Oh that’s just Valiant Thor’s normal form.

Gotta be the latter. I think they’re all looking at Grandpa and seeing how long he has left - and everyone, every one of them is eyeing that big chair.

This is good, but I hate the people using the term “rough sleeping” or “rough living” to refer to unhoused people.

The government steals property all the time, it’s just called eminent domain. And to be fair, these aren’t Ma and Pa Kent who own these apartments - it’s almost all enormous companies worth multiple billions of dollars, keeping those $5k/year apartments at that price point because OCCASIONALLY someone will make enough to rent one. I think “hey either it needs to be rented out in some capacity within six months or we’re gonna take it and do it for you” is a good solution - sure, it’s Tammany Hall government all over again, but since that seems to be the only thing that corporations respond to now, it’s a good solution.

Nah, that just helps to normalize it and let people think it’s just harmless and fun.

It’s easier for the news and the government to deepfake things like “huge mobs of Mexican narcoterrorists just over the border” or “there’s a nuclear missile silo in Iran” or whatever with this.

Don’t forget the work requirements for Medicaid they’re doing federally. Oz (yes that Dr Oz) wants to make them totally universal for anyone on Medicaid - gotta work at least 80 hrs a month to stay on. Terminally ill? Disabled to the point you physically can’t work? Too bad, do it or die.

The fascists figured out if you’re actively killing the “useless eaters”, people get mad about it. If you just allow them to die through neglect and systemic failure, they’re more OK with it.

Actually, most of the valuation of SpaceX now is tied up in Grok, thanks to Felon merging xAI into it for shell-game accounting reasons.

“Your honor…look at him.”

In many if not most cases of family annihilation, it’s a loss or perceived loss of social or financial status. Dad or Mom or whoever can’t stand the idea of their kids growing up poor (or even just slightly less rich) and decide to not only take themselves, but everyone with them “to spare them the pain”.

Pretty much, yes. It was a stunt to siphon away money and political will from a high speed interurban rail.

And we look to be wanting to do more. We keep threatening Greenland, Rubio just put out a report that basically looks like an invasion plan for Cuba, I’m interested in whether they’re trying to put together some sort of plausible sounding casus belli against Mexico or Canada too.

Except in a lot of THOSE cases, Flock doesn’t even remove their own hardware, just the PD/local govt access to the data.

I think it’s a conscious refusal by them to buy over a certain size. I get it, I dealt with it when I had to move to XL. Both he and his brother are constantly OBSESSED with their physical images, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the reason they get things sized WAY too tight and suchlike is pure body dysmorphia.

This is called “goetta” here in Cincinnati. Usually you toss some spices in the mix, fry it up and serve it for breakfast. It’s delicious. I know Pennsylvania has a similar thing called “scrapple”.

Now, without the spices, yes, terrible.

My biggest issue is making the main character a bard who doesn’t even get a SINGLE swing in combat, or a single spell to cast. He seems to mostly just exist as a peg to hang the story on.

Additionally, since prosecutors are an elected position in many places, they have a serious incentive in locking up as many people as they possibly can, if only because incarcerated people generally don’t make campaign ads.

The dude likely never commanded more than 1000 guys at a time before this, and he legitimately just doesn’t have the training or the temperament to be in the position of running the ENTIRE military. There’s a reason you make generals and admirals your SecDef: they actually have training in things like strategy, and have enough experience to know what actually wins a war.

Guys like Hegseth, who don’t really have experience in high command, think “muscle and grit and cool guys with guns” win wars. This makes him more popular with actual soldiers, but it doesn’t win you wars, and his insistence on culture war bullshit over actually doing things that work is rapidly losing him the soldier support too.

There’s also all the backend that he doesn’t care about. The power and the materials required for those robots and digital intelligences comes from a place, it doesn’t just materialize as parts for your stupid Optimus.

I appreciate his continual commitment to being a guy that needs to be hit with a brick. Really impressive work to be this much of a shitbag consistently.