Oh absolutely. Regulating emissions and mass carbon capture by replanting forests, then burying them is the only way. Ain’t like it would be even so easy as launching millions of shade satellites. An entire automated zero g manufacturing industry would have to be launched. And while that tickles my scifi nerd fancy, again, we can never allow a scant few humans to gatekeep space resources for themselves. That’s too much wealth and power.

He probably means it’ll feed the poor into a wood chipper.

This exact same technology naturally allows capitalists to force everyone to pay not to have their sunlight blocked during the day.

I mean, the technology certainly has benefits, not in reflecting sunlight onto the dark side of the Earth. Nobody fucking needs that. Instead it should be used to shade a few percent of sunlight in order to control Earth’s warming climate.

But rich people gotta fuck things up. No single entity must ever be allowed to control orbital megastructures.

Not even as a kid did I ever understand cutting sandwiches. And crusts were always fine by me.

I wasn’t giving their reasons. Those are mine.

By their nature, billionaires are insatiable. Of course they’re bitching. Nothing can ever be good enough. But yeah, Texas sucks.

It’s flat and featureless. There is practically no public land besides a few national and state parks, so you can’t actually go to those places you see from the road. You’ll get shot for trespassing. Cookie cutter mcmansions for a kings ransom everywhere. Slow traffic in cities, huge trucks doing 100mph in the country. And to top it off, some of the most ignorantly, arrogantly, self-righteous people you’ll ever meet.

The only way Christianity makes any sense to me within the real world (aside from it being not real) is if Satan wrote the Bible pretending to be God, while denigrating the good guy as the rebellious angel Lucifer. If Satan had written the Bible instead of God, would you expect more genocide, slavery, torture, and rape, or less? So why is there any in the first place?

Look at 2000 years of Christian history. As soon as they could, they usurped political power in the most powerful nation in the area; Rome. Then began slaughtering and torturing anyone anywhere who thought different. They claimed divine rights and authority. They committed genocide in every single nation on the planet over nearly 2000 years. They perfected the dark arts of torture. They conquered earthly territory and plundered earthly wealth. They slaughtered so many that they built orphanages the world over where they could claim divine morality, but also rape children for centuries.

What did Lucifer do exactly? He told the first people that God was a lying dick and they should rebel against him, as he did.

Wouldn’t you?

The Culture is fantastic. Except the ugly parts.

Vance is VP because he is no threat whatsoever to Trump. He’s no threat because he has no ability, intelligence, or charisma, and he’s already bent the knee.

Not really. I have most of what I want and need. Now I just need to zero my debt, which ain’t gonna happen soon. So I don’t need new shit. I’m just hitting yard sales.

And none of that shit ever got me laid like they said it would.

I ain’t terrible to look at these days, but I was quite attractive in my youth. But I’ll tell you what, being raised by right wing religious nutjobs can fuck up even that advantage. I’m better now, but I used to be incel adjacent.

I say let him fly a jet.

There was a bomb threat at a nearby Walmart that day.

Sounds like you raised a better man than yourself.

Entitled? Nah, you’re thinking of business majors.

There’s a maybe too large part of me that thinks violence may be necessary, but you know what?

I’m kind of a cranky, belligerent jerk sometimes, and I’ve been wrong about a lot of things. I could be wrong again. I hope so.

And the fact of the matter is that a lot of people who I respect and love disagree with me and demand peaceful protest and are trying much more clever ideas than I’ve come up with. Inflatable animal costumes? I never considered that one. And damn if it doesn’t ruin their photo ops. Bravo!

Good people are having a lot stolen from them. It would be shitty if anyone steals peaceful protest away from them too.

Probably 2 of the biggest reasons the Greeks failed to become a technological civilization are that their various feuding city-states never united in cooperation, but primarily that they were super into slavery for all their labor. They didn’t want to make slaves work less, then they would have time and energy to rebel and slaughter their masters. No, scientific advancement was simply for curiosity’s sake, not practical applications.

He doesn’t even know all the shiny shit he put up in the white house came from Home Depot and got spray painted.

I doubt she’d bother showing up for it. It’s useless pageantry and she has work to do.

Easy, aim for the legs.