My father ran me through it one day. It involves Al Gore proposal to sell carbon tax credits.

I think this was such a repellent thought to oil companies that they scorched the very thoughts around it.

Too bad about that election.

It’s worked for like a century

You gotta bloom where you’re planted.

Ah, I got confused and thought this was an old story. I didn’t know it was another person from the same show.

I kind of think it’s that woman’s place thing. Either she does a good job of that or all bets are off. It could be just so many kids is basically like running an orphanage of your own kids.

Freely exchanged information has a positive effect in one place and a negative effect in another. Seems like it be more interesting to know what they were talking about, or if there are different marketing strategies for the different markets.

Pretty interesting

Yeah, Jim Crow was a compromise already. I think benchs, restaurant tables, bathrooms were non-existent generally for African Americans in the South.

Oh 💯

But I think we were thinking along the same lines. I think if you just super content curate/create on the big three or four socials you’d get enough of the population that participated. What I envisioned is more like a quid pro quo type of thing with social media corpos. We’ll let you do absolutely anything to anyone, just don’t let our dirty laundry hit trending.

But 100% I think it would be a pretty bold move to just slap a patriot filter on the Internet.

Oh, it’s just bitter musing. I don’t think there’s intent or anything, just people trying to make money.

I don’t think we had cheap enough electronics back in the day for it to be that widespread. However, before licensing (needed) you really could just build a radio and do whatever.

I’m not sure I followed what you meant with the bit about a resource being claimed back. Could you talk a bit more about that?

It is known

Once their ships show up, the Navy can dip and leave the mess to someone else. He can just move on to the next country on his list

Concerned about the past from the future

Wild open access to vast reliable information has to be a social anomaly. I think the US will basically rewrite the Internet to promote national interest. It’s worked well for China. I think they can basically control the population with an app.

Basically Internet becomes TV. It’s entertaining and could be educational, but it is mostly useful to help people find sales and remember to work hard and respect their financial betters.

The Internet had scads of potential, still does, but imagine how radio enthusiasm changed from two way to broadcast communication.

So, it’ll just be like the early ninties again? People had similar feelings about digital technology being easy to manipulate.

Yeah, it sort of makes me wonder how many bets have been fixed already.

I’m guessing a lot. Our wealthy like to gamble and are not normally subject to justice.

Distressing is right, there’s a lot of potential there. Especially with all the didling going on indicated by the Epstein files.

It’s sort of one of my favorite things about us.

They should start adding convenience fees to US oil.

The US is absolutely defenseless against hidden fees and surcharges.

The thing we were parodying actually exists again? Both Zapp Hegseth and Zapp Brannigan were drawn from the same material? It’s honestly so perfect it seems like it had to be planned.

Zapp Hegseth it is.

I just call every noun a fucker

My prejudice is extreme.

That would be interesting to watch.

If I ever had to buy a personal laptop again, it’d definitely make the list.

Obnoxious hardware prices are what kept me off mac for so long. Now all prices are obnoxious maybe it would even out.

Great move if they can capitalize on it

Just YOLO until FAFO.

The speed of the whole thing is quite the terror.