Idk, man. Aldoran was a smoking hole in space 14 years before Sarah Connor got nuked, and everyone remembers that one.

Satan tries to make himself seem more appealing and palatable to the alternative

Point of order. What’s the alternative, again?

“What’s hell like?”

“Mostly it’s a bunch of sunburned fauns trying to get you to have the best sex of your life.”

She can sack my Roman Forum any day, if you know what I mean

It’s funny how blonde hair and skin-tight pants can cause every Chud in a five mile radius to pop off.

But holy hell, why do conservatives feel this aching desire to engage in endless plastic surgery? You’re 36 years old, girl. You were Miss Arizona when you had a normal looking face. Now you’ve gone through more noses than a clown at an MMA tournament.

You don’t have to keep doing this to yourself. You’ve got tons of money. You’re under a six foot thick glass ceiling. There’s no upside to continuing this charade. You can just retreat to the country club, marry a Log Cabin Republican, fuck the pool boy, and enjoy your retirement.

That’s a rich 6-year-old.

“We’re a startup”

“What’s your plan?”

“Giant mirrors in space to control the sunlight that hits the earth’s surface.”

“Wow, sounds incredibly expensive and of dubious technical merit. What are you asking to make this happen?”

“We need whatever money you have in your wallet right now.”

“And the return on investment?”

“Infinity zillion dollars.”

“I guess I’d be a fool not to hand you all my money.”

“Absolutely. Now… that’s a really nice watch. And shoes. We could get you an amazing return if you gave us those, too.”

What are they supposed to do?

My grandparents spent a lot of time playing tennis and bridge, knitting, and fishing.

Really raises the question of how profitable these scam ads have become.

Also speaks to the addictive quality of social media (or perhaps the grim state of offline society). People keep coming back to these obviously booby-trapped websites to claw at a thin veneer of simulated friendship because they’ve got nothing better to do with their lives.

This catering to the rich and wealthy is exactly what caused the pilgrims to come to America

Well, that and the 30 Years War, sure.

The cycle or Religious bullshit must continue-

The problem of lying is as ancient as the advent of human speech. Even if all formalized dogmatism vanished tomorrow, you’d still have people mistaking correlation for causation and developing superstitions and taboos as a result. Jordan B. Peterson is a great example of this in practice. In another time, he’d be a Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard figure.

But, at some level, any individual’s cache of information is going to be incomplete. We all rely on the grand game of telephone that is oral and written history. “The cycle of Religion” is just a facet of this cycle of generational retelling of accrued lore. How do you keep the logs accurate and the lorekeepers faithful to accumulated wisdom? Damned if I know. Double-entry book keeping seems to help, but its hardly foolproof.

With this series, we aim to present not just the most complete picture yet of the GFW, but a roadmap for pushing back against the machinery of state censorship.

It’s definitely a deep technical dive into the underlying infrastructure of Chinese internet services. But I’m not seeing any of this in the guts of the article.

Socialist Hellscape

Poor people riding the bus

The structure of the economy has changed fundamentally. And so the goals of these privately bankrolled institutions have changed with it.

Churches, as institutions, no longer aspire to maximize the number of middle class bodies in pews, because the middle class is no longer flush with surplus cash. Instead, they need to attract extraordinarily wealthy individual patrons to survive. To that end, church officials making a spectacle of casting out a single kid from a non-wealthy family for being “Woke” operates as a kind-of fundraising event for the patrician class.

Modern religious institutions don’t exist to tame and homogenize a frontier population’s moral code. They now serve to legitimize and promote high ranking officials as More Holy Than Thou. And as churches gain more roles of state government, its the public that has to ask special dispensation to join the church, not the other way around.

Hate to be on my death bed and start having flash backs to high school geometry

The top of the sand tends to be hotter than the layers below. If you dig in a bit, the sand underneath is very cool and refreshing.

Incidentally, its the opposite of the human anus, which only gets hotter the deeper you penetrate.

October 20st, 2023: NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters

The team is also uploading a software patch to prevent the recurrence of a glitch that arose on Voyager 1 last year. Engineers resolved the glitch, and the patch is intended to prevent the issue from occurring again in Voyager 1 or arising in its twin, Voyager 2.

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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have traveled more than 15 billion and 12 billion miles from Earth, respectively. At those distances, the patch instructions will take over 18 hours to travel to the spacecraft. Because of the spacecraft’s age and the communication lag time, there’s some risk the patch could overwrite essential code or have other unintended effects on the spacecraft. To reduce those risks, the team has spent months writing, reviewing, and checking the code. As an added safety precaution, Voyager 2 will receive the patch first and serve as a testbed for its twin. Voyager 1 is farther from Earth than any other spacecraft, making its data more valuable.

I mean, broadly speaking, you want staples and basic lifestyle needs provided at-cost by a public functionary. Leaving groceries and housing and health care and education to the free market has created enormous amounts of waste, a maze of barriers to entry, and ballooned administrative overheads.

Countries with much lower cost of living tend to be where utilities are owned and operated by the state as a social amenity, while luxuries and economic frontier advancements are left to private experimentation and entrepreneurship. But even then, the intention is to glean the wheat from the chaffe, incorporating the best of the frontier into the interior with an eye towards efficiencies of scale.

Feels like the problem is systemic and tied to the high price of real estate relative to the low price of wages.

Would be nice to get some kind of public officials involved. People genuinely interested in building public housing or, at least, implementing a citywide rent freeze until supply is released to match demand.

Millions of Homes Still Being Kept Vacant as Housing Costs Surge, Report Finds