SwampYankee @ SwampYankee @mander.xyz

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But it isn’t exactly a cut and dry case to everyone why an old demented goon is any better than a shitty asshole businessman.

You know, I hear you on this one, and I agree we should be understanding of people who vote one way or the other - but that doesn't mean we should tolerate it. Often when I've had conversations with Trump voters, a lot of their opinions are based on ignorance or distortions of the truth, and it's because they've been sucked into a media ecosystem that is purpose-built to feed those distortions to them. A lot of them are working class folks who want to see Trump stick up for the working class and I'm over here like "why would he ever fucking do that have you ever listened to the guy talk what the fuck?" But it simply isn't obvious to a lot of people. I've tried a lot of different approaches with varying levels of success, but I think the most important things are to be open to difficult conversations, to know what you believe and why, and to hold your ground, with a smile of course.

How does one escort these people out of the “conservative” label exactly?

See Al Franken, Anthony Weiner, Andrew Cuomo... It's pretty easy to kick people out of your party if the will is there.

Conservative outlets often do the same with us, by the way. They lump people that simply want equality with the crazies that want to destroy Christianity and put Caucasians in a subjugatory position in society. Yes these people exist, even if they are currently inconsequential.

The right wing crazies are in Congress.

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SHIP DISAPPEAR ?

WATER MOUNTAINS

Check out Affinity Photo. Doesn't do everything Photoshop does, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper and lighter.

I'm sure you'll be able to eventually... just wait for the appropriate expansion & a sale.

I can't say I particularly disagree, however I think you're overestimating the moral character of states in general. If US hegemony erodes over a "century or so" I think that is a manageable course of events rife with opportunities for building a better world, as you say. If, on the other hand, the US were to suddenly become incapable or unwilling to fill its role as global hegemon, the resulting power vacuum would undoubtedly effect chaos.

I hope for a graceful retreat from imperialism into some sort of international socialist utopia... but history isn't exactly reassuring.

If US hegemony ended today, it would mean immediate war between Saudi Arabia & Iran, China & Japan/South Korea, Russia & the former Soviet states, and probably China & India eventually. The US is far and away the most powerful military in the world, and without the threat of the US military intervening on behalf of its allies, those conflicts are nowhere near as one-sided as they are today.

For example, see what happened as the Ottoman Empire & European colonial empires collapsed at the beginning of the 20th century. Then scale that up from a 2.3 billion global population to 8 billion.

Whatever you want to say about the crimes against humanity committed in the maintenance of US hegemony, I will agree with you, but that doesn't mean for a second that the alternative is better. Be careful what you wish for and all that.

If you're talking about the announcement trailer, it's not gameplay footage.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-donald-trump-drone-strikes-far-exceed-obama-s-numbers

Congress? No need.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-donald-trump-drone-strikes-far-exceed-obama-s-numbers

Also 8% of US agricultural output by dollar value. Let's not forget that we need conservatives as much as they need us.

Which of the 5 women are you talking about?

Chris, top her.

What happens if I say yes?

Edit - apparently nothing at all

A very cool vision, but people would still have to live and grow food somewhere, and generate absurd amounts of energy. Assuming we can do vertical hydroponics and cold fusion, the centers of human civilization could be massive, but isolated and surrounded by unspoiled nature.

The question, then, is what stops people from multiplying endlessly and covering the planet in fusion-fueled mega-structures?

To be even fairerer, the body of water that gets pumped doesn't need to be dammed; if you have a steady enough river, you can suck the water right out of the side of it. Also, the basin isn't a prerequisite, you could build holding tanks at the top of a hill.

Hell, you could enclose the whole thing to control evaporation and use the same water over and over, no natural body of water necessary. Better yet, use a denser fluid to achieve the same result in a smaller space. You could probably fit the whole thing in a single building.

There's also compressed air and flywheels for energy storage.

No, he's describing a pumped storage facility.

The right sure seems convinced we're hurtling leftward with communist dictators like Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden leading the charge with the tenacity of the Bolsheviks of yore. I'm guessing the reality is somewhere in between that and perennial fecklessness.

Other than google itself, why would any website want to do such a thing? Is the idea that google is trying to bring users to chrome, by blocking google services on other browsers?

Sounds like an open and shut anti-trust case if any governments care to pursue it.