Wow, what a pathetic ending to America’s space ambitions to have its 20+ year struggle to return to the moon quashed at the same time it has to decommission its major space station without a clear replacement. If SLS is canceled, then the Lunar Gateway program is even more pointless than it was before.

You’re talking about an inter-imperialist power conflict. There were no good guys. Both sides were using the war to destroy the workers’ movement and contest for global hegemony.

Definitely wasn’t rough play in an affair that left scratches that were clearly from human nails.

So, if I understand the message from liberals correctly, if you don’t vote for Kamala you’re implicitly endorsing the end of democracy and human rights in America, but if you vote for Trump you’re not a bad person?

They brought in UK Labor party strategists who have encourage the campaign to follow Starmer’s example of trying to bring in conservatives, non withstanding that Starmer got less votes than Corbyn and only won because of Tory/Reform party vote splitting.

I was pretty distraught as well, both with the sudden occurrence and how the scene was played for laughs. It’s a real shame, because I like the animation and character designs, but it was pretty clear from the second episode as well that the show is going to continue not taking this stuff seriously and being gross.

I think that would work for the most part.

There’s plenty of places to visit in the US northeast/mid-atlantic, but all those locations is a lot of ground to cover. You’ll be driving for hours upon hours, and it might eat pretty hard into your sight-seeing time if you’re only spending a week. For example, New Haven to DC would be a 7 hour drive! And that’s in pretty nasty/aggressive traffic. If you’re just getting your license, you do not want to be driving in NYC (or Boston).

For example, you could spend a week in D.C. alone: it would take days to experience the Smithsonian fully, and then you have all the other landmarks and museums and other attractions. Alternatively, New York City and Connecticut/New Haven would also fill a week.

The other thing to note is that if you’re vacationing in the northeast, you may be able to avoid renting a car if you’d prefer. This is the only region of the country with decent inter-city train travel (Amtrak), and D.C. and NYC have well-developed subway metros.

I would be kinda pissed if I was asked to entertain literal CIA/JSOC vampires and pigs, but probably would have done something similar at the end of the day. You probably put too much effort into it.

It is very funny to me that you ran into a libertarian so malformed that they haven’t even read Rand. Where they a Rothbardian, a Hoppean, or did they get their political “education” from memes?

Looking into some CMS documents, I think it’d fall under the category of rented durable medical equipment, and there would be charges if such equipment is used inpatient. But I’ll be frank that figuring out what hospitals actually charge for is kinda hell. I’ve been on the backend of these billing systems, and they are quite arcane.

https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/MedDMEPOSInpatient-MLN1541573.pdf

We can only really think in terms of likelihoods. Why would a non-human super-organism, who had the mental capacity to simulate the external universe with such consistency and fidelity, dream up such a human life?

It’s all a fun reasoning puzzle of course. We don’t really fear that we’re dreaming, we fear that we’re awake and that this is what life is.

Well in the US, you’d be given the wheelchair off the bat and then get the brutal invoice later.

You gotta register the copyright for this quick before someone sees the post and it becomes a Netflix movie.

The human brain doesn’t have the capabilities of synthesizing the richness of life de novo. Dreams and hallucinations are transitory and ephemeral things. Longitudinal consistency makes the idea of such a long-term hallucination absurdly implausible.

Settler freedom: the freedom to steal others’ land and profit from others’ labor. And most importantly, the freedom from feeling guilty about any of it.

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There was a real plan to intern potential dissidents in case of a major domestic emergency, but the actual targets were immigrants and leftists.

Curious who else could it be under the “others” category.

Seems legit.