That is all policies and political structures are testable and tested to see their effect on those three (or other suggested) factors. If a policy doesn't reasonably work then it's simply not continually employed. I'm curious to see what factors others think ought to be used.

It seems most political systems now were built without science in mind and utilize it as an afterthought to help develop legitimacy for policies individuals want. Generally politics across countries seems deeply emotionally driven and not fact driven. That is people have a feeling that an idea is a good idea and then they cobble together whatever they can to support that point without any unified measure of good or better. Ideally it ought to be the other way around, fact or evidence informed policy generation.

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Update, I've made a label for it.

https://archive.ph/lOUju

Lucy isn't nearly as social as her orange sisters or her orange mom. But unlike them she has a full length tail.

History shows that police states aren't declared: they're assembled piece by piece, until one day ordinary people realize the freedoms they once took for granted have quietly disappeared…

Part 2: what if you found out their diagnosis 1 week after birth

Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’ It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations acros...

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Charles Addams is best known for creating The Addams Family, but only a scant few of his strips that appeared in The New Yorker magazine were actually The Addams Family. Many of them have not aged well, more so the actual scans than the humor, but there are some that the humor is in poor taste now.

Here we have a day & nite tow truck parked in front of a car that has broken down, a roadside mechanic looks under the hood of the car revealing, presumably a hamster in an exercise wheel. The caption reads, "May I ask who's been doing your repair work?"

Her and her brother were babies from my mother-in-law's yard. Mom died of unknown causes a month after TNR. Pepper and her brother were scheduled for transport on the kitten railroad but they chewed off the fur on the tips of their tails making them ineligible.

That was about 9 years ago. Her brother died a few years ago from kidney failure. But Pepper is still here. She spends most of her time outside eating rats. But occasionally she comes in for cuddles.

She is currently on day two of panacur because she has tapeworms. If you have outdoor cats you need to deworm them once in a while. But only after figuring out what worms they have because not all meds treat all worms and using the wrong one is no treatment at all. Treatment delayed is treatment denied.

Fix yo damn pets.

Today's game is some more Assassin's Creed. I mainly made my way through the Jerusalem assassination. it was here i really started to feel the slowness of this game's parkour. With the other games (not-RPG ones) Parkour feels snappy and like constant lunges. Here it kind of feels like Altair is afraid to grab a ledge and i feeling it out first. Realistic? Yeah. But also it does slow things down a little.

Also, with Altair's face just being Desmond's it really cracks me up a bit. It's just funny seeing that he has the exact same face as him, especially coming from the games where all the Protagonist's have their own faces.

The actual assassination part was fun, albeit it felt a little light on story. I liked actually getting to chase the guy through the streets despite my gripe about the parkour. The fight though kind of boiled down to standing around and countering until he died. And i mean that more so than what the other games are known for.

It also throws me off they don't search for you. Like, i can just hop in there at a yellow and wait them out. I'd expect them to at least search around for me. But nope. They just walk away like they suddenly had something better to do.

Anyways, i'm enjoying this. It's interesting to see the roots of one of my favorite franchises growing up, so exploring this is a fun time. After this i want to go to 2, and work my way up from there. I have a friend who's trying to complete every Final Fantasy game; I'd like to dedicate myself to finishing every Assassin's creed game, even if i'm dreading Odyssey and Valhalla, and Shadows too actually. The story for Shadows was ungodly long, i liked the game play though. I should upgrade my CPU though with how much of a Bottleneck it became for that game.

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