The 99%

Tbh, it makes sense. You don’t end up being president by being a no-rizz fool. You may be considering bringing up Trump as a counter-argument, but just look at all the people that are letting him pound them in the ass right now.

This article appeared in my feed just above another article about how China has the world’s first operational thorium reactor. Meanwhile, the US is about to fight a civil war over whether vaccination causes measles and stripping away the last of our social programs in order to get our wealthiest people another 2% subsidy.

Well, it’s only constitutional this one time. Every other time, it isn’t.

More concreatures, please

This is just super fucking cool. It’s so rad they can pick out chemical signatures from the light passing through a planet’s atmosphere from a star 120 light years away. Absolutely gonzo bananas, the JWT is too cool. I will go on a personal mission to punch Donald Trump in the taint if they actually do cut the Roman telescope.

Yeah, it’s what led me to leave the faith. What I read in the NT wasn’t what was practiced in the church.

Yeah, it’s the fruit of almost a century of anti-communist propaganda.

Ehhhh… Traffic stops are more often than not excuses to fish for other, more serious violations or initiate a civil asset forfeiture. It’s actually one of the big reasons I’m hugely pro-transit and anti-car-centrism, because it robs the state of a huge excuse for initiating police contacts.

“accidentally”. Stephen Miller recently came out and directly refuted the idea that it was an accident. https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5248143-stephen-miller-doj-man-mistakenly-deported/

It’s worth noting that they’re not only innocent, they’ve received no due process at all. They weren’t even charged with a crime. They were just sent to indefinite imprisonment, and they’re not even charged with a crime, nor will they ever get a chance to be heard before a judge or jury. The state didn’t even bother cooking up a crime before depriving them of their liberties. Folks, this is bad, this is it, we’re living the dictatorship right now. If the government wants to deprive you of your liberty, it should always have to prove its case in court, to a jury of peers. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s at least some kind of check to make sure the state isn’t just arbitrarily tossing people in prison for life; which is exactly what’s happening here. Let me say it loud and clear:

WHAT THEY CAN DO TO THEM, THEY CAN DO TO YOU, AND THEY’RE OPENLY DISCUSSING DOING IT TO YOU RIGHT NOW.

The fascists are coming right now. Not in a year, not in six months, they’re talking about stripping citizenship from people who criticize the government now. Lawyers and judges are being flat out lied to and ignored; the justice system is not coming to our rescue. There is no appeasement, no running, no compliance that will keep them from ultimately murdering or imprisoning you and everyone you love. The only choice left to us now is this: do you want to face them as a group, or as an individual?

As a left libertarian, I have a hard time arguing against seatbelt laws. As in, I know they aren’t consistent with my ideology, but the outcomes of having these laws are so much better than not having them. The only thing that I can say against them is that they’re one of the more commonly used bullshit pretexts for initiating traffic stops. I rationalize this trade off and violation of ideals by pointing out that the government has created a fucked up transportation market by enforcing car centrism, and until we can unfuck that, we need to deal with the side effects.

This is a great point. I know that some pharmas actually do internally funded research, it’s a thing, it happens, but it’s completely dwarfed by shareholder giveaways and government subsidies ofc.

As a dude, I want to believe that it’s less than it is because that’s just wholly unreasonable that women have to put up with that.

Wait, not everyone can do that?! What the fuck?!

You’re right.

Yes, 100%.

I agree, though I will note that I have often found that there is a non-trivial gap between what is and what ought to be.

That last sentence is it. IP laws are outrageous monstrosities these days, with folks like Disney getting 100-year long exclusive IP rights to characters and stuff like the DMCA.

This is why it’s a mixed bag for me. IP law is kinda important in a capitalist system, which, for better or worse, that’s what we have. If someone comes up with a wonder drug that outright cures addiction or something, you’d want that person to be able to recoup their costs before a bigger organization with more capital swoops in and undercuts them on production costs until they’re the sole supplier of the drug. The hepatitis C cure drug selling for $70,000 is a great example of this quandary; there’s millions of dollars worth of research and clinical trials that went into developing the drug, you’d want the company to be able to recuperate the costs of developing it or else there’s less incentive to do something similar for other diseases down the line. Also, though, $70,000 or go fucking die is an outrageous statement.

Of course, what we have for IP law in practice is a bastardized monster, where corporations exploit the fuck out of it to have monopoly control over important products like insulins and life-saving medications that cost cents to produce and allow them to sell for hundreds a dose. That’s not the intent of IP law, IMO, and that doesn’t really serve anyone.

You probably won’t see much in terms of globular clusters in binos. I feel like you should be able to resolve the Leo triplet in them, though I expect it would be a challenge. Probably your best bet is the beehive cluster in Cancer, which should be near the Zenith, the little beehive cluster in Canis Major, and some of the easier double stars (the second star out from the cup on the handle of the big dipper- mizar and alcor- is great) and the Orion belt stars. Good luck!