"I said, I said, Boy, don’t go forgetting who lines your pockets. "

When Barrett was nominated, my comment was, “she is the kind of woman that would vote to make herself chattel.” Anything even remotely rational from her is a win. Historically, the Court has had a tendency to make justices more liberal. They’re generally smart people and exposure to well argued positions does tend to make you think.

Of course Thomas is out there besmirching the entire legal profession with his shameless acceptance of graft. I wonder if he lets Harlan refer to him as “boy.”

I wonder if anyone has challenged these restrictions in court. Most states follow a rule against perpetuities that would void any perpetual encumberance on a property (I think South Dakota is the exception).

Separate apps for various retail stores. I don’t want a home depot app. I don’t want a kroger app. We have a generic app for this category called a web browser. If you want me to download a specialized app for your store, I assume that means that my browser does not sufficiently breach my privacy for your “business purposes.”

Reality Dysfunction was Peter F. Hamilton.

Shapiro and Aquaman, duh.

Big Bosses later ask middle managers: “Why is turnover so high? Are you not fostering a fun environment?” The 40 % raise for job hopping is a real mystery.

The timeline is based on the depletion of various non-renewable resources. To move it up, we just consume more. The good news for your desire is that capitalists desiring infinite growth are encouraging us to do just that.

Yeah, I was thinking “Napster lasted way longer than 3 months and I am still listening to some of that free music some two decades later.” Two points come to mind: 1. Geez, it really has been more than twenty years. 2. Is it really positive branding to use a name that people associate with mislabeled snuff films?

I am using CentOS 9 in WSL. I don’t particularly care what distribution I use because I mostly using a bash shell as a software development environment. I prefer apt to flat packs and use ubuntu 20 on an embedded system that I write code for at work. I keep wanting to get more experience with KDE and gnome, but I haven’t been good about using my free time to mess with OS. As long as I have vim and a prompt that uses vi input, I am pretty content. (Does this make me sound old? The kids at work have trouble following what I am doing when we pair program.)

Disputes between the various flavors of Abrahamic religions predate Israel and will never be resolved. Even if you want to limit it to just Palestine/Israel, there were protests in the 1920s about the British preferential treatment of Jews over Arabs well before Israel became official. The wailing wall was built in 19 BCE (predating Islam), so the origins of the dispute go way, way back. Both sides have been in the area for effectively forever.

Let climate change make Israel uninhabitable and watch everyone on both sides try to immigrate to other locations where they die against a border fence with people from other countries.

Not a great solution, but it is how I expect it to play out. Otherwise, the problem has proven itself intractable for centuries.

The whole debate is dumb. Any idea along that lines is a political non-starter. As a species we’ll just let nature implement some form of it against our wishes and intentions. Unfortunately, that implementation will likely be the worst in terms of damage and equity. I fully expect those most guilty to suffer the least. I will definitely starve before Bezos and Musk do. The unfortunates of the global south will probably suffer more before I do which I will admit is inequitable.

I fully expect to hear, “Why did no one warn us that it would be this bad?” in my lifetime. I don’t think the answer that “They did, but everyone chose to ignore it.” will provide any comfort.

The wealthiest 70% regardless of location would buy the survivors some time to find solutions to their soon if not already extant climatological problems. I am in that cull and wish the survivors the best of luck.

I never unsuited, just got permabanned for anti-Nazi. The sub got worse as the number of subs grew. I had a few comments moderated out of existence back in the higher science content days for making concrete suggestions regarding the overpopulation of billionaires problem. If that’s ecofacism, then I am probably guilty as charged.

I am not religious, but Jesus Christ is a good expletive, and I find myself uttering it when he opens stupid mouth.

With my luck, I would only get my surgically removed wisdom teeth back.

Don’t forget Bigfoot, the rake, and skin walkers.

When Ministry for the Future starts to happen sooner than expected… poor people

I agree, but I also find it hard to complain about people supplying free information. Low effort is better than no effort. I know how to do a bunch of different shit, but I am not out there making videos explaining any of it. The ads and other monetization efforts are irritating though.