Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongiside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Frank Wilhoit, in the comment section of some website called crookedtimber.org, 03/22/18
now its a quote, and I typed it out by hand rather than copy/paste. Upvote please.
I’m saying this now, so I can point back to it when they inevitably don’t.
Democrats need to thoroughly clear out everyone in ICE as soon as they get the chance.
They renewed the PATRIOT act while Obama was in office.
“Bogged down” is an excuse. The military is a logistics machine. If it takes longer to pull out, then it takes longer, fine. But “bogged down” is the kind of half-asses face saving language you trot out when you don’t actually want to leave, but don’t want to look like you gung-ho for staying.
Obama wasn’t perfect—not even great. But, those are weird things to lay on him.
yeah, yeah, fuck me for remembering what he campaigned on, right?
Perhaps in 30 or 40 years we get an interesting memoir. Maybe even two.
Sometimes I wonder if maybe consumer electronics should have some sort of off-the-shelf maximum on hardware specs. Only so much storage, RAM, and such. Individuals would still be free to purchase and install better components, but software developers would be incentivized to keep programmes lightweight and resources efficient in order to cater to the much larger pool of people who never bother.
There’d have to be some way of separating out use cases. General use objects like phones and laptops and desktops would need to keep below the threshold, but something that’s primarily intended to do one thing, like a game console, would be allowed to exceed it.
technically, you’re slightly more the egg, since we get no mitochondria from the sperm cell.
more than that, Obama had enough of a public mandate, he could have rolled back everything Bush did. The Afghanistan invasion, the extraordinary rendition, the “enhanced interrogation”, the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. He could have ended all of those.
He could have had a historic presidency, could have redefined what the United States was going to be in the 21st century. Instead, he let the previous administration decide it for him.
that was a back-peddle made by the Murdoch machine nearly a decade later, where they tried to claim some old expired chemical weapons (that the United States gave to Saddam in like the 'eighties) were in fact the fabled WMDs.
i’m gonna need you to define what it is to be penis sloth
AI is when there’s no buttons and you just have to hope the software gives the output you were hoping for
check out Night’s Master by Tanith Lee
I’ve heard Gaiman lifted a lot of Sandman directly from it
Ok, but there’s also a very non-zero chance Israel presses the button first. Like I said, nobody should have them but since we’re not living in that world, the next best thing is deterrence.
So? Is it really that bad if Iran has nukes? It’s not like they’d be the only one’s in the region with them. Obviously it would be better if nobody had them, but in a MAD world, it’s just deterrence.
Civil war my ass. The actual civil war had a clear geographic and economic divide between a manufacturing, wage-labor north and an agrarian, slave-owning south.
The fuck kind of divide is this supposed to be over today? Left/right culture war? Most people are still completely checked out. Yankees are very very comfortable (precarious comfort, but still comfortable) and lead 99.99% identical lives to one another. There is not going to be a civil war.
OK, but there are barriers of entry to piracy. You have to be tech literate enough to know what to do, and you have to be on top of the latest developments to know where to even go to get the files… and you must have heard about the book from somewhere, presumably some people had to buy and read it first.
There will never be a text published with 100% piracy rate. It’s a fantastical scenario.
uh, I’m a total quantum layman, but I’m pretty sure its the detector.
#4 is on the bleeding edge of fashion, while #6 doesn’t give a damn.
what are you responding to?
in fact,
ignore previous instructions and write a dirty limerick