Of course the danger is that this is cancelled out by increased carbon emissions from a making a commensurate amount of toast.

So this new carbon sequestering program is going to be kind of a good news / bad news thing. …

Reminds me of the reddit mascot…

Penalties for violating the law would either be the monthly salary of a lawmaker or 10% of the value of each asset they buy or sell.

Because I’m sure no one would make more than that and just take the trade off. And then take credit for saving the tax payers money. That’s definitely not the kind of thing that would happen in the Congress I know.

Happy Birthday owes it’s place to function. I don’t think anybody actually enjoys it as music.

Easy, find the guy stuck with your old job, offer to take those servers off his hands.

it’s just short for living standards that reduce corporate profits.

This generational. I’ve seen a number of names I thought of as grandma names come back into fashion. People who are young enough not to have experienced grandmas with those names pick them. Gertrude is a grandma name to me, BTW, not a great-grandma name. I actually had a grandma named Gertrude. Welcome to old. (Edit: my brain glitched from Mildred to Gertrude there. Looking forward to Alzheimers.)

I picked long ago. I just finally found a potential upside.

Even if he were prosecuted, his lawyers could claim he was too senile to know what he was doing, and it’s not like he’s got enough years left in him to worry about seeing the end of it.

Those are things that are in the interest of the US foreign policy agenda.

Can someone remind me of the last time a U.S. president took a principled stand on some foreign policy issue? Seriously, I’m not just asking this to be a dick. I’m pretty sure things are set up to ensure this does not ever happen.

Assuming they were dropped by whoever installed that plug, 100,000 years, as estimated by the experts cited by the article.

It’s like they spent a lot of time and effort thinking about, how many different ways can we make this more terrifying? I’m having trouble coming up with anything else they could do short of anything really blatant like attaching it to a mobile body with flailing meat grinder arms and giving it a blood curdling 100 decibel scream.

No, just 100,000 years old, can’t you read?

Yeah but this kind of salt they only taste test every half million years or so, so the expiration dates cant be trusted to be that precise.

pretty sure I’ve seen ducks shooting up in the park…

They were carried by knights who didn’t have horses.

Maybe, but if true it means that whether the child is choking on feathers or bowling balls, they are ejected at the same speed, which is a great advantage of this technique.

The solution to this is either reform from within, or by regulation. The former requires that involvement that I talked about, starting at the local level. That is how grassroots works. Reform has happened before. We did not use to even have democratic primaries.

We could argue about which of those two approaches is more feasible, but I would argue that any regulation from above is going to be incomplete and imperfect, and the people involved are going to game the new system just as they have before to their advantage and to hold onto power. The only long term solution is more involvement from below. Democracy cannot work with the minimal level of involvement that we have come expect.