One of the big pillars to resistance, especially under tight strictures, is to watch for your opportunity and make your move when you get the chance. I'm definitely seeing some sane and righteous people who made it through the loyalty purges, who have decided that this is the best chance to take aim at the king, where they won't miss and won't have to deal with him getting back up, so to speak.
That, to demonstrate to the Democratic party that I don't want to support them if they actively fight against my policy goals, and to help develop a viable third party.
Mamdani would not have won without running as a Democrat. I'm still in favor of a party coup via primary action unless the DSA can actually go toe to toe with the Democratic and Republican parties at the same time. I'll probably drop some money on them in '26, but I'm not really convinced they'll be a potent standalone group without the brand recognition of the Democratic party.
I'm successfully jacking up someone's sagging floor as one of my first solo jobs. I don't want to make being my own boss a lifestyle, but it's cool to have the confidence that I can ditch my future bosses at any time and just fly solo for a bit til I get a new one.
I'm pretty sure Zohran's entire goal was to create a publicized scene where the president was looking up at a Muslim socialist immigrant with a shit-eating grin to fuck with Trump's base.
I lack the subtlety to tell you if my cast iron pan cooks better or makes anything taste better, but I can assure you it regularly survives abuse that would ruin a Teflon pan in days.
Oh, giving ourselves endless lifespans is a fine endeavor. We've got plenty of ways to adapt to changing environments without changing our bodies, and we're pretty close to being able to do that without dying and evolving anyway. Shit might get weird, but it always does with us.
I just want to drop in and call out "death is a design flaw" specifically. It is not. Without death, there can be no evolution, and any change to the environment is extinction.
The mountains seem eternal, but there were forests before many of them, and though the trees will be different in the distant eons when the mountains are worn to nothing, the forests will live on.
I'm willing to entertain the idea that she grew up a little and got wiser. Wouldn't say I believe it, but it's plausible. Time will tell. For now she's not a friend but she is an ally.
Russia's hybrid war with the West comes to mind. The invasion of Ukraine has turned out that way too, although it was intended to be a quick resource grab.
One of the big pillars to resistance, especially under tight strictures, is to watch for your opportunity and make your move when you get the chance. I'm definitely seeing some sane and righteous people who made it through the loyalty purges, who have decided that this is the best chance to take aim at the king, where they won't miss and won't have to deal with him getting back up, so to speak.