Needs approval by 3/4 of state legislatures; it’s not enough to control the US congress. Supreme court shenanigans or some other BS is much more likely.

This is referred to as healthspan or HALE and has been gaining research interest in recent decades.

Don’t forget Kodi!

More open strictly in that it allows free software to be rolled up into proprietary software.

Just because competition can be suppressed temporarily within a discrete system doesn’t mean it has ceased to exist. Exactly why ideologies that demand the absence of competition will eventually be outcompeted from the outside.

The health of the current system is undenianly declining, absolutely. But competition is eternal and non-optional, so systems that seek to eliminate it are intrinsically doomed.

Well, competition has been going pretty strong for the last four billion years; time will tell.

Yes, exactly! For all the noxious effects of greed, it drives competition which drives evolution.

Even if a utopian communist/anarchist society were able to stabilize on its own, it would inevitably be overcome at some point in the future by a more competitive society that had martially evolved beyond the utopia’s understanding.

Whether its right or wrong has no bearing on the entropy of it.

Well that and extremely standardized platforms, with all the benefits that entails.

What a goofy take. “Having trouble with self control? Have you tried having self control?” Obviously there’s something more going on or life would be a whole lot simpler. Sometimes externalizing a decision through a tool like a timer is part of how a person indirectly exerts self control.

A friend gave me the 6-CD “power pack” of Mandrake 10 that could install a quite wide range of optional software completely offline. Hooked me too.

This can be read completely opposite ways depending on one’s starting perspective.

Fourth panel e.g.: “And how did the native peoples’ failure to enforce border integrity work out for them?”

Ass Dan’s gonna live forever!

I just learned that W.E.B. Du Bois pointed this out in 1935 in terms of why poor whites in the Reconstruction-era South preferred to side with the white landowners who exploited them rather than their fellow workers who happened to be black. People would rather feel superior than actually pursue a better life for everyone. It’s come to be called The Wages of Whiteness.

That’s literally what I thought when I first learned as a kid. “But the last option is shoot!”

Is it really that mind-boggling? ST has always seemed to me to read whichever way you are already predisposed to. How does everybody dying make it an anti-war movie? I would be shocked if the kind of person who believes in the good of a war machine were surprised that lots of people die in war.

Maybe my memory is a bit hazy, but the bugs actually annihilate a city, right? What is the human response supposed to be? The extreme nature of the government and military only come across as insane if you’ve already been educated about fascism. Desperate times do indeed call for desperate measures, which muddies the antifascist message in my opinion.

It’s a great movie, but anyone who thinks it’s going to change anyone’s mind from their preconceptions is fooling themselves.

What am I missing?

Don’t give Java the credit of inventing bytecode, it’s a much cooler concept than that