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35% to the lawyers

15% to court, state, lawyer administrative costs

40% to Governor's cousin's LLC established since last Tuesday specializing in child online safety issues according to their website which goes on to read "would you like me to create promotional flyers and other materials in addition to the website"?

15% nobody can trace where it went - but did you know BOYS are playing GIRL sports?!

25% to a program that passively encourages risky online behavior

20% to pro-business tax breaks

That's right taxpayer, you're gonna need to chip in for the extra 50%.

"up to" over 10 years, which means they'll pay 1.8B this year, a massive 3% of annual income, for now and find a way to get out of this before the decade is up

Maybe read the email they sent you in the first place

That's no way to get into management.

Yes! Entirely too many movies dwell in historic facts or likeliness (e.g. two characters small talking about the big ball game- not a documented event but entirely plausible) to ground themselves then go into fantasy/ax to grind land without warning. A cyborg raptor with lasers on it's head should pop up in the corner to let the audience know we're in fantasy land.

I agree. Our starting position is all flock cameras should be taken down and then shoved up Garrett Langley's ass. Every single one of them.

Now let us come to the table and find a compromise.

I suspect the Mandala Effect is what happens when timelines/realities collapse/fold into one another. Us humans are bad are perceiving when these things happen because we simply wrap it in an SEP field and go about our lives, but sometimes little leftover details catch our attention.

We need politicians with actionable plans worth voting for

Reading is hard, yo

Yes, biding time and running a pincher strategy of sending out some people to kiss the ring and sending significantly more to the watch groups, industry partners, and courts. Though we've also lost as many people to foreign institutions in the last two years as in the previous twenty.

The GOP courted the anti-intellectual vote because their ideology no longer had popular support. It was a deal with the devil and now the devil has come to collect. It's unlikely they can wind back that deal. The only hope is that more voters wake up and start to understand the impacts of putting morons in charge.

Oceania will not tolerate Eurasia giving technology to Eastasia.

Great context. Though you should probably change all that talk of the US funding research to the past tense, or the in-freefall-collapse-as-budgets-are-slashed-and-political-goons-replace-science-advisors tense, which is rarely used but the current situation fits.

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I've found fanbases are often split between the best and worst people around without much in the middle. It usually comes down to WHY they enjoy the thing.

Star Trek space travel and the social commentary versus pew-pew. R&M science fiction concepts versus being a drunk asshole. Warhammer as satire versus ...whatever they think it is.

Now look, you can think lasers are cool or that one jerk is funny, but if that's all you got... yikes.