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Gotta do something to keep busy.

As someone downthread mentioned, his seat is easier to defend than Katie's.

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Nestor?

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Also, too, there's the question of the power differential when it comes to consent. Staffer, not some twink he picked up online.

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And, she had to include the link. Otherwise, no one would know what she was talking about.

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Or, he likes girls who look really young, and he likes boys who look really young.

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And we finally get the answer to the question, "What would it look like if we let our middle school class run the country?"

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Her subtlety amazes me.

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Crivens!

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It also takes a lot of energy to shoot something into the sun. The natural tendency is to put it in an elliptical orbit around it (like us). You'd have to accelerate continuously to get it deep enough in the gravity well to get sucked in.

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Something that white, you just know he's a Republican.

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And in the after photo Larry The Ho engulfs his microphone after suddenly realizing it is a melting ice cream cone “nom-nom-nom” says Hungry Larry.

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Which makes sense, as he is equally an asshole.

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So are dams, but the petroleum industry didn't spend a generation demonizing them.

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Not to be pedantic (heavens no!) but actually you’d have to DEcelerate it to drop it into a solar death spiral. Or you could of course describe it as “acceleration in he opposite direction it’s already traveling,” to speed it up to 67,000 mph backwards relative to the Earth’s orbit. Still uses a fuckton of energy though…can’t just step on the brakes.

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I still want to hold them to the "too cheap to meter" promise.

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Does that violate child labor laws on top of everything else?

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