...furies are awesome which is reason number 487 why Babylon 5...

According to the article they are forbidden to call it anything other than the gulf of America, except specifically in a historical context. But only when "reasonable" which means they can ignore that exception whenever they feel like doing so.

This bizarre law provides that “all state and local entities and their employees shall be required to … [r]efer to the body of water that borders the coast of Alabama as the ‘Gulf of America,’ ” including “in all newly created maps, documents, educational materials, websites, official communications, and other resources.” Section 3 contains a limited exception to this general rule: “Nothing in this section shall prohibit a public K–12 school or public institution of higher education from using the term ‘Gulf of Mexico’ within a larger course of academic instruction when reasonable for historical purposes.”

He wouldn't even be the first president on the court if he did.

He already put the high priest of Nurgle in charge of public health. Why not put the Zodiac Killer on the Supreme Court?

“If we do win, you’re getting it. It’s going to be finally over with, that nightmare that’s been going on for so many years. We will never abandon the heroes who served America.”

"Unless of course you vote for the other guys. Then fuck 'em"

I highly recommend the audiobooks. They put a tremendous amount of effort into them and it really elevates the experience.

From the article

Six states allow citizens to petition a district court directly for a criminal grand jury: Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. The petition goes to the district court. The judge’s only two questions are whether there are enough valid signatures and whether the conduct, if true, is a crime under state law. No district attorney or attorney general has any part in it.

The article spells out specifically how citizens of these states can help initiate an actual prosecution, and includes links to get people started.

For the billionaires talking about future settlements on Mars and the like, there isn't a short term benefit to actually doing it. That's why they aren't investing heavily in realistic plans to colonize the solar system. They are investing in space, but in a much more limited capacity that mostly involves satellites, government contracts and maybe a little space tourism for rich people.

All the talk of taking humanity to other worlds is good PR, inflates stock prices, and feeds into their own egos. It's a way of projecting the image of being a visionary and being able to claim that they're building a brighter future for humanity, and taking credit for making sci-fi pipe dreams a reality.

There are potentially massive benefits to spreading out in the solar system. We currently have access to a single planet's resources, and Earth didn't vacuum up all the useful materials in the solar system when it formed. There are also resources which are more abundant in space like helium-3.

But that's all long term stuff. We may eventually build a moon base that refuels ships which support asteroid mining operations, send robots to build industrial complexes on Mars, and even start the long process of terraforming Venus so that one day we can have a second habitable planet. But first we have to get to the point where just getting into space isn't so monstrously expensive.

And even if we had a working space elevator tomorrow, there would still be a ton of technical hurdles to overcome before we could accomplish something new that actually helps pay for all of this stuff. There's speculation and research, but don't expect massive investments until we're almost there. Once independent researchers and unrelated technological advances have solved 90% of the problems and it looks like there will soon be trillions of dollars to be made by whoever capitalizes on it first, then you can expect the irrational gold rush moment like the one we see with AI now. Until then, it's all satellites and stock manipulation.

Had my wife look for this exact comment. Was going to have her post this if no one else had.

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Closest thing I can think of is The Never Ending Story. The protagonist enters a book that is essentially a gateway to the world of all imagination.

The next best thing I can think of is something like Dungeon Crawler Carl where the setting is essentially a deadly reality TV show that takes the form of fictional worlds. Or things like Discworld with it's narrative causality. Or Orconomics which makes fantasy tropes and rpg conventions explicit in the setting through satire, in which financial institutions are inflating the adventuring bubble through loot backed securities.

When the landlord rents the property out they give up some of their rights to that property. They can't just let anyone in whenever they want. Therefore, you, the occupant can allow a vampire in, while your landlord cannot. At least, not without giving you prior notification and possibly hiring the vampire to do some sort of work.

Gotta find the motivation to keep going somehow.