I only watch semicolons these days

My initial reaction to seeing this was: “toad would never step out on frog like that!”

We completely missed Little Blue Truck when my kids were that age.

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

Hmm, I believe that they do have things that get voted on at both ship/regional population level and Culturewide. It’s been a while since I read Consider Phlebas, but I believe they vote to go to war with the Idirans and a sizable peace faction breaks off to form its own society.

Yeah, I get the impression in the books that a lot of their problems are like “six ship minds voted on this in an ad hoc committee and now everything’s gone pear shaped.”

I’m often amused that Musk claims to like the novels so much. It’s a comically post scarcity society where everyone lives until they get bored of being alive and people change genders and species for entertainment. He probably fixated on how many drugs they consume.

It’s often jokingly referred to as fully automated luxury gay space communism. I’m not sure where the totalitarianism comes in. People can leave and join The Culture, though it does have a paternalistic foreign policy wing called Special Circumstances that meddles with others.

Spicy McCrispy / yes indigestion comes free with your meal / bad you will feel
Spicy McCrispy / pickles and sauce to you loss / they grow cold and congeal

Does the use of admixture make it feel particularly gross or is that just me?

The scariest part is how fucking terrified he looks. Little kid given a gun is gonna shoot someone.

You got nothing. Everything you “got” is either a hollow promise or was already required by law. I have a long memory and will be funding your challenger when your useless ass comes back up for election.

I wonder if having a relatively large number of fed employees constituents not getting paid played into his thinking. But also I don’t. Primary his ass.

Exactly right. And they're betting there won't be any consequences in primaries. People will be mad, then Trump will do some bad shit, and people will move on to cheering blue no matter who. I'm taking the other side of that bet.

And if he didn’t allow it and they went fully rogue, he should stop down, because he can’t corral his caucus.