LOGIC💣

It can’t be a one time fork. Whenever his propaganda changes, he’s going to want to give different instructions to his AI and then regenerate the entire encyclopedia like he already did.

It’s a different use case from an encyclopedia that is based on facts and the truth.

Except when it comes to tariffs.

Exactly. Some people will be “poor” no matter how big their salary is. They’ll be unable to accumulate any savings because they spend as much as they make, and then add credit card debt on top of it.

Yep. Billionaires only care about that number (their net worth) going up. It doesn’t help them in any substantive way when the number goes up. But they don’t have anything else to give their lives meaning. Just to have some number go up and to have their number be higher than other people’s numbers.

If they didn’t care about that number, and only cared about their selfish lifestyle, without comparing to others, for example, then with the value of money today, they’d probably stop bothering to hoard money long before they hit a billion dollars. It’s a pathetic excuse for a life to keep accumulating like billionaires do. They don’t care who they hurt as long as that fucking number gets bigger.

Your hand? I think you mean your biological food dispenser.

A lot of herbivores will eat meat opportunistically, even if they’re not starving. It’s an easy way of getting quick nutrients.

A prominent Protestant cleric from Northern Ireland said Charles should abdicate if he prayed with the pope. Kyle Paisley, a reverend with the Free Presbyterian church and son of the late unionist politician Ian Paisley senior, told the BBC that the joint prayers would break the King’s oath to uphold the Protestant faith.

This sounds a lot like bullshit to me, but I don’t know what exact oath Charles swore. I’d expect that the head of a Christian church would be permitted to pray with anybody they choose, even an “enemy”.

Then you cannot rely on mail in ballots because sometimes mail gets lost. Really if you want to make sure that every vote must count, no exceptions, then you have to design a new method of absentee voting.

The moment that a ballot has left the voter’s possession, it needs to be tracked and kept securely like we do at my local polling place, or else there’s no way to count every vote, no exceptions. So we need something extra for absentee or mail-in ballots.

The line has to be drawn somewhere, is the problem.

The current line is that the vote was accepted by the time that the ballots were counted, and I don’t think you should move the line simply because it’s a close race.

He can just “fix” that by sending in the National Guard.

It’s interesting. I’m going to ignore for a second which political party won, etc.

Her ballot was returned by the postal service, despite how she used a preprinted address label that was sent to her.

And had her vote been counted, it would have tied the election.

I’m inclined to say that her vote wasn’t cast in time, even though it wasn’t her fault. I’m sure there are a lot of people who had similar things happen and don’t end up having their vote counted. For example, road closures, transit cancellations, bad weather, lost mail. As long as it’s not a widespread problem, you have to draw the line somewhere and say that the ballot wasn’t cast in time.

If space is limited and there was no other choice

I think there’s always a choice to just not have drawers there. Like, literally just choose to have the door sweep clear. Even if you moved into that house, you can even just remove the drawer completely.

My mother has Alzheimer’s and everything important has a tracker in it. Although as the disease progressed, we had to take away most of her important things, like wallet and keys. We still have one on the remote control, though.

The question is “Is this a normal thing for others?” and the answer is “No.”

Somebody else mentioned having them stolen, but it might be even more traumatic if he’d had decorations vandalized in the past.

Greta Thunberg said that the Israelis bound her and placed her next to an Israeli flag, and then kicked her whenever the flag touched her. So, they even mildly tortured an internationally famous person who was not Palestinian, and who they knew would be released and would share the story.

So, if they’re not afraid of doing that to Thunberg when they know it will be exposed, then nothing would surprise me about what they’re doing when they don’t think they’ll get caught.

Bad people can also be victims. They are not mutually exclusive ideas. In fact, it’s quite likely that bad people are disproportionately victims. They do something horrible to somebody else, and those people do something back. Sometimes, it’s simple justice or comeuppance, and other times, it’s escalating violence between two groups of detestable people.

Regardless of what you think about Palestinians, it’s trivial to see that the Israelis are bad guys in this conflict.

Usually, the world is shades of gray, like with Palestinians, so it’s sort of a relief when you can just point to somebody and say, “Well, those guys are clearly the bad guys, and anybody who supports their actions is also bad.”

“What do you think of my costume?”

“Your KISS makeup seems to have started running.”

Yeah, it was also given to Rush Limbaugh, albeit just before he died. At this point, they could rename it to the Trump/Goebbels medal of fascist propaganda.

If she has reception, get her a radio player and program in a bunch of local stations. Talk radio, several stations with different music genres she likes, something with interesting shows like NPR might be nice.

The benefits are that any nurse can operate a radio. It never pauses playback to see if the person responds. It doesn’t require an internet connection or expensive electronics, only a plug and reception.

If she’s not already using her phone, there might be a reason. For example, she may not be allowed electronics, or there might be a lot of petty theft in the facility.