To all those wondering how this is legal: nowhere does it ask people to vote for Trump. The petition asks people to pledge their support for the Constitution, free speech, and the 2nd Amendment. Signing it does not indicate you are voting for Trump. But I could absolutely see the signatures being used for propaganda.

The petition is saying you support free speech, the second amendment, and the Constitution. You can certainly support all of those and vote for Harris.

A large chunk of that came from their senator Rick Scott. He committed the largest Medicare fraud in history costing about $2 billion back in 2002.

Any Heinlein reference? You sure?

Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's at least partly her own fault.

Stranger in a Strange Land

I actually had to quit reading his book Friday because the misogyny was over the top.

I can't say that I really buy that. Wealth was always concentrated in Rome. I'm going to assume that you mean the Western Roman Empire because the whole Roman Empire lasted until 1453 although there was a brief time that Crusaders took it over. If it were true, both sides of the empire would have fallen since they both operated the same.

The Empire definitely had quite a few issues. The debasement of the coinage led to some pretty significant inflation. It got so bad that Diocletian basically got rid of the mint and went with a very complex goods conversion system. But that was in the 3rd century. The Western Roman Empire had a hell of a lot more tribes bordering them to contend with while the East largely just had the Sassanids. The rules of succession were pretty lax too and many emperors avoided making successors until their death bed. That is fine if the emperor has a slow and predictable death but when they didn't, people (often military leaders) would simply claim they were emperor and take their armies and take over. That gave an opening for outside tribes to take advantage of the chaos.

That was for Fox News which is part of an entity that is worth $21 billion. The punitive damages would be much higher for someone worth $264 billion.

I loved the Jefferson deep dive. I also lived the Robert E Lee deep dive. Fuck those guys.

It turns out Aquaman is not looking for new property.

I tend to quit books if I don't find them very good. One I did finish that I fucking hated was The Girl on the Train. All of the characters were fucking insufferable.

You thought Saló was good? It may not have had horse fucking but it definitely has everything else.

I enjoyed it...until the insanely problematic ending.

Family Dollar and pretty much all dollar stores are rife with OSHA and health code violations. You might want to avoid getting orange juice there unless you are cool with it being covered in rat shit.

His public comments are equally as disgusting.

They are functionally the same.

That said, a tax or fine would be easier to implement.

Behind the Bastards for me. They have had some great and very informative episodes.

Grant. My wife will be going as Ellie and the kids are going as dinosaurs.

Correct which is why I mentioned it.

Probably not Pakistan but the Permian Basin in Texas also has a big methane emission.

Definitely something we should be looking to fine or tax.

We need to get a big group together and make an open source car. The company that bought Fiskers leftover vehicles can't use them because Fiskers supposedly can't transfer the servers to them.