You would probably begin by having the police break into canneries and tyre factories to beat dents into any round objects they produce, then end up having to concentrate enough mass in neighbouring states to distort spacetime to the point where π, as measured on a non-Euclidean circle with locally Euclidean constant curvature or radius or something, does in fact equal the number you said it is.

Indiana at it again. ¹

Ideally you duct-tape a grenade to each of your “decoys” so it doesn’t really matter either way which target they choose to prioritize

forced to register as a sex offender under some American laws.

the GOP would have to have feel shame and/or have honor to hold her accountable.

…Has the state of New Rome/South Ontario deteriorated to such an extent that your political parties now have direct executive control or veto over the executive aspects of law enforcement?

Apologies for the Facebook link

Equivalent content from first four search results for “Trae Crowder Lauren Boebert”:

Twitter.

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y'all every time I hear something else
about Lauren bobert I've become more and
more convinced that we somehow went to
high school together you know like I
know this person man I do because see
I'm of the Whiskey Tango persuasion and
as such I know another trash monster
when I see one okay I mean you know it's
not like she tries to hide it she just
got kicked out of a theater in Denver
for vaping and hollering stuff you know
my fellow trailer Americans I ask you
who Among Us right I mean we do that we
do you know get a little too excited at
a public event start cussing in front of
the eight-year-olds then acting dignant
when the bouncer shows up but what is it
illegal to have a good time now I
thought this was America right I know
I've been there myself I have now
granted I wasn't a congressperson at the
time I was 22 Hammer drunk and the
Titans were losing again but still I've
been there now but I'm just saying
bobert checks so many red ass boxes it's
insane you know like she was born in
Florida aka the Fertile Crescent of
crazy crackers right to attain mom natch
she grew up on welfare and food stamps
she dropped out High School when she
herself got knocked up now that baby's
having a baby so she's a 36 year old
mammal she married then divorced a guy
who wouldn't stop pulling his dick out
in public she's always talking [ __ ]
about having a gun in her purse and she
has an ongoing feud with the other
craziest [ __ ] in town that is some top
shelf trashery right there y'all like
you just know she claims her Grandma's
one-quarter Cherokee right you just know
it and I'm saying all that makes me wish
that I could root for this person kinda
I do you know like if she was out here
actually standing up for the little guy
taking the elites down a peg Reed and
stuff knowing facts [ __ ] like that I'd
be all for it I'm like hell yeah finally
some representation right but she's not
no bobert's dedicated her life to being
wrong out loud every time she talks it's
like the chat GPT of harmful ignorance
she outwardly hates other marginalized
groups she screws over our own people by
trying to take away the same government
benefit programs that kept her alive as
a child Lord I cannot stand a ladder
puller y'all drives me crazy around like
I'm saying I don't I don't hate Lauren
bobert because she's white trash I hate
her because she's a piece of [ __ ] right
and I know some of y'all are going to
hear that and be like well that's a
little redundant but it's not it's
really not okay some of the most genuine
kindest most empathetic people I've ever
known were trailer babies and an
affinity for Mountain Dew and the early
works of Limp Biscuit does not change
that fact okay this country would do
well to have a chamber full of them but
alas it is not to be no instead we're
stuck with boberts and bobert is just
another loudmouth vindictive [ __ ] who
somehow took all the wrong lessons away
from her life and now spends her time
spewing misplaced rage and making us all
look bad it's a damn shame
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but that's hard if you Google Congress
and trash you mostly just get a bunch of
articles about either Republicans being
called trash or Republicans being mad
that they were called trash you know or
like journalistic socioeconomic you know
studies about how it's bad to call
people trash which I firmly disagree
with look I mean as long as you're trash
you can call people track anyway made it
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and I might be forgetting somebody but I
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need some representation in there at
first I thought it was fetterman you
know that one of the reasons I love
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one of my people right here looked it up
still think Federal is great but like
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suburb he went to Harvard all this stuff
it's actually kind of typical
senatorship but I but I thought about it
you know what no I don't care I'm
anointed again he's honorary trash all
right look he's earned it he's not he's
done all that Real Deal Blue Collar
working class stuff you got all them
tattoos he looks like he wrestles at the
county fair right he's always wearing a
hoodie and cargo shorts the official
attire of Burley winter time trash
everywhere all right he's one of us
we're claiming him okay that's why I
decided we're claiming John Federman
whether he likes it or not he's trash
now but in a good way the good kind you
know what I'm saying he's a trash
Champion that's what he is trash
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I’m having difficulty finding a source because the information environment is thoroughly saturated on this topic. But IIRC, this has been tried before. There was a study where people who were thorough Trump supporters, the whole nine yards, when made to roleplay a mock jury and presented with the body of evidence available to the researchers at that point on one of Trump’s crimes, still nonetheless felt they had no choice but to face a reality that they didn’t want to believe.

Narcissists and liars thrive when they can dominate the narrative, and flounder when they can’t. The Court system is designed around that. Hopefully it’s up to the task.

Current uranium reserves are expected to be depleted by the end of the century, at current use.

More like somewhere between 200 years and a couple million years, assuming we fire back up and finish developing some 60-year old technologies.

Fission as a serious replacement for just coal plants is a pipe dream without asteroid mining.

pipe dream without asteroid mining

…Yeah, no. At least, not yet. Plus, the energetic and engineering challenges to just throw “asteroid mining” into the conversation are insane— So you’re burning either fossil or synthetic/biofuels for the launch, electric ion (which is itself insanely difficult and expensive) I presume (so, I.e. nuclear or solar) for in-orbit maneuvering, for rocks that aren’t even that that big and which you don’t even have the technology to do anything with.

We have most minerals in sufficient quantities in the Earth’s crust. And more importantly, we have the industrial processes to extract them efficiently. Fission is viable, has been for a long time, and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

contrary to what people pretend we still don’t have a good answer for the waste.

It’s rocks. Processed “nuclear waste” is literally just rocks. (Well, technically it’s solid glass covered in welded steel.) It’s not like air pollution that we end up breathing in, and it’s not like the chemical waste from other industries (including from batteries and rare earth extraction) which finds its way to the water cycle where it then bioaccumulates. If you’re picturing a glowing green river, or a barrel full of leaking sludge— Well, that’s not it.

It can’t hurt you unless you powder it and huff it or build furniture with it or do something insanely stupid like that. And there are other much easier and more dangerous ways for malicious actors to hurt you too, that don’t involve breaking into secure facilities to steal the some of the heaviest elements known to exist.

Dig a big hole and toss the waste a kilometer or two down the Canadian Shield, and it will sit there inert for a billion years long after it’s burnt through all its dangerous levels of residual radioactivity.

We need a global fusion research project

We already have a couple of those. If everything goes perfectly for them, they might become commercially widespread right around the same time the hard-to-reverse effects of climate change might become truly apocalyptic in the second half of this century. If the past history of this field of research is any indication, they quite possibly won’t really work, will work but only a decade or two behind schedule and several times over budget, or will lead nowhere except for some media coverage that’s good for military-industrial stock prices or whatever.

This isn’t Sid Meier’s Civilization, where you can click “Global Fusion Research Project” and get a +100% boost to production after 20 turns. To quote Randall Munroe, “Magnetohydrodynamics combines the intuitive nature of Maxwell’s equations with the easy solvability of the Navier-Stokes equations”. Fusion is hard, or else we’d already be doing it, and though we know it’s definitely possible, there’s no guarantee of anything when it comes to actually engineering it.

orbital solar.

Uhh… No. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars to blast photovoltaics into an incredibly hostile environment, where they can’t even be cooled by dissipating into the atmosphere, is not probably going to bring energy costs down, at current or near-future technology levels.

Plus any system capable of precisely beaming terawatts of power from space into localized collectors on the planetary surface is (1) probably by definition an omnipresent death ray and (2) probably at least going to fuck up a lot of migrating birds and components of the atmosphere.

Simple as that.

…

but the issue with uranium is that it’s basically in dictatorships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Canada

Don’t compare this guy to glitches. Glitches have the potential to be beautiful anomalies, and bring the possibility for creativity, personality, and humour in life to otherwise rigid and unyielding systems.

This guy is the rigid and unyielding system. And though I’m not American, it seems his works are anything but beautiful.

dementia […] cancer

more dramatic […] shitting himself on camera, moments of brutally honest verbal diarrhea, endless painful kidney stones…

Interesting to see a few short moments of temporary and trite social embarrassment portrayed as a worse fate than the gradual and drawn-out ablation of everything that you are.

“The grace of God knows no bounds. But my mercy has some practical limitations.”

ABC.xyz?

malware

Actually, yeah, that basically fits.

Don’t say that, @FlyingSquid. You’re beautiful, and when us primates are doing ruining ourselves, you will inherit the earth and fly over mountains and forests as well.

Who is this “God” Person Anyway?

The DC-X/Delta Clipper was really cool, but the Space Shuttle was a design-by-committee safety and maintenance disaster. VentureStar didn’t go much better either, though that was mostly Lockheed.

NASA’s had the tech, the expertise, and the will for a while, but the political process was never going to give them permission to do anything more than slow-moving rehashes and incremental evolutions of old technology.

Just turn off your watch history, and you won’t have to deal with any “Algorithm” crap. If you see something you like, press the “Like” button or add it to a playlist— You can explicitly steer and basically whitelist types of videos for YT to recommend to you this way.

…That’s a salt, though, right?

If you’re counting non-NaCl salts as answers, then basically any “mineral” our body needs would probably be delivered at least partly in salt form. Just reading off some multivitamins here:

• Calcium Carbonate
• Chromium Chloride
• Cupric Sulfate
• Potassium Iodide
• Ferrous Fumarate
• Magnesium Oxide
• Manganese Sulfate
• Sodium Molybdate
• Sodium Selenate
• Zinc Oxide

(I haven’t fully checked all of these are salts­— But I mean, a lot of of them are blatantly chemical analogues of stuff that definitely is salt (E.G. “Potassium Iodide” vs. “Sodium Chloride”), plus they’re metals bonded to ionic groups so they’re definitely not alloys or covalent molecules or ceramics.)

This is probably because in order for our body to absorb stuff, it basically has be water-soluble, which means salts work quite well.

When eating real food (plants, animals, and fungi), I assume a lot of this won’t be in salt form, but rather it will mostly be bound up in proteins and DNA and such. For example, iron should be primarily in hemoglobin instead of ferrous fumarate. But some of it, for example the potassium, will definitely be technically in the form of dissolved salts/minerals in the fluids inside the food.

You can of course also rearrange the compounds around. For example, this can of Windsor-brand “salt free salt substitute” I have here further lists:

• Potassium Chloride
• Calcium Silicate
• Magnesium Carbonate

You’ll note that these are some of the same components as in the list above, just a different combination. I’m pretty sure any ionic mineral that includes at least one ion that our body needs technically counts as “food”, as long as the other half isn’t poisonous— They should be basically the same when they dissolve in the water in our stomachs anyway.

Meats can also be preserved by adding nitrates and nitrites to it, though technically I guess that’s more of a likely-carcinogenic additive than part of the “food”.

Fun fact: Your body sorta knows when it’s low on minerals, and will want to start eating dirt and rocks in order to make up for it! Over 100 different types of primate do it too. So in that case, you could probably argue that plain rocks and soil literally are food, in that they provide vital nutrients the body needs and that your brain is smart enough to know that. …These days it’s apparently considered a mental disorder, but I swear it made much more sense back when the likeliest thing you were going to eat was some mud, rather than lead-contaminated radioactive refrigerants or whatever it is we’ve surrounded ourselves with.

Enjoy, also, this lovely video from a chemistry Youtuber and his friends taste-testing which alkaline-chloride salt tastes the best!

I am not a doctor. Don’t go around eating rocks unless you’re a bird or some other type of dinosaur.

“The sane world” is, to be fair, a pretty exclusive club.

Maps with pretty colours and lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_number_of_parties#Effective_number_of_parties_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

Cross-reference with the maps and lists for proportional representation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation#List_of_countries_using_proportional_representation

Many of the European states, which tend to use proportional representation, are doing quite well.

According to an aside on Wikipedia, technically most countries never used FPTP in the first place, rather than having “moved on” from it. “Its use extended to British colonies […] mostly in the English-speaking world”. Of those, however, some have indeed “abandoned it in favour of other electoral systems”.

Proportional representation has been tried and tested since at least “its first national use in Denmark in 1855”.¹

A major black mark on its history might arguably be the fact that it contributed to the instability of the Weimar Republic by creating too many parties competing for power— Though, that was only a problem because of the generally disastrous state of inter-war Germany (reparations, debts, loss of industrial zones, restrictions on their military, Treaty of Versailles, fall of the Empire, etc.).

In general, proportional representation has worked out pretty well for the countries that use it, though. It doesn’t magically fix everything, but the US’s two parties currently clearly aren’t working.

¹ (Side note: Danish civil history is really cool! Used to be Vikings, lost their imperial ambitions and mellowed out, democratized willingly, saved nearly all their Jewish people and even sorted preserved their democracy through WWII, then went fully Nordic model, and now have neat randomly sampled citizen’s assemblies that are probably how democracy really should be done.)

² (The US had been hovering barely above the threshold between “Full Democracy” and “Flawed Democracy” for years, based on the EIU’s ranking criteria. It finally crossed the threshold in 2016, and has been falling alarmingly quickly ever since.)

Ah, but you’re missing an important distinction. He committed treasonous acts with plausible deniability! And he’ll always be able to come up with new lies and new ways to abuse you faster than you’ll be able to disprove his lies or protect yourself, so you may as well restore the monarchy already and put him on top.

EDIT: On a serious note, the comment you replied to is absolutely correct in the point they were making. If Trump is barred from the Oval Office, and the evidence and the way the evidence are presented are anything less than rock solid, then future presidents will absolutely weaponize it as precedent to lock out their political opponents (as happens in every other broken democracy).

Definitely fly both at once, or overlay them tastefully or something, instead of going full pride-version.

Mutilating the country’s flag in order to show your “patriotism”, as certain groups do, is… Certainly an interesting symbolic choice.