This is MAGA-type thinking you’re demonstrating. Democrats massively fucked up the 2024 election. It is important that those lessons be studied, learned from, and not repeated. Yes, Trump is worse, but that’s completely irrelevant to the conversation at hand. We have another Trump term precisely because of the mistakes the DNC made during the election. Failing to listen to those mistakes doesn’t help Democrats, and it doesn’t help the country. Failing to learn from the mistakes of 2016 and 2020 are how we ended up with 2024 after all.

Do not for a second think Trump or some other MAGA candidate cannot win in 2028. Regardless of how bad Trump governs, even ignoring the potential for election shenanigans, it is entirely possible that Trump will win again in 2028. And every person that sticks their fingers in their ears and ignores all criticism of elected Democrats makes that event all the more likely.

Democrats ran on “we’re not Trump” in 2016, 2020, and 2024. That strategy lost them both 2016 and 2024, and it would have lost them 2020 if not for covid.

Yet here you are, still trying the same tired “we’re not Trump” strategy. You’re clearly insane, as you keep trying the same thing again and again, expecting a different result.

We need to abandon the Democratic Party at this point. Democrats are not capable of winning national elections. The Democratic Party is not run by serious people who actually intend on winning power and wielding it wisely. Those still telling folks to vote for Democrats are not politically serious people. The only future can be found in parties like the Working Families Party. Centrists will simply need to hold their nose, quit dividing the left, and vote for progressive candidates. Remember, a vote for a Democrat is a vote for a Republican. Democrats can’t win national elections. In a two party system, we can’t afford to throw our votes away on parties that are doomed to lose.

I like the idea that the date is not just historically vague, but literally completely unknown.

Yeah, it could be three thousand years old, or maybe someone made it in their garage last Tuesday. Fuck if I know!

The birth rate is going to crater, because no one wants to bring children into a fascist shithole.

Schumer is a Nazi collaborator.

Schumer is a Nazi collaborator.

Imagine Yosemite National Park…with an HOA!

In February, he said the government could “monetize the US balance sheet for the American people.”

One way to do this would be to revalue America’s gold reserves.

The US still prices its gold reserves at $42.22 an ounce.

If revalued to the market price of around $2,900, it could create nearly $900 billion in new equity overnight.

This would give the government a new pool of capital without borrowing more money or printing dollars.

Other assets, including federal land, real estate, infrastructure, and even confiscated cryptocurrency, could also be used.

The logic is clear: the US owns trillions in untapped assets but still runs massive deficits.

They want to put federal land up as collateral for loans. Instead of just issuing debt in the government’s name, they want to get lower interest rates by putting up US land as collateral. And when they manage the government right into default, the bankers will take possession of all national parks and federal land. That’s what ‘monetize’ means. It means put up as collateral.

I suppose it is big enough for that…

You should see my Hello Kitty bandsaw.

My preferred mode of play is what I call “Iron Kerbal.” Career mode. No reloads. No respawning. No reverting flights. I can manage everything except an Eve landing and return without reloads. Or, late game, I can manage an Eve landing and recovery if I have enough resources to just keep throwing crews at the planet.

My top two are Kerbal Space Program, at 2007 hours, and Satisfactory at 1,787 hours. And yeah, Satisfactory has its time exaggerated, as often you just got to let the factory run.

My play time on Kerbal Space Program 2?

17 minutes.

Seems likely. The most rigid materially known, (or at least theorized) is nuclear pasta.. Nuclear pasta only forms inside neutron stars, stellar objects that are the last stage of matter before matter gives up entirely and collapses into a black hole.

Now I want to build a loom.

I find your lack of critical thinking disturbing.

…Says the talking sex doll masquerading as a reporter.

It would work, but only in the impossible world where you have a perfectly rigid unbreakable stick. But such an object cannot exist in this universe.

Pick up a solid rigid object near you. Anything will do, a coffee cup, a comb, a water bottle, anything. Pick it up from the top and lift it vertically. Observe it.

It seems as though the whole object moves instantaneously, does it not? It seems that the bottom of the object starts moving at the exact same instant as the top. But it is actually not the case. Every material has a certain elasticity to it. Everything deforms slightly under the tiniest of forces. Even a solid titanium rod deforms a little bit from the weight of a feather placed upon it. And this lack of perfect rigidity means that there is a very, very slight delay from when you start lifting the top of the object to when the bottom of it starts moving.

For small objects that you can manipulate with your hands, this delay is imperceptible to your senses. But if you observed an object being lifted with very precise scientific equipment, you could actually measure this delay. Motion can only transfer through objects at a finite speed. Specifically, it can only move at the speed of sound through the material. Your perfectly rigid object would have an infinite speed of sound within it. So yes, it would instantly transfer that motion. But with any real material, the delay wouldn’t just be noticeable, but comically large.

Imagine this stick were made of steel. The speed of sound in steel is about 5120 m/s. The distance to the Moon is about 400,000 km. Converting and dividing shows that it would actually take about 22 hours for a pulse like that to travel through a steel pole that long. (Ignoring how the steel pole would be supported.)

So in fact, you are both right and wrong. You are correct for the object you describe. A perfectly rigid object would be usable as a tool of FTL communication. But such an object simply cannot exist in this universe.

Can you promote a pawn to a pawn going in the opposite direction, a lateral promotion?

It’s part of the common law tradition though. Could it not be brought back?