A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

*Senator or Representative

Because no single Senator or Congressperson has nearly as much say about which legislation gets passed as the president does via the veto...

And for Supreme Court selections, the gap is even wider, since only the president can nominate.

And that's on top of his own executive authority.

How much Americans have shelled out to Elon Musk through government contracts: $38 billion.
How much Elon Musk made last year: $200+ billion
How much Tesla paid in federal taxes last year: $0.
Oligarchy is real. The system is rigged.

I'm inclined to say that Trump is lying about saving them, and Iran is lying about "AI generation" being behind claims that they're killing women protestors.

Both regimes are evil.

Maybe we should try again in 12 months, see if they've learned their lesson?

I swear people think he runs his social media himself. The funny tweets aren't him, kids!

Your list is missing Russian interference and racism.

Actually, looking at how the Pope is responding, I think that blaming "God" is less accurate than blaming a certain sort of theocrat. (Also, I presume you don't believe in God, so it's sort of ridiculous to blame Him.)

You have the causality backward.

It didn't become successful because it popularized a new genre; it popularized its genre because it had mechanics worth playing.

I definitely value gameplay over graphics...

Clark Kent is a truly decent human being. At least in the ways that count.

Depends. Often validating a claimed answer is easier than finding the answer from scratch, so if it can generate likely answers to be validated...

And effective measures to put an end to gerrymandering should be part of our national healing once this is over.

Today's cartoon by Nick Anderson.

"He did not invent gerrymandering, but he stripped away its last remaining illusions and norms. What had once been a quiet, technical exercise became an explicit strategy: redraw the map, lock in power, dare the other side to complain...'

I'm going to say "all of the ones that preferentially target civilians".

And if that means that there are terrorists on both "sides" (it does), then so be it.

It's about lining the pockets of trump and his friends and family

Lying or delusional. With RFK Jr. (as well as many other members of this administration) it can be hard to tell.

Agent of Treachery
Arvinox, the Mind Flail
Brainstealer Dragon
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar.

Can you provide the core texts and tenets of this ideology that you are calling "Zionism"?

Can you support the claim that these texts and tenets are what is actually referred to by the word "Zionism"?

Is this you calling Trump a whore?

If it isn't, why not?

This is an intentional strategy to have everyone going around in circles while they pillage the treasury and dismantle the United States government

Vote Democrat in the midterms

Trump reading the Bible in the Oval Office might be good for some laughs, at least...

Just propose and ratify a constitutional amendment to remove explicit pre-emption (that is, preventing states from passing laws even when they do not conflict with any other federal law). from the list of federal powers. It's abused too often to be justified by its legitimate uses.

Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

But do you enjoy it enough to put up with the poor pay?

I believe it would be "Thank you for providing us with so much bounty that we couldn't eat it all in a single meal".

As long as the other uses justify the cost of the computer...

It's not as if there weren't plenty of 30 year old games still worth playing...

Whereas I think they are both so much based on human nature as to be part of it.

Who is "they" here?

Because I don't know of *anyone* who claims that voting for a candidate means you support every plank of their platform...

RFK: No, really, measles strengthens the immune system.

AOC: Are you *insane*?