I was about to say, all those third world countries in Africa and South America are looking to do wind, solar, etc because it’s cheap and independent, rather than relying on coal or gas from other nations.

To be entirely fair, Papal infallibility was only really defined in 1870.

Now, Papal supremacy (the idea that the Pope is the ruling agent over the entire Church, and that their decisions must be unhindered) is ancient.

Yeah, even a coordinated attack on physical networking backbones wouldn’t be TOO rough. We’d have to piece together what’s left and figure out what to replace, but there’s enough worldwide structure that we can do that in a pretty coordinated manner even without the Internet - it would probably just take a lot longer. I feel that a lot of the West would be the worst off, but surprisingly, a lot of governments already have plans for stuff like this. I feel even with incompetence, you’d be looking at 2-3 years max, but I don’t think you’d see Purge-style societal collapse or whatever you’re envisioning.

Actually, a lot of the scientists themselves spoke on it, and people who had first-hand accounts of what they went through. Even a few former members have spoken on what they did. We know the data is effectively worthless for much the same reason as we know Mengele’s data was worthless - the subjects are all sorts of ages and backgrounds and most had been tortured or at least starving in a concentration camp. Data on, say, frostbite affecting HEALTHY people might be worth something, but there are so many confounding factors between disease, starvation, injuries, etc that it’s almost impossible to disentangle the testing data from what was already there.

Additionally, a lot of the data is very obvious shit anyone could’ve told you already, and the experiments (especially with 731) done to make things that looked like science, or experiments that were done to replicate Western science so Japan could internally take credit. It doesn’t take a surgeon to tell you “hey if you put people in a vacuum chamber, they die” or “hey if you vivisect someone and take their lungs out, they need those and they’ll die.”

Much easier to say when you’re not the one invested with massive power, and often massive wealth too. There’s a reason the saying goes that power corrupts.

They’re also known for highly sanitizing translations. Captain Smoker got localized as “Chaser” because “we can’t have kids knowing about smoking”. They also replaced Sanji’s cigarettes with lollipops. A whole Pokemon episode was entirely cut because it has a gun in it, and the Pokemon he catches in that episode are simply just…handwaved away. Every time you see a “guard” or “heavy” character doing a finger gun at someone in Yu-Gi-Oh, they had an actual gun edited out.

You forgot ‘and a friend to pull you out in case’.

Hegseth sent a couple thousand Marines to the Med, and he apparently thinks a ground invasion is at least ONE plan on the table. I do truly think Hegseth thinks that it’s just like Iraq in a video game, where it’s all flat, featureless desert.

Or, more likely, Hegseth doesn’t care about the lives lost, and thinks that we can just throw bodies and missiles at Iran to cow then into submission. That seems in line with his stupid “warrior ethos” shit.

Behind the Bastards also did a great series on it

Yeah, it’s only been the last 30-40 years that we’ve been falling down the same rabbit hole that places like OK or AL have.

No no no! I don’t know who started this fucking thing, Cincinnati chili has never contained cocoa. I literally live here, and I’ve heard it from tons of transplants and natives alike. No chili parlor here uses it, no recipes I’ve seen use it.

There’s also the fact that there’s an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They’re an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They’d need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.

Like father, like son. Part of why Trump eats so shitty is the same fear.

Can ride on rims for a long while. The Japanese did it when they invaded Singapore.

Traffic collisions are much easier to make look like a real accident. This, however, looks an awful lot like an assassination with a vehicle.

Have you also thought of the idea that maybe she’s masking some of those symptoms around you? A lot of the language in your post seems judgmental, if just ignorant. It could be she’s willing and able to internalize those symptoms around you or other people in order to make her life easier - lots of us do it around family because a LOT of parents wind up coming out of the gate sounding like you, and it’s easier to just go “look I’m fine” rather than have to justify our diagnosis constantly.

Autism, especially what used to be considered “high functioning” autism like Asperger’s, isn’t always a “constant” feeling of these symptoms anymore than an average schizoaffective person or someone with BPD or someone with bipolar is constantly experiencing their own symptoms. You have good days, you have bad days, and you have triggers and sometimes you can nut up even on the bad days and go to work or school or whatever. Autistic people aren’t constantly Rainman-ing their way through life, or constantly reenacting Sheldon from Big Bang Theory or whatever your popular conception is.

You’re already saying “she’s mostly not off”, so why is it so hard to believe that she has this disorder, or that it’s hard to take the next step and say “huh, she says that the medicine really helps and makes it easier for her, so I’ll believe her on that.”. I understand wanting the best and worrying about things like chemical dependency, but her doctor should be - and almost certainly IS - monitoring for this at regular checkups.

Honestly, I can see that. A lot of suicides are spur-of-the-moment, and the more a person has to actively work at it, the less likely they are to actually follow through on the attempt. Even just those couple seconds of working at it to get a whole box of blister packs open could be enough for a lot of people to stop, think, and say “actually wait”.

I’ll second my hero Mr Rogers.

We should all want to be like him.

It’s not about doing that. It’s all about the fact that he CAN, and that Miller and Hegseth and the rest of the Heritage Foundation sees the entirety of North and South America as potential vassal states at best and colonial plantations at worst.

There’s also the Gilboa DBR AR15.