And a serious issue expressing it clearly.

Dude, this is not a me problem. It’s 100% a you problem.

Oh yeah, absolutely. The county electing an obviously unfit person to the highest office is not something that happens on its own: it’s an indication of the rot running deep. The unfit person can then accelerate the destruction of the country in ways few were even able to anticipate.

The U.S. has entered exponential decline, where everything that happens makes the next step more likely and more impactful.

And after that, VRA, loving vs Virginia, fair housing act. Ending segregation was a gradual process that, by many metrics, still isn’t complete, but any date before 1964 or 1968 is a big fat lie.

Yes, but also no.

Everyone can see the inflection point. Some might be tempted to roll the dice, we got a shit situation now, let’s see what happens. But everyone can see things are not like they used to be.

What is your point exactly?

I know you are probably not trying to sound like an apologist for fucking slavery, but I’m coming up empty on alternative hypotheses.

Not on earth, but there are certain orbits of Jupiter where it would work like gangbusters!

Yeah my other two options were murder and buried with evidence of other crimes to make investigation harder.

There’s also a huge barrier to entry in fossil fuels, since the existing industry owns the oil wells and refineries.

And the patents you need to license to build them.

Of course you could, but the energy math only really makes sense if you scale it up.

Most tidal energy projects involve damming a bay or reservoir and extracting energy with turbines as water flows in or out due to the tides.

Oh that’s honestly on the benign side of the options I was turning around in my head.

Is this just “haha your mom is dead” (which is not a particularly ingenious put down for middle aged children — parents tend to die eventually) or is this a reference to something untoward happening to Ivana?

The point of fantasies is that they are, well fantasies. Most of them are sketch as fuck if you do it irl without proper consent, if not downright criminal.

I’m not particularly into the bimbo thing, but objectification fetishes of all sorts are hella big. I’m not about to throw any of my fellow perverts under the bus.

That’s new to you guys?

Ahem, yes, it’s new to me too of course.