DLindsey

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• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  I think it first requires successful referendum in the territory in question, then two-thirds majority votes in both the House and the Senate, and then the President has to sign. A two-thirds majority in the Senate is likely to be...
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  At the moment the Supreme Court seems to declining to get involved with (election) decisions by state courts and is only taking up those referred from a lower federal court. No one should underestimate what can be excused by a...
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  The closest thing was a sign thanking Obama (somebody who was saved by the ACA, I guess) I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but the sign surely was....
• Commented on All Glory to the New Management!
  I read Barrie's Peter Pan when I was ten or eleven but I didn't really grasp some (maybe a lot) of it. For example, this sentence: "Here, a little in advance, ever and again with his head to the ground...
• Commented on COVID-19
  According to WHO: "Individuals at highest risk for severe disease and death include people aged over 60 years and those with underlying conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and cancer. Disease in children appears to be...
• Commented on We get mail (contd.)
  Slightly OT, but do you ever read your server logs to see what Google searches brought people here, Charlie? If you're wondering what the point of that would be, well, it would be entertainment. C.f. https://www.popehat.com/tag/road-to-popehat/...
• Commented on Empire Games sneak peek
  I guess that one was hard to top. Not just for near future Sci-Fi, though, all those spy stories ... In fact, I think I stopped reading them right around then. For me the Cold War was so integral to...
• Commented on Empire Games sneak peek
  I think there may be an evolutionary niche, so to speak, for strongly-proselytized religions that will tend to get filled one way or another. Which doesn't mean that things wouldn't be very different, of course....
• Commented on Wooden Train Parenting
  I agree with a lot of that but it seems a little inexact to lump all different types of screen time together. Watching TV, playing an FPS, playing Minecraft, browsing Wikipedia, and surfing Facebook all seem like very different things...
• Commented on Thoughtcrime
  Ah, the usual Underpants Gnome's step 2 towards taking over the Internet....