This tracks.

Butter side down.

Por que no los dos

I’m WFH, no packing required.

People, on the whole, will choose the easiest path.

People are also really bad at estimating risk, usually overestimating short term risks and underestimating long term risks.

So what happens is that people choose what they estimate to be the easiest path, based on their faulty ideas about what the short and long term risks are.

Which means that in order for real change to happen - by whatever means - people have to perceive that the immediate risk of change is lower than the future risk of staying the same.

Oh do it in advance? Just do it in advance?? Why don’t I strap on my Advance Helmet and squeeze down into an Advance Cannon and fire off into AdvanceLand, where Advances grow on Advancies??!

In order to succeed, you must have the capability and the will. A necessary part of capability is sufficient strength. That strength can come from numbers.

Once enough people are desperate enough, and realize that they have the numbers, and by extension the capability, the will is not far behind.

Of course there are consequences to standing up to fascism. The consequences of not standing up to fascism are worse. Unfortunately, we’re all going to have to suffer those worse consequences in order for the population to choose the lesser consequences of revolution.

In the meantime, the fascists grow stronger, largely because of their forced abandonment of facts. Full circle then: Until there is no alternative to armed conflict (and maybe even then), feeding the post-truth paradigm only strengthens fascism. This will ultimately forestall revolution, and make it harder for revolution to succeed. It’s already going to get worse before it gets better; being loosey-goosey on facts will only make it that much worse for that much longer.

Why not 1 item and a D1? Zero items and a D0? π items and a Dπ?

I feel like you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say with shorthand. A previous comment I made (which you may have already seen) might help elaborate:

Violence works, otherwise there wouldn’t be any. We’ve put up a whole system of laws and police and investigators and courts and prisons in order to provide an alternative to violence. And even then, that system is itself backed up with a real threat of violence as well as its occasional localized deployment.

Yesterday’s “pep rally” where none of the military leaders dragged in had anything good to say about it suggests that there is not the overwhelming military support that Trump wants there to be. There are plenty of examples of far less powerful local forces successfully standing up to superpowers. Afghanistan is one. Wallachia is another.

When the entire federal government and many state governments have wholly abandoned the systems put together to avoid violence, and are in fact using the husks of those systems to apply violence to their opponents, we’ve already crossed the Rubicon.

“Probably”.

There’s a difference between a fairly accurate interpretation of someone’s statement and overreaching to accomplish a political goal. I find the headline of this article to be the latter.

I hear what you’re saying, but I don’t think it’s as black and white as you’re making it out to be. “Never reading between the lines” is a strawman; nobody suggested that should be the case.

Just wait until they build one on the back of a snail.

The Rules exist so that we can all avoid violence. When The Rules are ignored, there is but one alternative.

You’d probably get fewer hallucinations.

I am the eggman. I have a whole egg preparation routine that I can run through before I’ve even had coffee. Doesn’t even have to be exactly the same every time.

My issues generally occur at lunchtime, more often when that time has been pushed back from “regular noon lunch” to 2p or 3p. In a pinch, if there’s nobody around to demand instruction from, I can dip into the snack bucket and unwrap something and eat it, which might give me the mental space to figure out what I actually should eat. Kind of like how a fission bomb is used as a detonator for a fusion bomb.

What I actually do: lumber up to whoever happens to be in the house at the moment and say “WHAT SHOULD I EAT”.

… an admission that he’s agreeing with her that what he’s doing is fucking wrong …

That’s arguably true, and different from “admitting Trump is unwell”. Johnson didn’t “admit that Trump [is] unwell”.

You know damn well that the Republicans would take anything, in or out of context, and blare it from the roof top to make the Democrats seem weak or awful or whatever and the American people eat it up as truth.

Of course, because they lie. They mislead, intentionally misrepresent, gaslight, contradict themselves. They thrive when there is no truth. This “post-truth world” is one they made, on purpose, to serve their aims. Fighting back by lying may be a tactical success, but it will definitely be a strategic failure.

No, they must be fought with undeniable facts, until the inevitable arrives. Every “not quite true” dilutes the strength of actual fact and empowers fascism.

… Wouldn’t the flight path be over the South Pole?

Reticulating splines