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Star Trek: The Next Generation season 5 episode 18 “Cause and Effect”

Chance he runs for vice president and wins, with the presidential candidate promising to resign promptly, and is betrayed: 10%

For this one, it also depends on how the Supreme Court rules on the 12th amendment. That amendment states that anyone who is unqualified to be president is likewise unqualified to be vice president, but there is some uncertainty as to whether or not it only applies to people unqualified to be president or if it includes people unqualified to run as president.

I’d say 90% chance the conservative-stacked Supreme Court side with Trump because the conservative justices are originalists and the 12th’s interaction with the 22nd was not intended when the 12th was written, but 10% chance they decide he’s unqualified to be Vice President so as to keep the door closed for Dems who might try the same thing.

Addition to the above, since someone pointed out that my Korea comment appears to assume a South Korean default:

Best Korea: Your music industry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still have the closest thing to a government owned by corporations.

China: Stop trying to make the mandate of heaven happen. It’s not going to happen.

Japan: If you’re worried about population decline, maybe you should be less shitty to foreigners who want to live there.

Korea: Your music industry is uncomfortably close to slavery. And despite America’s best efforts, you still have the closest thing to a government owned by corporations.

Southeast Asia in general: I am sorry you are stuck being the Middle East of the Far East.

Bulgogi, Kimbap, Tteokbokki, Jjajangmyeon and so many more good Korean dishes.

If your opinion of Chinese food is based on takeout, I can promise you haven’t had real Chinese food.

(American version) Hand out union flyers in the break room.

Yes

You should check out Korea or China for much better food, though. Japanese food isn’t bad but it is terribly boring. Even most of the interesting Japanese dishes have Chinese origins.

Might depend on the region/cuisine though and different things that set people off.

I can’t eat most Italian food without taking a Tums or some omeprazole because the tomato, olive oil, and cheeses common in those sorts of dishes just wrecks me. But spicy food I don’t struggle with much at all, so Szechuan food and Mexican food doesn’t really bother me.

The one time I tried an English style breakfast with greasy sausage and beans also had me feeling sick most of the day, and I also skipped the tomato with that one. I shudder to think of what a German currywurst might do to me.

Hey, don’t leave Australia and New Zealand out of club soccer, too. Soccer happens to be the preferred term in most anglophone countries.

Tums is just calcium carbonate (chalk, basically) and is essentially the same as any other rapid relief antacid tablet. Google tells me that a brand called Rennie is the same thing and is apparently available in much of Europe.

Might be more commonly taken in the US because Americans tend to eat greasy, heartburn-inducing food more often.

They hated him because he spoke the truth.

The culture of France stems from a long-standing Christian default. In language, dress, behavior, holidays, etc. There’s no need to ban “Christian” clothing, for example, because Christian clothing is western clothing and it’s everywhere. France can try to use the excuse that these material descendants of older, religious-compliant garments are now “secularized,” but Laicite precludes the potential normalization of other cultural influences entering that space in the name of some sort of French cultural purity.

If people want to wear a hijab not because of religion but because it’s trendy, would that be different? France says no.

But is that any different than a woman choosing to wear a “secular” skirt or dress long enough that you can’t see her ankles just because it looks nice? Do French offices chastise employees if they wear black after someone dies? Do they care as much if someone opts not to wear mixed fabrics, even for religious reasons?

This is why Laicite is flawed, because it only recognizes religions of the “other” as modes of expression while basically giving free reign to Christians to continue expressing their religion because their practices are “normal”.

Ah yes, Japan.

The politics of Italy, the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, and others all seem close to or worse than the current state of American politics. The only difference is that the US wields a lot more global influence and has no neighbors powerful enough to keep it in check (sorry Canada and Mexico, I still love you). Europe is not doing enough to prevent the spread of its own far-right/neofascist groups and the inevitable erosion of human rights.

At least Rebirth will be on PC in just a couple weeks, on January 23. No Epic exclusivity this time either.

Reads opening summary

“Okay, mhmmm, interesting life and career as an actress…”

Reads just below that

At the beginning of World War II, along with George Antheil, Lamarr co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis powers.

“WHAT that’s cool”

What ways have you used to bypass YouTube’s echo chamber format?

Easy, I barely use YouTube at all anymore.

When I do use it, it’s for specific videos. I never use it for content discovery.

Same with policing. Most police departments (in the US at least) basically don’t want folks above C-student level. There are tests required to be a cop and it’s possible to be rejected for doing too well on them.

Until there’s a school shooting and every teacher is expected to be the Good Guy With Gun™.