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Additionally, I just realized that you’re flying internationally. There might be weird passport/visa issues. I’m glad you’ve decided not to try it.

It’s no illegal in the sense that the airline can’t put you in jail. On the other hand, it’s also not illegal for the airline to cancel the rest of your ticket (leaving you stranded) and choose never to do business with you every again.

But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!

There’s barely any advantage to being on Mars compared to orbiting some random Lagrange point or the sun itself.

Oye Beltalowda.

Besides the earthquake, there was also a literal rain of fire across the planet, like a blast furnace, that likely killed everything that wasn’t underground or underwater.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/dinopocalypse-redux

Instead of drilling a hole, another way to do it is to slam an asteroid on the other side of the planet.

https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/

The loophole seems to be having an app pinned to the screen (I’ve never done this, but it presumably keeps the phone from locking) while requiring you to have an unlocked phone to use NFC payments. This doesn’t seem to be a common scenario (I can imagine doing this in some sort of kiosk mode, or giving the phone to a kid and locking the app so he can’t wander around).

I had no idea you could die from jogging a marathon so I think you would be wrong about that.

Literally the first person to run a marathon, the Greek runner Pheidippides bringing the news to Athens about the Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon, died from exhaustion, his last words being “Rejoice, we conquer!” as he collapsed.

Humans: let’s eat the substance that these plants make to keep the wrong animals from eating its fruit. Let’s eat it for fun!

To be fair, those are Mission Impossible chase scenes really disrupt traffic.

“And then, the cannibalism started…”

Making the pee more expensive, yes.

Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;

Given the dumb shit that happens in this, the most ridiculous time line, I would lay money on aliens invading, and Fumio Kishida manifesting super powers to defend Japan. It’s in the same ballpark as Trump jumping bail and Dog the Bounty Hunter bringing him, but, you know you can’t completely rule it out.

Should that not be properly, “Oi, cunt!” ?

I need to point out that “aliens communicating in memes” was done by ST:TNG, in the Darmok episode.

Alien: “Shaka, when the walls fell” (essentially Disappointed Guy meme)

Picard: …

But how do you keep the ice cream cake from melting over that time?

Possibly, it’s something like this:

Trump: I need to show that I really really believe that the election was stolen from me!

Lawyers: it doesn’t matter what you believe, because the actions were illegal

Trump: but I really believe this, so it’s OK if I do all that

Lawyers: it doesn’t work that way!!

much easier to prosecute this sort of thing under RICO in Georgia than with the equivalent federal law

The Atlantic had some commentary about how broad the Georgia indictment is, compared to the Federal one for Jan 6. Basically, Jack Smith is looking at the political calendar, and wants to have very narrow charges that can go to trial quickly. A broader, comprehensive set of charges would result in a more complicated, slower trial, with the possibility that Trump might win in 2024 and then just terminate the whole thing. If Smith wins the earlier trial, he can still come back and bring wider charges, against, say, all the co-conspirators, but the first trial needs to happen early.

The Georgia one is less constrained by this political calendar, and the DA can bring the broadest range of charges into play, to show most of what Trump & Co were doing.

The drawback to what Georgia is doing is setting a precedent for local prosecutors to bring charges against former Presidents. You can imagine political revenge by some rinky dink GOP prosecutor in Oklahoma or something indicting Biden out of spite.

Modified Thunderdome rules: two go in, none come out