What really gets me is we only seem to ever have this hand wringing when it’s a rich person that meets a gruesome end.

Imagine if this person had instead been an ordinary person that did something horrible. Imagine there’s a child molester or a serial killer barricaded in their home, the police outside. They fire a flash bang inside, this causes the house to catch fire, and the monster ends up being burned alive. Would people be here lamenting this fact? No, they wouldnt. It is only when the rich and powerful meet gruesome ends that we start moralizing about vigilante justice. When a monster that isn’t rich meets a gruesome end through extrajudicial violence, no one bats an eye.

Like Brother Dusk in the most recent episode of Foundation.

Trump the Consequential.

What really helped me visualize the problem of reentry was when it was explained in terms of kinetic energy vs enthalpy of evaporation. At orbital velocity, one kg of matter has more than enough kinetic energy to vaporize that kg of matter. Which means an object reentering will always have more than enough kinetic energy built up to vaporize it completely. All that kinetic energy has to be slowly bled off in a way that not only doesn’t vaporize it, but doesn’t even melt it. Or for human-rated craft, in a way that it doesn’t even get hot enough to hurt the delicate humans onboard.

What if I disassemble Cogsworth completely, set the parts out on a table, come back in ten years, and then put him back together?

Blahaj is good. But I prefer to make my own furniture out of solid hardwood.

In Beauty and the Beast, what would happen if you gradually and systematically replaced every piece in Cogsworth’s body?

Meanwhile, I just wish signal let you set server-specific nicknames.

Yeah. The truth is that six justices on SCOTUS have completely betrayed their oaths to the Constitution. They’re literally traitors to the Republic. In a just system they would be tried and hanged for their treason.

Thankfully some of the lower courts are wising up to this shit. The thing about shadow dockets is they aren’t actual rulings. They provide no legal guidance. So what some courts are doing is only applying them to the exact specific question they ruled on. If a party in the case submits a plea worded slightly differently than the one SCOTUS ruled on, the lower courts are perfectly free to ignore the SCOTUS shadow dockets ruling. Only actual written briefs carry any kind of weight of precedent.

The top 10% of the income ladder are already responsible for the majority of all consumer spending in the US. That concentration can simply continue as long as the consumption of the wealthy continues to grow along with wealth concentration.

We’re going to turn the world into Solaria. A handful of rich people living on vast robot-run estates selling goods and services to the wealthy owners of other estates.

I disagree. I would classify this as more of a branch than a stick.

The real scary thing about those rings is that they can’t actually be taken off. Wear them long enough, and the neck muscles atrophy to the point where you’re incapable of holding up your own head. Take the rings off and your head flops over like a wet noodle.

Dangerous and addictive technologies and substances are always regulated. There’s a reason we don’t let ten year olds buy vodka.

They should start drone striking the gas stations.

Exactly. Why not make them crit? It’s going to be up to the DM anyway to define what a “critical success” means on a skill check. There’s no hard rule like the extra damage that comes with crit successes on attacks. The DM gets to choose what a critical success on a skill check actually produces. The DM can easily just make sure the crit success isn’t game breaking.

Your players are in an audience with the king. The bard tries to be funny and tries to convince the king to give him his crown and hand the kingdom over to him. Actually making the bard the new king would break the game. But maybe a critical fail means the bard gets sent to the dungeon to be tortured for daring to make such a request. A critical success means the king will grant the bard one “wish,” ie, any reasonable single reasonable request that is within the king’s power.

The whole situation is fully in the DM’s power.

Republicans are satanic. We know this. But they’re beyond salvation and there’s no point in really considering them. They’re demons and will vote for evil at every turn.

Thankfully there aren’t enough Republican demons to actually win elections. They’re going to vote for maximum evil every election, but that hasn’t changed and will never change. They’re barely even human beings at this point; they’re mindless zombies brainwashed by conservative media. There’s no point focusing or considering them, as they’re a constant in any election. They will vote pro-demon every time. Bitching about Republicans is like bitching about literal Satan, the guy with the horns. Yeah, Satan’s evil. That’s his whole deal. Bitching about it won’t change anything.

The reason we focus on Democrats is that they’re the only side that actually can potentially do any good in the electoral system. I hold them responsible for willingly handing the country over to the devils. They decided they would rather hand the country over to the demons rather than adopt the policies their base actually wanted. They lost the election. The demons just kept doing what they’ll always do, be demonic. Complaining about Satan is completely pointless and unproductive.

Your attitude is actually one of the main reasons Democrats lost. Kamala and the DNC aren’t willing to completely write off Republicans, despite all evidence of their absolute irredeemable evil. And you’re here trying to pin the election on them, as if they’re not just an unchanging constant in our system. The DNC actually tried to reach out to them, as they, like yourself, believed that some redemption was actually possible among Republican voters. You’re still focusing on Republicans. In reality you should ignore them all together as they are completely beyond saving.

He lives in Florida. He’s a Southerner. At least in spirit if not by birth.

If we have a civil war, Biden will be remembered as a Buchanon, a man too corrupt and craven to do what was necessary to stand for justice and prevent a civil war.

It is extremely unethical to blame the voters for the sins of politicians. You don’t need to pander and carry water for corporate Dems. They’re not going to pick you. They knew exactly what they had to do to win the election, but they decided that they knew better than their voters. It is unamerican to blame the voters for the sins of their leaders.

We should legalize piracy on the high seas - but only if the pirates stick entirely to sailing vessels, weapons, and attire appropriate to the 17th century golden age of piracy. You can raid commercial shipping if you want, but you have to do it in a tiny wooden sailing boat, armed only with a swords and flintlock muskets. Also no radios or modern technology of any kind.