Yeah, that about hits my opinion, too.

"Israel has the right to defend itself", but their actions fly far in excess of defense at this point.

I think the Democrat strategy this cycle is pretty much this on even a larger scale. The right wing says they're timing trump's trials to interfere with the election, but the thing is I think they're right in the exact opposite way of what they expect.

Trump caught the US by surprise and now people are sick of him, so suddenly he and every other scumbag in his party are the best ammunition the dems could ask for. The dems want to keep them all around and actively give them more chances to be obnoxious in order to scare more voters toward voting blue while splitting the GOP's votes.

Got it boss

(Quietly implements a modulo check but only for a range between the current endpoint of the if branches and the highest value I expect the product to ever encounter)

That's a giratina

It's all the same problem though, isnt it?

Same people squeezing the economy dry are the ones ultimately responsible for fucking up efforts to unfuck the climate.

Keeping lenses on multiple issues maintains clarity on what's at the root of them.

"Middle of nowhere" is the accepted term for that region

METAGROSSSSSSSSSSSS

It was weird to realize that the books and movies were about different things

The movies are about the characters and their struggles to try and beat Sauron obviously

But the books got a lot more interesting when I started looking at them as the stories of a world and its history and the way that that world handled to coming and going of another dark lord. The threats he posed to peaceful places, the peace broken simply by his presence, and also the people and places legitimately above and outside Sauron's reach. The fact that Sam's star or Tom Bombadil would look at this great and terrible evil, the worst ever known to so many in the world, and to them it would be but another passing of an era, the opening of a new story dated to end like all the rest.

The scale and perspective of it all is just so dramatically different that I can't help but feel like reaching that perspective is half the journey for the reader.

Before all the apes nonsense, this was where people would learn what "fungible" means

Wish it were for something less depressing

I imagine a realistic implementation would involve a system of progressive brackets and minimums/deductibles, modeled after the way income tax is. Ideally, things are modeled such that the tax is only full percents among those absurdly high brackets that can afford them

Constitutionality is another matter though, and yeah it seems like it would be awful hard to get that through the current court

Let's be real, if we wanna talk about possessiveness, Anakin was R2's bodyguard more than R2 was Anakin's droid

Little astromech is in absolute control

You ask me, it's like the great quarantine to try and slow down covid

The idealists were hoping to stamp it out entirely but the reality was that covid was everywhere, and would inevitably become part of life. Quarantining served to make sure hospitals weren't overwhelmed (or rather, weren't MORE overwhelmed) until a vaccine could be made to try and get things under control

In the same vein, it makes sense to me to try and stifle AI stuff hopefully long enough to push for UBI and other social safety nets, so that when the lid comes completely off pandora's box, the damage to people's lives is mitigated and the benefits from the tech can be enjoyed in better conscience