And nail it to the doors of the Capitol

“If you don’t fight back, we’ll let you live” For now. Make no mistake about scorpions though.

I can’t think of any other person so very antithetical to the very concept of love as Trump. I suspect that emotion is as alien to him as a smartphone is to an ant.

I specifically ask for sources to my questions and to notify me of any possible controversies or counterclaims.

Some of the capabilities of todays’ AI’s are incumbent on the user, not the system itself.

Before AI’s existed you could also get badly sourced claims or outright misinformation. The key is to remain critical and sceptical about ALL your sources. I don’t see AI as a new source of information, just as a new way to get and organize that information.

Down bad son?

“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years!”

Ferdinand Foch, 1921

Technically, an orbital “Rods from God” weapon would also still qualify under “sticks and stones”. Just very big ones.

Conversely, there are many other people from his time that definitely did exist and verifiably so. I have a bronze coin minted in Judea by Pontius Pilatus. I can look at it, I can touch it, it’s real. Even as an avowed agnostic, I see no reason why Jesus couldn’t have been a real person (minus the miracles that were almost certainly later additions).

I do agree that in the grand scale of things we’re actually very early. That alone would explain a lot.

Unfortunately we’ve pretty much used up all easily available resources. Anyone ‘starting over’ would have a much harder time getting the things they need to really get the ball rolling again.

When humans first discovered gold they practically only had to scoop it out of rivers. You’ll be hard pressed to find any streams with such appreciable production anywhere in the world today.

Nah, I’m willing to bet there is actual physical life in our very own solar system (apart from all life on Earth, of course). Europa’s oceans for example have a decently high probability of hosting microbial life.

Of course, discovering primitive life all around us would be a bad sign the great filter is still ahead of us instead of behind us…

The most boring one: most species off themselves before they fully get off their starting planet. We will go the same way. Take your pick from climate change, war, pandemic, … or even a combination of several!

Exactly this. In ancient Roman times, emperor Caracalla was infamous for having many of his enemies outright killed. One of these was the brother of a soldier who was assigned to his personal guard at the Rhine border regions. When Caracalla got off his horse for a piss, he got a gladius thrusted between his ribs. For all his might and power, he very much brought that on himself.

Sometimes people like that soldier are the last line of justice in the world.

Fuck cocaine, gimme ketamine and shrooms!

All joking aside, both are illegal where I live and carry the same sentence as horse and actual coke. ¯\(ツ)/¯

I’ve seen at least one video where a snake of similar size manages to depress a door handle and gets it to open, although that might’ve been lucky coincidence.

As for my own snakes, they definitely grasp the concept of a sliding door and how its mechanics work, since they try to get it open regularly. That’s why they sell locks for those.

Don’t care, hug kitty!

And yet when I run around the market naked while fapping, they lock me up, while this guy gets a freaking statue…

I think SOMA made it pretty clear we’re never uploading jack shit, at best we’re making a copy for whom it’ll feel as if they’ve been uploaded, but the original remains behind as well.

Where does one learn this ancient power?

UPDATE: called the tax office, they verified the letter was real. However… This is apparently SOP in case someone is delinquent on their taxes. The tax authority will simply “claim” these funds from EVERYONE who had any known dealings with this person.

Technically, the 15K is now ‘frozen’ and will remain so until I receive a new summons lifting the freeze order. However, in practice, I don’t have 15k worth of liquid assets, so the point is moot.

I now have to formally protest this garnishment in order to, so to speak, claim my innocence.

But their confirmation that this is regular SOP is quite chilling. They really DGAF as long as someone eventually ponies up.

Goddammit. I guess this is why the saying “death & taxes” exists.