You could also simplify by saying that assuming neither of them are dead, at some point while he is 44 she will be 42. Whether or not she is actually his sister seems to be irrelevant, she was stated to be his sister, so regardless of biological data, it is being presented as a fact assumption.

The space stuff is not currently possible and can be disregarded as well.

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I’ve still never seen Ep. III

Yeah when I hear M3 I’m thinking BMW for sure.

My grandmother just passed last year at 100. She wrote exactly like this but in English. She grew up in a German speaking home in the US, her parents had been part of a large group of Germans who had settled in Russia because conditions in Germany were worsening. They broke wild land for farming, built roads and houses, dug wells etc. When Russia seized all of their farms and packed them into train cars where many died, they fled to the US.

My great grandparents got their citizenship when he fought in WWI. I met him once before he died, he had the same first name I do and he had a wooden leg from a rock slide unrelated to his service in the war. I have a decorative plate with his likeness with a moustache and a cigarette hanging in my kitchen.

I can read this stuff though, my grandmother sent handwritten cards and letters for 40 years of my life. Also I have lived in Germany although my German isn’t very fluent.

It’s not that far back at all. Most events we know about, everyone who remembers it are dead. This idiot lives in many people’s memories today, and we’re still dealing with some of the consequences.

They probably tried setting it on their wireless phone charger. I hope they aren’t dumber than that, but I don’t really have a lot of hope.

Yeah I get it but even if he gets kicked out, the next person in power likely gets bought too. It’s the fall of Rome but slightly reinvented.

Do they not know who he works for? It’s been obvious for a long time.

There are some documented communications from Dems doing this. Of course Trump is doing it ten times as hard. Precedents matter, and this has been going on on a smaller scale since way before Biden. Probably back to Reagan or much earlier. Before social media it was controlling the major news outlets, although back then there were still a few independent journalists. Now independents get deplatformed.

They just keep getting more and more emboldened. They’re determined to control the narrative, and by they, really I mean oligarchs.

On the plus side, if you have kids they’re statistically less likely to end up in prison.

I’ve been tempted to give a Nazi solute when a police officer was trying to illegally force me to give ID when I hadn’t done anything wrong and they knew it and didn’t even claim to suspect me of a crime. It’s an ironic or protest solute, but a photo of me doing it would look bad, which is why I haven’t. Fuck authoritarianism.

If someone develops an aftermarket fix to make the ads go away, now that might be a product/sertvice people will want to pay for. Look at Dodge - creating new job sectors!

Left authoritarianism is a scourge just as much as fascism, but I’m an anti-authoritarian centrist. Yes it is normal to fear authoritarians. The proletariat must not be disarmed.

Their computer. You’re just a user.

Thank you, this is what I was looking for.

I’m very aware of the history.

Trump won by a slim margin too, and is currently seizing control. If the US doesn’t have an election in the next 15 years, do the American people have zero responsibility for what its future government might do?

Hamas came to power after winning an election in 2006. Palestinian civilians are involved in Hamas in the same way American civilians are involved in Trump - not completely responsible, but certainly not completely innocent.

I hate those fucking cameras in the thumbnail. They went up all over my area last year, hundreds of them and at every major intersection. You can’t avoid them, there are essentially no routes to skirt around them all. The surveillance state is tracking everyone’s movement and financial transactions, and it started before the orange man came into power. The people need to push back and the effort needs to broader than Ds or Rs making the push. If we want to stop a bipartisan surveillance state we need to mobilize We the People.

Yeah when I was 20, $100 was grocery money for the month. Now it’s groceries for 3-4 days. It doesn’t help that I always have a house full of teenagers.