Make the tax directly proportional to the number of unhoused people in the city. It created an incentive for rich people to actually fix the problem.

IIRC, he was created by Vought (the corporation that makes super powered people) to be the perfect justification for them to seize military power in the US.

Air Bud/John Wick crossover

Shout out for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. There are worse ways of spending your spare change than a donation to this organization.

https://www.au.org/

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourselves any idol.

3. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God.

4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

5. Honor your father and your mother.

6. You shall not murder.

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not give false testimony.

10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, wife, or property.

He is 10 for 10 as far as I can tell.

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All the ones I know of have closed. They really only had overpriced replicas at the end.

As opposed to nature where you are forced to hunt for food under threat of starvation.

Adding insult to injury, because of the pipeline of equipment to the police, we don’t even get cool cheap military surplus like during the Cold War.

It’s the Center of the Galaxy, like the Center of Disease Control or the Center for African American Studies.

It is a virtual certainty that at some point a meteor large enough to wipe out all multicellular life on the planet will strike the Earth. It is an absolute certainty that the Sun will eventually burn out leaving the planet uninhabitable. Something else might wipe out our species long before either of these things happen, but it’s not a bad idea to have another inhabited planet or two as a backups.

Along the same lines as Discworld and Hitchhikers Guide, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The Amazon tv adaptation is excellent as well.

“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” is what I always recommend from Heinlein. I feel like this one in particular has stood up conceptually and thematically over time. AI, space colonialism, predatory capitalism, class revolution. It all feels very relevant.

Someone must have had a concrete squirrel sculpture in their yard that this guy mistook for prey.

Would you really trust podiatrists or proctologists who were in it just for the love of the game?

Morality always has to bow to survival. Cannibalism might be immoral, but if you are lost at sea survival may necessitate such acts. (Not saying this applies to slavery, just in general)

It just occurred to me. What ever happened to Space Force?

You would at least think an oddball state like Alaska or a one that had taken a beating with Trump’s election shenanigans already like Georgia would have the spine to resist.

Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, DC, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

It was surprisingly hard to find a full list.

IIRC, they picked 60 because it could be evenly divided into 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6 which allowed them to stick to whole numbers more easily.