I think that has more to do with ending production on the LX Platform Challenger / Charger tbh. They haven’t quite managed to gather the same hype among domestic car nerds with their replacements as those old boats had.

Damn, it’s fucked enough that even the neoliberal thinktanks are starting to get spook.

You know what they say about people who live in glass houses…

Not to indirectly defend designer dogs but I assure you selective dog breeding has always been pretty screwed up.

Not every dog is some kickass livestock guardian, they’ve been making screwed up ones since before the steam engine.

That’s a surprisingly narrow definition.

So do you look at something like a Studebaker Commander Coupe and go “well obviously that’s modern”?

The divide at that point becomes a class one, where the quality varies intensely by how rich each individual town is.

The pain comes when a struggling town can barely fund its own schools and the assistance coming from the top down to keep the lights on gets cut.

The Saab Aerospace marketing team just looks on at this exchange in dismay.

This “use executive orders to bluff until people treat them like actual laws” strategy is starting to get really annoying.

People argued about Startrek and posted fanfiction back in the days of ARPANET, literally the earliest incarnation of the modern internet predating Bulletin Boards and relatively affordable Microcomputers.

I believe Robespierre had lead a period of time known as the “reign of good times and normal vibes” where they all formed committees to talk out and mediate the the problems of the system they lived under.

You guys are getting helpdesk jobs?

That’s the same thing they’d say to a cancer patient.

The difference being that Covid took a scientific breakthrough to make a vaccine for (as various factors about the virus were unprecedented) while flu variants are very much a known thing as far as virology goes.

The feds already have a reserve of human-safe H5N1 vaccines, the only thing preventing them from using that when SHTF is ideology. It will be both completely prepared for and completely preventable.

I’m a switch.

The whole point is to remove the legal backing of the orders such that anyone who isn’t already not complying out of a sense of morals but is enough of a mook to stop because “it’s law” also stops complying.

The whole game is to bluff people into complying with any shit they want preemptively because there’s no way in hell they’d get such policies through official channels.

Every so often I hold a microsd card and I think about how much storage is on that pinky-nailed sized $20 device. Compared to ancient hard drives it is one of the few things that makes me remember “oh shit I live in the future”.

Call me jaded but I am not predisposed to take the NYPD at their word.

People seem to forget about the innocent until proven guilty part, the raw amount of perjury with the theater surrounding this person is mind-numbing. If he makes it out of this he will be come a billionaire out of defamation alone, almost all mainstream news sources treated his guilt as a foregone conclusion with barely an “allegedly” in sight.

That or we’d overspec into stem education and neglect humanities until we get a whole generation of genius niche engineers who will sit down and gladly explain the most eugenicist viewpoint you’ve ever head from a living human in your entire life the moment you ask them a single question related to social issues…

Oh wait.

Giving them more than two senators might lead to a senate that isn’t perpetually gridlocked. That makes them dangerously close to being able to pass progressive legislation instead of nothing but mandatory funding bills with 37 pages worth of riders and pork.

As a horny pedant I need to tell you that’s not why Betamax failed.