See, we knew we were vulnerable to cyberattack from hostile foreign countries.

“they just charged Minnesotan Xcel customers the costs of getting it back online and supplying overpriced fuel to them.”

I’m still pissed about this, my bill, in the winter went from ~$350 to almost $600/month

Colorado also got to help pay for this fiasco. Probably anywhere that is serviced by Xcel got to contribute.

We just are so much better than this.

I can’t even tell whether this is satire.

You write really well - clear and simple but engaging. You should write a book about a dystopian future and AI etc

My father always believed that no system was good for more than 50 years. And this is a problem. One side is offering a Pre-industrialized solution to our problems, which is obviously not going to work. The other is offering a 100 year old solution to our problems, which has become corrupt and out-dated.

To me, it is clear that the future will have two major classes.

Most challenging is that the blue wave has to come to the Senate, which was intentionally designed to give small, rural, conservative populations outsized power. The current hyper-narrow 51-49 seat split is more like a 58%-42% population split. Been a while since I saw the numbers, but I think the Dems getting 60+…

The problem isn’t price inflation, it’s wage inflation. But,this isn’t reported correctly.

There are a lot of angry and paranoid people out there, and Fox News has been telling them the big bad gummint is coming for them at every opportunity. Yes. Them. Personally. The Dems are coming for you, Tim and Pam. Honestly, it is amazing the numbers are actually this low.

THIS. All the stars. They don’t NEED no stinking drones with cameras - we WILLINGLY give them what they want. 

You’d be surprised how small surveillance equipment is these days. That said, everything else in your post is absolutely spot on.

Careful now, starting next year, they will be the preferred class. They will be hired into DHS to work as migrant bounty hunters. And if they kill anyone, Trump will pardon them. They can be victims of authoritarianism, too. But for a while, they will be the strong arm of the autocrat.

So I didn’t imagine it, but it was just a hypothetical scenario.

Yes, Biden didn’t have his shit together during the debate. I honestly believe he stood there with his mouth agape because he couldn’t fathom how such a torrent of lies kept coming out of American Hitler’s mouth.

Maybe; I’m not that good with orbital mechanics. ;-) I know the calculations get tricky because there are a lot of resonances with the major planets you have to deal with at that point, and also they’re light and brightly painted so they are sensitive to perturbation by solar pressure. Over large timescales, they’re…

I’m afraid you will have to get used to more than one person answering the same question Try not to take it personally. It just means he didn’t see your answer before he posted his.

I am somehow not surprised that the Swiss permitting system has holes in it.

There’s always someone to criticize someone doing a nice thing.