Project Autocracy

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

 

Everyone else will be, though.

[romad1]

This has to be fixed

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

This has to be fixed

Of course the woman’s name is Ekaterina.

[romad1]

Must have been wargaming out the results of Project 2025

 

[LaceyLou]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Of course the woman’s name is Ekaterina.

I noticed that, too. 

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

This has to be fixed

Also, whose autograph is that on the check? Not Elon's.

[LaceyLou]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Also, whose autograph is that on the check? Not Elon's.

That better not be an autopen signature! 

[romad1]

Glad to see consequences are happening

Zack Pizzaz: "“What may have taken the spring out of the Easter Bunny’s hop for Target is a 40-plus day boycott coinciding with Lent (so ending on Easter) spearheaded by Black clergy for which more than 150,000 have signed up, exceeding organizers’ stated goal of 100,000.”" — Bluesky

 

[chasfh]

I’m sure GEO and CCA can make enough space available for 150,000 additional inmates arrested for economic terrorism. 

[romad1]

I post this more as a placeholder than a realistic thought that he could be impeached for this.  He can't be impeached until the Dems have the House and Senate with large enough majorities that the marginal Republicans feel they can go along with an impeachment.  The blue wave of 2026 would have to be very large indeed for that to play out.

[romad1]

Must have had dissenting views.

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, romad1 said:

I post this more as a placeholder than a realistic thought that he could be impeached for this.  He can't be impeached until the Dems have the House and Senate with large enough majorities that the marginal Republicans feel they can go along with an impeachment.  The blue wave of 2026 would have to be very large indeed for that to play out.

Yeah, we knew this.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

Must have had dissenting views.

Watch for Target to be among the first on the tariff exemption list.

[romad1]

12 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Watch for Target to be among the first on the tariff exemption list.

First they have to perform a song of praise for Dear Leader. 

[RatkoVarda]

interesting corporate governance question.

bribing Trump to obtain a tariff waiver is illegal but will never be prosecuted if Dems are barred from being President again.

so if the bribe is what you need to do to maximize shareholder value, then are you not obligated to pay the bribe?

[romad1]

Flew over Doral golf platz on my way into Miami.  King Dickface name on the roof.  Drive out to our hotel on the Keys and i see Apple maps says “Gulf of America “

I am so over this monarchy of dickferbrains 

[romad1]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/breakthrough-dna-analysis-reveals-everyone-on-earth-shares-genes-from-two-ancient-populations/ar-AA1BaXe1?cvid=2a1258a02da74ae09e76eb0f604fd2a4&ei=22

details on the evolution of man!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-find-strongest-evidence-yet-of-life-on-an-alien-planet/ar-AA1D5wg7

signs of life beyond our solar system!

Gosh...now is surely the time to get rid of our sailing fleet and look inward at America's problems

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/500-years-ago-china-destroyed-its-worlddominating-navy-because-its-political-elite-was-afraid-of-free-trade-a7612276.html

 

[oblong]

To me it's a mathematical certainty that there's some form of life out there.

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

To me it's a mathematical certainty that there's some form of life out there.

 

Like proton decay, the fact that it might be out there doesn't mean you will ever see it.

[romad1]

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Like proton decay, the fact that it might be out there doesn't mean you will ever see it.

Def

 

1 hour ago, oblong said:

To me it's a mathematical certainty that there's some form of life out there.

 

I’m merely restating the dumb of these theocratic fools who have been lashed onto by the oligarchs in the service of kleptocracy.

[Hongbit]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

To me it's a mathematical certainty that there's some form of life out there.

 

Not sure if it really matters anymore.  
 

If we found Alien life, they would spend a day in Area 51 and then get immediately sent to CECOT. 

Edited April 17 by Hongbit

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

To me it's a mathematical certainty that there's some form of life out there.

 

I have often wondered of all the planets in the universe that host intelligent (or sentient, if you prefer) life, in what stage of development versus the others is Earth? I hypothesize that out of however many planets have any signs of life at all—whether it's a thousand, a million, a billion, whatever it is—Earth is well into the 90th percentile of life development. I also hypothesize Earth is in the end stages of life, which probably means something like a few million years left versus billions, before it embarks on its own death spiral as a planet. I have nothing to base this on but my self-proclaimed educated predilection for being able to successfully estimate the relative values of objects similar to one another.

[oblong]

According to AI, the most distant detectable star is 28 billion light years away.   Our sun is 8 seconds away. 

In decimal point terms the sun is .0000158 light years away and that star, Earendel, is 28,000,000,000 light years away.

It's just mind boggling what we're learning via the Hubble.  Even just looking at the Milky Way.

Life could be so advanced in other places that the equivalent of them looking at us could be like us looking at a couple of cells.  They may not have contacted us due to our primitive nature.  It could also mean that anybody looking at us is in fact looking at the past.  They might see an unhinabited earth or even dinosaurs and say "Nah, don't need that. Nothing there for us."

 

[ewsieg]

I thought 8 minutes... but regardless, the difference is staggering.  I was reading on reddit today about that planet that Romad linked above, it's about 120 light years away.  We sent Voyager I out in the late 70's and I know Voyager II is catching up to it, but I think Voyager I is still the furthest man made object from earth.  It's traveled the equivalent of 1 light day.  Assuming it's heading directly for this planet, it only has about 2 million more years before it reaches it if my math is right.

 

[oblong]

It is 8 minutes.