Honda doesn’t want this to happen. They’re under pressure from the Japanese government to keep the company going so the country doesn’t lose a heavy industry company. This is probably a demand to try to wiggle away.

It’ll be interesting to see how Prophecy of the Pope people handle it when this pope gets replaced normally like all the others.

Quite the contrary. They base their power on the perception that they have a mass movement behind them. Protests can break that perception. There’s an entire wikipedia article on it:

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

It’s not time to put away that tool just yet. Protests on a mass scale can do a lot.

Art of the deal. Plan A is to give three weeks to sign off on the surrender. When they refuse, Plan B starts. Plan B is that there is no Plan B.

We’re also dealing with a baseline of relatively low numbers. That means it only takes a few additional deadly accidents to become 10X worse.

You wouldn’t build high speed rail on cargo lines, anyway. New rail corridors need to be established. The LA-Vegas line is being built along an existing interstate, which solves a lot of right-of-way and land usage issues. That’s what you want to do.

I swear, not all of us are sluts. I am, but not all of us.

That comes down to a question of what unit of government was the murder trying to influence. His target was pretty clearly United Healthcare itself, not any part of the government.

. . . so, anyway, that’s how I became radicalized.

The problem is that even if it’s still safe now, these changes cannot help, and it won’t be apparent until planes start crashing.

The industry also runs on perception of safety more than the reality. If it’s perceived unsafe, then the industry could collapse quickly.

With the sale of his Trump meme coin, he probably is a billionaire now. Yes, it tanked, but he doesn’t care. He already has their money.

I don’t think any major purchasers care, either, since it was probably a money laundering front in the first place.

It’s a town of around 3000 people. They may have nearly abolished it just by arresting those five guys.

The fascists want you to disappear. Never give the fascists what they want.

It’s not just COBOL, either. A long time ago, there was bad record keeping for when people were born. You might have to go off things like church baptismal records, and even that’s dicey. COBOL is dealing with the fact that we just don’t know, and that’s just how it is. No amount of “government efficiency” can fix this.

Techbros are ready to pick up where the oil barons left off. Finding capitalists to fund fascism is never a problem.

If there were a practical fusion reactor shown today, it’d be 10 years before it could be started to be deployed at commercial scale.

More to the point, fascism isn’t going away just because we have better electricity sources. Cheap power is a problem in capitalism.

Another 20% would go towards paying the federal debt. Ok, but that still leaves out 60%.

I look forward to three extra dollars in my pocket per year. I’ll buy an egg.

True. You almost have to believe the moon landing was fake before you believe in flat earth.

The answer to that is we pick it up in other ways, like universal health care or building schools, which would benefit the economy in other ways. There’s nothing special about military spending that makes it more effective at Keynesian economics than anything else. In fact, it’s probably worse.

Not that Keynesian economics was anything other than keeping capitalism going past its expiration date, of course.