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Quote from: Naturegirl1999 on February 18, 2020, 06:45:02 pm

Who is Stone? Sorry. I should probably be paying more attention to this stuff

Roger Stone is an old associate of Trump who was found guilty of lying to and obstructing Congress during the Mueller investigation, along with several other related crimes. Federal prosecutors recommended a 7-9 year prison sentence. Shortly after the recommendation was made public, Donald Trump tweeted his opposition to the severity of the sentence. Almost immediately after that tweet went out, the Department of Justice announced they were reversing the recommendation of the prosecutors and allowing the courts to decide Stone's sentence. This prompted the resignation in protest of all 4 federal prosecutors who had worked on Stone's case. This also prompted more than 2000 former Justice Department employees to sign a petition demanding the resignation of Attorney General William Barr for his role in the decision.

So yeah...Stone is just the center of the latest shitstorm in American politics.

Also, William Barr essentially told Trump to butt out, to stop making tweets about the things he does because it makes it impossible to do his job when he says something and Donny contradicts him with a tweet later, and that he didn’t have the authority to interfere in justice department cases. Even Mitch McConnell voices support for Barr in regards to this.

There was some talk that it was coordinated though, to make it look like William Barr was not just another stooge of Trump’s. Trump later tweeted that he does, in fact, have the authority to interfere in justice department cases, ‘cause he’s the president.

Barr apparently has considered resigning over this, according to a bunch of news media.

From another thread, I wanted to quote,

Quote from: Naturegirl1999 on February 18, 2020, 10:26:30 am

Granted, every other vehicle is banned to give drones space, humans either have to walk everywhere or volunteer to be delivered to where they need to be

I wish that AIs and humans work to find a way to coexist by changing the economy so that humans working jobs wouldn’t be required to get what they need.
((I am thinking a lot about how our current economy relies on humans working to get money to get what they need, and that AIs and their bodies do things better than humans, and how there will very likely be a point Where humans are no longer hired. If humans are no longer hired for anything, what way is there to legally receive money for things they need? I am hoping humans and AIs can work together to solve this problem))

This led me to think about Star Trek's Earth.   
Humanity discovered warp engines, and sources of unlimited power, cured diseases, and used replicator to do many things such as make food. 
These advances covers the basic needs of every humans: food, health, housing. 

I do not know if the economy of this scenario still means people go to jobs for "money".
But there were a few statements from watching various episodes/movies that I have this impression: People go to "work" to pursue their passion, be it space exploring, having a family, soldier, medical, science, art, etc. 

I know in DS9, there was an episode in which... I believe it was the station commander's son (it has been a long-ass time since I've seen DS9, names escape me, though Odo as a baseball umpire was particularly entertaining) was trying to buy a particularly rare baseball card from a Ferengi, but didn't have any money because Earth stopped using currency for some reason or another, so the Ferengi refused to give it to him.

That is a very good hand, Joshua.

I’m not particularly familiar with mahjong scoring, having only played it within Yakuza games, but I do at least know dem dragons be hard to get more than one set of, and you seem to have done it entirely concealed.

That sounds good, I guess.

Quote from: McTraveller on February 14, 2020, 09:27:30 pm

What is with the escalation of "LED running lights on new cars aren't bright enough, let's put even more high-color-temp solar flares up there"?

What's with the taillights that flash whenever a stiff breeze hits the break pedal?

Lets folk know when you intend to slow down.

I like being able to see when I’m driving at night, which is made challenging when someone, usually in a pickup, decides they like the look of my tailpipe so much they want to get as much detail as possible and drive really close, in so doing blinding me from the driver’s-side wing mirror and rear-view mirror simultaneously, almost as bad as someone driving toward me with their brights on, forcing me to navigate my car solely from the white lines on the very right hand side of the road!

I dislike muchly.

Doctor Doak glances back, pointing toward the tower to illustrate his point.

“Ypu only have so much energy in any given day. Why waste it on being held back from one, when you can be let loose on a whole bunch of them.

If there’s one out here, think how many there are in there.”

Doctor Doak sighs slightly.

“Can you tell us anything about what we might encounter?”