Y’all STILL don’t get it. With SCOTUS, the House, rogue “Dems” making 3rd party noises and GOPs in charge of the voting overwatch in many states, it is going to be damn difficult to beat Trump at the polls, even though most Americans don’t want him back. /1 You cheer each new indictment, but if Trump returns to office before he’s convicted, that won’t matter. As POTUS, he can stop all those cases cold, and pardon himself & his cronies. The GOP can then make sure they never have to worry about losing another election, ever. /2

The #GOP via #FoxNews & other means, is trying to equate teaching kids not to hate each other because of their skin color with teaching kids that being white is bad. This is what they are calling #CriticalRaceTheory. Really? #CriticalRaceTheory is a scholarly field that studies how racism affects society. It is not a “blame the whites” movement & it isn’t being taught to children, even secondarily. Anything you heard to the contrary is a lie.

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I’ve been talking about this a long time before finding this #Buckyquote yesterday. With our existing technology, a fraction of our cumulative available man-hours could feed, clothe and house the entire world in conditions our ancestors would have called luxurious. #RainingSoup Robert Heinlein was fond of saying “It’s raining soup! Grab a bucket!” We live in a world of plenty… but buckets are being issued to only a few. Everyone else can only catch the drops in their mouths. Now the bucket holders want to ban most of us from looking up. (2

I keep seeing Kickstarters trying to promote sets of metal fantasy coinage for RPGs. They all look pretty… and they all cost SO much more than using real local (in my case) coinage instead. What am I missing? (Thread) I am NOT throwing shade at the people making these. They are always sincere folks offering pretty stuff at the best prices possible - but it is NOT possible to undercut the US Mint. Most (probably all) national coinage costs much more to create than the face value.

It is a revelation to discover how many of the ”checks and balances” of the American political system depend solely on the good will and sense of fairness of our officials. We see now that a determined group with no moral compass can completely paralyze our way of life... ... and yet, despite this huge vulnerability, hasn’t our nation more or less functioned for a long time? Well, no. It has NEVER functioned reliably for anyone but straight white males (and let's them down, too if they are low-income).

@FredKiesche @garethlpowell I’ve been trying to hammer Gareth’s point #2 into people’s heads for year's. People say ”the US can't feed the world”, but in point of fact we COULD. We just don’t have the will to do so. Hell, we could feed the world on the perfectly good food we throw away! @FredKiesche @garethlpowell Modern agriculture is so good we have to pay people NOT to grow food. This isn’t to benefit the individual family farm. It is meant to assure the huge corporate farms make insane profits by creating artificial shortages.

A coalition of left and center Democrats (Once known as center and right Democrats when I was younger...) made this happen. The Left now needs to hold the Dems feet to the fire. Health care reform now. Black lives matter. Immigration reform now. Immediate and decisive action against the Covid-19 pandemic. Stop the spread of armed white supremacy lawlessness. Make police protectors again instead of armed thugs. Disband ICE. Reform the courts.

Want to turn my spare 30” TCL Roku TV into an electronic map display table for gaming. (I never watch TV in the office anyway.) But I’m no woodworker (and don’t have the tools for it), so I can’t DIY a map case... (thread) I found and ordered a flat VESA mount to support the TV itself, but still thinking about how to build a case without woodworking tools (or skills) that will sit atop my usual game table. (T2)

I ❤️ theatres, I do. But I think it will be quite a bit longer than studios/exhibitors realize before people are comfortable returning to them. Which makes all this rescheduling shaky. (THREAD) cinemablend.com/news/2496583/w… Theaters are a LOT harder to maintain disinfecting standards & social distancing in. Limiting attendance & sitting apart makes each showing less profitable. Blockbusters can’t make money unless those seats are FULL for first-week showings. -more->