"Gulf Of Flaming SpaceX Debris" was merely a transient.

IYKYK, "if you know, you know" can come across elitist, hipster, cooler-than-thou and shitty. The more people get in on a joke, the better. A good joke has value from its cleverness, regardless of scarcity.
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IYDKJA: If You Don't Know, Just Ask!
We'll welcome you into the circle of those who know!

Agreed. For starters, "call for backup" is a basic principle. When you can't accomplish a goal alone, then you bring in a team. Not that I want this guy to succeed, because his goal was horrible, but he's a bad agent both in the sense of "evil" and also in the sense of "incompetent".

I kinda hoped that one of them would sacrifice his career, and possibly risk the rest of his life, by standing up and declaring opposition, accepting the challenge, calling out the many illegal orders already given and followed, breaking the consensus of silence.

Stab-in-the-back myth - Wikipedia

This is the USA version of the German "back stab myth" in the 1920s and 1930s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in...

There are a few words which, as keyword searches, prompt exactly one result. TIL one of those words is "ihctacuoyllatubgnihsifemosodotpotsuoy". Unless, of course, posting this here, means that a search for that word finds this also as a result; but I think that Google doesn't find Bluesky posts.

Autism before modern screening might be like Pluto before 1930: it was there all along, just not known and named.

Kublacon Fall has given thumbs-up to my repeat of a workshop on "Queer-Friendly Gaming". This workshop will engage maybe ten to twenty people, for 80 minutes; it's not a large-scale operation; but it's the difference between zero and more-than-zero LGBTQ+ visibility in the convention program.

He has an adversarial relationship with competence.

...the 1% supported the "don't worry about it, business as usual" narrative, because they were more interested in profit margins, than in lives and long-term health outcomes among the unwashed masses.
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If you assumed that public health is a consensus high priority, even among the 1%: reconsider!

I would add a speculation, above and beyond the points raised in the Wikipedia article. Quaratines save lives, at the cost of reduced economic activity. The 1% wanted to keep audiences in theaters, and customers in malls, bars, restaurants, etc. because their priority is economic activity...

Yes. I understood that reference. That's why I posted a screenshot of Captain America saying "I understood that reference!"
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If you didn't understand the Captain America reference: that image is reference to a scene, with that line, in the movie _The Avengers_.

Anti-vaccine activism - Wikipedia

Here's the information you requested:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-va...

"The military in Rome disobeyed the emperor when they knew the empire was going to fall."
In what year did this happen?
Your assertion does not match my study of Roman history.

That's close to the percentage, in the USA, who believe in creationism.

Bullshit. I'm an athiest. All that means, is I don't have faith in God or gods. You go further; you have a knee-jerk, reflexive, life-long temper tantrum. You are driven by raw, primal, unexamined rage, same as Westboro Baptist.

...fortunate, because I don't have strong belief in any deities.
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Fundamentalist Christians disregard information which contradicts their paradigm. You are going to disregard and dismiss my answer to your question, because _emotionally_ you are identical to a fundamentalist Christian.

You are wilfully ignorant You think that ALL religions are about God? They're not. You're still stuck in Christian paradigm. The Buddha was as human as you or me.
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I don't need a divinity to tell me that Pythagoras was right about triangles, nor that the Buddha was right about suffering. That's...

Bullshit. The four noble truths of Buddhism are literal facts. You might know that, if you knew anything about any religion other than Christianity.

Much as I disagree with MLK and with Mr. Rogers on theology, and same with John Pavlovitz, I would rather spend time with Christians who are fundamentally decent, kind, humble people, than with the sub-set of my fellow atheists who are arrogant ass-hats.

Dawkins discarded belief in God and the Bible. Dawkins retained the worst aspects of his former religion: the absolute certainty that his answers are the only answers, the patriarchy and misogyny, the ethno-nationalism, and so forth.

True love waits? The story of my purity ring and feeling like I didn't have a choice When my dad gave me the ring, he said it represented my commitment to guard my heart. But after a while, my virginity vow no longer felt empowering

Rural Christian USA culture involves hypocrisy. Teens wear purity rings then hook up at Bible Camp.
Autistic people want written rules to match actual practice. In software, this is useful! But to people who live by hypocrisy, autistic people are a complication.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Autists tend to prefer literal honesty, which is unfavorable for fascism.

Indeed. The people who got immunizations at gunpoint were, AFAIK, mostly non-WASP immigrants. The willingness to use more violence against those populations, than against WASPS, is problematic common ground between past and present.

You need repair of your brain, since
(A) the outcomes of "vaccine ban" and "vaccines not available to patients" are functionally equivalent, and
(B) you just heard from someone whose local medical providers _didn't have vaccines_.
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Wait, is it "repair" if your brain has _never_ worked well?

That cartoon is like unvaccinated children...
...it never gets old!

White threw the game! White could have placed in the center, and won!