Poor Renee. :(

There is footage with his mask on. Is the footage without the mask on AI generated or not? I don’t know the answer and it’s a great question.

This is a great point. Specifically an increase in economic education required of students would be helpful, including helpful for things like understanding environmental science, because externalities and environmental science and regulation have overlap that most don’t understand.

lol! oh shit, thanks for reducing my ignorance slightly! lol, you got me. that’s terrible.

does git clone multiple things, not just github? fuck me, i have a lot to learn still…

Trump wants violent conflict to happen so he can suspend voting.

i agree with you that she seems nice

I propose the following:

1. various stakeholders create a think tank to propose the best way to criminally hold accountable these ICE agents once those in power become more decent

2. it is important to realize that younger people are more liberal and will eventually vote, making the planet better and less annoying, and also allowing for better politicians to be in office

3. once those who recognize the corruption of ICE are in power, laws must be changed so that appropriate trials and punishments can be handed out to these ice agents that committed evil acts during this period

4. constitutional amendments may be need to be ratified to allow a rare exception to ex-post-facto laws in instance of blatant government corruption and immoral conduct

5. once a legal system is put into place such that trials can occur, appropriate lawful responses should occur, with punishments that could include prison or or something more serious for ICE agents that engaged in extrajudicial killing and torture, should that be agreed to by law makers

6. sending anyone to CECOT should be deemed torture, and anyone involved directly or indirectly in sending anyone there should be lawfully tried.

7. we need to make clear that immigration policy and enforcement do not exculpate acts of evil, and that accepting the need for borders and immigration rules and enforcement and enforcement agents does not mean that an “anything goes” mentality won’t be later met with brutal consequences for those involved in evil.

These old racist ultra-right Republican types won’t be around forever, and younger people are more and more liberal and disgusted by ultra right wing Republican behavior. We need to start having a real conversation about what we will do in 10-20 years when decent people have consolidated power to make sure there is a lawful process to brutally respond to this outrageous corruption, even if time has elapsed.

It is important to find lawful ways such that if 10 years or even 20 years elapses, there will be accountability once decent people have consolidated power.

This must be done in a lawful way, respectful of the constitution, and done by voting and legislation, not by illegal means. We should start having these conversations now, openly, fully advocating for lawful means of coming into power, including waiting for younger people to be of voting age, and a method for accountability.

Ultimately, laws come from the people, and historical things preventing ex-post-facto regulation can always be changed.

We need to remember Renee Good and have a National Day of Mourning every year to remember this horrible brutality and the evil that ICE has brought upon our country.

I do not consider myself a liberal and this problem should not be put into liberal or conservative terms. We need a coalition of people who recognize the evil of what is happening and want to find a lawful organized way of responding that involves voting for change, emphasizing above all else democratic voting, following the law, and accountability.

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I completely agree. This isn’t so much a failure of business; it’s a failure of the government to properly hurt businesses that enact policies that hurt workers and consumers. And in democratic countries with voters, it’s also the failure of the voters.

This is why we need people like Lina Khan to be given much more power in society. There are good, liberal economists out there who understand that if you don’t regulate externalities, then market systems will cause extreme disfunction in society. Smart economists understand this, elite rich people understand it, the problem is that the bottom tier of society that is ignorant and believes in religious myths is easily deceived by the upper classes.

The result is a society with progressively more unequal wealth distribution, rapidly descending into environmental hell, with a public that is mostly confused, religious, and idioticly upset about market conditions, but glad the evil trans girl won’t be able to play softball.

All of these issues are part of the same problem: how do you convince the poor and stupid to not get tricked by the elite again? But perhaps it’s just impossible. After all, the poor are mostly religious and believe in crazy things like virgin births and flat earth… Until the poor reject such lunacy, or society becomes so awful that they are compelled to reject it, there’s really not much hope for change.

So in that situation you need beans and rice and water purification (filters) that last 3 years. It’s expensive, but not impossible. There are people who already have that stored, and most of those people are very smart and well-prepared.

Just to be a devil’s advocate: fear is an evolutionary response and is there for a reason and is sometimes highly rational. Talking yourself out of fear to conform to society’s expectations is not always smart.

It’s great advice about storing water for an emergency.

I disagree. Someone who really prepares by storing food, having a place underground to survive for a period, and takes sufficient precautions could live. It would be expensive and difficult to prepare, and even then may not work, but I don’t think it’s true that people can’t try to prepare at all.

People will probably not agree with me, but I think:

1. You are not overreacting, although AI sometimes tells me that risks of nuclear disaster aren’t that high and I’m over-estimating.

2. You can control things somewhat by preparing as much as you can to survive such a situation

But… preparing to try to survive nuclear war will require radical action possibly, especially if you live in a risky area that is more likely to be impacted.

What is preparation? It means getting the Potassium Iodine tablets, it means having food stored, it means having solar backups, ideally it means having a place where you can survive underground, and it means not living anywhere near a likely target. It requires major changes, expenses, and enduring hardship if you are wrong or right, but also feeling exasperated you spent money and wasted time if nothing happens.

I feel like there are two competing ways to look at this situation. 1) The elite control society, and they would not want to make society unlivable for them and their children, therefore nuclear war is an idea primarily to scare us and control us. The other option is 2) no one is steering the ship, the elite are greedy psychopaths and who knows what the hell will happen, and eventually conflict likely is going to happen and it will be ugly.

In World War 2, before Hitler came into power, some Jews in Europe were like “I’m worried about this situation, the political situation here is generally iffy, I’m getting the fuck out of here” and left and went to America… and then didn’t die as a result. Fear sometimes is what saves people, even if it seems crazy. I realize immigration to a new place is much harder in today’s world (especially to the USA, but in a global conflict, the USA probably wouldn’t be a great place to be).

Some advice about moving away from a major city may not be enough. Don’t be near a major city, military base, critical infrastructure… and then, that actually will only save you in a limited strike situation. In a worst case situation, everyone near the strikes is dead, and only people far far away survive (not near the countries in conflict), and even those people would struggle with food shortages, radioactive fallout spreading across the globe. Just being in rural America not near bases or cities may not be enough.

You either use that fear to prepare, or you accept that there is a possibility death could happen from a lack of preparation, as can death happen at any time, and take up Buddhism or meditation or religion or ways to carry on and accept that death is sometimes a part of life.

There is a YouTube personality, who also shills products and is sort of an alarmist, called Canadian Prepper. He’s worth checking out, but I would shop around and not just buy from him. Many of his videos are informative but also alarmist, but could also one day prove prescient.

It’s still a bad thing unless people decide to make college free for all people, and at least in the US, the country can’t even afford universal health care.

If someone is taking the SAT and getting 1000, they are so much better off going to a trade school and becoming an air condition repair person or learning home repair. Many of those people with 1000 will not graduate college, will not graduate with substantial debt, and will be trying to get office jobs in a country that already has too many people wanting that and not enough skilled people doing physical work.

It’s not what people want to hear, but everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Some people are terrible at intellectual things, some people are terrible at things requiring dexterity, some people are terrible with things requiring emotional intelligence.

Another “forbidden topic” that I’ll likely get in trouble for (for no reason) is that people who have children at older ages are more likely to have less healthy or even disabled children. There are costs to society of “let’s try to have everyone stay in school and delay marriage and children until people’s 30s.”

Yes, we need to reduce income inequality and food insecurity and make sure everyone has wages that are livable, but the whole everyone gets a trophy thing is bad resource management. Yes, food insecurity and wealth is part of the issue, but everyone has access to a library. 1000 is so low, it’s barely doing better than random guessing. Teachers are very happy to help out kids who don’t understand things; they often can’t motivate students to do anything on their own these days.

If a kid is getting a 1000 on the SATs, there’s either no ability or no motivation or some combo, and college will not change that. Advanced schooling should not be encouraged by society for people who can’t even understand a tiny amount of the basics.

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