… is wrong, as long as the mirror is flat. This one is easy to test so this might be a better bet.

But that was never the bet. The bet was about transmitting light through the atmosphere. This is just some weird little aside you got yourself tangled in. More than happy to take on a bet about the transmission power of mirrors versus lasers from space, which is what were actually discussing.

(Dug this one out of the grave because I’m trying to find another bet I just won, so was searching for “bet”)

Fascists really really don’t want socialism.

This seems like a FOSS bait and switch. Yall gotta start getting the message: The profit is the problem.

Putin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijk4j-r7qPA

chonk

Yeah sure he is.

He doesn’t need a ceasefire. He can just stop withhold financial support to Israel and all of this madness ends.

He doesn’t care. He only cares that you believe he gives a shit about a ceasefire.

You seem mad bro.

U mad?

I love how much it tells us that your this mad about even the idea that you could be inconvenienced or annoyed by a protestor.

It tells us so much about you than you’ll ever be able to say.

Theirs no confusion here other than that which you were trying to make with your statement.

I’m just pointing it out so that its clear to others what you are doing: a rhetorical bait and switch.

They’re just idiots complicit in the system. They’d rather have genocide if it comes wearing the right party colors.

They don’t truly believe in protest or freedom of speech, but they themselves are also functionally worthless in this regard.

Their hand wringing can and should be ignored.

Biden is overseeing the slaughter of children in Gaza right now and these people are mad about books. If you are focused on some minor damage to books and not the point the protestor was making, you are the problem.

Did they shoot someone or are you trying to set up a false premise?

Cus it sounds and looks like you are setting up a false premise. They vandalized some books. No one got hurt.

You know who did shoot some one today?

Israeli’ troops. Israeli trooop shot someone today, that’s who is doing the shooting. Its Israel.

I mean its not like they bombed an aid convoy.

Also, you are now here, talking about it, so it worked.

It’s propaganda meant to string you along and give the sense that Biden is “doing something” or that there is some daylight between the parties on this thing.

Polanyi had observed that, in the 1930s, wealthy Germans who saw the Nazi party as a “battering ram” against trade unions and socialists were persuaded to overlook Hitler’s antisemitism because it allowed the market system to flourish, Dale said. “In the same way that a lot of Americans who find Trump distasteful today will still vote for him, a lot of German elites said to themselves: we’re quite happy funding Hitler because his street fighters will help crush the trade unions, so that we can make more profits.”

They got the metaphor wrong. Billionaires see Trump as a battering ram to break what remains of the US social support system and claim victory over the ashes.

vibe af

Fine? Arrest and jail.

Trumps social messaging is very balkanized. Like, what is Biden gonna buy on Truth.social?

This race is shaping up to be one of the dumbest of all time.

Also, the first time the price of something rises in the 5 minutes it takes for me to get my shopping done and get to the checkout, I’m taking a shit on the floor.

I’m with you I’m saving my dump truck load for the conveyor belt at the register.

Imagine walking down the aisle, normal day, no thoughts about the prices or any of that.

Then one day you walk down the aisle but this time you forgot your phone in the car.

Different prices. Then some one walks is coming close from the other end of the aisle. The price changes. They walk past, nonplussed. A few seconds later, it switches back.