a wetland ecologist, and it’s led to uncovering tons of nostalgic memories from field trips and stuff in elementary school

I read an article recently about how Yellowstone rangers are pretty good at dealing with traffic jams like this, because they happen so often in areas where there are bears

Technically it’s in the upper atmosphere 🤓

That just doesn’t exist. Probably the biggest obstacle to large-scale fediverse adoption at the moment is just that it requires a little more effort to sign up. Lots of people get turned off by picking an instance

I’d swap the sambuca for 50/50 Galliano and vodka (to match the proof), and keep the Kahlua. When you’re riffing close enough to keep part of the name, you should keep part of the drink.

Galliano is herbal and sharp like anissettes, but just different because of the herbs used, including significant vanilla notes, which should go with the Kahlua