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To be entirely fair, then, this happened to me. It's how I discovered being nonbinary.

American law continues to be built on "oh we forgot to make that a law" and "oh we didn't think that would matter".

Neither would Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz IIRC.

Yeah, even a coordinated attack on physical networking backbones wouldn't be TOO rough. We'd have to piece together what's left and figure out what to replace, but there's enough worldwide structure that we can do that in a pretty coordinated manner even without the Internet - it would probably just take a lot longer. I feel that a lot of the West would be the worst off, but surprisingly, a lot of governments already have plans for stuff like this. I feel even with incompetence, you'd be looking at 2-3 years max, but I don't think you'd see Purge-style societal collapse or whatever you're envisioning.

Actually working fine for Mondragon. A federation of worker coops in Spain, it's 70 thousand people or so and seems to have worked for the past 70 years, even outlasting Francoism. Wage ratios (between minimum and the highest wage in the coop) are fixed and must be voted on to be changed, and I believe management positions can be voted out by their subordinates.

It's also demoralizing. Like with Russia and other highly corrupt countries, the average person sees all this and ignores the corruption at their local level, while saying "well that's just how things work here".

Yes. The terrible "doctor" has ingratiated himself with the administration for a while, actually having his fucking film crew accompanying ICE raids in Chicago which then aired on his show.

My dad and I make a point to watch Buckaroo Banzai at least once a year. Great movie.

But why do hot dogs come in packs of 6 and buns come in packs of 8?

It's fantastic. They didn't bother to make it "relatable" or "more realistic", just "we're literally doing, shot for shot, the anime as a movie, and fuck you if you don't like it". It's shameless, joyful fun the entire way, and honestly more movies should embrace the camp and just run with it.

Elon, the guy who sent multiple incredibly sad emails all but begging "please let me come over and party on your child sex island Mr Epstein I promise I'm cool"? That Elon?