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Such a purpose would inform the constraints. If we are just “the sims” on steroids, then all the deep physics are absolutely utterly faked and we are just “shown” convincing fakery. If it’s anthropological, then similar story that the physics are just skin deep. If it’s actually modeling some physics thing, then maybe we are “observing” real stuff.

But again, this is all just for fun. It’s not vaguely testable and thus not scientific despite the sciencey theme of it, just something to ponder.

Because the people submitting to him know the whole deal. I’d say the requestor was trying to go for an easy setup of having the main character “trash lady” deleted as the joke.

Or it could even be all fabricated and there’s no “requestor” at all.

Yeah, I think the requestor was aiming for that, but I think the guy tries to sidestep the most obvious response when he thinks it’s too obvious.

I could see it, but even in the original trilogy, Vader was not demonstrated to ever be particularly restrained in his use of the force. He would have at least known that Vader had a habit of casually force choking to death anyone that pissed him off a little with zero repurcussions. Even if he thought that wasn’t powerful enough he would have kept his mouth shut.

Or, the stories of the Jedi’s exploits faced a counter-narrative that it’s a conspiracy propaganda. QAnon Star Wars edition, and he was totally there for it.

I’d say if that held true, Obama would have had a difficult time getting re-elected. He got re-elected effortlessly. People were broadly content, though less energized for his re-election bid.

Well, not that clear cut nowadays. The far right have started getting all about super high tariffs and broadly impeding international trade and also getting rid of people who also generally provide a cheap labor market. Also a general sense of a will to undermine economy for the sake of their beliefs. The promises of lower taxes now come with some costs that likely make it not worth it.

Think the point is that there’s no good option known and an overly short runway to build momentum, and the likely option would be Harris, and she’s already the default option.

Instead of “Biden should step aside”, the calls should be more specific in what they affirmatively do want.

Same with rhetoric about “just any third party”, that’s so vague that no one should want that, as third parties are very different and in opposition to each other.

So calls for ‘not Biden’ or ‘just any third party’ are utterly useless except for screwing up chances for a D win, without any particular actionable agenda being advocated for.

Aaron Bushnell killed himself protesting the Gaza situation. So she was declaring she was going to vote for a corpse after saying it’s dumb to expect people to vote for a corpse.

It’s never come up before. Though in practice given the rules everyone would know they are in practice voting for the named VP elect rather than the president. In a lot of those other cases it was people voting for a special election, which wouldn’t happen in the presidential race.