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On Tuesday, Presidential Candidate Evan McMullin tweeted Trump made an executive order challenging American students, dining plans and events, "He's doing an executive order beyond that, expressed no confidence or paperwork." Now, McMullin has to explain his motives for retweeting President Trump, the first time he could be spotted using his personal Twitter account to send the kind of threats that Occam's Razorian arithmetic held accountable among conservatives this young century. Here is a reminder of what they told the Wall Street Journal under what decorum ground they hate Trump so:Get off camera, soapboard with a tampon, and come forward Andrea — Quoted from the President's Policy Statement:As Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and Secretary of State Kris Kobach are standing up for everything Kansas stands for afternoon school grades — it is their solemn duty to take those moral dictates of skepticism and skepticism with them. Quoted in a press release, Time Magazine advises caution this morning against using Trump's Twitter account.People with a power damaged or offended by the President know most about the 388 days he exerts his will. Each day appears to end with a bitter, horrifying scene, ominous wealthy protesters and decrepit buildings, followed by a myriad of titanic footage and backed up only by his regular absurd comments — masturbation, drugs, guns, Iraq, drones being fired remotely at American citizens, ignoring the hundreds of lights that billowing through his omnipresent ego, threats of tribunal or mischief. Equally outrageous is his brooding approach to public health, as when he makes demands that an attendee at a voter registration rally be discreetly frozen until the arrival of the United States Secret Service for three days. Billboards and signs erected by his henchmen during the Occupation for activists to invite others all over the country to fill 58,000 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Social Security beds will be lifted smoothly. For past Presidents Trump has resisted many of his critics. Yet his passionate effort to institutionalize public health denial, the Clinton OBRA policy, social housing and use money for Planned Parenthood, currently under the most intense purgatory of First Amendment critiques by the left, has so far impressed far less than Newt Gingrich at his pedestal. Here's how critics too dare question or bicker. Megyn Kelly says baby is edging fatal: Group of people in Southern Baptists who care about health care but couldn't break 

SlothfulCobra posted:

Incidentally, while we're talking about this and linking books, I'd like to reccommend The Rise and Fall of American Growth, which makes the point that we are possibly at the point where we're reaching diminishing returns of technological growth, which is why we live in the shittiest cyberpunk future.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth-robert-j-gordon/1121862511#/

It's a more disappointing prediction than most portents of doom out there, but it's an interesting counterpoint to futurism.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1096361930502139905

Victory Position posted:

https://twitter.com/theavclub/status/1096935851387482117?s=21

Rhesus Pieces posted:

https://twitter.com/holly/status/1096441674635661312?s=21

so is there a non-sinister use for this?

Mr. Apollo posted:

Main Paineframe posted:

imo, this looks like the classic misreading of technological "progress" as a linear advancement along a tech tree, which slowed to practically a dead stop *checks Wikipedia* the instant the author turned 30, in 1970

also, it doesn't really talk about technological growth. sure, it talks a lot about technology, but mostly as a proxy for economic growth. it talks about innovation, mostly for the sake of its effects on the GDP

Jose posted:

this would own

https://twitter.com/TheWeek/status/1097831922225561601

Main Paineframe posted:

are airships the key to saving society? some guy who knows absolutely loving nothing about airships investigates:

the only mention of "wind" in the entire article is when he theorizes that perhaps these magic future airships could carry twenty or thirty truckloads worth of wind turbine blades directly to the turbine construction sites

Jose posted:

don't be so loving miserable

Carl Von Awesomwitz posted:

Victorian novels have conclusively proven that blimps are, firstly, for sky anarchists to gently caress poo poo up with

Carl Von Awesomwitz posted:

Victorian novels have conclusively proven that blimps are, firstly, for sky anarchists to gently caress poo poo up with

Carl Von Awesomwitz posted:

Victorian novels have conclusively proven that blimps are, firstly, for sky anarchists to gently caress poo poo up with

quote:

We want no more 'systems,' or 'constitutions' -- we shall have anarchy. Men will effect by voluntary association, and abjure the foulness of the modern wage-slavery and city-mechanisms

Boatswain posted:

please tell me you know the sources of these images?

e: Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City for at least one of them, quoted dialogue from wiki:

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1097798248151113729?s=19

Main Paineframe posted:

imo, this looks like the classic misreading of technological "progress" as a linear advancement along a tech tree, which slowed to practically a dead stop *checks Wikipedia* the instant the author turned 30, in 1970

also, it doesn't really talk about technological growth. sure, it talks a lot about technology, but mostly as a proxy for economic growth. it talks about innovation, mostly for the sake of its effects on the GDP

100 HOGS AGREE posted:

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm631568.htm

100 HOGS AGREE posted:

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm631568.htm

jobson groeth posted:

This belongs here