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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: "NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as odds of hitting Earth go up"
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:41:52 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <8lkpqj5bfumigk06ah7c3548skb84hjhb8@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:38:13 +0100, "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:52:00 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer wrote:
>>
>>> Between now and May at least it won't match bird flu, Chinese
>>> AI or constitutional upheaval at generating scary headlines.
>>
>>You forgot about the American AI.
>
>That's old hat. Chinese AI has rendered it ... superfluous.
>
>Kind of like Trump has Congress. And soon will the Courts.[1]
>
>And, being an old fan of horror films, I /enjoy/ scary headlines. And
>the various reactions to them, the more hysterical the better. For
>each atrocity brings us closer to the inevitable denoument, whatever
>that may be.
>
>[1] As the judge in Watergate pointed out, the Federal Marshalls are
>what the Court uses to enforce it edicts, and they are Federal
>Employees. Which means the President can escape arrest by them by
>simply telling them they are fired.

Which is why they should insert earplugs before trying to arrest 
the President. 

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