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> rediscovered/reinvented and renamed

It's not old yet; it'll be old once it's been renamed two or three times...

Might a "Highly Elliptical Orbit" be what I learned in uni as "Molniya Orbit"?

> The FBI infiltrating political groups of all stripes is to be assumed by default at this point.

That (US domestic political groups, anyway) is their job, after all?

Sorry, I had been attempting to strike a nagging tone more than a bragging one: to put it more baldly, homelessness is a (collective) choice.

[I voted with my feet for this society. That took me a couple of years to learn a language, and a few more to learn a culture, both of which seem to be much shorter timescales than I expect change, whether driven by pollys or by people, to happen upon in my old, or other anglophone, societies — even with nagging.

If you think I have more effective means than nagging, please let me know what they may be. I am generally a fan of mutual aid and direct action, but at this point believe that occasional nagging with an existence proof that there are functioning alternatives, however indirect and unmutual it may seem, is still as close as I can approach those ideals while remaining effective]

nonverbal cues go all the way down to canines, etc.

> I'd say that is zero.

That's your society, not all societies. People, veterans or not, aren't homeless in mine.

See Goldstein, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" (1949)

My relatively stable high trust society has bunker space for more or less the entire population; if the world goes to hell I'd much rather be* among people who (even on our right wing) habitually put solidarity into practice than be worrying about generators, ice augers, and looters.

* one of the best pieces of advice I ever got, related to skating to where the puck is going to be: "if you know where to be, you can let the young guys run"

So if Santa knows who's been bad or good, he had to have known the other reindeer were mobbing Rudolph.

Yet he did nothing about it, right up until he needed Rudolph's capabilities to further his own strategic interests.

Holly-jolly? Right, right.

"Analog dance music" FTW

Would George Floyd have anything to do with it? Or is that just coincidence?

In the States, due to the silly way education works, the whole game for parents is physically to move to the good school district.