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Still not as bad as pulling segments off Usenet to piece together based on faith in a description.

Apparently given his own definition, even Socrates needs to touch grass.

I prefer clover myself.

Yeah, because we dialup users definitely didn’t do all nighters online. At 300 baud. Nope, sure didn’t.

No point in research, we can obviously see that people die in floods. /s

The two arguments against the reasoning that tax burdens are too high are simple questions - who is paying the majority of these taxes, and how efficient are the taxes being used. Once you realize the answers to those questions, saying anything beneficial to the public is too expensive becomes moot. Now if your argument as written means that taxes are unfairly distributed and used for the wrong things and there isn’t anything anyone can do to change that, you already understand my first point and are just resigned to remain oppressed and used.

I don’t think we’re sure what makes it and what doesn’t. Some of the first radio broadcasts were very strong and maybe even directed more, but over time due to competition limits were put on transmission power. Then there’s the question of general direction vs. a directed beam which would have more distance before it gets lost. Lastly, lower bandwidths were used as technology modernized, which would hide more in the background.

But even if the strongest part gets to a planet and lasts for years, what if their time to invent and use radio is still far in the future, or gone in the past and they don’t even look in those frequencies. It could be more a matter of timing than anything else.

I still wait for the darkly humorous joke until it really happens message to us, “Shhhh, they’ll hear you.”

This is the best theory.

They had fair warning. No way they didn’t pick up signals on the way here and still chose to land.

In space I doubt he was able to get enough momentum to kick through a space suit to do much. Which makes the last panel a WTF look.

You mean like using the word “tariff”?

One would hope that maybe this or other “outrages” would inspire them to contact their rep to show that anger. Doubt it.

“You mean we could have already done this meeting already a dozen times before?”

“A dozen, a hundred, it’s impossible to tell.”

Seems letting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the air is geoengineering, so maybe we could form an Environmental Protection Agency to crack down on places doing this large scale.

Oh, we’re back on the “free market” bandwagon now?

Which is weird, because I can’t see the Wookiee getting along with the Saudi. Yet Yoda bridged that gap.

The trick is to know where your limits are, and never do anything unusual without caution. My worst back problem so far is posture.

Con-Air remake?

Was that country fine with this, or is it a matter of getting the flight there before they realize?

I understood that reference. God, getting old sucks.

What if we become wealthy one day?

What if you could just live comfortably for your entire life?

Aye, I could do that.

There are different kinds of players in the same game. But I agree that the whole ability to bend districts in any favored direction should be removed. There are impartial ways to determine districts that change over time with the population, but neither side likes them because it’s a loss of control and potential loss of seats for both. The irony is that it would favor the left more, just like changing how we vote would favor that lean, but that gets into the issue of what “left” means in the US vs. reality, and maybe that’s part of the problem as well.