omfalos
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omfalos
6mo ago
Holding out women's prison as an incentive for male prisoners to request castration is a good deal for everyone except the women. It would be ideal if prisoners worked jobs while in prison to pay for their own castration. But it makes sense for the government to cover the cost, since society benefits from the reduced secretion of testosterone.
omfalos
6mo ago
Nintendo Miis have good customizability without being infinitely granular. Inserting Miis into emojis might be an attainable goal.
Emoji + Mii = Emiiji ?
omfalos
6mo ago
"HAITIANS in SPRINGFIELD were caught eating CATS"
is a factually incorrect statement, but there are multiple factually correct permutations which can made by swapping out the nouns. A nimble orator can insinuate that Haitians in Springfield eat cats—without saying it directly—by stringing together all the factually correct permutations. Donald Trump is a talented orator, and I think he could have figured out the right way to present the argument given enough time. I think he faceplanted because he only learned about the story literally the day of the debate and didn't have time to process it.
omfalos
6mo ago
My attention while watching the debate was focused on how Trump would talk about Springfield, Ohio. He mixed up his words and messed up badly. It was his worst gaffe of the debate. It was a mistake to mention Springfield at all, though it could have been done better. I was focused on Springfield because it went viral on X only a couple days ago. Trump didn't learn about the viral story out of Springfield until less than a day before the debate. This was not enough time, obviously, for him to process the information and formulate a plan to exploit it. I was curious to see if Kamala knew about the Springfield "cat hoax", but she never had to respond because the moderator gave a thorough rebuttal to Donald Trump in her stead.
omfalos
6mo ago
I will cast a blank ballot. (not in a swing state)
The Capitol protest and the Gaza War are the deciding factors. My previous record is Obama, Trump, Trump.
omfalos
6mo ago
Siphoning off children's income is too slow. Parents should be able to be able to take out massive loans using their young children as collateral. The debt gets passed on to the children if it isn't paid off. Would you rather be born into debt, or not be born at all?
omfalos
7mo ago
National awards have an Old World feel to them that doesn't jive with American culture. It is more in line with American culture for such awards to be handed out by associations organized at the local level.
omfalos
7mo ago
Extruding housing supply through a regulatory sphincter with a subsidy plunger.
omfalos
7mo ago
The Founding Fathers used hand-cranked printing presses and never anticipated there would someday be fully automatic assault presses.
omfalos
7mo ago
I want to die by having my brain implanted with hundreds of deep brain stimulating electrodes that can be used to do a bunch of crazy, dangerous experiments.
omfalos
8mo ago
Annexing Belgium and keeping it would have been enough to make France the European hegemon permanently.
omfalos
8mo ago
omfalos
8mo ago
During the debate, Donald Trump can sound the alarm that the country is in danger because the commander-in-chief is incapacitated, and then demand that Kamala Harris must either agree with him or give evidence to refute his claim.
omfalos
8mo ago
If crime is ultimately a mental disorder, can it be treated by medicating criminals with antipsychotics?
omfalos
8mo ago
Subsets of the population which incline towards the Democratic Party have low voter turnout. The average nonvoter would favor the Democratic Party if voting was mandatory.
omfalos
8mo ago
Gee, how could anybody dislike that particular short story? People are so sensitive these days!
omfalos
8mo ago
It's a short story which parodies the Xianxia genre. It was purposefully left unfinished.
omfalos
8mo ago
Sounds like Harvard and Yale needs to put together a "presidential science" master's program. People in the future will be horrified that politicians without presidential science degrees were allowed to be president.
omfalos
8mo ago
Yeah I'm actually with you on this. This could be a good learning opportunity for the general public- they need to realize that the president is just one man and a human being, not some superhero working 24/7 who personally runs the entire government by himself.
That is one of the reasons I wanted Donald Trump to be president in the 2016 election. I wanted to see if the government would keep running if a person with no political experience occupied the White House.
An analogy to which I often compared it was the TV show "LOST". There is a character named Desmond who lives alone in a bunker with a computer terminal. He believes it is his job to type a specific sequence of numbers into the computer every 108 minutes or else the world will be destroyed. Quoting from the LOST wiki:
Occupants of the Swan station followed a protocol in which they typed a sequence into a computer every 108 minutes. Typing these numbers and pressing "execute" (a.k.a. pushing the button) on the keyboard discharged an electromagnetic buildup, continually averting worldwide catastrophe.
My fear about Donald Trump becoming president was that there would be some kind of highly technical task which the president was obligated to perform—analogous to typing a specific sequence of numbers into a computer terminal every 108 minutes—but which could only be figured out by somebody who had held another political office or who had graduated from Harvard Law School or Yale Law School.
When Donald Trump became president, his lack of political experience and legal knowledge did inhibit him from certain things. He signed executive orders that were dead-on-arrival because he failed to write them in a lawyerly fashion with t's crossed and i's dotted. Some of his appointments and nominations were hamstrung by procedural errors. But the world did not literally end because he typed the wrong number into a computer terminal like in LOST, which I consider to be a positive endorsement of the idea that random civilians with no political experience can become president.
I would support a law that people who were convicted of marijuana offenses during prohibition have the exclusive privilege of owning legal marijuana businesses now.
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