Old reruns of Alf.

Yeah, people make up bs, other people spread it, old guy embarrasses himself saying it on tv, bomb threats. I have to be missing a step here.

Don’t know about him, but the example I try to plant in people’s minds is that early in his presidency, he wanted money for a wall, democrats wanted “dreamers” to get citizenship (and every state has infrastructure projects they want). Seemed like great deal making ground to me. I was prepared at the time to be wrong about him and waited to see anything come out along the lines of a bargain. But he proved unable to do it.

Do you have a source on the ‘no scope’ detail?

I’ve heard that “no scope” detail elsewhere too. But would love to confirm it or have it disproven.

It is the detail that I keep coming back to that would indicate something about his state of mind, lack of rationality, lack of time, something.

Obama.

I get what your point, and is a fair one. Except there is evidence that he wouldn’t have been voting their way, since he was thinking of leaving the court, or at least gave that impression to others to get a raise. Then the gift tap turned on…

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus

You meant, pointless makes roundabouts traffic lights?

Hmm… Katamari Damacy, Braid, Portal 1 2 combo. Subnautica.

Technology Connections has covered this (mis)conception.

Well. I've seen some construct a scenario in which some bits of kompromat were leveraged to shift the loyalties of and/or social circles around key players, using just what was public record.

Right on.

But I think people have to get used to using it for smaller, less important things first ."What restaurant should we go to?" And such like. Otherwise the entrenched interests it would oust have easy FUD ammo against it.

For that smaller stuff the mechanics of the system bog people down, so simple voting's easy count wins in the calories/decision evaluation. Maybe some apps that make it easy to do would be helpful. Or some popular board games using it as a mechanic. Discussion forum comment rankings based on it?

I don’t know. Seems pretty cowardly to me. So does asking for delayed trial dates.