What used to be comedy science fiction very heavy on the comedy, continued the darkening of the end of Season 2 with a very important, very dark and serious episode about war-induced PTSD, racism, suicide, resurrection, and forgiveness.

Where I saw the 5th act (yes, Seth McFarlane took advantage of the Hulu deal to do what he said and make the entire show more cinematic and longer episodes) as kind of a tack on to the original story line (in that, the episode was complete an hour in, then suddenly, the engineer while having sex had a moment of inspiration and ran off in his bathrobe to "resurrect" the suicide victim using a "backup personality" found in Isaac's computerized brain- despite the central processing unit and memory being fried on purpose with a targeted electrical surge- now that's some prime technobabble worthy of the show's Star Trek heritage), I was glad for the sudden reversion to Christianity that some atheists like Seth have a tendency to do. Still, it took a very powerful morality tale, which was fine on its own from ANY standpoint, and turned it into a story line that seemed more at home on PureFlix than on Hulu (especially with the forgiveness offered by one PTSD sufferer, convincing another PTSD sufferer to help "save" the person who they both saw as an enemy due to race).

But maybe this belongs here more. When I ineptly referred to it on facebook, I got 72 hours in facebook jail.

Abortion and Guns are now likely to be the two things the major parties square off against each other in November. Both are pro-life issues. But I would say both are also *heterosexual marriage* issues.

It is male abandonment of our offspring that is the common cause of both socially alienated youth (a very small, but significant, portion of which will become violent and sometimes irrational criminals) and the perceived need by feminists for abortion.

NEITHER of the major political parties is currently willing to address this problem. Progressives aren't willing to address it because they think the patriarchal family is a tyrannical model for teaching morality, and they hate both tyranny and morality. Liberal Neocons aren't willing to address it because divorce is profitable- no-fault divorce doubly so. And of course, promoting heterosexuality flies in the face of what we're about to start, First Deadly Sin Month, in which heterosexuals will be vilified for not keeping up with the latest trends in sexual sin and worship of the Holy Orgasm.

Just the other day someone told me that he was a database programmer. So, i asked him which database. He said, "Access". I snickered (and remebered Brent Ozar's tweet on the subject).

A Canadian company, investing in Nevada real estate might be your next big chance to profit off of President Biden's Stupidity. Electric tanks and humvees will need an American supply of lithium. AWLIF is a penny stock (currently trading less than $1 a share) that has been quietly prospecting lithium in Nevada.

Is the idea of an electric powered tank rather ridiculous from an invading-foreign-nations-for-regime-change point of view (where the enemy already controls the electric grid)? Yes. But it isn't that much more ridiculous than all the other insanity the army has done over the years- and it will cause development of domestic supply chains in the United States.

As i turn 49, i felt the urge to post, because i always post on my birthday. Except i don't. Going through the list (link takes you through your own posts, as adding a username does not work), i found:

News: I'm thirty and related ramblings
Verbiage: So, 32 is here
Verbiage: Ding! I just hit 33.
Verbiage: 42 is here

Really? That's it? I'm such a lazy bum. But, i don't have to do it anyway. It's just something i value.

I always seem to remember the 30 post because my b-in-law commented that he liked the line, "I went from being a twenty-something to a thirty-nothing". In a sense, any time someone says a "line" is a good one, i'll think myself special for coming up with it. Heh. Half the time i don't even need anyone else to tell me, i guess i just forget about those "inspirations" more quickly.

As for "I, myself, seem to be about fourteen or fifteen, but wiser for the wear. If not for my experiences, I doubt I'd be much different." I cannnot say that anymore. Midlife changes you, and i am definitely different. But that feeling does persist to some extent anyway. It must be partially true.

In the 32 post, i didn't care so much. Same. Birthdays are just dates on the calendar, and perhaps a time to reflect. Not much more.

33: asks "Ah, to be forty, to be over the hill. Will it be then that i can finally enjoy life?" Heh.

42 just laments, and i feel the same now.

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Regarding age, my thoughts are now about 50. I didn't really feel 40 until i was 43 or so. But i've felt 50 for a few years already. I'm not a young chicken, even if at time i wish i were like one. Age is just a number, but it's also an indicator of the journey.

I've been on slashdot for about 25 years now. Wow. I even got that 25 years on ebay email with a $25 coupon.

Assume a "Coruscant Earth"- an Earth where *all* potential space is used, both land and sea, for a combination of food production and living space. Use the Permaculture formula of one acre per person of absorbed sunlight, with 100% conversion to whatever mass/energy combination we need to create food and energy of one person to live.

Earth is about 510,000,000 km^2. There are 247 acres in a square kilometer. This yields (with much better technology than we currently have, of course) a maximum population of 125.97 billion people, each owning one acre.

Of course various contracts would increase efficiency and there'd be the normal range of capitalism creating rich and poor in the long run, but at least there'd be an agreed upon base lifestyle- even if it's only a kayak with a net anchored at sea or a tent on land.

And other interesting conspiracy theories from the land of cultural evolutionary theory of Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying can be found at https://youtu.be/ipiT5noHWk4

As we are beginning to see divisions appear that are destructive to the Constitutional Representative Republic known as the United States of America, with Democrats finding new ways to cheat at democracy and the promotion of mob rule; combined with the massive increase in information technology we've seen over the past 40 years, I propose the following changes to governmental budget processes:

1. Break up the budget into line items

2. Forward those line items to taxing authorities at every level- city, county, state, and federal

3. Allow individual tax payers to fill out an extra-long-form return, with the caveat that by doing so you agree to allocate every penny of your taxes to something that makes a difference in your life or the lives of people you care about.

Doing so would reduce the incentive of the rich to cheat on their taxes (because by paying more taxes, they can regain some small amount of power to fund government programs directly) while enhancing even the common person's ability to influence government (truly voting with dollars for programs that help your family and your friends).

People who choose not to fill out the extra long form, have their taxes applied to the general fund which provides matching grants to those programs that either nobody else will fund (one FTE if your program attracted $0 this year, whose job it will be to promote the program next year; otherwise grants will be some percentage of dollars raised).

This spring, the Supreme Court of the United States, will once again be considering a case on USC 42 Title 42 Chapter 6A Subchapter XIX

Despite many changes to the law over the past century, the Biden Vaccine Mandate will be the first challenge to this law since Jacobson vs Massachusetts (1905), in which a State's Right to force vaccination upon a private individual or a group of individuals was established.

As the major Web 2.0 sites are now censoring discussion on this issue, I'm opening up for discussion- Did Congress intend this to become a power of the federal government?

We send our children to school to learn from people who have expertise in that
 
No we don't. We send our children to school *because we are required by law to do so and for the free babysitting*.

Experts, as a rule, are awful.

Take Ibram X Kendi, for instance. The Doctor of Anti-racism, or is he? I would argue that everything he has ever proposed as anti-racism, would produce *unequal results* along racial lines, and thus is racist *by his own definition*.

Just as the 1619 project, by the very nature of its generalized racial genetic stereotyping, produces *unequal results* along racial lines, and thus is racist by the very definition of the anti-racists.

Perhaps Thomas Sowell is right instead, and no two cultures were ever meant to be equal to begin with.

If you have disagreed with me on Critical Race Theory being a step backwards, if you don't believe we can do better than the segregation of anti-racism, then may I present to you Virginia's new post-racist Republican Government

Of course the only record of that day seems to be a JonKatz post https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-harbor

Makes you wish for a twit who could write covefe on twitter again.

https://youtu.be/YmUAZQOAA6c

But Truth over Facts, and you ain't black if you didn't vote for Biden.

I've long said that Climate Change requires Adaptation, not destruction of our economy and our way of life.

I've said that since 2004, when we crossed the Tundra Methane Threshold and the most influential greenhouse gas today became a positive feedback loop, accounting for 95% of all greenhouse gases released now and likely in the near future.

Now Senator Dan Crenshaw shows just how dishonest the Green New Deal is in relation to an adaptation vs cancelation strategy.

Just Remember, if an Sicilian Immigrant encouraged rioting every time a criminal was killed by the police, and then sold signs to small businesses to put in their windows to prevent damage, RICO laws would be brought to bear on the protection racket.

Maybe it's time we judged people on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin.