Former colony blues. It wasn’t just the criminals we sent to Australia or the religious wackos exported to the Americas. We also sent people to exploit them and I guess old habits die hard.

That could be a huge double edged sword.

On the one hand less propaganda, on the other less documentation.

I think he bought a bunch of their oil and brought the price down for a few days.

It’s just exactly right, isn’t it?

He may still have an exit strategy

My father ran me through it one day. It involves Al Gore proposal to sell carbon tax credits.

I think this was such a repellent thought to oil companies that they scorched the very thoughts around it.

Too bad about that election.

It’s worked for like a century

You gotta bloom where you’re planted.

Oh 💯

But I think we were thinking along the same lines. I think if you just super content curate/create on the big three or four socials you’d get enough of the population that participated. What I envisioned is more like a quid pro quo type of thing with social media corpos. We’ll let you do absolutely anything to anyone, just don’t let our dirty laundry hit trending.

But 100% I think it would be a pretty bold move to just slap a patriot filter on the Internet.

Oh, it’s just bitter musing. I don’t think there’s intent or anything, just people trying to make money.

I don’t think we had cheap enough electronics back in the day for it to be that widespread. However, before licensing (needed) you really could just build a radio and do whatever.

I’m not sure I followed what you meant with the bit about a resource being claimed back. Could you talk a bit more about that?

Once their ships show up, the Navy can dip and leave the mess to someone else. He can just move on to the next country on his list

Wild open access to vast reliable information has to be a social anomaly. I think the US will basically rewrite the Internet to promote national interest. It’s worked well for China. I think they can basically control the population with an app.

Basically Internet becomes TV. It’s entertaining and could be educational, but it is mostly useful to help people find sales and remember to work hard and respect their financial betters.

The Internet had scads of potential, still does, but imagine how radio enthusiasm changed from two way to broadcast communication.

So, it’ll just be like the early ninties again? People had similar feelings about digital technology being easy to manipulate.

They should start adding convenience fees to US oil.

The US is absolutely defenseless against hidden fees and surcharges.

The speed of the whole thing is quite the terror.

I guess with Iran and Venezuela the only big producers are the US and Russia, Canada maybe.

I always figured knights just kind of walked around hacking up the poor people with sharpened sticks to pieces

While technically true, there’s always room for deterioration.

Yeah, we’re making good progress on that first part, but global thermonuclear war is the best I can imagine as far as equality goes.

All these damn kids all over the lawn.

He just looks real flat. I don’t know if snakes come that way. I’ve always thought of them as being pretty round. I mean, I guess it’s probably just his color/pattern, but I can’t unsee a little moray eel.