Walt J. Rimmer

I don’t really know how you can threaten someone when you need them more than they need you.

If you leave town, where are you going to go? The city doesn’t need you. If you’re not making what you want/need here, go ahead, leave, the city won’t be hurt by it. You will, though. Because you’ll have to pack up your business, set it up somewhere else, and hope that they do the things you want them to. It’ll be expensive for you, won’t mean a thing to the city.

So how is it a threat?

If Chicken can be a language, that can be a language!

And I don’t mean the actually useful programming language. I mean the esolang one where the only valid character is Chicken.

I miss Cantor’s more experimental stuff like this. His work with Tally Hall is a lot of fun, and Not a Trampoline is a favored album of mine. Like many, I originally found him because he blew up on YouTube a couple of times, with his biggest being this Shia LaBeouf video. Nowadays, though, he’s got a steady income making children’s music in a collaboration with a couple of other artists, and I can respect wanting that stability in your life. But… Man, do I miss his experimental style.

That was more my point. This is a fascinating thing to study! It’s new and from very far away and observations around it are odd! That’s all exciting! But that’s all exciting without having to force in, “ALIENS CONFIRMED???” into the conversation around it.

The U.S. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system.

Yeah, but… Lots of things come to us from other solar systems given enough time. Just naturally. Is it alien? Yes! But that’s nothing special. Is it technology? I mean. Probably not. This is almost certainly a non-story. If the headline read something like, “Harvard professor studying extra-solar fragments,” it would be just as interesting to anyone who actually cares. But that group is very niche. As it is, the headline we get is eye-catching but stupid and malicious.

Prosecutor Robert McRight repeatedly mocked the defendants, aspersing their journalism and political views, and suggesting that they are anti-American.

“We have apple pie, baseball, and people hating the government,” he quipped, according to the Citizen Times.

I mean, that’s straight-up red panic-style BS right there. The article seems to insinuate that was said in court, but doesn’t state so directly. If it was said in court, that’s not a legal argument and should not have been allowed to pass in the first place. But even if it was simply quipped in a press release or similar, it’s an absurd and shameful bit of rhetoric for any legal professional, much less a prosecutor, to be spouting.

What’s worse than all that is that it worked. Despite what the body cam footage showed, despite the prosecutor’s unprofessional manner, despite all the BS in the case, the jury still found that the prosecution had proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt.

It’s getting scarier and scarier out here every day.

No. I wasn’t saying you were. Just getting clarification because I’d heard about the guy getting a partnership pulled a something like that, didn’t put the two together though.

Oh, are you… Is this in defense of that homophobic jackass that was shocked that people weren’t happy he was a homophobic jackass?