Dominique is showing signs of borderline personality disorder.

Lawful evil or chaotic evil, depending on if that behavior is allowed in that society.

Imagine China as a company. There is a board of directors, and Xi is the head of that board. The board runs a lot of lower ranking boards that control all the aspects of government operation.

Have a problem with your plumbing? Go to your local province or city board. A whole region experiencing drought? The regional board has an action plan that they impose on the local boards to implement with government regional help. Xi is responsible for steering the overarching policy of China moving forward as a country. His role is to say “make China control the South China Sea and receive deference from those countries” to the military, and then it’s their problem to figure out how to harass shipping.

You get promoted to higher boards for good work, and the board votes for its leader. Read Xi’s promotion history. I would die after that many years of office politics, myself.

Glad to hear you doing this. My daughter refuses to learn, but I keep telling her it’s so when the dumb boy pulls out a gun at a party, she can ask to see it, and clear the chamber, take the clip, safe it, and hand it (minus the clip) back.

The Old Man and the Epstein Files

If he has no steak in the game, who cares about his opinion?

Republicans aren’t conservatives since the tea party.

I mean have the day you voted for.

You can watch it, it’s even a little better than Family Guy later seasons.

I hate to bring it up, but the second amendment is a law.

And that’s the problem with the corruption we’re seeing. The poor of both left and right are seeing decisions favor the rich and powerful at the expense of what they believed were their rights. We need to correct the list of the ship of state before people start to work against it openly.

Had kids at 36 and 37. Feel this was a good age, as I’d done my adventuring and world exploring, and now they’re young teens and I’m in my 50’s. I’d be hesitant to have a kid now, as the sleepless nights of the first few years would hit really hard.

The market went down because of selling at the top. Headlines always have a reason after the fact, never a prediction before.

Did you really interrupt my minecraft game to make me read that?

Have the day you voted for.

You can’t delete a book

People are dying to volunteer.

Yeah, being an adult is recognizing that Obama was a great President, but he did not deserve that Peace Prize.

Self Dining only months away.

If you could put in like ten minutes a day planning how to stop the Trisolarian invasion, we’d appreciate it.

I want to build garbage burning power plants in the US like in Scandinavia. It would remove methane emissions from landfills and you can do some carbon capture with scrubbers on the plants as they operate. Also, your fuel is free and the garbage companies can even charge less as they don’t have to maintain a landfill.