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Your’s is good, too

You say the audio is bad, and many people hate watching a video that could have been an article - maybe a transcript would be good, huh?

Ok, so, first, let me say that while I’m enthusiastic about the concept, I understand it’s entirely theoretical. We can’t even get US civilians to adopt metric, FFS. Just a caveat, lest anyone wander by and overhear us.

That said, I did spend some cycles trying to see it it would be possibly to line up a lunar and solar calendar, and it’s not. And it isn’t nearly as important as it used to be. It would still have been nice.

So if you do run calculations, I’d like to see them.

How does that work, with the leap week? Doesn’t the year drift out of alignment with the solar cycle?

If only.

No, Amazon is very slick about this. They distract from the real problem and instead turn it into a conversation about having sufficient Amazon services to ensure the site stays up. It used to be that they’d just talk to people who didn’t know better, and the tech teams would be told how to do their jobs by marketing doofs. Now, companies have “cloud architects” who’s jobs depend on the IT stack being so complex their jobs are secure, and AWS doesn’t have to bypass the dev/ops teams.

Interesting! I usually remember that Jonestown wasn’t in the US, but events like that aren’t really my bag, so anything I know about it I picked up incidentally. Now I know a couple more things; thanks!

Shit. I meant Gen Z. I’m Gen X, too. I y mine done about a decade before your’s.

I think all of the doctors were self- medicating back then.

Your caveat was very thorough. Good job.

I’m a pope, but then, we’re all popes.

My problem with Discordianism is that it’s all 5s, when 6 is clearly superior, and 12 trumps them all.

Hail Eris.

Sssh, now… busy trying to build a 4-reactor fusion platform so I can bristle it with rail guns and blue-quality lasers. I don’t have time for chatting on the interwebz.

Thanks! I thought by your time they were all laproscopic. What year was this? Did you have complications?

Drunk doctor. Sounds fun. At least you were out during it.

He can’t send us all to prison.

Hmmm. He might be able to get all of the ones willing to revolt, though. The majority of the people who oppose him aren’t going to be willing to pick up arms, is my guess. The question is, are those of us who are a greater percentage of the population than, say, the Jews in Germany in 1940? Because, history has proven that modern countries are capable of imprisoning a great portion of their population.

The population of Germany in 1939 was 69M. There were a half-million Jews, most of whom fled, so that the Holocaust included about 180k German Jews. The majority of the Jews murdered during the Holocaust were non-German.

So, that’s, like 0.3% of the German population. Include communists, homosexuals, dissidents - I’m having a hard time finding hard numbers for just German nationals, but let’s say just 0.3% - ignore that 6 million people died in the Holocaust; not all of them were in camps in Germany.

The US currently has a population of 340 million. 0.4% of that is over 1.3 million people. For comparison, there are an estimated 1.8 million people currently incarcerated in US prisons, so we certainly have the capability to incarcerate masses of people. Those prisons are full, but America has a ton of space on which camps can be quickly erected. We proved we could do that also in WWII, when we built camps and interred about 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent.

I don’t know. I fully believe that

1. It’s not going to be millions of people raising arms in revolution. Hundreds of thousands? Maybe. Probably fewer.
2. The government is perfectly capable of incarcerating millions of Americans, and certainly hundreds of thousands in an emergency, in camps.
3. The US military has been training, practically non-stop for the past 20 years, at fighting well-organized, well-trained insurgents, well-funded insurgents.
4. US civilians do not have the training nor support networks to carry out a revolution

All that said, I think it’s probably the only path left. I just don’t see how it can succeed. The Left establishment will disown revolutionaries faster than you can blink, there’s a bunch of rednecks just itching at the chance to shoot a liberal. Honestly, all Trump has to do is promise that anyone who kills an insurgent won’t be prosecuted, and he won’t even need to bring in the military.

I think it’s going to have to get a lot worse before there’s a serious, wide-spread uprising. Before then, they’ll just call them riots, send in some agent provocateurs to break shop windows like they did in the Minneapolis Floyd protests, air footage of “looting”, and the general public will side with the government.

Yeah, that’s whyfor the travel advisories.

Past recessions when the dollar’s dropped against the Euro, the domestic leisure industry has benefited. I honestly don’t know how much the whole hostile-to-foreign-nationals aspect of the current administration is going to affect that pattern. Probably at least some, but I suspect most white Europeans will ignore it. A weak dollar makes a US vacation cheaper, and that’s an emotional decision.

As evidence, I present the Nationalistic trends in EU countries, Brexit, and British vacationers. They’re not immune to believing what they want to believe.

Jesus H Christ on a cross. The question was about silver linings. It wasn’t whether or not we think it was brilliant strategery.

I never, anywhere, said anything even implying Americans were going to take more vacations. What I said, very specifically, was that many people who might have been planning to vacation in, say, Europe are going to choose to vacation domestically instead.

No need; I believe you about them being different products. But Kool Aid is a generic term for powered sweet drink mix. People just say “Kool Aid” when they mean powdered sugar drink.

Edit: oh, and I can totally believe Kool Aid itself would be really concerned about it, but honestly I doubt most people have any thought up whether it was Kool Aid™ brand flavored drink, is all.

Hey, the challenge was to find silver linings. It’s not like I think they were a good idea.

That’s where I started. I wanted a little project to try V on, and had come across the IFC, so I wrote a thing. While I was doing that, I got to thinking about the deficiencies and inherited complexities in IFC, and thought up Saturnalia.

If you pop up to my profile in Sourcehut, you’ll find a similar program - just a lot longer and more complex, for IFC.

I don’t know if they makes me a genius, but yes. Yes it does.

Depends on the onion. A sweet onion, like a vidalia, is almost edible for me. We east green onions raw all the time, and red onions raw, in small amounts, on salads. It’s just volume that makes onions challenging. And age. Onions get more potent as they age.

But I’d eat a fresh, raw Vidalia; I wouldn’t enjoy it, but it wouldn’t exactly be suffering.

Your point, as I understood it, is that for the vast majority of us, our food animals don’t talk to us in recognizable language. If pigs and chickens suddenly started speaking English, I’ll bet the meat market would change pretty drastically, pretty quickly. Westerners largely balk at eating apes just because they kind of look like us; speaking is a bigger deal.

All animals are food.