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Not recently. A non-fired government worker. Finally in a field not hated by Republicans. Oh wait. :o Unfortunately, I'm nowhere near retirement....

Congrats mate, hope your retirement is full of just as much adventure as you'd like :heart: :up:

Yeah, I lived that. Are you in academia? I spent my time in a big corporate bureaucracy. I'm assuming you're living a similar dream. IIRC you were...

Or Minnesota. Or LA. Or DC. Or Portland. Etc.

Congrats on both the kids graduation and retirement. :) It's weird how this place went from being dominated by people barely out of high school to...

Well, it wasn't today, but the soccer mom getting shot in the face for no good reason and the government lying about it and trying to justify it is...

The rocket industry seems like the only thing in America on the right track. I guess. Right? I mean, my whole life I've consumed scifi and dreamed...

Its funny to see this post a full seven months behind the last one, in a forum that used to see dozens of posts a day. I don't know if the folks...

Aww, that's been going on in the South for ages. Are you brown? Talk with a funny accent? If yes to those, you should probably keep your distance....

Well, one year in I came to the conclusion that the USA really isn?t a place I should visit. It isn?t just the nazi-vibes, but also the people making...

Huh, looks like you all received Trump's cease and desist letters. :haha:

Got a happy birthday email from the forum Happy to see its still doing well.

Unless the bystanders are immigrants or leftists

Trump could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and the Democrats would say he should have used a lower calibre and aimed away from...

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m73wn6dm3g2d https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m73wfghlom2q I think they genuinely have...

He cares just as much as his supporters do.

The more I hear about the boat murders, the more astonished and angry I get. It is straight up murder and the justifications for any of it is flat...

New Glenn's booster landed on the second try - not bad. It was cool to see the rather beefy landing legs weld themselves to the ship's deck. Once...

The pitfalls of too-direct democracy. Only let people vote when they understand what they are voting for. Same thing got Trump elected, twice,...

Brexit continues to begin: The Economic Impact of Brexit As the kids say: lol, lmao even

I think they genuinely believe this is politics as usual.

Tbc I wasn't talking about reform :o

There is no reform that fixes this. Constitutions and the rule of law in general are fundamentally an illusion (like currency). People buy into...

Fetterman I get. He was only ever in it for networking and contacts to make bank as a post-service lobbyist. Others. . . how blind do you have to...

Trump knew, and they all knew Trump knew: https://bsky.app/profile/sahilkapur.bsky.social/post/3m5gs422zck2k ...

Even though the collapse has been sudden, the decline in resilience/rise in democratic vulnerability has been gradual, with every voluntary and...

There would need to be a public registry of motherfuckers

There would need to be constitutional reform.

https://futurism.com/space/nasa-staff-throw-out-science-equipment-garbage

I don't see how you fix the problem of treasonous judges, completely dismantled government departments, pardoned traitors, tens of thousands of brown...