I_Jedi

All Microsoft has to do is give the presiding judge a few bags of money, and it will be determined that any suit that accuses Microsoft of using GPL code has no standing.

I’ve been looking for something that can prepare hydrofluoric acid from fluorite and sulfuric acid for some time, and I’ve finally found such a game. The idea of the game is to collect every element on the periodic table to repair your ship. Compounds with several elements won’t work - only compounds that consist of a particular element are eligible. And how do you do that? You have to react things with each other to make new compounds. And/or you use heat to do it. Or, you use electrolysis to separate elements (I like the electrolysis reaction where salt is separated into sodium and chlorine gas). Or you use your particle accelerator gun to make synthetic elements. There are a bunch of reactions missing (you can’t mix pure sodium and fluorine to get NaF on the spot), but there are enough to get all the elements. I had a fun time with it.

Oh, wages are covered. The job works on commission. Any property acquired through civil forfeiture during your duties in the Election Integrity Army are yours to keep.

Ousting the Shah, preventing the US from furthering their interests; selling Shahed drones to Russia for use in Ukraine; being in China's sphere of influence.

Democracy at work.

I claim that the bugs living in your stomach would consider you a compassionate and wise ruler if they could think. You eat food, they convert the food into shit and usable nutrients, and then you dispose of the shit. It's a win-win relationship for both parties.

My money is on 20-30 years. That's enough time for:

• Trump's death.
• The GOP attempts to prop up a direct successor to Trump, which fails.
• The Dems regain some control over the country as the Never Trumpers and MAGA fight over the direction of the GOP.
• Massive stagflation occurs as a result of Trump's activities when he was alive. And corporate greed.
• Many years pass, and New Trump offers a new way forward for the GOP. He distances himself from Trump by saying he won't TACO, and he'll make foreign countries suffer for putting the US in the current (future) economic crisis.
• New Trump builds up a coalition and wins bigly.

Longer than that, I'd say. The rich have been screwing with the lower classes since the country was founded.

A cause, not creation. Trump is our collective shadow, as it were. That thought where you want to say "Fuck the Rules" and do whatever you think is best, damn the consequences, is where Trump comes from.

• The war with Iran? Iran has been pestering the US for some time. So why not just kill those guys and be done with it?
• Europe keeps talking back and disrespecting your authority. So why not teach them a lesson by increasing prices on their stuff?
• Maduro thinks he can fuck with the US as much as he wants. Let's see if he still feels that way in an American prison!
• The people whining in Minnesota must have been put up to this by the Radical Left or something. A good hit to the head will calm them down!

By all means. But can you?

We all know that another Trump is coming. And this other Trump will be far worse than this one.

Exactly. There's no guarantee they actually exist.

Easy solution. Trump can simply call his death squad into California, shoot some people, and get the tax money flowing again.

You're quite right. But I don't really care anymore. As long as I die of cardiac arrest before I lose my faculties, then it's all fine. I'm hoping my heart calls it quits in about 20 to 30 years - that matches up with my schedule perfectly.

If I resist, I will die, or be taken prisoner, and then die. I still have business to attend to before my untimely death. It's too soon.

Simple. It will take pissing off the world until a coalition forms and the US is invaded. The world is passive these days, and the US smells blood in the water. To them, it is the perfect opportunity to attempt a world conquest, where all countries outside the US are replaced with client states, such as the Confederation of the Rhine.