If you want to get weird, there’s an astrologer named Nick Dagan Best that wrote a book about the US and 80-ish year cycles that follow the 7th planet in our solar system.

It’s called “UranUSA”. I seriously think he might have just come up with the title and worked backwards.

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Ah, the possibly Chinese-originated propaganda pushing for the Republic of Cascadia.

As a former resident, here’s a few reasons why not.

First, there’s already a looooot of rednecks and racists in every single state you talked about. In large numbers in rural areas. Simply smothering them with the numbers doesn’t mean you simply can’t represent them unless you just want someone else’s dictatorship. They’re still going to end up electing people you don’t like, and the ratio won’t be all that far off from now.

Second, Cascadia can’t sustain themselves with water, power, or food. Where are you getting wheat from? How about ethanol? How about EV production? It’s a guaranteed huge importer of lots of staples, severing infrastructure optimized over decades. So the first day you’re stuck trying to import from farther away at the same cost as no tariffs overland from 1000 miles away.

Third, your top trading partners will totally abuse your desperation during the secessionist era. Putting you in a terrible place to start.

Fourth, you’re now fully capitulating to the whims of the Broligarchs. WHY? Why do this? They can literally sink the whole country if 2 pull up stakes from Silicon valley.

Finally, last I checked, there isn’t some secret sauce to either political party. No one is actually living in some utopia besieged by nasty conservatives from Iowa. There’s no grass is greener situation here other than in your imaginations.

The full title fully uses the full word ‘full’ fully twice in the full span of a few filling words full of…full.

FTFY

Just have some delicious drag queen tell them in a husky voice “Babydoll, you see that white triangle hiding in the back on the fancy Pride Flag? That’s for all you vanilla-ass straight motherfuckers. You already ON the pride flag. You’re part of this shit already! Welcome to the party, it’s already going hard, and it’s your turn to sing ;)”

I literally think about that scene every time I order food online. I keep meaning to order pizza online and re-watch that movie just for that one scene.

Yeah, but that’s not the result the OP post expects, but instead “oh, you’re on duty now? Well, sure, OK I guess.”

What you’re suggesting of the opposite. Legit other agency LEOs show up for a double-tap arrest and the first group start shooting at them because they don’t expect them.

I think you meant to finish that the inter-agency is notoriously bad at communicating and informing each other. Yes, that’s true, but unless the OP situation plans to identify themselves as the FBI with fake badges, credentials, and possibly even paperwork that the subject’s lawyer can corroborate, it’s not going to go well.

Might make some good fiction. IRL would make for a lengthy prison term.

I dunno. Depends on the acceptability of calling it a “multi - generational household” because Boomers locked up to much wealth and now have to live with the consequences.

Second Art Nouveau. Art Deco is nice, but I think over played as a throwback.

Also a fan of a neoclassical Italianate style. Square columns, low flat roofs, towers and tall thin windows. It can vary, but when done in a clean and simple style, it’s very nice IMO.

On top of the fact that you need to have saved money to pay to live in a retirement home.

Are… Are there people that sort of really hope to just go from their patents’ basement to a retirement home?

Child soldiers are not Brave New World. More like shit old world.

These people are all coworkers in career LEO positions.

You think one group of 20 dudes have Kevlar vests and their sidearms at home and just pitch up at a court house like it’s a shift at a Denny’s? These people have desks and a locker room somewhere where they see each other without masks. They know each other well before the masks go on.

Its not like these people just start their day off from home. This isn’t some 9-5 office job.

They go to an office and park their cars (probably trucks) in the same lot, they kit up in a locker room and spend an hour shooting the shit with all their bros, and then talk about who is wearing what subtle things so they can tell Jenkins from Thompson at a distance. They know each other. They hang out at each other’s houses on the weekends. Their kids play together. They know who is supposed to be there that day. They have a game plan as to who does what. They chit chat about music and guns and the weather and cars and TV shows quietly in the downtime.

These people are not you. They can tell when someone else just shows up. They are organized when required, idiosyncratic about key details when needed, and hierarchical. An outsider only gets a pass when a CO tells them the outsider is OK.

Huawei and their HarmonyOS would disagree with you on how many users there are on an AOSP variant. It’s a meaningful cost to Google, which is probably what is motivating them to lock down their phones now.

https://medium.com/huawei-developers/what-is-harmonyos-how-it-differs-from-android-e5ea3fc50acc

Oh yeah, for sure.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cute+puppies&t=fpas&iar=images

Didn’t see that twist coming.

In other news, water found to be wet, puppies cute. More at 11.

I have a 250MB in aluminum container HD from 2005ish. Still works AFAIK.

Might be fun to stress test it, but I expect the discs inside would shatter from shocks before the case ever showed signs of wear.

Next week, imma be all about this.