If Iranian state actors are producing videos of this quality, it may become an existential threat to US Meme Hegemony.

More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.

structural features of melting polar ice.

Nope, it’s R’lyeh

From what to what? It’s always been about sports gambling, with war profiteering as a side-hustle.

Data isn’t very valuable if you can’t transmit it.

At some point you need to trust someone

Hehe. Of course not.

You mean high speed rail and electric cars?

Combining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.

How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L’nux?

That’s what my government tells me

No no no. China is Fake News. They don’t even make cars. If they made cars, I would have seen Chinese cars driving around in America.

“China Battery!” typically trips everyone’s “Fake News! Evil Company! Communists Killed 100 Billion People!” alarm

The way to safer is to reduce the amount of cars.

Hersey! Blasphemy! Unamerican!

Ah, so they’ve already exploded, thus rendering them safe for use.

That won’t do anything to avoid scammers.

Obviously a court is not going to support an eviction if that eviction is part of a fraud.

You would be surprised. The folks running these scams know the law (and the bureaucrats who actually manage it) way better than you. And they know the buttons to press that fast-track their complaints against you way better than you know the defenses you can employ.

This isn’t a question of the strict legal verbiage or the spirit of the law. This is a question of experience navigating bureaucracies, and the general bias they show in favor of landlords over tenants. They’ll be able to move faster because they’ve done this (or worked with people who have done this) repeatedly. Unless you’ve got an (often expensive) legal counsel, you’ll be stuck trying to explain yourself to a sheriff or a judge long after your title has been traded to a third party who doesn’t care if you were ever rightfully compensated for your sale or not.

What happens is you’ll get a cashier’s check that bounces. A lot of these “We Buy Your House” scams are effectively just check-bouncing scams, where they try to get the title to your home in their names without offering real payment.

Once the house is in their name, the law is on their side. You securing payment from them is far more difficult than them evicting you.

Modern Conservatives: “We have a crisis of masculinity”

Traditional 1950s Americans: “Your parents exist because we did it raw on the subway”

There’s a big semi-sentient computer running the government in Idiocracy, which could make it a neat stand in for Skynet.

Idiocracy -> People become overly reliant on automation and complacent to the point of self-annihilation

Terminator -> Computers decide humans aren’t worth the trouble, so they do a mass extermination

Matrix -> The conflict ends in a blotted out sky, which forces the computers to cannibalize humanity