And that is why there’s a war in Ukraine and Putin is still in power. If you can’t criticize your government without risking your freedom or your life, you don’t have a government.

After decades of making excuses for not wearing a condom, the average male is going to continue making excuses for not taking a pill. They put all the burden of birthcontrol on the woman while expecting sex from her on demand, go out the way to make access to birthcontrol as difficult for her as possible, then shit…

There also needs to be a change to the way politicians get elected. It’s too much about currying the favor of the wealthy, too much about working at *staying* elected and not about doing a good job. Of course, all of that requires constitutionally codifying and enshrining VOTING RIGHTS...

And now I want to see an Obi-wan skit of him and a door in a battle of wills, ala Fitz vs Automatic Door at the Hub (Agents of Shield).

There are problems with this — internal tools are often crude, and link to 3rd party, proprietary libraries and tools (a very common one is SpeedTree, for example), so there’s limits on what they *CAN* provide access to, and the added development time to streamline and refine the internal tools into something…

To the tyrants, equality is tyranny. And make no mistake, these oppressive, racist white ‘leaders’ are tyrants.

5 things? You mean other than the fact that she’s far more qualified than basically any judge Republicans have nominated over the last, oh, 30+ years?

Publishing’s biggest problem is the 10-ton dinosaur executive structure crushing flat and bleeding it dry. It used to have the kind of market to support that kind of nonsense, but it doesn’t anymore. The volume of sales are waaaay down and won’t be coming back up, and the operational and production cost for the…

Meanwhile, most world leaders are all

Automated systems with no recourse, transparency, or accountability are bad?

It threw out more Democrat votes than Republican votes. In Texas, that’s ‘working as intended.’

Lest we forget, 70+ million horrible Americans thought their horrible president did such a great job that they wanted him to do it for another 4 years, and tried to start a revolution when they didn’t get what they wanted. Like it or not, this flaming pile of racist, white garbage is “America.”

I’d wager he has a “Rather be a Russian than a Democrat” sticker or poster somewhere in his possession, so I’d say he’d be getting exactly what he asked for.

Yeah, I took it as a sort of big middle-finger to conservatives. “F*** you, assholes. You aren’t the future. You’re our shitty, destructive past.”

White people, using laws they wrote specifically to allow them to seize things they didn’t own or earn, once again legally steal from poor and/or not-white people (bonus points if it’s both). It’s the ‘Merican way. But America isn’t racist or anything. No, sir. Not one bit.

And this is as close as SLS will come to launching before Starship touches down on Mars.

Not that it isn’t a valid concern, but aren’t many of these people from the ‘covid is no big deal’ camp? I mean, them delaying a trial over covid-19 would be highly hypocritical...

As opposed to the other ‘heartland’ diseases with symptoms that include but not limited to ignorance, arrogance, flippancy, hostility to facts and truth, violent outbursts, obsession with firearms and religions, hypocrisy, and an unrelenting desire to spread disease.

*ahem*

Agreed, but I can’t help but imagining the next generation of space telescopes launched from a rocket with Starship-level (or better) capabilities. 6.5 meter aperture? Pssshhhh...how ‘bout 65-meter aperture? We can do it!