That must be crushing. My brother is going down this path after moving to the south. I know it weighs heavily on my parents and I can’t imagine it.

I almost went down that path myself with the libertarian party before the tea party came to being. This is the brother I was closest to growing up. I never understood how siblings could drift so apart throughout life. I really hope we don’t have the same fate.

Curious: what makes Nord shady? Their model seemed similar to Proton when I was researching the two. What’d I miss?

Yes, gravity is a theory. In scientific terms, theories are proven, repeatable, and accepted. It’s the most robust and strongest form of scientific “fact” we have (since new discoveries can change our understanding, we can’t honestly declare it indisputably factual).

When people say “I have a theory…” they usually mean “I have a hypothesis…” which is some idea or problem statement that is unproven, untested, unverified.

OP was playing off the conflation of those two things.

Republicans wanted to build the Walz. Well now’s their chance!

A rule of thumb for invested money is that it doubles every 7 years. It’s possible that it’s more to do with time than the tax break. It was likely to happen anyway.

On the other hand, billionaire wealth isn’t just invested moneys, it’s usually corporate fuckery.

That said, let’s ACTUALLY tax the fuck out of it and put it to good use.