BodyBySisyphus

The courts you imagine to exist for trying these folks... Where can I find them?

The Hague. Granted, they won't put them on trial because the ICC exists to legitimize, not undermine, the western imperial project, but that's what they're supposed to be doing on paper.

I think there's a think tank in the democrats' orbit that would be willing to put one together (or is currently trying to), but we'll probably never hear about it because there's no appetite at the top for admitting the system needs to be changed. The day prominent national democrats go up on stage and admit there needs to be more action than preventing a single high-profile bad actor from getting a job and passing tax credits for electric cars is the day most of their donors head for the exits. So they're stuck in a state of existing solely in opposition to the Bad Thing Du Jour.

I haven't exactly read the thing cover to cover, but my understanding is it's the Heritage Foundation going "What if someone competent had won in 2020?" and lays out the plan to replace even more people who do the functions of government - including people with actual jobs - with handpicked toadies. This would be pretty bad and hard to reverse and is likely to have major and unpleasant consequences if it goes through, but, as with all wishlists, they need someone in charge to actually carry it out, and it really just promises an acceleration of existing trends.

Theoretically - because it requires someone to actually go through the motions of doing this under the color of law - the Democrats could take steps to prevent or at least slow its implementation, but the fact that they intend to drop their opposition after putting up the typical token show of resistance is evident in the fact that no one has outlined a plan beyond "get Biden's desiccated husk fused to the chair of the Resolute Desk."

The mention of Friedman brings us to another feature of the capitalism-as-religion hypothesis: the economic specialists who function in a way very similar to ‘theologians’. Not only do they debate the core doctrines of capitalism, and not only do they develop new ‘schools’ or ‘churches’, but they also advise governments in much the same way that priests, ministers and theologians used to advise European governments of the past. And where you have doctrines and theologians, you also have sacred places for worship. These places may vary – stock markets and banks come to mind – but one must show due reverence to them and engage in the appropriate acts of worship. Individual life too has its rituals of this new religion, focused on spending and saving, on buying and selling.

It 100% reads like it was written by a computer. Which is both hilarious and the best possible way to handle this kind of complaint.

Hamas should insist on reserving the option to defenestrate Israeli leadership

Yeah, it's irritating how effectively the inability to imagine that anything outside the status quo is achievable has been repackaged as maturity.

No, it's dimensia. Biden'a connection with the third dimension is wearing down and soon he will exist solely as a shadow on the Oval Office walls

"Given the chance, gamers will optimize all the fun out of a game"

There some companies offering frame kits that consist of a set of lugs and (optionally) some prepared bamboo. I feel like that's a better way from a longevity perspective than trying to tie or laminate things together, especially since the joints seem like the most obvious point of failure.

"Hey Jacob, how's the new Atlantic column you're writing going?"
"It's great. I'm going to treat a 10 ton cetacean like it's trying to sit at my lunch table in middle school."
"Truly your contributions to American letters will echo through history."

Guess I'll take the contrarian side here and say this looks like a nice rain fly for a bicycle and not something I'd want to sleep in. Poles are not make or break when it comes to weight and having a space with a floor where I can get situated without hitting my face on my mud-covered bike seems worth the slight additional encumbrance. If I was going for ultralight I'd use a camping hammock instead.