I guess we can reasonably disagree on this. Posthumous damnation of Limbaugh sounds less likely to me than letting him fade into obscurity. He was already damned to anyone who would care now.

Somehow Palpatine Rush Limbaugh returned.

Oh, someone quoted him? Don’t even do that, y’all!

Pete Buttigieg is doing pretty fucking well, politically. It helps that he’s a medal-wearing veteran. I think that’s actually an important credential for most politicians but in the case of a gay man, perhaps moreso because it helps silence any slurs against his manhood. Your husband is lacking that. I don’t think success as a patent attorney is worth much in terms of image. The rest is someone who loves him listing his many virtues.

To be honest I think gay people are doing pretty fucking well these days versus when I grew up. There are still plenty of firsts left to happen, like President. But my whole childhood and young adulthood, gays were public enemies and the focus of conservative ire at every turn. They seem to have switched targets to trans people now, which is awful. But it has left gay people in an unusually quiet space. The marriage question is settled in all 50 states. With that, we seem to have moved on.

The existing currency pool is not the reason. Paper money has a pretty short durable life, and coins don’t have enough value to operate society on. It’s actually a fairly big task for a government to maintain the currency supply.

Catnip is easy to grow. Where I live it grows like a weed, eventually goes to seed and then plants come back the following year all on their own.

If you have ever enjoyed sprinkling a little bit of dried catnip on your scratching board and watching your cat go wild, you’ll love cutting down a big live plant, chopping it up on a cutting board, and stuffing an old gym sock with it.

That would be funny if someone had never seen Rogue One before and thought it was the pilot episode for Season 2. I mean… banger pilot but holy shit that ending!!

I’ll just give some examples.

We know that construction workers build things, but many office workers are behind them. When you hear “office worker,” think “information worker” as that will help.

What information?

Someone has to pay the construction workers. This involves accounting and payroll tasks best done at a computer.

Architects design the project being constructed and this is done in an office.

There are permits, inspections, regulations, taxes, real estate licensing etc to clear the project and this is done through computers and telephones.

Coordination of the different work crews must be planned - we don’t just ask concrete, civil engineers, plumbers, electrical, and landscaping to all show up on the same day and just figure things out. These things are scheduled out and arranged with many different companies / subcontractors and this is mapped out on a computer and agreed to over the phone.

The new apartments being constructed will need tenants to rent them. Billboard space is going to be rented near the building. A graphic designer is designing the billboard on a computer in an office. Someone else is calling the billboard company to arrange the large scale printing of it and to purchase the time it will be displayed.

I’ll stop. This is off the top of my head. If construction workers, with their obviously valuable and easy to understand work have this many office workers behind them, you can imagine how it’s even more complex for things like tech companies.

The amount of power is the same

There is only one pope seat at a time which they can assign, true. But that’s not a complete measurement of all the power involved.

Think of fit this way. Every time there’s an election, everyone comes out to kiss their ass and offer favors so that they themselves or “their guy” will get elected. If elections happen only every 20 years, then this ass-kiss-fest only happens every 20 years.

They’d rather it happen every 5 years.

Mmm smart.

The biggest problem I see is that people don’t always understand others’ jobs and how to judge if they are doing them well. I know this will be unpopular but managers are the key example here. Everyone thinks they know who the good and bad managers are but until you’ve been one, you dont understand their job to truly know more than who you like and who you don’t like. That’s no way to decide anyone’s pay.

I’m finally reading The Expanse books and in the opening pages of the first book there’s a joke about how a freshly implanted prosthetic arm doesn’t quite feel like yours until you get used to it, and in that interim you can jerk off and it will feel like a hand job. And the book goes from there.

If they also consume it over the border, sure.

If they bring it back, they are importing it and that’s when you have to pay the tariff. If you’re thinking “just keep it in your trunk how will anyone know?” just consider how long smuggling has been a thing and ask yourself if you think border guards have thought of this. They have.

Of course signals are for inter-driver communication. It’s a signal “to” someone, right?

We don’t need to discuss how to use your signal when no one’s around.

Physically moving into the other lane also tells them that you are moving. The sole purpose of having a blinker is to use it in advance.

Yep it’s always been shit.

Oh snap! I once worked somewhere that already had a guy with my name and he asked me to use some other name. I thought that was bad enough (and told him no). But this is next level.

I loved Boba Fett. It refined the space western formula even further.

Dude there’s always been a ton of Star Wars content you didn’t know about, unless you read 2-3 Star Wars novels and comic titles per month.

It’s a GOOD THING to have niche content for niche audiences. Trying to make everything for the mass market is how we get brainless blockbusters.

And it wouldn’t tell a citizen they are at the same risk as someone on a work visa.

I love the calico fluffinas