SaltSong @ SaltSong @startrek.website

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Right. They are just gonna let anyone sell anything.

My wife is artsy, and I'm sciency. Maybe we can go into snake oil.

Ah, you forget the alternative. Instead of quicker review, we could just reduce oversight, and remove safety regulations.

Agreed, but that was kind of the premise of the discussion, I think.

And you somehow think the Republicans political party members do not?

No, I don't. I think they mostly lie, or say whatever they think will get them what they want.

Many Americans do not desire these jobs.

Of course they don't. But they think they do, in the way I think I want to be a sailor in 1805. And weather they want them or not, they think that it would be good for other people.

That's because none of that is manufacturing. Programming, producing, inventing, yes. Manufacturing, no.

If we manufactured something, there world be jobs doing the assembly, performing random quality tests on units, packing units, operating the warehouses, shipping them to stores, plotting them on shelves. Manufacturing involves a lot of people getting paid money to do things. (The ones that aren't done by robots, anyway) Programming a new piece of software, even a wondrous one, completely skips most of those jobs, and minimizes the rest.

Understand, when they say "manufacturing," what they are talking about is decent paying jobs with steady hours, and minimal requirements. You can learn what you need in the factory, without having to go to school for 4 years.

Those jobs mostly don't exist anymore, and they mostly will not exist again. But that's what the Trump base remembers, either from their past, or from their parents. That's what Trump is promising them.

The democrats have a bad case of "mostly telling the truth," so wet can't promise them very much.

Unless you have a keylogger installed.

of course he ducking does. If he didn't, the court would have to try to impose some kind of penalty, and they know as well as any of us that they have no actual power to do so.

Ten gets you twenty that the man in question is already a corpse. Probably been dead since the judge ordered him returned. If it ever comes to it, it will be revealed that he died in an accident, and the courts will take a moment to wag their finger at Trump.

And that will be that.

Thanks! That is sensible. I thought it was inputting something about their methodology.

Which seems to be "ask the nearest clown car, and use the worst idea."

I didn't. I what to know why people who know more then I do think it's a problem. The process is called "learning."

I'm missing something. I often use asterisk to indicate multiplication. Clearly you guys are seeing this as implying something troublesome, but I don't know what.

Of course, I also wouldn't trust me to decide tax rates, so there's that.

To a certain extent, yes.

I used to do a dirty job. I spent most days trying hard to minimize the amount of grime I got on my hands. Some days it got past the wrist, despite my best efforts, and at that point, I would just give up and dive in.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

If I'm gonna be shit on for being unethical no matter what I do, (because that is no option to not consume under capitalism for most of us) I might as well be unethical in a way that brings me a little happiness.

This is also a lovely example of why it can be risky to damn with too broad a brush.

In in a similar boat. All I can do is bail as hard as I can.

No, I know. Like I said, it's not going to be pleasant.

It's already not pleasant, but it's going to not be, too.

The other last line.

Reynolds added that while at the minimum, investors will want to have a single bullet in the chamber for themselves, ideally, individuals should make sure they have enough so the whole family is taken care of.

This sounds like the guy who suggested "virgin edibles" as an idea worth trying out.

Or, to rephrase it, "food."

Everyone who thinks this seems to forget that they have to live through the collapse of civilization. It's not gonna be pleasant.

Bones in the Ocean hurts me in ways that it has no business doing so.

I've never suffered a loss of any great magnitude. I've never even been to sea, though I desperately wish I had been.

Oh, damn. I really liked this series of books.

I can't imagine it will make a good tv show. So much of it was the narrator talking to himself.

That's the silent one by HPLHS, isn't it?

They did a talkey version of Whisperer in the Dark, and it was pretty damn good. I love their Dark Adventure Radio Theater, too.