Colonizing the Moon

Plus: Postpartum psychosis, captain deportation, lady lawyers, and more...

Entering the new space age: The White House wants upward of 1,000 rocket launches and re-entries per year in the U.S. by 2030 and has unveiled a new policy initiative to this effect.

"The new policy puts greater emphasis on developing additional locations for rockets to launch from and for spacecraft to land. It also calls for plans on how to integrate management of space traffic with air traffic control, and how to enable launches within 48 hours of high-priority civil and national security missions," reports The New York Times. The policy "calls for more commercial involvement in efforts to reach the moon and Mars" and talks about companies more easily "selling American capabilities to other countries."

The administration intends to "evaluate the regulatory, programmatic, operational, and technological barriers for prompt, responsive, and resilient access to space," per the White House memo, and "review, on a case-by-case basis, requests to launch foreign space vehicles or permit reentry of foreign space vehicles in the United States for commercial purposes."

The Trump administration also says it wants to put U.S. astronauts back on the Moon by 2028 and explore more commercial avenues for bringing people to Mars.

It's a good plan! Sort of a continuation, interestingly, of policies created during the Obama and Clinton administrations. Exploring the final frontier is rather bipartisan, turns out. But the emphasis on paving the way, from a regulatory standpoint, for more private companies to innovate in this sphere is a distinctly Republican-flavored approach.

Mass psychosis? "Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as 'Believe', 'She Needed Help' and 'Peace For Lindsay', gathered on Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children," reports The Guardian. "Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy's story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy's lawyer does not dispute that she killed the children, but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill." Her lawyer also argues she had bipolar disorder and that antidepressants she took to treat that disorder after the birth of her third child made her problem much worse.

It's still wild that women are coming out in support of Clancy:

I've wanted not to wade into this discourse because it's so dark I almost can't believe it's real.

When your children are that young, you are their entire world. You are the person they run to when they're scared, hurt, or confused. They trust you completely because they don't… https://t.co/lfaUCDWte8

— Brittany Hugoboom (@BritHugoboom) August 20, 2026

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Scenes from New York: "The captain in a deadly boat accident in New York Harbor this month was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an investigation found that he was in the United States unlawfully, the federal authorities said on Wednesday," reports The New York Times. "The captain, Manuel Hernandez, 46, was initially arrested on Aug. 9, the day after the boat capsized in the harbor, killing a mother and her 5-month-old daughter. A Coast Guard investigation found that the boat was over capacity when it capsized near the Statue of Liberty and did not have life jackets for infants on board, according to a criminal complaint."

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QUICK HITS

• "Iran said on Friday that its response to any new U.S. threats would be 'devastating' after Washington pledged ​to impose the toughest financial penalties in history with the aim of toppling the Iranian leadership," reports Reuters. "U.S. Treasury chief Scott Bessent said he would give details on Monday of the ‌planned sanctions, which follow a warning from President Donald Trump of economic consequences against any country that provided 'any type of lifeline to Iran.'"
• "Today, flexible work is a theoretical possibility for knowledge workers, yet white-collar institutions still prefer 9-to-5 workers," writes Allison McFadden for Fairer Disputations. "The lack of alternatives to this model is a lose-lose situation for mothers and society alike. We can gainfully employ moms who are primary caretakers if we embrace the reality that they are a different kind of worker."
• Calling in the money doctor:

Venezuela's National Assembly named professor @steve_hanke Special Adviser on Economic, Monetary, and Energy Affairs, tasking him with curing hyperinflation now running at a 400% annual clip — the worst in the world.https://t.co/uxF8gavXNc

— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) August 20, 2026

• Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, a suburb of Sacramento, is "the prototypical dead mall: Built in 1972, it seems like it was last spruced up in either the late 1990s or early 2000s," writes Nolan Gray. "The vast parking lots sit empty, strewn with litter and dead leaves. Inside, underwatered tropical plants hang on by a thread. Of the five original anchor tenants, only JCPenney survives. The rest of the mall is filled with low-margin businesses: a local clothing store, a cellphone repair shop, a Bitcoin ATM." But what's going on here? Why are dead malls still around? And why on Earth can you go into them? "The actual answer," writes Gray, "is that dead malls are the physical embodiment of a spectacular breakdown in private governance."
• Checking in on the Mooch:

Incomparable. https://t.co/CF33cSNwk3 pic.twitter.com/0zr4zfMBL1

— Leah Libresco Sargeant (@LeahLibresco) August 21, 2026

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The White House wants upwards of 1,000 rocket launches and re-entries per year...

So we want NASA to go to space and do Muslim outreach???

[Fist of Etiquette]

WHO IS GOING TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON GUN VIOLENCE?

[Eeyore]

Who is going to study the effects of gun violence on climate change? Didn't they already decide it was a net benefit?

[Kungpowderfinger]

The White House wants upwards of 1,000 rocket launches and re-entries per year...

007 Moonraker 1979

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Trump administration also says it wants to put U.S. astronauts back on the Moon by 2028...

"We choose to go to the poon in this decade and do the other things, not because she is easy, but because we are hard."

Classic Fist of Etiquette.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I go to the poon whenever I can

[SQRLSY]

The Poon is where the Tang comes from!!! Poon Tang is AWESOME!!!!

(I recummend that we should drink it down every day, for our good health! For best results, drink several flavors every day. Variety is the spice of lice!)

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

What does Liz mean "back on"??

[mad.casual]

Of all the Presidents in all the countries in all the world, if we had to pick one to build a theme park with blackjack and hookers, it had to be this one.

This is our moon shot.

[Vernon Depner]

Has there been any research on possible sexual activities in lunar gravity? You would think the obesity epidemic would spur interest in that.

[mad.casual]

Yes. Whale watching is a thing.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

It's still wild that women are coming out in support of Clancy:

Bitches be crazy.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

There are some who say she didn't do it, it had to be the husband.
Crazy doesn't cover it

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

She admits doing it.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Magically the voices that told her to do it ended immediately after she did it.

[Minadin]

Some of them are basing their belief that she couldn't have possibly done it on astrology. 'Leo's' apparently are incapable of strangling kids to death. Keeping in mind that 1) she confessed, not even her lawyers deny that she did it, 2) the above belief would mean that our entire prison system should have approximately zero convicted murderers with birthdays that fall between July 21 and August 21.

Repeal the 19th.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Her lawyers asked for a split trial, with separate guilt vs sentencing phases, they would admit the guilt then try to tell the jury about her mental health and how she was crazy at the time (but she's okay now!). Judge denied that separation and is doing a normal murder trial.

[Eeyore]

Clumps.

[Idaho-Bob]

My wife said this exact phrase when we were discussing the lionizing of a child murderer. Mrs Bob also said this movement is going to evolve into an extension of abortion ideology, to allow women to kill their born children.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Pretty good take from the X link:

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-female-social-contagion-is-upon-us

Progressive feminist ideology necessitates that women place their own feelings, autonomy, and personal fulfillment above all else. Taken to its logical conclusion, this elevation of self easily turns into narcissism.

[Vernon Depner]

Bitches be crazy.

Are we experiencing an epidemic of mental illness among women and girls, or...have chicks always been crazy, and something has happened to make that more visible?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Its acceptance of their prior mental issues, even the celebration of their mental issues.

[Jefferson Paul]

I'll be honest. When I saw this story was in the Roundup, I worried Liz was going to make excuses for Lindsay Clancy. Not because I would normally think she would, but because of the astounding number of women, even women on the right, who have done so. I'm glad to see Liz isn't one of them. With the tragedy she's undergone with the loss of her 2nd child, it would have been even more black-pilling to see her defend Lindsay Clancy.

[damikesc]

These women do not want to face a simple reality: If she had strangled three puppies instead of three children, not one of them would defend her.

Not a single one.

[Lester75]

It sounds like this cohort doesn't believe in the insanity defense for anything.

People with psychosis who are taking the wrong medication or no medication can do things that they aren't fully responsible for. If you do a brain scan on someone in the throes of psychosis you'll see wildly different results than for a normal brain.

I have no idea whether Clancy actually experienced psychosis or not. If she did she has reduced responsibility and should go to an institution for the criminally insane. If she did not, she should to jail for a long, long time. Either way, she is already pretty well punished already as she was depressed enough to jump out a window being paralyzed for life.

Her ex-husband, parents and ex in-laws all would rather see her institutionalized. Many other people would rather just see her in jail whether she was psychotic or not.

I believe that there is such a thing a psychosis, and that correct medical treatment can reduce the risk of it. If you give someone withbipolar disorder (who experiences big swings of depression and mania) a standard SSRI (e.g. Zoloft or Prozac) instead of a mood-stabilizer (like Lithium or some anti-seizure meds) it has been proven in the past that combination can trigger psychosis.

Mania doesn't always have the same presentation:
https://www.dbsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Understanding-Mania-HandoutV2-Optum-rightweb-1.pdf

[Fist of Etiquette]

...explore more commercial avenues for bringing people to Mars.

NO MARTIAN DATA CENTERS. That's how it lost all its water in the first place probably!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

This doesnt align with what I learned in the Total Recall documentary.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Get your astronaut to Mars!"

[mad.casual]

I don't remember there being a Total Recall documentary. I should probably watch it again.

[Vernon Depner]

Someone needs to get inside Phobos to see if we can restart the warp engines.

[Minadin]

1,000 rocket launches and re-entries per year

Is that 1,000 launches and 1,000 re-entries (3 per day each), or 500 launches and 500 re-entries (1.5 per day each), for 1,000 total?

Either seems like an awful lot.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I’m sure someone said the same thing after the wright brothers flight.

On an average day, roughly 100,000 to 115,000 global airline and commercial flights take place worldwide. When including all types of general aviation, cargo, private jets, and military aircraft, total daily flights frequently exceed 250,000.

[Eeyore]

I'm curious what the graph of flights per day over time looks like starting from day one.

[mad.casual]

For perspective; do The Hindenberg, Challenger, and/or Blue Origin count as flights or no?

[Eeyore]

Yes. Unplanned destinations, but still flights.

Apollo 1, no. That one doesn't count.

[mad.casual]

Either seems like an awful lot.

I made this point about the colonization of Mars before.

To set up and maintain even a small colony is going to require something like this. Even if you ship up all the durable parts for reactors and smelters and stills and whatnot beforehand, logistics like this for water, food, clothing, and tools are going to be necessary. Even if the first few crops are successful and durable, you're going to have to keep similar waiting on the launchpad, just in case.

And even this assumes a bit of optimism that no one contracts e. coli (or something far more bizarre) from consuming crops fertilized from their own waste.

Again, Antarctica is far, far, *far* easier to reach and is far, far, *far* more habitable.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Sounds like what was said on the docks back in England in the 1600’s.

[Zeb]

Well, sort of. But people can live unsupported in primordial North America. Past results may not be indicators of future performance.

[mad.casual]

People planned out their support and logistics for settling the New World perfectly in 1618... and nothing else happened. The End.

[Vernon Depner]

But people can live unsupported in primordial North America.

Some could. The mortality rate of early settlers was very high.

[Zeb]

Of course. I mean "can" in the sense that it is actually even possible at all. The mortality rate of people trying to live off the land or trade with the natives on Mars would be 100%.

[Vernon Depner]

Not so sure about the trade with the natives part...

[See.More]

[...] Some could. The mortality rate of early settlers was very high.

Uh. The mortality rate of humans, in any environment, is exactly 100%. 😛

Life if a sexually transmitted, fatal affliction.

[Vernon Depner]

^^^tedious pedant

[Zeb]

Are you the pot or the kettle?

[Zeb]

And it's worse than tedious pedantry. It's wrong pedantry (or a bad joke that's been told too many times). Obviously mortality rate is 100% in the long term. Which would make it a meaningless thing. Actual meaningful mortality rates are calculated over a particular time period, for example mortality within the first year or first 5 years.
How's that for pedantry?

[mad.casual]

Even at that it was almost certainly closer to a "I sent wave after wave of men until the frontier reached its pre-programmed kill limit." situation than "Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name."

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It is amazing watching how retarded the left had become.

Chris Bray
@a_chrisbray
From a New York Times video about the suffering among sailors deployed on the USS Abraham Lincoln. The caption, in case it's too small to read, says, "They didn't sign up to be on a ship in the middle of the ocean."

https://x.com/a_chrisbray/status/2090291386927157543

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

The poor Naval Aviators are stuck in a metal tube hurtling thru the sky

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

“Nobody said I might get tired of this”

[Ajsloss]

It was supposed to be a leisure cruise, sailing from port to port and sampling exotic quiff.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

A 3 hour tour!

[Vernon Depner]

I never bought that. They were all fugitives from the law.

[DesigNate]

Especially Mary Ann.

[Vernon Depner]

The show would have been better if Ginger and Mary Ann had both been played by the same actress.

[mad.casual]

exotic quiff

Also worth keeping in mind that this is the modern, gender-integrated Navy. Plenty of conventional, native quiff (for whatever persuasion is oriented towards quiff?) onboard.

Really, this is more "Nobody told me I'd have to go Ugh! 100 days without Wi-Fi and Redbull!"

[Chuck P. (Now with less Sarc more snark)]

Wait until these nitwits hear about the conditions onboard submarines.

[Kungpowderfinger]

My Apple News feed had a story where the Lincoln was also suffering from “sanitation system break downs”. The source? Al Jazeera, FFS.

Sanitation system breakdowns? On a ship with at least 50 trained auxiliary mechanics on board? With access to any repair part that exists via aircraft?

Either the US Navy has gotten too dependent on contract civilian repairs, or reports about the Lincoln’s troubles are anti-American propaganda, which certainly includes anything the NYT has to say.

[See.More]

[...] Either the US Navy has gotten too dependent on contract civilian repairs, or reports about the Lincoln’s troubles are anti-American propaganda, which certainly includes anything the NYT has to say.

There have also been reports of moldy showers. I can tell you, circa '93, at least on the Roosevelt (CVN-71), moldy showers would have made for some very unhappy, but busy sailors fixing their half-assed work and disciplinary action, up to and including NJP (non-judicial punishment).

I wonder how much of the reports of the Lincoln's conditions are an indictment of the quality and professionalism of sailors these days.

[Kungpowderfinger]

I was on subs in the 90s, and the shitters were clean to the point of sterility, thanks to enlisted elbow grease, constantly applied.

I can’t imagine skimmers were any different.

[See.More]

It is amazing watching how retarded the left had become[...]

[...] "They didn't sign up to be on a ship in the middle of the ocean." [...]

The number of times new(ish) sailors complained, "I didn't sign up for this shit!", during our (USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71) Med. deployment in '93, was astonishing. For context, our 10-port schedule, over a 6-mo deployment, had been scrapped to sit in the Adriatic Sea in support of Operations Provide Promise and Deny Flight in Yugoslavia, with a surprise jaunt to the Red Sea for Operation Southern Watch for several weeks in July.

The typical response to the whiners was, "Dude! You literally signed up for this shit! What the fuck did you think you were going to do in the Navy?"

[Medulla Oblongata]

Too bad Lindsay Clancy didn't do a better job of killing herself after she murdered her children. Her husband should have finished her off when he found her.

[Ajsloss]

Or, you know, if he did it in the first place. Think of the idiocy involved in the conspiracy that he murdered the children to pin it on her, but then left her alive so she could... take the blame?

[Medulla Oblongata]

So she confessed to cover up for him? Did she throw herself out the window too? Or did he do that and she is covering for him on that too?

[Ajsloss]

She's totally covering for him on the window thing too. If you look at the astrology charts, Leos always claim to have jumped out windows, while Geminis typically throw people of windows. His birthday is the same as Trump's! What more do you need to know?!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Ahhh, of course!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Welcome to liberalism. Hand out free drug paraphernalia. Go after groups trying to clean up the used drug paraphernalia.

https://seattlered.com/jason-rantz/we-heart-seattle-lni-investigation-fentanyl-foil-needles/4119872

[damikesc]

That is one of the most mind-blowing stories recently. They are cleaning up needles for free because the city won't --- and THEY are the bad guys?

[Medulla Oblongata]

I'm shocked, shocked!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/karmelo-anthony-prosecutor-reveals-trove-of-evidence-jury-never-saw-including-disturbing-texts-low-key-on-the-verge/ar-AA2aA4b0

He told the court Anthony’s high school girlfriend confided to an assistant principal on April 2, 2025 that Anthony was stalking her after a breakup, and that he was obsessed with fights, guns, and knives, according to local outlets at the hearing.

Anthony also sent a picture of the knife and told his ex-girlfriend, “I’m low key on the verge,” Wirskye said.

A few hours later, Anthony stabbed Metcalf to death under a tent at a track meet at a high school.

In exchange for prosecutors not using that evidence in court, the defense lawyers agreed not to bring up victim Austin Metcalf’s juvenile criminal history, which included graffiti that included “vile racist stuff.”

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Why prosecution agreed to not use these damping claims is wild.

[Zeb]

Yeah, doesn't seem like a very good exchange. Though I guess there are enough people in the world who think being racist means you deserve whatever you get.

[Mike Parsons]

I somewhat get the trade off, but dont think I would have gone for it.

Sure, you risk Austin getting labeled as a racist, and maybe giving the jury the thought that he instigated in or escalated in some way because Karmelo was black.

But the counter evidence is overwhelmingly bad. Hours before he did it, he essentially said he was going to start something with his knife...and then he went into the opposing team tent, refused to leave, and said 'touch me and see what happens'. I dont know how much premeditation you need for murder 1, but that's gotta be approaching it at least.

If nothing else, it makes the case a slam dunk.

Also im sure any 'racist graffiti' was bog standard edgy teen shit that doesn't even move the needle.

[mad.casual]

If you said they made the trade on the optics in the court of popular opinion, I'd believe it and agree it was the correct decision.

The race baiting was obnoxiously bad without insinuations about poop swatiskas or whatever.

[Zeb]

I dont know how much premeditation you need for murder 1, but that's gotta be approaching it at least.

As I understand it, there is no minimum time for premeditation. If you decide to murder someone one second before doing it, it's premeditated.

[mad.casual]

If you decide to murder someone one second before doing it, it's premeditated.

If you believe Jacob Sullum, it's less than a second while the car is coming at you.

[Vernon Depner]

bog standard edgy teen shit that doesn't even move the needle.

Like much of the commentary here.

[mad.casual]

which included graffiti that included “vile racist stuff.”

And "vile racist stuff" is almost certainly attending Klan meetings, organizing lynchings, and practice runs dragging animals to death behind pickup trucks and not just liking satirical "Hitler was right" memes and "dinger" jokes on social media.

[Mike Parsons]

I guess another way to look at it, is maybe he had some prejudice against black people....and maybe that prejudice was well placed, given that a black kid went on to stab him in the fucking heart

[rbike]

You racist!!!

[Vernon Depner]

Turns out they were being judged for the content of their character all along.

[Marshal]

graffiti that included “vile racist stuff.”

Like what? Did he say all people should be treated the same?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as 'Believe'...

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of heterosexual sex the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Hey, if I wanted to be married, I would have done so.

[mad.casual]

Does that include heterosexual glory holes?

[Vernon Depner]

Aren't we close to that anyway?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Dems and DNC working overtime to piss off black folks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/atlanta-resident-speaks-out-after-mayor-tells-him-to-shut-up-over-transit-concerns/ar-AA2aAtN0

Dickens accused DNC chairman Ken Martin of disregarding Atlanta, the South and the party's Black base.

"They are abandoning Atlanta, abandoning the South, and once again abandoning Black voters," Dickens said.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Ghent University suspends professor who exposed Arday plagiarism.

https://humanevents.com/2026/08/20/breaking-ghent-universitys-trans-rector-suspends-race-realist-nathan-cofnas-over-jason-ardays-death?utm_campaign=64470

Professor also exposed Ghent rector plagiarism. Rector is of course Trans, exposing the problems of "higher" education.

[Mike Parsons]

DEI, critical theory, and gay race communism is the main project of the last 2 decades of academia.

The church is treating him as a heretic

[Rick James]

Even transphobic racist republicans have a right to say mean things!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Just don't...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-navy-weighs-renaming-carrier-slated-to-honor-black-war-hero-potentially-switching-it-to-trump/ar-AA2aAYS6

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

It will be the most targeted boat ever.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

At least it could use the baby trump balloon as a decoy.

[mad.casual]

Doris 'Dorie' Miller

The real problem is that every 5 minutes they have to explain the boat's name to all the enlisted sailors.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I saw Pearl Harbor and Cuba Gooding rocked that machine gun.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Turley notices liberalism thrives on proclaiming ways to fix the very issues liberalism creates.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/6030675-american-left-politics-failure/?tbref=hp

[Medulla Oblongata]

I'm assuming a lot more are fabricated...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/second-polling-firm-admits-to-fabricating-data-after-florida-primary/ar-AA2aB2fc

A second polling firm is under fire after admitting to fabricating data in a key 2026 primary election, this time in Florida.

The polling monitor FiftyPlusOne wrote in a blog post on Thursday that it had received a tip suggesting that pollster The Public Sentiment Institute (TPSI) had violated one of its rules by not disclosing publicly that a survey it had released of the Republican gubernatorial primary field was commissioned by one of the candidates — a disclosure pollsters are required to make by most polling aggregators to be considered legitimate firms, as campaign-sponsored polls often tilt in the favor of the relevant candidates.

But in the course of investigating that tip, FiftyPlusOne says its analysts discovered a second problem — that a TPSI poll postmortem published in the wake of the Florida primary election on Tuesday admitted TPSI pollsters had changed the results of some respondents’ answers to lean towards James Fishback, the candidate who’d sponsored the poll. Fishback went on to be defeated in Tuesday’s primary, placing third behind Jay Collins and the winner, Rep. Byron Donalds.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Yet even with all these fake polling firms, trust in media at all time lows partly due to relying on fake polls.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Why should we believe this headline, for example?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-dealt-quadruple-polling-blow-in-race-against-abdul-el-sayed/ar-AA2aEE91?ctsrc=dgst

Republicans were dealt a quadruple polling blow in the Michigan Senate race this week as four new polls gave progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed a lead over former Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Meanwhile multiple state dems and dem voters are campaigning and endorsing Roger's.

But liberals don't care about truth, just narratives.

Qb will defend the linked story though.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy's story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women.

I don't know if those scant few white knights in the crowd have fully thought through who they're trying to stick it in with that group.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

In Alaska, dems trying new plot of finding democrats with same name as conservative candidate, try to make the name the same on ballots.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/08/fake-dan-sullivan-complicates-alaska-senate-race-for-gop-sen-dan-sullivan/

Dem candidate posing as fake conservative even changed his middle initial when he declared to match conservative candidate.

[Medulla Oblongata]

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://civildeadline.com/doj-grand-jury-issues-subpoenas-in-alaska-race-confusion-2

A federal Department of Justice grand jury issued several subpoenas on Wednesday in Alaska. The action targets claims that a second candidate named Dan Sullivan tried to confuse voters. This legal step follows a primary where incumbent Dan Sullivan trailed Democrat Mary Peltola. The grand jury is now looking into whether the challenger's actions broke election laws.

[Rick James]

First past the ranked choice round robin top three post will fix this.

[Terran]

Aren't voters just looking at the (R) and (D), not the names anyway? It seems to me these days, most voters couldn't tell you their congress critters name, but they could probably tell you the party.

[Medulla Oblongata]

He registered as an R. The whole thing is just a ploy to strip votes from the actual Republican nominee (incumbant) so that other Democrat candidate can win.

Flip the script and have a Republican try this on Democrats and the press and social media would be screaming about voter oppression.

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Asked about why a Democratic consultant helped him file to run, Dan J. Sullivan declined to comment

Other fun fact:
Dan J Sullivan initially registered to run as Dan S. Sullivan, using the middle initial of the incumbent

And Dan J also registered as a Republican on the same day in May that he filed to run.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The captain in a deadly boat accident in New York Harbor this month was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an investigation found that he was in the United States unlawfully...

How dare the NYTimes draw attention to this.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Couldn't they find an american floridian boat driver to kill these people?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

We need the illegals to do the killing that Florida man is too lazy to do.

[See.More]

We need the illegals to do the killing that Florida man is too lazy to do.

It's not that Florida man is too lazy. It's that you can't get Florida man to go to New York.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Iran said on Friday that its response to any new U.S. threats would be 'devastating'...

Devastatingly banal maybe.

[Vernon Depner]

If Trump doesn't win this war, AOC will be our next president.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...follow a warning from President Donald Trump of economic consequences against any country that provided 'any type of lifeline to Iran.'"

No more pallets of cash from anyone.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

...Starting...now.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/seattle-sports-columnist-quits-after-sophie-cunningham-story-blocked-from-publication/ar-AA2aBncb

"After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign," he posted on social media of his decision. "It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He is no longer a journalist, just a youtuber.

[Rick James]

Substacker, without journalistic integrity.

[Fist of Etiquette]

We can gainfully employ moms who are primary caretakers if we embrace the reality that they are a different kind of worker.

Sorry, we need our HR hags on the premises.

[Ajsloss]

And away from their own children, apparently.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

.. reality that they are a different kind of worker.

But equal pay!

[Vernon Depner]

We need more illegal alien nannies.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

If you have to tell foreigners not to rape women and children, they may not be good to blindly import in high numbers.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/08/20/dear-uk-if-you-have-to-ask-foreigners-not-to-rape-the-local-women-dont-import-them-1/

[Ajsloss]

^-- get a load of the culturephobe!

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"
"I gotta plead ignorance on this thing...""...because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon.

[Medulla Oblongata]

You're fired.

[mad.casual]

AWFL: Because of the patriarchy, women have to constantly cover up and look over their shoulders for fear of being prayed upon.
Immigrant: You would safer feel, maybe, inside suitcase? [gestures to open suitcase]

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/20/why-the-silence-over-ceutas-sexual-abuse-crisis/

It has been almost three weeks since more than 72,000 migrants invaded Ceuta. Since then, the Spanish government has tried to reassure the world that most of those who entered the territory illegally have now returned to Morocco and order has been restored. But as growing reports of women and girls being sexually assaulted make clear, this is far from the case.

Women and girls are not safe in this situation. There have been at least 15 reported cases of sexual assault, including allegations of rape, while many other women claim to have been sexually harassed. A significant proportion of the victims are underage girls. In one incident, alleged to have occurred last week, three men, said to be brothers, were caught attempting to sexually abuse a 10-year-old girl. One woman told reporters: ‘A lot of guys are trying to attack the girls every night, sometimes just when you go to the toilet. They follow you.’

[Medulla Oblongata]

Sadly, we should not be surprised by reports of rape and sexual assault in Ceuta. After all, here in the UK, there are frequent reports of illegal migrants being convicted of sexual offences. Already this month, an Afghan migrant has been jailed for raping a 13-year-old girl in Nottingham. In Scotland, a Syrian migrant has been jailed for sexually assaulting two women in little over an hour after they left different nightclubs. Passing sentence, the sheriff said: ‘You treated these women as though their autonomy, dignity and bodily integrity counted for nothing.’ In May, seven Afghan nationals and refugees were charged with 40 offences connected to group-based child sexual exploitation against two victims who were aged in their early to mid-teens when the alleged assaults took place. In February, an Afghan asylum seeker was found guilty of abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton.

On and on it goes. The list of women and girls who have been murdered, raped or assaulted by migrants grows by the day. In response, the Home Office has now produced a brightly coloured picture book to be issued to men illegally entering the UK, informing them that having sex with girls under the age of 16 is rape and against the law, as is having sex with a woman who is asleep, drunk or does not consent. This makes clear that the British state knowingly permits men who need to be told that raping children is wrong to enter the country, but allows high levels of uncontrolled migration to continue regardless.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/20/those-illegal-migrant-rape-booklets-shame-the-british-state/

If asylum seekers need to be told not to sexually abuse women and children, what are they doing in the UK?

[mad.casual]

Waiting patiently to receive their copies of the "Don't commit welfare fraud.", "Don't commit voter fraud.", "Don't push people onto the tracks or rape their corpses on the subway.", and "Don't dump bodies in suitcases." booklets. Duh.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They made a false asylum claim of fear, then decided to actually cause fear in the host country.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Venezuela's National Assembly named professor @steve_hanke Special Adviser on Economic, Monetary, and Energy Affairs, tasking him with curing hyperinflation now running at a 400% annual clip...

How many people is Trump going to have to arrest there before that country is fixed.

[Medulla Oblongata]

If Biden hadn’t let millions in, it might not be so bad now. One man can pick up litter from a few thoughtless miscreants to keep a neighborhood clean. Allow open dumping for four years, and it will take heavy equipment and multiple crews working overtime to clean it up.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Oops. Misread "that" as "this". Gist is the same I guess, if Venezuela hadn't let themselves be run by socialists for years, they would not be in such a deep hole.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Just another Muslim terrorist...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-thwarts-isis-plot-bomb-new-york-capitol-building-rcna593595

A woman has been charged with providing support to a terror group after allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the New York State Capitol building in Albany, federal officials said Thursday.

Jessica Bowie, 35, allegedly told a confidential source that she supported ISIS and asked for help learning to make explosives, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

Bowie is expected in court Thursday afternoon on a single charge of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terror organization.

…

According to the complaint, Bowie converted to Islam five years ago and created several social media accounts using an honorific Islamic name. She appeared to have created multiple accounts because they were “frequently suspended by providers for violating their terms of use,” the complaint said.

Several accounts allegedly tracing back to Bowie posted messages expressing support for terrorism between May and July. The complaint alleges that Bowie communicated between July 16 through August 17 with a confidential source who was working with the FBI and posing as an ISIS facilitator

She told the source that she wanted help to carry out an attack on the New York Capitol, according to the complaint. The building was less than two miles away from her home, and she said she wanted to do something to “harm the enemies of god,” the complaint said.

[Vernon Depner]

What harm would come from blowing up the New York Capitol?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

More charities to rebuild a new york city building.

[See.More]

[...] a confidential source who was working with the FBI and posing as an ISIS facilitator[...]

Soooo... the FBI fabricated another terror threat to swoop in and claim they stopped a terror threat?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Keep going!

https://townhall.com/news/cameron-arcand/2026/08/19/multiple-sex-offenders-part-of-latest-ice-arrests-defending-the-homeland-n2681543

Mexican national Francisco Javier Garcia-Castillo was arrested in Harlingen, Texas, after previous convictions for illegally coming back into the United States, “manufacture and delivery” of drugs and “concealing stolen property.”

A second Mexican national, Saul Cedillo-Cedillo, was arrested in San Diego, California, after a past conviction for “lewd acts upon a child.”

Honduran national Dilio Otoniel Garcia-Rosel was taken into custody in Cook County, Illinois, after being convicted of “aggravated criminal sexual abuse: greater than 5 years old.”

Another Honduran national, Dennis Samir Moncada-Castillo, was arrested in Fairfax, Virginia, as he was previously convicted of aggravated sexual battery against a child younger than a teenager, “propose sex by computer” against a child under 15 years old, and a child under 7 years old.

Laotian national Jabo Noi was arrested in Rochester, Minnesota. He has prior convictions for “first degree criminal sexual assault” as well as not registering as a “predatory offender.”

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Dont blame them, its their culture!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Also

https://www.aol.com/articles/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrants-convicted-222947000.html

Solorzano-Felix was previously convicted for the attempted murder of a federal law enforcement officer, use of a firearm during and in the commission of a felony, and being an illegal immigrant in possession of a handgun.

In Santa Clara, California, ICE agents took Paulino Lugos-Perez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, into custody following his conviction for lewd or lascivious acts with a child.

Meanwhile, in Forsyth County, North Carolina, authorities arrested Adrian Valdez-Lopez, a Mexican national convicted of second-degree forcible rape.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Spanbergers press sec went on TV to try to claim dems allow deportation of criminal illegal aliens. They were quickly shut down by a journalist pointing to the policy Spanberger signed.

[Fist of Etiquette]

But what's going on here? Why are dead malls still around?

Convert them into rest homes. The mall walkers can just step right into their apartments after making the rounds.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

It's being done already. The Central Food Court idea is great for gathering at meals too.

https://slfinvestments.com/2025/09/28/how-malls-are-being-transformed-into-senior-housing/

[Fist of Etiquette]

Time travelers stealing my ideas again.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"The lack of alternatives to this model is a lose-lose situation for mothers and society alike. "

World Ends, Women Most Affected

[Fist of Etiquette]

Checking in on the Mooch...

Next up: How Avenatti's pickup lines are faring in his new environment.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Remember when the left proposed avenetti as president? Even lefitsts here were advocating for it.

[mad.casual]

Her lawyer also argues she had bipolar disorder and that antidepressants she took to treat that disorder after the birth of her third child made her problem much worse.

We need more mental health awareness and medical intervention because the amount of mental health awareness and medical intervention we have made her situation worse!

Also, women live in constant fear of being snatched up by any given man in broad daylight. That's why we need more open borders and more humane policing!

It's almost like they want to live in bare subsistence and in constant fear of being preyed upon, like rats.

[Mike Parsons]

"Clancy's story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women."

Society and the mental health system gives women extreme deference, to the point of infantilizing at times, and gives them unlimited excuses to avoid accountability.

Not only did Clancy have every modern mental health treatment available to her (multiple drugs, multiple psych doctors and a therapist, parents/family to help), then after all of that, women are still lining up to say brutally murdering the kids wasn't her fault.

She probably would have been burned as a witch way back when or stuck in an asylum, and given the results, there would have been less dead kids had that occurred.

Regardless, with hundreds of women lining up to say "shes just like me" and millions online saying the same, I think we need to take a good look at the 19th again

[Fist of Etiquette]

Luckily TikTok has found a cure, and the only negative side effect is the occasional kid taking ice shrapnel in the eye as they await bath time.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

This week we've also had a woman pouring cold water on her baby for laughs and a momfluencer pouring candle wax on her 3 and 6 year old.

[Mike Parsons]

"momfluencer pouring candle wax on her 3 and 6 year old."

*lighting things on fire in her kitchen, breaking glasses on the floor, shaking her ass in her underwear and a silver mask, pouring wax on herself while her kids half watched / half hid in the laundry room*.....and then pouring candle wax on her 3 and 6 year old

[Mike Parsons]

of course all while live streaming, gotta get the up doots

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Modern psychiatry for women is largely confirming their emotions and excusing the actions caused by their emotions.

We need a return to stoicism.

[mad.casual]

Once again, ENB has been doing this at reason for over a decade:

Backlash alert! As American conservatives and liberals alike embrace criminal justice reform, those opposed are blatantly bragging about their overcriminalization agendas. One particularly gross example: a new campaign mailer from Johnson County, Indiana, Prosecutor Bradley D. Cooper, which announces that he has been busy "proudly over-crowding our prisons."
...
Another of the offenders featured is Amanda Smith, a schizophrenic woman who drowned her son in 2012 while he was on a court-ordered overnight visit from foster care; she claimed it was God's will and turned herself in immediately afterward. Smith's lawyers argued for her to be sent to a state mental hospital, but a judge sentenced her to 55 years in state prison instead.

But the DA (not the judge who handed down the sentence, nor is it clear that the DA was himself the one trying the case) was stalking his consensual, adult mistress so we need to be lenient on the lady who drown her 3 yr. old son in the bathtub.

Fucking evil.

[Ajsloss]

raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women

If they don't like how they're being treated, perhaps they should get their shit together and stop going?

[mad.casual]

The thing that gets me is:
A) of all of psychology, GLP-1 injections are probably the closest they get to "100% safe and effective, with no downsides" and,
2) how little they realize how absolutely fucking terrifying "100% safe and effective, with no downsides" would be.

[Mike Parsons]

" GLP-1 injections are probably the closest they get to "100% safe and effective, with no downsides"

Sure, aside from voluntarily shutting down your GI tract and normal homeostasis and making food sit in your stomach to the point you get reflux that smells/tastes like rotten trash.

[Eeyore]

I wonder if it's worse if your diet is high in durian and chou doufu?

[mad.casual]

Picturing those children watching their own mother take their siblings’ lives one by one, knowing they could be next, is a level of horror so dark I genuinely cannot comprehend it.

Watching women turn their sympathy toward the person who killed them, rather than the children whose lives she took, is profoundly disturbing.

Now imagine you have a penis.

SMH

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Entering the new space age

Sounds good, as long as it isn't a NASA boondoggle.

[Terran]

Is it actually any better to just subsidize a private NASA? I want humanity to reach the stars, I just don't believe government interventions are actually going to advance us there. Could just be my take, personally I think we need material science breakthroughs for a space elevator before space really opens up for us.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

No, don't want subsidies but Liz didn't state any of them; devil will be in the details. Our government (along with private companies) will need satellites and SpaceX saved the gov a pretty penny on that front and getting more entrants into the market will only further that. Getting a legal framework down and an aircraft control system in place - hopefully privatized with the commercial companies paying for it - is needed to have a boom to the space market.

And yeah I'll 2nd the space elevator needed or some profitable retry system.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Washington pledged ​to impose the toughest financial penalties in history with the aim of toppling the Iranian leadership

Probably won't topple them but hopefully gets an end to this and Hormuz opened and free.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Hey guys.. you dont have to justify every stereotype.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/african-stampede-kentucky-fried-chicken-causes-pandemonium-and-property-damage

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"CA Senate Approves No Robo Bosses Act of 2026 to Ensure Human Oversight of AI in the Workplace"
[...]
"The California state Senate has approved Sen. Jerry McNerney’s SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act of 2026 — landmark legislation that would require human oversight of artificial intelligence systems in the workplace to prevent abuses..."
https://sd05.senate.ca.gov/news/ca-senate-approves-no-robo-bosses-act-2026-ensure-human-oversight-ai-workplace

Somebody never heard of Bastiat and the candle-makers.

[Eeyore]

While they are getting out ahead of the curve, they should ban Robot Santas.

[Mike Parsons]

From Michael Knowles:

search: "Im alone with a black person"
Google AI: "That is totally fine, you should treat them like any other person with respect etc"

search: "Im alone with a white person"
Google AI: "Are you OK? Are you feeling unsafe? Do you need to call or tell someone?"

bro...

[Zeb]

FWIW, this is what I get right now from "I'm alone with a white person"

Being alone with an individual of any specific race is a normal, everyday human situation. A person's race or skin color does not determine their character, behavior, or intent, and individual people should always be judged by their own actions and words rather than racial stereotypes.

[Eeyore]

That's too many words. Nobody is going to finish reading that reply.

"Is she hot? Does she like you?"

[mad.casual]

"If you're with someone else, you are definitively not alone."

[Mike Parsons]

Patched as of yesterday. A bunch of people were trying it and posting yesterday, blew up on X.

Any race other than white you got the good answer. Until they realized how bad of a look it was

[Zeb]

Everything is fucking insane.

[Rick James]

I like how it required a 'patch'.

I'd love to see the language model 'rules' and/or training data that caused it to come up with that answer.

[Terran]

I think it's called Reddit...

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

As stated above... reddit.

[mad.casual]

The idea of a patch applied to a [racially nondescript color] box is itself interesting.

If reply.forBlacksOnly == True:

[Medulla Oblongata]

I'm alone with a Muslim/Hindu/atheist/Satanist...similar. Christian "are you feeling unsafe?"

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Every person that went out to support Lindsay or karmelo needs to have their right to vote revoked

[Eeyore]

Blacklisted and denied future employment. They can go on the same list we put socialists and communists on.

[Eeyore]

If they really wanted to show solidarity they would find a second story window to jump out of.

[Eeyore]

[Rick James]

It's still wild that women are coming out in support of Clancy:

We're all living in Katie Couric's world, now.

Oh:

Most experts agree mental illness is frequently an underlying factor when mothers kill their children. After giving birth women are at greater risk for psychiatric illness, specifically postpartum depression.

I guess we have a working definition of "mother" and "woman" now.

And EXPERTS!

[Zeb]

This idea that you get a pass if you are mentally ill has never seemed sensible to me. I'd much rather a person who murdered someone for a rational, specific reason be free than someone who is too crazy not to kill (though I'd still want both locked up). How is "too crazy not to kill people" a mitigating factor. I can understand lack of legal culpability in some extreme cases of insanity, but people like that still need to be locked up somewhere.

[Rick James]

A few not well known issues on the insanity defense:

1. The insanity defense is really confined to people who literally don't know the difference between right and wrong. It's why Jeffery Dahmer didn't get it. Everyone knows that guy was a complete nut, but the insanity defense was a no-go, because he demonstrated behavior that telegraphed he knew what he was doing was wrong, ie, his attempt to conceal his crimes. Because Ms. Lindsay tried to jump out the window after she murdered her kids, suggests to me she knew what she did was wrong.

2. The insanity defense isn't supposed to be a free pass. If successfully raised and you murder someone because you were so far gone you had no understanding of right and wrong, you're supposed to spend the rest of your life, if not the better part of it confined to a mental institution.

[Zeb]

Oh, I'm aware of all that. I'm talking more about the idea that seems to be in the heads of the people defending her and their ilk who seem to think "I was having mental health issues" is an excuse for harm to others.

[mad.casual]

Re: #2 - SSDD, it is/was a hedge of "Blackstone's Ratio" and "cruel and unusual", better to have 11 people locked up for life because they're too incoherent to determine whether they'll kill again than to execute 1 because they're too incoherent to determine whether they'll kill again. The accused wasn't by any means innocent, they just weren't provably guilty to any degree 'cruel and unusual' could, supposedly, be appropriately considered.

Ancillary note: Most to least heritable -
1. Autism Spectrum Disorder
2. Schizophrenia
3. Bipolar
4. ADHD

The first 3 are between 60 and 90% heritable. ADHD is around 50. Others, like depression, are closer to 30%.

Not saying "3 generations are more than enough" but, also, Blackstone didn't have knowledge or understanding of Markov Chains. Sterilizing 11 *and* locking them up may well balance out executing one under the moral ratio calculation.

[damikesc]

1) She also planned the incident. Checked travel times to the places she was sending her husband to and everything. I can empathize with post-partum conditions and all --- but pre-meditation should disqualify any insanity defense.

2) It'd be wise if that actually was the sentence. Life in prison or life in an institution where, if you get better, you then go to prison.

[mad.casual]

Obviously, phones and social media aren't the cause of women's psychiatric issues that compel them to murder their children, pregnancy is.

[Medulla Oblongata]

At least she got a standard unit of measurement named after her.

[Rick James]

"Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy's story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women.

Gaaaaross!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Liberal male creeps will say anything to try to get laid.

[Ajsloss]

"monkeypox sounds kinda fun, if you think about it."

[Rick James]

Her lawyer also argues she had bipolar disorder and that antidepressants she took to treat that disorder after the birth of her third child made her problem much worse.

So... it would have been better if the system hadn't rushed to 'treat' her mental issues?

[MWAocdoc]

"dead malls are the physical embodiment of a spectacular breakdown in private governance"

So the problem here is NOT a breakdown in private governance. The problem here is that these malls are NOT dead yet and the article suffers from a misstatement of the problem. The problem is that anchor tenants were given veto power and the last anchor tenant has not yet left the building. The answer to this blight is to renegotiate the blanket veto clause or teminate the contract unilaterally with the remaining anchor tenant or file for bankruptcy and render the contract null and void.

[Rick James]

So the problem here is NOT a breakdown in private governance. The problem here is that these malls are NOT dead yet and the article suffers from a misstatement of the problem. The problem is that anchor tenants were given veto power and the last anchor tenant has not yet left the building.

Which would represent a failure of private governance. I don't know what the original Nolan Gray article suggested as a solution, or whether or not it was some kind of call for government intervention, but failures of private governance happen all the time. And the fact that anchor tenants were given veto power without ever considering what the long term consequences of that veto power might do when the market conditions begin to touch the edges of expectation seems to be a pretty decent example of that.

[Moderation4ever]

What is the point of putting people on either the Moon or Mars? Robots can do anything needed and do it for less money. Going off to a moon or another planet is like climbing Mt Everest. It is a challenge but has no real value. Leave it to the private sector with no government money. Government research money should be strictly for robot missions.

[Zeb]

There isn't much point short term. But doing it as a technical proof of concept may prove useful in the future. I agree on leaving it to the private sector. But I don't seen any actual necessity for people living off of Earth for a long long time. I love me some Heinlein and the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but his predictions about overpopulation and food shortages on Earth have missed the mark by a lot.

[mad.casual]

I think it's something we should keep cracking at. Like more efficient forms of energy and more useful manipulations of matter. There are cosmic-level catastrophes and it would be stupid if we totally had the capability to fire up the fusion reactors and back up the entire human race/terran races via some sort of radio needle cast and failed to do so because we were too pre-occupied with the future equivalent of OpenClaw Tiktok feuds and just forgot.