Rhaedas

The first Earth Day was in 1970. It might have been too late even back then to avoid any consequences because nature had been absorbing what we had already done for a long time, but it sure would have helped to slam on the brakes. We should absolutely keep trying to get those brakes pressed, but it’s debatable if we’re already over the cliff.

You’re not a doomer if you’re seeing all the evidence and putting it together. You’re a realist. The label “doomer” is just reactionary from those who want to keep the status quo and don’t like people pointing out reality.

We know how that ended up. Yikes.

Fired for doing your job.

Great idea. Along with that we should sink some money into the digital infrastructure to make sure as much of the country is connected at the best possible level. Wait…we did that in, what, the 90s? Gave a lot of money to the companies of the time and…shit, where’d that money go?

Next up - Trump explains how magnets work. Since he doesn’t know how economies do.

All I can say is the wisdom from George Carlin: “It’s a Big Club, and you aren’t in it.” None of these people, Republicans or not, aren’t either. They just haven’t realized it, and may never.

Older people, or those who don’t have access or aren’t familiar to technology. Maybe even other situations I don’t know about. Why wouldn’t we offer help and a way to access that help to anyone? I don’t care how they voted or who they are. I wish they’d come around to thinking differently, but they’re still people.

I’m still in awe how it gets things correct from randomness. Even the early stages years ago that were obviously bad still would get close to the idea, and now it’s not that easy to determine some video origins.

I’m not talking about the morality and ethics of how it got here, but the science of how it works.

Modernizing communication makes perfect sense, but it should be an addition to improve flow of information, not a replacement that leaves some people behind for whatever reason. Most people would move to such a system willingly, freeing up resources for the older methods to work for those who need it. This sounds like a move to “accidentally” filter out certain demographics.

Flag code is an advisory for proper handling of the flag. That’s it. Flag code was never meant to supersede the Constitution.

That he would use executive orders to push such totalitarian things isn’t surprising, but it shouldn’t get far before it’s challenged by the Supreme Court.

Unless the Court has been bought. Let’s see how this plays out. Weird way to stimulate the economy by getting people to buy flags (made in China) to burn in protest.

They literally went “why having testing, when production gives us more data?”

It’s a simplistic calculation, but it does seem that often doing the right thing ends up cheaper in the long run. It just doesn’t benefit certain groups, so it’s not an option. If a million a day was applied to not just pay for sheltering, but to find solutions there wouldn’t be a problem to throw authoritative measures at, or use as a reason to tighten security and control. They don’t want to fix the problem, it works for them.

Wouldn’t be a surprise to avoid capture of tech, but maybe it was just an accident due to damage. A small explosion underwater (lithium batteries and fuel?) can be deadly enough. Maybe they’re designed to self destruct but this one failed until it got handled (wouldn’t you want it to destruct as soon as certain variables were exceeded?)