Deporting legal immigrants with proper documentation has happened already.

Deporting valid visa holders after cancelling a visa for no clear reason has happened.

Tarrifs have been instated, removed, reinstated, and modified based on whims of the president.

Judges made legal decisions, which is their job, and we’re subsequently harassed by ICE.

DOGE has done irreparable harm to the well established, decades old infrastructure that the country runs on. Because of their decisions, top-level scientists are fleeing the country, programs to help people around the world and project US power have been dissolved with no warning, and institutions across the country have been thrown into disarray. There is no indication that the individuals involved know what they are breaking or have any plan to repair it.

If you are, in fact, living under a rock, then looking into all of these things might be a good start. You might then want to look into the history of Nazi Germany in the mid 1930’s to see how they destroyed democracy back then, and see how things happening now mirror what was happening then.

They can be cold as a frozen thermometer in December if you ask about the weather in July.

You misread the first sentence.

The endowments are earmarked for particular use. The grants allow individual researchers to do their research. University funding math is weird.

Depends somewhat on the particular negative. We can claim with certainty that dinosaurs are not alive today, even though there are theoretically places that are not sufficiently explored where, in principle, a dinosaur might live. We are well aware that the fossil record is globally consistent and demonstrates the timing of their extinction, as well as the lack of any fossils of dinosaurs since then.

Similarly, I can claim with confidence that a force does not exist in the universe that would allow me to teleport from place to place instantaneously, because such a force would violate many of the known laws of physics.

There are various types of god-beings that cannot exist because of a logical contradiction. An omnipresent entity, for instance, would be always detectable if it had any measurable effect on the world, but no such measurable effect can be observed. If it is not capable of a measurable effect, then it is indistinguishable from not existing.

Other types of negatives are not easily proven. That is why scientists will say things like, “Based on 3478 measurements, there is currently no evidence to support the existence of higher values than those reported here.”

What was going on five years ago?

I did not make a hypervelocity impact crater. I did, however, make a large number of low velocity impact craters.

Rode 190 kms on a unicycle one day.

China has a very large capita.

I’m just going to mark this comment for reference next week.

Climate Change is already Newspeak, adopted when there was political pushback against “global warming.”

Your friends are laughing at you behind your back. Kill them.

It is a test that AI fails on many platforms. Can’t count letters.

No, not today, but give it a couple of years.

I have spent the last 12 years trying to convince my wife that I am not trying to trick her. I really do think she is that beautiful.

It is cheaper to live in Europe for the duration of the degree. I have friends who did this.

Have you seen the FMWC?

Yes, because “family values” means anti gay and anti abortion.

The documentary “The Family” offers the explanation that Russia has a strong traditional family values contingent that appeals to the right-wing idealogy.

It’s one banana, Michael. How much can it cost?