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What else would they be trying to preserve? Notice they never tried to preserve strong unions, or high taxes for the rich.

Moving around in "peaceful" should be ok as a playground for learning the controls.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

If they have red lines this needs to be it. If they allow the Republican Party to send people to a concentration camp without due process, especially when they claim they can't get people back, the Supreme Court might as well fire themselves and lock the doors on the way out.

Don't both GNOME and KDE send sigterm first on shutdown?

Not if they think they have enough of a cult following to pull an Apple.

And centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.

"The Last Ringbearer" intensifies.

Putin is in the year 3 of a 3 day invasion, and became a vassal of China in the process.

Trump singlehandedly destroyed American hegemony, removing the tool he would need the most to deliver what the donor class wanted and he keeps losing games of chicken with basically the entire world. And I'm pretty sure Biden would've done lots of things differently if he could travel back in time even a few hours.

If they have time machines they are the most incompetent people on the planet.

Does our world sound like a world where any President of the US and/or Russia had access to time travel?

For $666 they could afford to ship a SD Card and an USB card reader.

The thing is that they didn't. If I understood the Supreme Court decision, what they did was saying that official actions of the head of state have to be tried by the legislature and not the courts, which is a common arrangement in other countries. The Congress is the one writing blank checks by refusing to impeach and convict Presidents based on party politics.

It's basically the same thing as gambling but with less regulations and social stigma. It's not going to get better if no one does anything - and it's not going to be the unregulated casinos cosplaying as gaming studios that will do it.

Oligarchy is too subtle for what they want. At least Musk is pretty forthcoming on his plans to create a techo-feudalist regime.

The US kidnapped people in broad daylight in the middle of Europe and negotiates the release of prisoners with dictatorships on a regular basis. So there's a wide range of options with precedents.

Did that ever stop the US when the government wanted to drag someone to the US?

It should be forbidden to even refer to it as buying (I think some places already have laws for that), and they should also be forced to put a big disclaimer every time stating the game might become unavailable at any moment if it has things like DRM or core online functions.

That sounds a very reactionary way to see Vulcan/Ni'Var on DIS.

Vulcan changed it wasn't destroyed. And it's implied that this change was what saved the outward facing outlook of their civilization - the romulan component of population becomes the more pro-federation side of Ni'Var.

There are some interesting things to explore there, since on one hand you have T'rina who acknowledges her emotions and moderates them with logic, and on the other there's Duvin who is clearly more conservative.

I don't know if there's an actual plan on the timeline of these cultural changes or if it's accidental but there's already some evidence of this cultural shift in Prodigy and Lower Decks with Maj'el and T'Lin. Even before that there's Saavik but at least non-canon novels assume she's half Romulan.

You realize that those are two symptoms of the same disease right?

When you stop caring if something is a childish thing or not. Some people never get there.