In practice, yes, this is basically impossible to enforce. It’s just a way to steal more data from the people

That next sandwich after groceries is going to be prime

Cool. Not really the priority right now

We could build a whole new government with that kind of money

Damn, what the hell. That’s a huge L for a governor that’s been good up to this point. What could she be thinking?

The conciliatory tone is a shift for the governor, who clashed with Trump during his first term. He called her “that woman from Michigan,” criticized her COVID-19 pandemic response and agreed with his followers’ chants that she should be imprisoned.

Whitmer had previously said Trump was “complicit” in a right-wing militia plot to kidnap her by stoking extremism. She wrote in The Atlantic that she and her family faced “a surge of vicious attacks” whenever he publicly attacked her.

???

Is she being blackmailed or something?

You don’t think about 100 of those little furniture sliders would do it? Lol

They’re used to being hated and undermined. This is business as usual

There are a lot of things close to that in scifi. The Starship Troopers movie is a satire of the book it’s based on, and the Orville is a satire of Star Trek with a lot of Trek actors taking part.

The pinnacle of self-parody though is, of course, Star Trek: Lower Decks

Yoooo, this is such a good gif!

He wound up in basically exactly the Kobayashi Maru scenario, and they give him an especially hard time for it, since he’s a Klingon. “I would have thought if anyone could beat it, it would have been you, Mr. Worf.”

He insists it’s not his fault, because Star Fleet training says he should accept the no-win scenario

I think you could have taken it even one step further into abstraction, and said that this new office would be run by, like, Amway (or whatever ponzi scheme seems most culturally relevant)

That way, it’s specific, but to evoke, just, general scamminess

Fantastic headline lol

Even performed, you don’t have to be this specific. This is why the “modern” redditwritesseinfelds don’t work so often imo. They go way too specific and make jokes about individual apps, or devices. I can only think of one Seinfeld episode that really relied on any technology beyond a car or a phone call, and it was the one where they had to swap voicemail tapes, which was mostly physical comedy anyway

It’s gotta be about the human experience first! Too many proper nouns just confuses the plot

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Kirk is just assuming Picard is some kind of alien hallucination from the get-go, and Picard, from the later Star Fleet, knows this job is whacky, and sometimes you just gotta let your officers talk themselves through it

Just totally shut down land trade through the center of the continent? Wars have been fought over less lol

This article is directly quoting the UN Secretary General and Human Rights Watch

If he even committed the alleged act at all 🤷

It looks just like the Tik Tok ban to me. Racist/Nationalist nonsense that doesn’t solve the actual underlying problem, which is lack of regulation in the US

“the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/