Chattel slavery and its after-effects is a fucking tragedy.

Reconstruction should have lasted 50 years.

> "Has Tik-Tok contributed to us being better?" is perhaps clearer wording.

Should it, though? Is that its responsibility?

Or is it ours?

Maybe we can be fucking adults and stop trying to pretend like an app on a phone 'made' us into anything.

We are what we are.

Wait, what?

They're paying for something...and they're going to want to hide it?

Tell you what: Send me your money and pretend like you're hiding the mark. It'll get put to better use than giving it to Musk.

These look neat. Will keep track of this particular company.

Yes, where the ones remaining would be doing things other than babysitting department stores.

>During a Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing last week, Supervisor Hillary Ronen voiced frustration that the city's police force appeared to be prioritizing retail theft over the safety of the residents in her district.

>"I've been begging this department to give the Mission what it deserves in terms of police presence, all year long. And I've been told time-and-time-and-time-and-time again there are no officers that we can send to Mission. And then I see these numbers protecting shoppers, and it hurts. It hurts. And I feel betrayed by the department, I feel betrayed by the mayor, I feel betrayed by the priorities of this city," Ronen said during the hearing. "It is not this board of supervisor's priorities -- we want our residents safe."

We don't know. We exist as part of the balloon.

Okay, so.

Take a balloon, uninflated, and take a marker and put a bunch of dots onto the outside of the balloon.

Each dot represents a galaxy. Put as many dots as you can onto the balloon.

Now, blow it up.

Notice how the dots are spreading away from each other even though they're not moving?

That's the universe. The universe itself is expanding like a balloon, and the galaxies are moving apart from each other.

The galaxies stay together as galaxies due to something to do with dark matter that we don't yet understand.

Just out of sheer morbid curiosity, what sort of difference does it make at this point?

No, they didn't read. This is Reddit.

Not oniony.

Those stinky bastards need a huge hint.

Fucking Louisiana, Texas' stupid next door neighbor.

I'm so fucking glad I moved out of the South. Fucking morons, all of them.

I have it on good authority that globalization is the devil. So, de-globalization should be awesome-sauce.

for an example, go watch the ending to William Wallace.

The car companies judge it not worthy. It's like the people dying have any say in the matter.

This is why I included the 'battery' part in there.

But, yes, they're going to pretend like battery tech isn't increasingly viable.

> The problem is that anti-nuke forces took hold in many governments (especially after TMI and Chernobyl) and they made the regulatory environment completely untenable.

Because safety is something that totally should be flexible when it comes to nuclear reactors.

The problem is that every single nuclear project has been plagued with these cost and time overruns. Even standard and well understood nuclear plants are seeing time overruns in the decades and cost overruns that end up doubling the price. Or more.

For standard nuclear plants. Ones we've been building for decades and decades.

Meanwhile, solar and wind and battery tech continues to improve steadily even though we're seeing regular tech improvements that should, logically, mean that it'd cost more. But, it doesn't. It lowers the price on renewables. Constantly.

Is it any surprise people are leery as fuck about investing in nuclear?

>This month, Los Alamos and other local utilities across the West were facing a weighty decision: whether to pull the plug on their nuclear dream. NuScale had informed members of the group, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, or UAMPS, that the estimated costs of building the six 77-MW reactors had risen by more than 50 percent to $9.3 billion. For Garcia, that translated into a jump in the cost of energy from $58 to $89 per megawatt-hour.

Gasp! A nuclear project with sudden and totally unexpected time/cost overruns?! Who could possibly have seen this coming?

Imagine how much solar/wind/battery tech could have been built and improved with all those billions and the last 6 years.

Fetuses are either people or they're not.

Choose.

With Commander Doge standing atop there with pride.

Between galaxies? yes. But something about the dark matter keeps galaxies coherent and condensed rather see the stars within those galaxies spread apart.

You can use the old 'balloon' analogy.

Take a balloon and mark a bunch of dots on the outside of the balloon. Then blow it up.

As you blow it up, the dots expand away from each other, but they're not actually moving, are they? It's the fabric of the balloon stretching.

Likewise, the fabric of space is expanding and stretching. Dark matter is what keeps galaxies connected to each other through this expanding, but the galaxies are spreading apart from each other.

That's not how it works.

You bring us his arguments in favor of a hollow earth and we show you how they're not correct.