If you look at the age of the universe vs. how long we expect the universe to last, we are in the super early beginnings. There are supposedly countless trillions of years until the heat death of the universe.

What if we’re just early to the party? Obviously earth is pretty unique compared to most other planetary bodies we have identified. So not only do you need a bit of time, but also a bit of luck to meet all the criteria for life as humans know it to exist. Not saying their aren’t other ways life can evolve, but for carbon based life the window seems pretty small.

I also wonder about what an advanced civilization would do to mask it’s presence for it’s own safety. I imagine the concealment of an advanced civilization would be so similar to nature that to the untrained observer it would look just like any other system or galaxy. Unless you were so sure of your superiority that you wanted others to find you, I would guess hiding in plain sight would be the safest option.

I do find it puzzling that we haven’t seen anything else out there, but until a couple dozen centuries ago we thought the gods controlled the rising and setting sun, so maybe we don’t have the right technology yet. Imagine trying to explain WiFi to Plato. Colorless, tasteless, odorless, signals passing information all around us.

Then you have things like Hoag’s Object and maybe they are just messing with us.

I wonder if these people kept a copy of their yearly performance evaluations. You would think it would be easily challenged with just that evidence.

I can respect some aspects of that. Not everyone is meant to or even cut out to lead. Good on you for realizing that about yourself.

What I don’t understand is how you see the obvious benefits of a union, and how a small portion of your pay check could go a long way to making your own benefits better including increasing your overall pay so that union due are less of a burden on your budget. No one said you had to be in charge. Find one other person who agrees that unions can be/do better and get them to run, because not ever person out there wants to be a greedy mob boss style union leader. A union is about to be the only thing standing between you, and that CEO thinking you’re little more than slave labor, because this administration is dismantling as many consumer and worker protections as it can.

Be the change that you want to see. You point out all these things they are doing wrong, have you tried running for a union leadership position and changing the things you see they are doing wrong?

If only there was a name for a group of employees getting together to ask management for some collective bargaining or something.

I really love that the thumbnail for an article describing how he lied about videogames shows him doing the Nazi salute

What was Ronald Reagan’s famous line about “most terrifying words"? Something like “I’m the republican government, and if you need help you can go fuck yourself”.

Behind the Bastards does a great podcast about that. Called “How Conservatism Won”.

It was an incredibly interesting piece about how Think Tanks are behind the shit show you see before us today. A literal playbook shadow written by a future supreme court justice nominated by Tricky Dick Nixon. It was well worth a listen much like most of BtB stuff is.

Ahh yes! Good ole conservative virtue signaling. They are real life versions of the magnetic yellow ribbons people used to put on their car that say “we support the troops” but the magnet was as far as they went to actually supporting said troops.

No? I’m willing to accept evidence, but I do not believe they have ever actually acted in veterans best interests. Maybe Eisenhower warning us about the military industrial complex, maybe.

I was thinking the same thing about the blades. I don’t think there would be enough upflow of air to spin them fast enough for control.

There is a lot of actual control that goes into an autorotation as well as a lot of variables that have to be taken into account. It’s not like a plane where you can glide for a while before hitting the ground. You’re going in hot either way. Not sure it would slow a drone down that much even if they could.

I lived in a very comfortable and cozy officer barracks at Camp Humphrey in South Korea. About 400sqft. Had a living room, bedroom, full bathroom, full kitchen, and I lived by myself. The building housed a couple hundred people, all in single occupancy. I don’t see why any congressperson needs anything more than that when they shouldn’t be staying there 3/4 of their term.

There are a couple military installations around the DC area if you’re worried about securing a bunch of politicians in a single area instead of dispersed. Maybe living on post they will realize how terrible some junior enlisted barracks are and actually spend some defense money on the service members that need it the most.

I’d rather the government give them a place to stay at tax payer expense than give them more than the minimum wage of the state they represent.

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About as straightforward as DizqueTV

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But really, why can’t they/trump be more like that Jesus fellow they all claim to follow?

I don’t personally consider someone who is a centerist to be progressive at all. Maybe just me though. She is exactly as progressive as Biden which is why her messaging after Biden announced he was stepping down didn’t involve and real progressive moves other than some minor tax cuts and legalizing cannabis. She lost because she is just the woman version of Joe Biden. Not that she gets much say until she is elected, but she could have come out swinging a lot harder to the left instead of joining up with Liz Cheney who also isn’t known to be that progressive. She is exactly who the DNC wanted running, which is why they didn’t hold an abbreviated Democratic primary for 2024.

She was not progressive at all! I think the person was saying that she lost because she was too progressive as a misconception to why she was one of the first out in 2020.

She wasn’t too progressive for the DNC to put her second on the ticket, a heart attack from a very old man away from being president. That’s exactly why she was on the ticket. I am pretty sure she was one of the least progressive candidates, dropping out before 2020 even started.

I’m not smart enough to know what that means.

She lost the first primary bc she had progressive ideas. The DNC wouldn’t allow that.

Literally from what they said