My money was on Trump to start a war with Iran in March or April 2026, so things were ramped up before the elections. If the expected wartime popularity bump happens then just win the election, otherwise cancel then due to war reasons.

But I guess it’s looking more like wat against Venezuela or possibly Nigeria? 🙈

I think the point is that while certainly some Americans would not want someone of Indian descent as President, there are a lot more who would be upset by a black President.

Do you though? I mean, a satellite orbiting the sun between the earth and the sun could cast a large shadow, right?

It would be up to his minions in the Senate.

All people are people. Dehumanizing someone is a great technique for authoritarian regimes, but should be resisted by everyone else.

Except in the USA there are only two parties and the party in power would basically never declare no confidence.

Is there a link to specific demands, or do you just mean as a show of strength?

This but without the /s

No need to apologize, comrade. We’re here to learn from each other.

It’s a short, easy read…

It depends on the type of work and the people involved.

I worked in a team of developers and everyone who visited us commented how quiet it was…

The article says that a 1947 law makes it almost impossible for unions to organize a general strike.

That video is a work of art.

Having corporations do basic functions is a mistake of neoliberalism, which literally cannot conceive of anything without a profit motive.

I do agree that government ownership is tricky because they have to act as both regulator and vendor, but it can be done.

Maybe evangelicals who preach the prosperity gospel believe in “just world”? However in the Book of Job it is made pretty clear that doing everything God asks of you doesn’t help you at all, and might even be a reason that you get shit on. Jesus repeatedly says that his kingdom is not on earth. Anyway…

One thiest view of morality is that it is arbitrary, so literally anything that God does is good because that is what goodness is.

What an amazing song, thanks!

I mean, we call the software that runs computer players in games AI, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

License plate readers? Facial recognition? Speech recognition?

Europeans caused massive death in the Americas. I do not think we should replicate that model.

Also, the chance is small, but there might have been a separate biogenesis (beginning of life) on Mars. Sending humans with our dirty microbiome would almost certainly wipe any evidence of that, and possibly cause an extinction of an entirely separate form of life, which would be a crime even more horrible than the extinctions and genocides which we have caused so far.

Let’s just leave Mars alone until we’ve studies it more and are certain there is no life. Colonizing the moon seems challenging enough for a couple centuries…