Ultraviolet

My conspiracy theory is it was chosen to deliberately harm the optics of environmentalists. Something with minimal useful impact and maximum inconvenience would turn people against the whole idea of environmentally friendly alternatives.

That's not how that works. It's not a DnD sphere of annihilation, it's an infinitely dense point of matter.

Hopefully we get to see the end of the movie.

He never intended to build the Hyperloop. From the start, it was a lie to shut down a proposed project to build a west coast high speed rail line.

I'm sure if they take power, their first order of business would be to legalize all Nazi symbolism and drop the "we're just run of the mill conservatives" facade entirely.

The wound predates Reagan and goes back to the Civil War. Sherman had the chance to cauterize it, but he held back and let it fester, and here we are.

That doesn't matter. The only reason the law has the ability to stop anyone from doing anything is that if you refuse for long enough, eventually, someone will show up with a gun to force the issue. If he knows that won't happen, he can act with impunity.

Yeah, something about this shift in focus feels like a psyop. We have clear evidence of targeted voter suppression, destruction of ballots, etc. In a two party system, fraudulently removing your opponent's votes has exactly the same impact as creating fake votes for yourself. That's already clear evidence of fraud, why are we redefining "evidence of fraud" as a new thing that we haven't found yet?

So it's a perfect analogy for conservatives.

Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men;—this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of, and required to cease from.

Thomas Ellwood, ca. late 1600s.

The lethality is 52%. If it rips through the population, we're looking at total collapse well before the vaccine is available.

Because people who don't understand what words mean label every possible post-capitalist system as communism even though they're as different from each other as they are from capitalism.