...as Right-Wing Idiots Lose Their Minds

So you’re fine with your boss walking into your house and stealing your stuff, huh? NBD?

Not really. That’s just as potentially lethal. At least you can run and hide from the Taliban. 107f in the shade, with nowhere to go? The human body can only take so much of that before you brain starts baking inside your skull. To be clear, that’s when people start dying.

It’s often the same reason why many regulations get instituted, too. Especially those regulations that impede or otherwise reduce business profits.

The towers serve a much smaller area and require lots of additional infrastructure. There’s a reason why the world isn’t criss-crossed with hundreds of wirelines to support global telecommunications -- it’s far, far more expensive.

Pretty much. The whole reason societies have laws is because most people *WON’T* do the right thing reliably. They have to be coerced into it, often by force, and punished harshly when they don’t...and if they get away with it, it just encourages them, others like them, to do it more often.

Superficially, I *might* just barely get why Republicans might oppose mandating masks and vaccines — you shouldn’t have to mandate doing the right thing. People should be doing that voluntarily, by default.

Raging Racist Rednecks — also known as the average American, or simply ‘Merican! Probably armed. Extremely stupid and hostile. Often members or associates of ‘law’ enforcement. Do not approach, use extreme caution.

Either because Bezos is completely out of his depth and the people he hired to oversee building the BO team suck at their jobs (most likely scenario, because of where many of them came from), or because Bezos has lost the edge he used to build Amazon and is utterly useless for anything more than the stereotypical…

Blue Origin can’t even get a single first-generation orbital rocket together. And they want to ‘compete’ with a company now developing its fully reusable, 4th generation orbital rocket, and it’s 2nd generation heavy lift platform.

Yeah...not likely. Military contractors aren’t known for paying the *employees* well. Just the shareholders and executives.

So, in response to a single incident on an aircraft, which has the provably safest track record of all forms of transportation, he chooses driving, one of the least safe ways to travel??

“Do you want to use your tools to catch bad guys?”

There are other options, though they’re more costly.

Mmm...nuke plants do need a decent sized initial pool of water when they get built, but once operational, that water supply is self-contained.

And that can’t include power from hydroelectric in a state that’s really bad at managing what water resources it does have, while in the midst of a what will likely become a super-drought region for the foreseeable future.

I understand it’s been optioned (even though I’ve not heard anything about it going anywhere so far), but the Cold Fire trilogy is fantastic, all around. Characters, writing, dialog, story, plotting and pacing. All top notch. Fingers crossed that it translates into an equally awesome series.

I understand it’s been optioned (even though I’ve not heard anything about it going anywhere so far), but the Cold…

I know why it isn’t one (because wolves guard the sheep), but lies like this, ones specifically targeted at a given demographic, needs to be a federal hate crime. But not just those kinds of lies, but pretty much all lies in politics need more punitive attention. Politicians and their appointees and staff really need…

Oh, it had a ‘plan’ going in. There was no plan for the follow through, however...which wouldn’t have mattered if the withdrawal had happened about, oh, twenty years ago.

That would matter if there was any expectation of the Afghan military of being able to hold the country. That expectation was *ZERO*. Every advisor and intelligence analyst was saying the Taliban was going to take over the country again. The only question was how long it would take. Which meant everyone knew, even…