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Zelensky refuses to hold elections in wartime Ukraine
  • Zelensky wasn't elected to be a wartime leader; his mandate from the public was to do the opposite. Perhaps he has won over some citizens during the conflict, but he owes it to the people of Ukraine to give them the choice to pursue peace.

  • I still think the Vendorians did the Klingon civil war
  • Been thinking about the Klingon and Hirogen species recently (and I guess Ferengi to a lesser extent). How do cultures so devoted to hunting, killing, pride, and honor, have the infrastructure in place to become space-based empires? Like, it takes millions of people doing boring jobs like math and engineering to make space travel possible, but if they're all motivated by murder and glory, how do they accomplish anything on a grand scale?

  • What are some good dystopian novels?
  • "This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin was good enough when I read it 15+ years ago.

    "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin does a lot of world building (in short, anarchist separatists fled Earth to terraform the moon to be barely hospitable) and a fun glimpse into a would-be anarchist society

  • After rise in climate direct action, Europe cracks down
  • Do these become jury trials? In the near future, I could see jury nullification of these cases the same way abolitionists did it 200 years ago.

    porky-happy Judge: "You stand accused of helping a slave escape, here is irrefutable proof."

    douglass-vibing Jury: "We find the defendant NOT GUILTY" troll

    porky-scared-flipped

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