Local board game shop.

If you aren’t there, I’m never gonna find you.

All the time.

I just can’t be bothered.

Do you think the news just appears on webpages for us to consume?

Particularly in the case of investigative journalism, there is a skill involved in writing the stories, and it consumes the time and effort of many people.

Charging money for your work is not “gatekeeping.” It’s how you keep eating.

I recall our 46th president deliberately torpedoing a perfectly good deal wee had with Iran to control it’s nuclear program. And at a much earlier stage, too.

I find it hard to believe that it’s legal to buy a company, but not it’s contractual obligations. Seems line a hell of a loophole for getting out of things you don’t want to do.

Lost the Trade War with China.

Starting a Trade War with the EU in the hopes of a victory. Sadly, the EU just saw exactly how to win.

So you don’t want our opinions, do you? You just want people to agree with you.

His thoughts seem to be that they share almost no characteristics, no philosophical underpinnings, and that there seems to be no direct path from the one to the other.

What do you think a discussing of “proto-X” is going to look like, if not comparing it to other things looking for similarities and possible links?

What I meant was “do we know what Trumps final decisions look like, because all we get is waffling.”

But I can’t disagree with you either.

How would we be able to tell?

Well, I don’t want to be in violation of rule #2.

Talk to you guys later.

DS9 is the best, no question. SNW is a very close second.

But TNG is my favorite. It’s where I want to live.

We no longer have one. Our elected leader is gone rogue.

Besides, our current leader has never received the majority of the popular vote, and our voting turnout has never been as much as half the populace. In my lifetime, no president has ever received so much as 60% of the popular vote.

The theory is good, but any idea that any President is representative of what the US people want is sunny not true, verging on impossible.

people don’t need a guide when using a chat bot that tells them how they should treat and interact with it.

Then why are people always surprised to find out that chat bots will make shit up to answer their questions?

People absolutely need a guide for using a chat bot, because people are idiots.

On this, I think we can agree.

The one does not flow directly from the other. A better world requires some protecting from each other, which means giving up some freedoms. A system of complete and total freedom would not be good for most people.

However, as Franken said, it is important not to give up essential freedoms. What freedoms, exactly, count as “essential” ones? Hard to say. We should have a thread to discuss it.

No, it isn’t.

What does that have to do with my claim?

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but a lot of the trouble in the US was caused by people using their freedom to do terrible things to people, and to set the stage for more of the same.

Provided they don’t touch freedom to not breed, and we don’t put racist ducks in charge, I think that works be the easiest for me to bear.

But I don’t want kids, so it’s not much of a sacrifice.

This strikes me as a terrible idea.