| And they get to do it because the FTC has been totally defanged. It has nothing to do with Trump or oil. Sheeple indeed.

In March 2025, Mr. Trump fired the two remaining Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, basically consolidating executive control over the agency. This action effectively ended the agency’s longstanding statutory and bipartisan independence.

So, basically, Mr. Trump defanged the FTC. Who's the sheeple now?

Depending on the study, from 30% to 44% of Vietnam vets came back with PTSD. The stereotype of the unhinged 'Nam vet was thus not just a leftist conspiracy. Today, Vietnam-era veterans remain disproportionately represented in the homeless population.

If we have a draft today the level of resistance will cripple the country. Nobody will tolerate the Government pulling that. That move could break the country.

We've come full circle to the tech community deciding what's proper for our neighbors. ChatGPT is free to decide not to include adult stuff, and celebrity/CSAM should totally be illegal, but "The proper use of AI is as a tool, not as a friend, lover or therapist, and especially not as an addiction" is how we get the government regulating how adults use the tools at their disposal.

Aside from CSAM and defamatory stuff we don't have the right to decide what's proper for someone else.

Eventually peer to peer training (Petals using Hivemind, etc.) will lead the way.

At least they didn't do a Tumblr and have the feature put in, then wait for millions to be using it... and then yank the rug out from under them.

We saw how that ended.

Fortunately there are alternatives.

The Founding Fathers made a slave country where women, minorities and non-landowners couldn't vote. We already changed what the founding slaveowners made.

I hope you're willing to pay more for food and see food shortages which Trump has already caused after running on "but muh bidenflation" platform where he said food prices will go down (hint: they didn't).

As civilizations mature, entropy advances like a cancer and eventually rots the country from within. America's the oldest continuous governmental system around. We're well past our expiration date if you factor in how fast history moves nowadays.

We should have kept Biden. He might have died and still been more mentally here than Trump. Biden at least remembered what the Declaration of Independence and never declared a trade war with Mattel. He never tried to posture about conquering Greenland and was not going to invade Venezuela. Or a hundred other batshit / dementia inspired things Trump has done.

Most importantly: he didn't treat minorities or women like second class citizens.

The only remedy will ultimately be the doing away of homework assignments that count as part of the grade

They'll just move to Israel or whatever lackey is willing to suck off Trump

Holy crap, that wasn't something I looked forward to reading this morning...

Not only are we starting to look for these kinds of things, we're rapidly getting better at it in terms of precision, accuracy, understanding, and rate. There are around 30 billion stars in the Milky Way that could potential have a truly Earthlike planet orbiting them (not Earthlike as astronomers use the term, but as in theoretically the same in all the characteristics that caused us to be here talking about it).

Would like to see some references, and your qualification of "Earthlike" There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. You are claiming 1/3 of them have potential for Earthlike planets.

One of the big problems is outer gas giants kicking out the rocky inner planets by inward migration - our solar system may be rather rare in that regard - Saturn. just happened to be in the right orbit to prevent Jupiter from doing just that.

It could be less than 1% of systems even has rocky inner planets. So know we're down to a billion.

Then you have the other filters which we don't know about - e.g. perhaps the early collision with what later formed the moon was necessary to generate plate tectonics, and events like that are rare or don't occur early enough in the life of the system

Please give us money for this project which will produce tangible results within a human lifetime

And that water will have to be pumped over a mountain range ... not cheap at all.

If the farmers can't get their water cheap, their product is not price competitive