Trump.

But only because I’ve lost sympathy with those people who keep saying “We need to get him out in November, blah blah blah”

Holy…fucking…denial, Batman! He’s not going away. He’s not joking about staying in 2028 and 2032. By all means vote in the midterms but be prepared for that vote to mean precisely jack shit.

Stop bitching and do something about it. Does it risk your livelihood and possibly your life when (not if) it comes to that? Yes. But you know who elses livelihood’s and lives were threatened? The founding fathers; they had the courage to do it anyway.

If American’s aren’t willing to stand up for fear of losing their precious conveniences, than fuck 'em. I’m at the point where they deserve what they get.

Dems have a lot of shit to answer for. But the most egretious is simply not demanding a recount or an audit in swing states when it’s so obviously clear that shit wasn’t straight.

I go to ebay and select “Canada Only” when trying to find a particular item. (Am Canadian)

Executive Dysfunction Burger King

Meaning is whatever you want it to be. You have the free will to create your own meaning in your life.

That being said, reading your post, I mean no disrespect, but please seek professional help. This goes beyond “finding your own meaning” and dives into “something is wrong”.

Miss Vickie’s Sea Salt and Malt Vinegar.

end all be all of the first stepping stone

Personally, I don’t think our future lies in any planetary gravity well at all. The larger the gravity well, the more difficult and expensive it is to escape from, and there’s no particular resource available there that we can’t get from the asteroid belt or the other moons in the system.

Our own moon gives us the low gravity and easy escape vectoring to get us to the asteroid belt. The asteroid blt gives us the resources to continue outwards to the Jovian and Saturnian moons and the zero gee necessary to easily construct ships/habitats of any size we want without worrying about escaping a gravity well.

Gravity is the hard part. Why would be spend billions to escape one gravity well just to sink ourselves down into another when an orbital habitat can be much better regulated to our needs.

Yeah…no…

It’s only a non-issue until it’s not.

Standard tactic when making a customer facing change is to deploy it, get feedback, then…if it’s unpopularl, roll it back and claim it was a “mistake”. It’s a tale as old as time.

This wasn’t an accident, it was a dry run.

But you do you, boo.

“Stakeholder” is simply anyone who will be effected by “x”. whether “x” is a policy change, or something as simple as choosing a new brand of peanut butter for your family.

“Who are the people who will be effected by this?”

In Project Management you’re taught that one of the first things you do when implementing a change or starting a new project, etc… Is to Identify the stakeholders.

I’m sure there’s a more concise definition, but I just woke up.

Goddammit. Why can’t we have nice things?

I’ll accept no criticism of Rod Torfulsen’s Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuck.

Slippery slope is “If we let libraries carry un-educational books like fantasy novels, we’ll end up having to let libraries carry porn and mein kampf.”

And that’s the last I’m going to bother responding to idiot trolls.

Which implies there was possibly a time when those books were in school libraries

It implies no such thing. Before that, it would have simply been the school administrators decision as to whether or not to have those in the school library. There’s no evidence that any school actually did.

The school board bans come from a blanket list they get from probably some far-right evangelical consulting firm somewhere. It’s pre-emptive. And it never used to be needed because we trusted our teachers and long-suffering librarians to do their job. THEY made sure that what was in THEIR library was appropriate.

The school board is just making smoke in order to pretend that there’s a fire.

Stop catastrophizing. You know as well as I do that isn’t what I’m referring to. I’m talking about putting fantasy books and other “non-educational” books in school libraries.

No one is saying that libraries should have porn and mein kampf. What you’re doing is the classic slippery slope fallacy and no one is dumb enough to fall for it, so shut it.

It’s not sane at all.

The biggest struggle is getting kids actually reading. You don’t do that by forcing them to only read books that don’t interest them at all.

If the entire purpose is to encourage kids to read (it’s not…not in 'murica, anyway), but you take away anything they want to read, you’re defeating the purpose.

I can’t believe this is actually something people want to debate! It’s ludicrous. Reading improves a kids cognition and ability to process complex thoughts. That’s the entire purpose of a school library.

How in the fuck did we go from a world where your teacher would tell you to go pick three books from the library to take home and read, to a world where your teacher tells you to not read books you like for some obscure reason?

Getting kids reading IS the entire point. It’s the foudational skill to everything else that comes along with it.

Perfection.

Seems too on-the-nose, really

Trump doesn’t do subtlety. Hell, I doubt he can spell subtlety.

Same as always. Just going with the flow.

The Sykes-Picot agreement basically fucked over anyone who wasn’t white or Jewish.

At the end of World War 1 it carved up the middle east into areas controlled by the allied powers (France, Russia, England. Although Russia was only there as an observer mostly). Each of those sides puppeted their zones of control with varying degrees of civility, while the original groups that still had to live there day-to-day radicalized over being controlled by outsiders.

That was exacerbated by the Balfour Declaration in 1917, in which Britain basically said “tough titty-toenails, Arabs. We’ve promised to give the Jews a homeland, and we’ll have to take it from you.”

Did you know that if you put all the Spice girls into a blender for five minutes on the lowest setting, you get home-made Allspice.