This is why I go online.
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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023
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I was going to say ‘if you’re dumb enough’ but went with the bigger word instead.
You can do anything you want to, if you’re willing to accept the consequences.
573·12 days agoTruck driver is wrong for going out with an unsecured load. They were driving too fast. Even if it hadn’t been a car that got splattered wet concrete in the road would be a major hazard.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trump-vs-military
Trump has treated the upper ranks with contempt. He fired the admiral in charge of the White House pandemic office because that officer was pals with Miley, another general Trump holds in contempt. He fired soem high ranking folks when he was re-inaugurated. Don’t expect to see the military saving him
You really think that the world’s largest military is just going to vanish?
One nuclear submarine can devastate half a continent, and the US has 71 of those bad boys.
Be careful what you wish for.
[off topic?]
“Stand On Zanzibar” won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel of the year.
It’s set in the early 2000’s and got so many of the details right it’s uncanny. Some of the ideas that people in 1969 laughed at were mass homelessness; well paid folks needing room mates to make the rent; random school shootings, etc etc.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
Actually, the most logical thing is VR. Give folks full exoskeletons to mimic actual real world conditions and a five sense helmet.
Boring to look at from the outside.
Don’t go down the rabbit hole.
Next we’ll be trying to explain why they needed a garbage disposal on the Death Star.
[Two reasons. first, the builder was trying to slow things down so he threw in extraneous stuff. second, there were regulations about ships over a certain tonnage, because no one wants tons of trash falling onto their planet.
What about hydrogen plasma as hot as the surface of the sun, contained in a weightless force field? The 'balloon is simply a decorative wrapper? Remember, it’s the future year 2025!
Life Pro Tip.
Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.
LPT.
If you’re using a toy that big, the neighbors and the police already know what’s going on
Responding for a friend
I always say “I’m another day older and deeper in debt.”
One of the saddest stories I ever read was the hard working, self employed carpenter who waited until he won the lottery to get a medical checkup.
He died of a preventable cancer because he couldn’t afford to get seen
I’m sure everyone who knows you agrees.
jk
“So, how’s this childhood thing working out for you?”
You say that like it’s a bad thing.