Doesn’t want a breeze to come along and make him look like

That’s certainly one of the points that I needed to learn about. There are certainly genetic diseases like congenital heart defects or hemophilia. But then there are genetic differences that might seem maladaptive under certain given circumstances, but wouldn’t be any issue at all or might even confer advantages under different societal contexts. And then there are the straightforward differences that eugenics-obsessed regimes like to define as undesirable, like having the wrong hair, eye, or skin color, and then use that as an excuse to persecute whomever they want to. The whole thing is irreparably fucked.

What if we took an A-frame… and made it even harder to insulate?

When I was a freshman in college I thought “Surely nobody would want to inherit genetic diseases, and why wouldn’t we want to to try and make people just naturally live longer, healthier lives?” but then I did even the tiniest bit of research on how eugenics actually worked and I completely abandoned that line of thinking.

Weird Al, Mission Statement

I like to see what’s going on in the handheld emulator world!

I’d like to run a poll of as many Americans as could be managed, and ask them if we should maintain diplomatic relations with… and then list a series of real and fictional nations. I suspect we’d get something like 25 to 30% who think we should cut off diplomatic ties with Narnia, Wakanda, and Oz.

As much as I liked the “You didn’t kill Anakin Skywalker, I did” scene from the Obi-Wan show, it really makes Obi-Wan look like a proper fuckup for fully acknowledging that Anakin is dead and Vader is all that remains, and that Vader is an unrepentant murderous asshole who serves the Emperor, and still refusing to kill him and instead walking away.

Like, once on Mustaphar I can kind of get; it’s a highly emotional moment and all, and for all you know Anakin is going to roast to death in a couple of minutes anyway. But letting Vader live twice?! That’s just bad future-planning, man.

Might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

I was telling a customer that he had to wear a mask to enter my place of business during COVID masking mandates, and he got furious and called me a “white privilege redneck libtard” and I’m just astonished at that particular combination of words to angrily shout.

In 2000, Nader won 1.64% of the popular vote in Florida.

If less than 1% of the Nader voters had voted for Gore instead, Gore would have won Florida, become president, and who knows what timeline we’d be living in today.

If your favorite candidate is polling in single digits ahead of election day, maybe… just maybe… you should consider which of the actually viable candidates you want to win and vote accordingly.

Could have built ten brand new public schools.

Sent 25,000 kids to preschool.

Given 3,000 people full ride college scholarships.

But blowing the money up by accident is good too, I guess.

Don’t forget killing USAID, and the untold numbers of unnecessary deaths that will result, to say nothing of the harm to US soft power abroad.

2000 Presidential Election:

Popular vote: 50,456,002 (Bush) / 50,999,897 (Gore)

Bush won because the margin was so narrow. He lost the popular vote but eked out an electoral college win because of Florida.

Per Wikipedia:

Bush carried Florida by only 537 votes out of 5.96 million cast in the state (a margin of 0.009%).

Nader took 97,488 votes. If less than one percent of Nader voters had gone for Gore, Gore would have won the state, and who knows what timeline we’d be living in now.

Elections can be stolen when the margin is that narrow. When the margin is wide, it’s impossible to steal.

1964, Presidential Election (LBJ vs Goldwater):

Johnson won 61% of the popular vote. Even if there had been a concerted effort to rig the election against Johnson, it would have had to be so widespread and obvious that it would have been either stopped immediately, or it would have resulted in a new civil war. Getting that many people voting the right way should be the goal; make the margin of victory so wide as to be impossible to overcome via subtle chicanery.

If they still try to steal the election in those circumstances, then there will be violence, which is the only other option for changing government, so we might as well try having the election before the violence.

TLDR:

There is a certain subset of people whose continued existence is a testament to the fundamental nonviolence of the human species. People who, by all rights, should have been violently killed a long time ago, based on their horrendous personalities and actions, but when you come right down to it, the vast majority of people aren’t murderers, and so they just keep skating by on the decency and pro-community tendencies of humanity.

But what if the gorillas stopped sitting around and actually worked to build muscle mass? We’ve never actually seen a gorilla that was trying to get as big and as strong as he could.

“But then all of our leaders would be 'roided up MMA specialists!”

“And would that be any worse than our current arrangement?”

“…”

It is called MAD, after all.