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No you're not. I think this conversation is done at this point, unless you can bring something fresh.

That might do it, if they really land on top of each other. OP said it was air molecules colliding with each other in the shock, though.

Everyone who's little-r rich claims to be middle/working class, and every private jet guy claims to have grown up middle/working class. I once had an expat from a poor country tell me average people back home have servants, which is mathematically impossible given servants are people too.

You see, they worked for and earned their money fair and square, unlike some other, slightly richer people. And then there's some that just straight up buy into "meritocracy", and think the African children are lazy.

They don't unless the board shakeup was bigger than I realise. OpenAI is a nonprofit, and could even shut down and destroy everything if they felt it advanced their mission. Microsoft could sue them, but would probably lose, because that's what the agreed to when they bought into the capped-profit subsidiary.

A chunk of file cabinet where my knee was falls to the floor. I fall to the ground, twisting my hip joint quite uncomfortably, possibly enough to pull something. I can't actually tell if my leg would be totally trapped, or if I could at least slide it out. If it's caught it's going to be a shitty wait for rescue.

I assume it's a switcharoo scenario. Otherwise where does the air in my new location go?

I mean, no. That's not enough energy to cause nuclear stuff. This guy tried sciencing, which I still respect in the context of a goofy scenario, I guess.

Hey, you don't even live here, how would you know the reality better than me?

Plus, you're not even presenting new information at this point, you're just repeating what you're arguing for.

Yeah, it's not great, but it's up to the nations (or at least should be) to determine who's one of their own. Imposing blood quantum is still not a great way to organise society.

Oh really? The plot thickens!

Really? I am young, but apparently she did stuff with Johnny Cash and was a recurring feature an Sesame Street (explaining native issues, which is what makes this especially egregious).

The evidence presented is pretty damning anyway. I question whether it even matters at this point, though, given that a sovereign first nation has claimed her.

I'm guessing you're young. She was kind of a big deal in past decades.

Okay, yeah, I'm familiar with the argument. I'm not alone in being unconvinced, though. There's a lot of exoplanets, including rocky ones around very old stars. Honestly, I felt assuming just a billion years of potential alien arrival was conservative.

There is also probability that milkyway had an active center in early days that kept things nice and sterile.

Fairly unrelated to this discussion, but I'll link it because it's cool: there's a detectable echo of radiation from our galaxy being more active just a couple centuries ago, at least momentarily.

I don't know enough about the radiation one of those galaxies produce to comment on whether it could be sterilising. A thick enough atmosphere can block pretty much anything, though.

Alberta has first past the post.

Yes, Alberta leans conservative. I of course can't prove it, but I expect if suddenly in an environment with a centerline much further to the right, it would lean left. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, I can cherry-pick morons off the internet too. That was an approximate "nobody", there are of course some voices at the fringe. I mostly agree with OP, I just thought that one bit was an odd take.

As for the rest, terrorist is a meaningless word for non-state actors we don't like. Hamas is not bad because they're terrorists, but because they're theocrats that want to eliminate the neighboring ethnic group. They are not alone.

No, I was pretty involved, so I'm sure about this. I was told 1309, to be exact, distributed across the close Calgary ridings.

In rural areas, it wasn't even close, so that drives up the UCP numbers quite a bit. People are crazy loyal to anything labeled "conservative" out in the boonies, it's not even a question of policy (which is why they'd vote Republican). Still, if you look at the popular vote numbers, 52.6% isn't exactly a landslide. The NDP were a hair from winning.

As for the far right, that stuff is brewing up in conservative parties all over the Western world. I seem to remember leaving bodies in dumps being the centerpoint of the Manitoba campaign, and the leading party federally is full of MPs that supported the trucker convoy. That's not an excuse, but I think it's a stretch to say that because people narrowly voted Danielle Smith in, they'd be okay not having government healthcare, which I can't imagine a Republican candidate would abide.

That's a little over the top. Or was that the point?

We don't have a prime minister. Our premier won by just 1300 (well-placed, it'd be more if they were outside of Calgary) votes in a province of 4 million. I rest my case.

Source? Like, sure, there probably wasn't enough heavy elements in the first few billion, but it only takes one planet to grow aliens, and aliens could colonise the whole galaxy in just a few million years, so you have to constrain things pretty tightly for us to be early at however many billion years in we are (the exact count is uncertain these days).