And d00d will be a germophobic recluse demanding that people build pyramids in his honor.

So take this for what it is - a bribe laundered through the US government. Which, fine, we should expect bald corruption; everyone watched him learn to wet his beak last go 'round, going from petty overcharging the Secret Service to making off with nuclear secrets. But this is just a national embarrassment.

Think about it - the richest, most technologically advanced country on the planet, accepting a used cargo plane from a tiny monarchy as Air Force One. Nevermind it'll never be used for that, nevermind it is a transparent bribe, the bribe itself is just pathetic and cheap. Don is just a pathetically classless wannabe-despot.

When you got a table with one Nazi and 11 people sitting down talking to her, you got a table with a dozen Nazis. Consider who's at the table sitting next to you. When you say what the far right says, you arethe far right.

I've been suggesting since last time around that they build him a model Oval Office with phones and big red buttons and everything and let him get on with his presidenting. Have a team of of folks for him to talk to, "make deals" with, etc.

It would be a bigger effort than past war games, but I'm sure a team could keep him roleplaying for 3.65 more years. He's sundowning, so it'll get easier over time.

Because the most expensive part is the developer.

So he's right, economic incentives would have to shift - you (or rather your customers) would have to not be able to get the better hardware, or it would have to be prohibitively expensive. More expensive at any rate than paying for the Atari cartridge developers who you would need to squeeze maximum performance out of inadequate hardware.

Yes. And they probably need to use Google Messages and not whatever Samsung (or whatever) sets by default. The Apple user also has to have iOS 18 and a carrier that supports RCS for iPhones, this is definitely not all of them, although the big three now support RCS on iPhone.

Anti-intellectual? The intellectuals are the ones telling us men can be pregnant. And after intellectuals lied and had us banned for saying a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19. We lost so many people, banned for life. Questioning science is how you do science, but intellectuals would have none of it and silenced us.

Who said anything about that? We just want the fascists hunted down and thrown into their own prisons right alongside the Black men they sentenced there. And then hopefully get raped in their cells. I will never stop finding white men raped in prison funny. Because it is always in context. They spend their days raping Blacks metaphorically and yet now it's happening literally. That is social justice. And if you don't believe it, let's have all the Blacks vote on it, withOUT your unwelcome participation.

"The UK creative industries reflect our national stories"
Can you still say that when My Lady Jane shows the king of England as black, gay, and disabled?

I mean there's certainly a narrative there I say nothing of an agenda ... but in no way does it represent the British "national story".

As clearly they don't anyway :D

China is the nation you're looking for. Their system permanently locks out the stupids from government. Only smart people are allowed to join the CPC. You have to have good grades in school and do a lot of extra work while your classmates are out partying. They are all rationalist atheists. If you ever wanted a government of scientists, the CPC is what you want. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer.

Why do you think the US is focusing such intense propaganda on them? Why is it wrong for them to "genocide" the Uighurs( by forcing them to eat pork, showing them how their holy book is bullshit and teaching them job skills so they can find jobs instead of chase people around train stations with machetes hacking them(as happened in China).

Moreover, during China's own J6 riot, they had the courage to callout the A-10sandturn the rioters into pink mist. Our own government was cowardly and turned the reins of power over to the coup leader, who is systematically wrecking the entire country.

You're in favor of China and the CPC, though you probably did not know it.

If they sincerely believe they can do this, it is shocking they haven't run their company into the ground yet.

Which means they're almost certainly full of shit, and hoping the lifetime serviceholders are naive and not interested in fighting.

in the US, we don't value kids qua kids enough to support public education. We just don't. If we did a number of things would be different.

What we do instead is talk about how important they are.

We appear to be well on the way to equilibrium already - standardized educational units for consumption, standardized evaluations, policeresource officers to provide the important educational messages.

Eliminating the teachers (coded as "women work", which aside from the sexism and inaccuracy, also exposes how people don't value education) will save money and get rid of an educated profession that gets uppity and worse, sometimes produce uppity kids who think above their station.

Educating with robots also lets the King dictate lessons directly. No teachers to provide context, point out alternate interpretations or contradict Dear Leader's instruction.

Of course if Mom and Pop can afford private school, that's different, and little Conor and Maddy deserve the best, don't they?

It's not a police state generated list. The revolutionaries who tried to overthrow our democracy on J6 are bad actors and this was generated by themselves, not any boot licking. Likewise with the htransphobes who tried to take over school boards to implement their backwards vision of religious inspired hatred, Otherization and heteronormativity. They outed themselves, DHS were merely stenographers. Heck, lots of orgs keep lists of hate actors. ADL, Hope Not Hate, and many more. That's not bootlicking, it's self-defense. We all have to band together if we're going to beat this. Even if it means letting DHS do some of the dirty work. They have the kind of muscle DSA can only cream of.

You've all had artificial banana flavoring. In candies and other sweets. You know how it barely tastes like bananas at all, it's super sweet and rich, like how other candy flavors are only parodies of the flavors they imitate.

Artificial banana flavor is what the Gros Michel banana tasted like. That's why it tastes like it does, they were imitating Big Mike. By contrast, the Cavendish is bland, mushy and flavorless. We won't miss the banana when it's gone. I The Cavendish was living on borrowed time since it was made due to the pure clone nature. t's basically pure sugar anyway. Good for pregnant women at least, but that's about it.