Ser Scot A Ellison

That went well for Jews there in the past… didn’t it?

What the actual fuck? That’s an act of war. That is Mexican territory that was raided.

Unintentional.

The precence of an abortion rights question on the Florida Ballot has made the Presidential election in Florida that much more… interesting. Trump is trying to split the baby. That will not drive away his diehards. But it also, surely, will not attract anyone upset by Roe being reversed. The presence of abortion rights as a serious issue in the 2024 election hurts Trump and the Republicans… it helps Biden and the Democrats.

SLAVA UKRAINI!!!

Yes. I’ve experienced that. I just thought I was weird. I’ve never mentioned it to anyone. I didn’t known happened to anyone else… it has happened more frequently as I’ve gotten older. I never fly in my dreams. I have dreamt of falling off a building at least once… I knew I was going to die… then I woke up. It was… disconcerting.

When I was a kid I always wondered why our galaxy was named after a candy bar… a good candy bar… but a candy bar nonetheless. Then I learned the history behind the name…

Don’t waste them on the KJA fanfiction crap.

Your second paragraph is exactly why “Sola Scriptura” fundamentalism scares me to death.

I agree. But… we do not have enough data to make concrete predictions as to where…

Here… to end the derail. A thread to discuss extraterrestrial life, its possibilities, and its prevalence…

To end the derail in the international events thread… discuss…

I keep seeing that stated. We cannot (I use “cannot” deliberately) know that. We know their rough location compared to their parent stars and their rough size. No more. That isn’t enough to say they can support life… much less technologically advanced life. Consider if a technologically advanced civilization had visit Earth during the million years of the Great Dying would they have said Earth was “habitability”?

More space means more opportunities for intelligent life to arrise. The Fermi paradox asks why haven’t we hear them? The question holds. I do think there is other life in the universe probably intelligent life… it’s simply interesting the we haven’t heard it yet.

I know… that’s the wink.

Isn’t that the “Dark Forest” hypothesis?

Interesting. How do you address the Fermi Paradox?

Conspiracy kooks make my head hurt.

And that’s wrong in my earnest assessment.

Why… oh why… would anyone partner with that man for anything?

How else would you bar parents from teaching their kids about their religious beliefs? I’m very confused.

So… you would empower the State to impose criminal sanction upon parents who teach their kids about their faith? Look I don’t think all parents are perfect but that seems like… a lot… of power in the hands of the State.

Last night I dreamt that I grew my hair long and that it was very dark… (I’ve always had sandy blond/light brown hair) that I decided to attend a work function in a dress. Got to the door and decided that was a poor idea then struggled to get back up to a hotel room to change into a suit. I don’t ever recall having another dream like that one.

Where are you going with that? Would you prohibit parents from teaching their children about their faith?

No. They were very good fighters and defeated several units of Saudaukar during the sneak attack on Duke Leto. What they weren’t was well organized. Leto was excited by the prospect of recruiting Fremen into the Atreides army. He just didn’t have time to pull that off. Paul essentially excuted Leto’s plan to organize the Fremen into an effective fighting force… after Leto was killed.