It's been made obsolete by flying guns
theneverfox
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Because it's misinfo to reduce people bringing food to the pool. Same with the pee indicator thing... Someone must've been on a crusade
But the cramps thing just isn't true. Light exercise like a walk or casually swimming is great
I mean...
Do you want to live in a world where there's brain chips, or one where one of the companies making brain chips is owned by Gabe?
This is so unimaginative.
There's one thing that has to happen, and the solar system opens up - manufacturing outside the gravity well. That's it.
Energy is cheap in space. The sun is right there, unfiltered. Raw materials are cheap in space - ice and metals are everywhere. Life is expensive in space
Automation makes it very easy. If you can make a robots that can maintain each other, and eventually manufacture parts, you can build mega structures given time
And we're getting very close to that. It's basically inevitable at this point... The question isn't if it's possible, it's if our species can loosen the chains of capitalism before we strangle ourselves for no reason
You can do that...I mean consuming less is great
But only one of these things meaningfully helps fix systematic problems, but they both make you feel like you're doing something meaningful
Why are you taking a Republican senator at his word?
They're lying. They don't know how this would actually play out, no one does
It doesn't matter what they say today... They're going to immediately push this as far as they can if it gets through. They operate in bad faith, every time
And maybe you're right and that's how it does play out... But this is a play that ends democracy if we lose.
And let me remind you, they literally just argued in the supreme Court to do basically what I'm describing
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying live your life and save your energy for where it would actually make a difference
Collective action works, voting with your wallet is a way to make people think they don't need to organize
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just live your life
Anyone with enough money to influence society already has enough money to influence society. Given them another $3 doesn't make you complicit
If they have problematic views but aren't pushing them on society... Well, no one is perfect.
Ultimately, voting with your wallet is a lie. Best sellers aren't the best books, they're the ones boosted by publishers and public figures. Just like the record industry - there's people who are literally choosing the winners and losers
What's the ultimate ethical implication of using ketchup at McDonald's vs buying a dipping sauce? There certainly is one, tiny as it might be. Use that energy to do good things, you'll make a far greater difference calling a senator than buying a lifetime of books
Or just sidestep it all and pirate it or check it out at a library
The bond is meant to pay for damages of the lawsuit if it goes forward
Can judges set it to $1? Maybe. Or maybe that's grounds to have a mistrial, or lodge a complaint against the judge. Maybe it becomes another step in every lawsuit against the government - where both parties try to get the judge to nail down a cash value
Or maybe, they can't. What is the process of doing this? When is appropriate to take a bond, and when is it not?
This administration will stretch the law as far as they can. Maybe the judiciary can win this fight, maybe the administration can use this as another shield.
This is entirely legal theory - it's not even law yet. No one knows how it would shake out. We have to read laws with the worst possible interpretation, because that's how the administration is going to play any card you give them
Yes yes, we're on the worst timeline. That's no excuse for mockery
I loved how he kept calling people up to congratulate for records, and he'd let them speak and they all said "I love my friends" and stepped down. You could see him taken aback, like he thought they were going to glaze him
It was also wild to see him start out giving a normal commencement speech... Then suddenly it was like the meds wore off, he froze for a second, and he just started doing his normal rants. And that was like a quarter of the way in
I cut a good part of the way through my thumb opening a can of beans