Enforcing the law isn’t fascism. Insurrectionists aren’t permitted to hold office.

Edit to add, it’s not like President Vance would be any better.

Only if he could find an anchor of some sort.

Not exactly. The Blackfooted Ferret isn’t extinct, so we do have their DNA. We don’t have any DNA from dinosaurs or pterosaurs. Conceivably we could restore an animal like the carrier pigeon from preserved specimens, but the problem with cloning is that all the clones have the exact same DNA. Antonia can mate with extant ferrets to make a new generation of ferrets. Careful breeding plans and subsequent cloning could rebuild the ferret population in a controlled environment.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Just to be fair to both sides, Elon is a piece of shit with a punchable face. I’m not advocating for violence, because I don’t believe that solves anything. But I understand why someone might feel compelled in his presence to smack him round a little, and I wouldn’t leave a comfy chair to stop them.

I don’t think $200k is enough. That’s a lot of sleepless nights just from the itching. It would need to be enough money to afford to run my air-conditioning year round, on top of the mental anguish.

Do I have to keep it on during sex?

It always bugged me that the liar participates in explaining the rules. That, and they never explaing that saying “It’s a piece of cake” is the reason she falls down to those creepy grabby hands.

As a kid, I always assumed she went through the wrong door despite solving the riddle because the rules of the game were explained by a liar, and that they were both liars.

Those things are all deliberately awful because it’s more profitable that way.

You’re correct about the federal charges. There’s also the possibility that he pre-emptively and secretly pardoned himself for all future crimes while President. There’s a legal argument to be made that he cannot do that, but it’s never been tested before, and I would not expect the SCOTUS to side with justice in that case. It’s maddening that they haven’t prosecuted him for his many many crimes already.

He can’t actually pardon himself, because he was conviced by New York.

Contempt of court?

It helps to find joy that does not require a thrill.

You really expect me to believe that some aRcHiTeCt designed your house? Were you there?

Infinity is a mathematical absolute. It can be bounded conceptually, but the set of numbers is unlimited. Absolute power can by bounded conceptually (omniscience is knowing everything, omnipresence is being everywhere always) but the power is unlimited within those bounds. You can think of those as infinite knowledge, or infinite presence. Infinity breaks traditional logic the same way it breaks basic math.

So just as

infinity + 1 = infinity

{all known things by an omniscient being} + some new unknown = {all known things by an omniscient being}

Now, if you wanted to disprove something, the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient creator is inconsistent with the concept of free will. At the moment of creation, the being would be fully and solely responsible for all things that have happened, are happening now, and will ever happen. I don’t like the idea that we can all absolve ourselves of guilt or responsibility by claiming “God’s plan” and the just wank on while other people suffer unimaginable horror. Believing in God is an abdication of your place in the world, even if your faith guides you to do good works.

It remains a terrible idea. Don’t do this.

DC gets 3 electoral votes. PR gets none. But, Puerto Ricans are Americans, and can move to any state they like and register to vote there. But they do have to establish residency in that state. If they then leave the country and vote by mail, their votes would count in the state where they established residency.

So someone living in PR who moved to PA, established residency there, and then went home could request an absentee ballot, but I don’t know how long they could live outside the state and still be registered there.

In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.

I don’t disagree with your criticism of religion, but semantic absolutes are like mathematical infinity, you can approximate the concept, but standard logic fails when discussing the actual thing. It’s the inverse of dividing by zero, because a set that includes everything necessarily divides everything else into nothing.

Consider the infinite hotel. You work at the desk in a hotel with infinite rooms. There’s always room for more guests. But then an infinite bus pulls up with infinite guests. Good luck they came to you, because you’re the only hotel that has room for everyone. Infinite hotel, infinite rooms, you’re just about to turn on the No Vacancy sign when a second infinite bus pulls up. They have another infinite group of guests. Shit, you’re already full, right? Nope, all you need to do is have the group from bus 1 stay in the even numbered rooms, and bus 2 stays in the odd number rooms. Easy peasy.

The thing is, infinity exists. We know it exists. The hotel does not exist, but just because it doesn’t exist does not mean it cannot exist. Time is infinite. Consider a hypothetical bacteria that reproduces every second, simultaneously dying and creating a new bacteria. If you were to number them forever, you would never run out of numbers nor would you run out of bacteria. But if you had a second one in a second petri dish, you could number them with even numbers in one dish and odd numbers in the other. You would never run out of numbers, but you’d have twice as many infinite bacteria.

Now take the paradox of the unliftable boulder. Could an omnipotent creator make a boulder so large that the omnipotent mover could not move it? Yes. First, the omnipotent creator makes the boulder, because there is nothing they cannot make. Then, the omnipotent mover moves the boulder, because there is nothing they cannot move.

Religion is a tool, a crutch used by people uncomfortable with uncertainty. There are things we don’t know, things we can’t know, and things we’ll never know. Faith allows a person to pretend they know all three.

If nobody is aiming at something, is it still a target?

It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.