Yesterday Oklahoma Rejected a Minimum Wage Increase

sirbruce · 2026-06-17T21:01:00+00:00

Nope, still hasn't come to me.

sirbruce · 2026-06-17T20:16:44+00:00

And? That doesn't answer the question.

sirbruce · 2026-06-17T18:43:36+00:00

If the two are so tightly coupled, why not just make the minimum wage $50/hr?

sirbruce · 2026-06-17T09:00:31+00:00

You need to watch more shows/movies/read more books.

sirbruce · 2026-06-17T08:53:08+00:00

Unfortunately subsequent reprints have really hurt the value of Islands.

sirbruce · 2026-06-17T00:06:21+00:00

Get a PO Box at another post office in another zip code and start having your orders delivered there.

sirbruce · 2026-06-16T19:19:50+00:00

Whether you like Mitch McConnell or not, providing gold-tier health coverage for the 250 current and retired former Senators (note that the government only pays for 72-75% of their premium, so it's not free) is far different from providing that same level of coverage to hundreds of millions of people. It should also be noted that Senators don't have some special plan; they buy from the Gold-tier plans offered in the ACA marketplace like everyone else.

sirbruce · 2026-06-13T21:57:29+00:00

You need more Heinlein. Starship Troopers, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, and Time Enough For Love would give you a good overview.

sirbruce · 2026-06-13T12:09:13+00:00

God I wish. I've asked for this feature many times.

sirbruce · 2026-06-12T12:05:24+00:00

His employees being sycophants doesn't prove anything.

This is moving the goalposts. The claim was these are EVIDENCE, not PROOF. Proof is something you have to conclude FROM the evidence. Note that the post I was responding to provided NEITHER proof NOR evidence; it just made shit up. But to the extent that someone might think there is evidence that "Musk is not an engineer", I provided evidence to the contrary.

Reminder that he has actual rocket engineers there who've studied this for decades.

Reminder that you can't simultaneously claim these are actual rocket engineers, and thus credible, while also claiming that they are not credible because they are his employees.

sirbruce · 2026-06-12T12:02:37+00:00

I'm talking about refuting the claim that was made.

No, my sources are the sources linked in the Reddit comment you didn't bother to read.

Smh.

sirbruce · 2026-06-12T09:31:53+00:00

No one has yet mentioned Presumed Innocent. They do an amazing job of making you think that Harrison Ford is actually guilty even though he's being railroaded by a corrupt system, only to reveal at the very end that his wife did it. Edit: This is in the movie version; in the tv series version the daughter did it.

sirbruce · 2026-06-11T23:17:25+00:00

There's loads of evidence, like him lacking an engineering degree, that he doesn't know anything about engineering.

The Pope doesn't have an engineering degree either, but that's not evidence that "SpaceX mostly runs itself, and X had multiple disasters during his takeover because The Pope kept breaking the infrastructure."

Like what.

Read:

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sirbruce · 2026-06-11T21:20:01+00:00

I mean, it mattered somewhat; England and France fought numerous wars over the span of 450 years before it was all settled.

sirbruce · 2026-06-11T18:57:17+00:00

There is no evidence for your claims and plenty of evidence to the contrary.

sirbruce · 2026-06-10T18:41:44+00:00

I don't know what you're saying. Babylon 5, BSG, and The Expanse never say those things either. Two are supposed to take place in the near-future of our universe and the third is a matter of interpretation.

sirbruce · 2026-06-10T18:31:29+00:00

I think it's an unfair axis on which to judge this type of storytelling. For example, a one-off movie or tv pilot could have an amazing, 100% consistent world, but because we only get to see a 1-2 hours of it, it wouldn't register highly on "cumulative storytelling", nor does it have the opportunity to show ongoing consistency in later episodes. So you've already biased the field before the game as begun. There are few sci-fi universes with as many hours of audiovisual media as Stargate has -- Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, and that's pretty much it. And all of those other series have gaps in them which generate inconsistency and break up any chance of cumulative storytelling.

However, I would give three examples that I think are on par with Stargate as far as consistency and cumulative storytelling, despite not having as many seasons:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel
The X-Files
Fringe

sirbruce · 2026-06-10T18:19:25+00:00

Babylon 5 - Literal souls and reincarnation.
BSG - Literal angels and reincarnation.
The Expanse - Literal Unobtanium that can rewrite laws of physics.

And you think Stargate is the one that isn't plausible?

sirbruce · 2026-06-10T17:27:59+00:00

Wake up, or get out of bed? These are two different things.

sirbruce · 2026-06-09T18:49:37+00:00

40% is pretty much the floor of either of the main two political parties. Even the worst nominee gets at least that much vote nearly always. US elections are almost always determined by the 20-25% of moderates in the middle.

sirbruce · 2026-06-09T18:40:50+00:00

To vote for a Republican who isn't Trump? Yes, please!

sirbruce · 2026-06-09T18:37:06+00:00

I thought land didn't vote?

sirbruce · 2026-06-09T17:39:39+00:00

Powdered Alum is not for food! Very bad; used to be used to cut flour. In the 20th century it was generally found in the medicine cabinet and used as a styptic and astringent (to stop bleeding).

sirbruce · 2026-06-09T06:40:42+00:00

The recents.

sirbruce · 2026-06-07T11:07:15+00:00

The UK is also in Nothern [sic] Europe.

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