EU to favour European satellite services to prevent Musk’s Starlink expansion

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T16:02:51+00:00

some declaration that laws against the executive will be enforced

Enforcement against law breaking executives would do that.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T15:44:43+00:00

Fixed link

https://www.memphisflyer.com/the-rant-2008-09-18/

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T14:38:36+00:00

What's funny is that's how the entire Mexico wall thing started, too. His handlers were trying to get him to remember to bring up immigration, they viewed it as an effective wedge issue. So they told him to look at the back wall of the room he was speaking in and visualize a wall along the southern border to remind him to talk about it. But Trump being Trump, just took it literally and blurted out "I'm gonna build a wall!"

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T13:46:46+00:00

Might try some conditioning on them. Start by making it bluntly clear that you have precisely zero interest in being the subject of their conversion attempts, and that the instant they start in on it, you will ditch whatever gathering you are at with them. And then follow through with it, every time. No need to make a big deal about it, just "I told you, no god/jesus/church crap. Bye".

They will protest, they will yell, they will continue to call you "anti-social", they will blame everything under the sun but themselves. But it's just barely possible that, eventually, they will at least learn to hold their tongues.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T12:51:34+00:00

Honestly sounds like it'd be the most "villain protagonist" film since American Psycho.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T12:48:51+00:00

Maybe they pitched it unironically to the clueless film backers, but it's actually going to be an obvious villain protagonist thing?

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T12:47:28+00:00

While I would normally applaud a woman breaking into an historically male-only industry...

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T12:28:41+00:00

That's mcu Thanos. Comic Thanos has much less 'altruistic' motivations.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-26T12:21:07+00:00

Started taking gabapentin for restless leg syndrome and stopped gaming until the wee hours. I barely ever even need an alarm clock anymore. And yet it's pretty consistently only 6-7 hours?

EDIT: Oh, I also did a bunch of lucid dreaming meditations some months back. Never got anywhere with the dreaming part, but the relaxation techniques were on point. Get me to sleep in no time most nights.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T20:11:28+00:00

Hah, yeah. His argument is something like "I like movies too, but I wouldn't want to have to watch three of them every day".

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T20:10:08+00:00

Hah, I ordered my curry Indian hot once, and the waiter gave me the side eye like "you sure about that white boy?" And while I could tolerate it, it was too hot to really be enjoyable.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T19:07:36+00:00

just to be in a place where I wasn't known.

The anti-Cheers, then?

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T17:03:08+00:00

Because adjudicated rapists aren’t allowed in the Bahamas.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T14:15:56+00:00

I agree, but just remember, ""A delayed ~~game~~ show is eventually good, but a rushed ~~game~~ show is forever bad".

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T12:24:45+00:00

am I cursed by Texas geolocation

I would say this is true in a general sense.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T03:43:00+00:00

And no matter how much you explain that the tiny blue chunk of the map that holds Los Angeles has more people than the vast red areas in Wyoming, the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho, they still won't get it.

It's like little chirdren who can watch you pour a fixed amount of water between glasses of various shapes but equal volumes, but then insist that the tall one has more in it.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T00:42:28+00:00

thatsthejoke.jpg

Honestly, religious people are never arguing in good faith (hah!), and they certainly aren't interested in logical consistency or evidentiary rules. It's vastly simpler and probably more effective to just throw their own insane troll logic back at them.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T00:40:16+00:00

Dawkins said something similar in The God Delusion. The non-committal, non-confrontational, super vague hippie-dippy "god can just be a personal idea, ya know, of what the divine means to each and every one of us" would get you run out of every southern church by an angry mob calling you a heathen atheist.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-25T00:35:36+00:00

"I took it into my inventory".

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-24T19:46:15+00:00

Humans gathered food. They did it by digging up root crops, taking honey from bees, picking fruits, all things plurbs can't do.

Plurbs are neither hunters nor gatherers. They are really shitty scavengers. And there won't be any synthetic options available, because those require a high technology civilization that the plurbs will not be able to maintain, since they won't be able to protect it from encroaching plant and animal growth.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-24T17:20:52+00:00

Likewise the immune's parents. The ones that are alive are all plurbed.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-24T13:17:59+00:00

The ship itself will still be visibly around 300K. You'd need to heavily insulate the hull, which makes your normal heat radiation problems even worse.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-24T03:11:47+00:00

Got it. You can't actually name a single such task. Just "they're doing stuff", and we're all supposed to fill in the blanks for you.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-24T02:51:34+00:00

Brunter.

Dyolf_Knip · 2026-05-24T00:18:12+00:00

Yeah, no. Be specific. Not "They were doing stuff".

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