presumably the elite of the elite aren't going to give somebody that kind of leverage if they don't think they can outsmart him

difference imo is that MIT is much more of a guarantee of outcome than public ivy

you are _going_ to get the opportunities and connections coming out of college that you have to bust your ass for and get lucky for coming out of Minnesota

they aren't in football either anymore though

"A line must be drawn between what is good and what is evil, for if the Great Enemy comes with offers of power to a wretch, what reason does he have to refuse hell if he dwells in it already?" - Guilliman after the devastation of baal

in recent canon this point has been explictly made in universe by the de facto leader of the imperium

in pre TLJ canon warp is just a way to get into hyperspace, and interactions with real space are limited to getting pulled out of hyperspace by large gravity wells

energy requirements and relativistic speeds not necessarily implied to be that high

how is an empire which builds multiple death stars which are conservatively 100,000x the size of a star destroyer and which canonically has a population in the trillions unable to field 25k star destroyers?

no, i think the actual answer is that a critical mass of teenage boys are bad, they are just redeemably bad, and society was aligned that it needed to hammer in maturity

unfortunately now a decent chunk of society has decided that standard shitheaded teenage male behavior is acceptable for adults

i think it is more accurate to say that they are trapped in the future that was predicted in 95-05, and going increasingly insane as it fails to materialize

i think part of the issue is that the american legal system is so suspicious of state power that state actors can't successfully move against anybody who can afford competent lawyers without an ironclad case, which takes a lot of time

but how many group chats are you in?

The Michigan basketball experience in 2025

it seems defensible to me to say that the housing crisis in blue states (specifically california, but also new england and the NY metro area) has led to people moving to extremely sprawly sunbelt suburbs that _make them more conservative_ than they otherwise would be

apparently depends on what country they are in at the time

that said there's a reason we had the nuremberg trials despite the defendants being the most summarily executable people in history

don't forget the incompetent joke character becoming a senator and ultimately the public face of the move to end democracy

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