You can’t? I can think of 20 of them who all have a better chance to win than Biden, who now has a zero chance to win.

Did you watch it? I’m 100% for the Democrats but Biden is incoherent, he is not up for the job. From what I saw he isn’t up to doing the job through November. He needs to step down immediately. If he doesn’t Trump is going to win.

No one who saw that debate was inspired by Biden, no one. Ok maybe 1 out of 100, maybe. But 99 of them were not. Gaslighting won’t help, the goose is cooked.

If Biden is the head of the ticket he’s going to lose. Full stop.

Whatever that dish is I bet it’s damn good. I miss food like that.

It makes no fucking sense to me at all, whatsoever.

Exactly, he was served up tons of opportunities to make great and compelling points and garbled them all. Trump is so terrible of a candidate you can think of anything at any time and make a great case against him. Biden sounded months away from hospice care.

Fucking exactly, amen. Biden couldn’t make any sense. Trump should be in jail, and Biden needs to be replaced on the dem ticket asap.

Ezra Klein just copy pasted his article to his editor again with subject title “print this shit again, verbatim.”

Wow sounds like a cool niche and activity!

This might not be helpful, in that case sorry, but the idea that came to my mind first was:

Do something every day that’s a little uncomfortable and out of your comfort zone that helps your own progress. Do it every day, even if just a little bit, like study or work out or some bit of work on a personal project. If you do it every day you can build up to something.

I had a boss who was older but studying for her masters, and was lamenting it was discouraging being the oldest person in the class doing it. The prof told her “well, you’ll either turn 50 with the masters degree or without it, which do you prefer?”

Is it not an issue that duct tape can be pretty flammable?

That’s a good setup.

Oh shit, 50 comes a lot faster and is a lot younger than you might think.

Control = More Power

I agree, I don’t think they’d wait until the last possible moment when the civilization becomes super powerful or builds the mega weapon. I just mention it along the range of development to highlight the why.

I think they might let weaker civilizations keep going, though, just out of hope they wouldn’t be too mean. Also, zapping other civilizations when you don’t need to exposes yourself and your own aggression.

About the shift to VR /computer substrate worlds that wouldn’t have huge footprints, I agree that not all would do that, and it only takes one to go the big building and footprint route and it’s weird we don’t see it.

My guess then would be that maybe they do build big, but they just conceal well…? You get good enough tech at some point you can choose to be hard to see.

Their world was just as complex for them to survive in as ours is, and maybe more so. They came up with ideas and solutions to problems and their thinking gave us that tech we have today.

Holy moly,

Yep exactly. Who knows how murderous other civs might be, maybe they’re nice but maybe not.

I think others wouldn’t bother with us until we started demonstrating likelihood of using dangerous tech or crazy exponential expansion.

I don’t remember well, but I think civilizations stationed their defensive or offensive tech away from their own civilizations, just dispersed around.

I think its explanation for why no one or anything has colonized the galaxy though is that if anyone shows signs of becoming that strong, they get zapped. Nobody wants to see a neighbor rise up into a behemoth, you get that bold you’re a threat.

My real preferred theory of why we don’t see other civilizations though is that I think they choose more inward, VR, computer-based evolution that doesn’t result in big mega structures.