Meanwhile people living in literal deserts are draining the water table to grow lush green lawns and fill swimming pools …

The one thing Star Wars has over Star Trek is absolutely absurd levels of energy generation and storage. The thing about the construction of light sabers that impresses people in-universe is the Khyber crystal, not power cell running it which apparently is a palm sized terawatt fusion generator. That is why ships like the X-wing are still useful in combat. Even at their size, they can carry enough firepower to punch through a lot of armor and force shields.

I read that as “I can melt that dick” and thought it was a very different sort of comic for a moment.

It all seems harmless until some nutbar prosecutor drags you to court in Provo on charges of whale poaching (or more likely sues your airline for making chemtrails).

They won’t even be built. He will just funnel a bunch of money to his defense contractor buddies.

To MAGAs, guns don’t cause crime, brown people cause crime.

If the essentials of life are all shifted to “welfare capitalism” the power of class and capital to subjugate is greatly diminished. Add in mass union membership and it gets even better.

Not really. It’s entirely possible to pick and choose. We chose a socialist model for fire department because the capitalist model proved disastrous. Many countries successfully did the same for healthcare, retirement, and all sorts of things. At the same time, capitalism is great when you want a million choices on TV to watch or a grocery store with a whole aisle of different types of cookies.

To me, the difference is the impact of failures. If someone starts a company making a new type of cookie and it proves not to be profitable, it goes bankrupt. Unfortunate, but ultimately not a big deal. If someone has cancer and curing them isn’t profitable, you can’t just give up. That person’s life is more important than profit.

People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.

I’m sure the current Supreme Court wouldn’t agree with you.

Unfortunately, not true.

the analysis offered in this Article indicates three things: (1) America’s voters can legally place that person in the vice-presidency; (2) that person can later succeed from that office to the presidency; and (3) if such a succession occurs, no cap on the duration of resulting presidential service will inhibit that person from serving out the full remainder of the term.

https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1012/

Maybe we can do an eternal flame kind of thing, except a constant stream of piss.

Mmm…coconut oil.

There are dozens of us!

Or the Holy Trinity of Cajun and creole cooking, celery, onions, and bell pepper.

Ludo - Horror of Our Love

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Scientology of course!

I’ve seen enough HGTV to know the answer is always shiplap.

If you want a religion that follows conventional laws of thermodynamics, Christianity is not for you.

The idea was that the heart of Hell was cold because it was the furthest from Gods love.