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gsf_emergency_6last Thursday at 4:52 AM1 replyview on HN

In the old days the J was a force for solidarity?

Now SV (purports to fill that role, as a champion of the "technocratic faction")


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aebtebetenlast Friday at 1:12 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Court#Decisions

There's a wonderful line in one of the Retief stories where The Corps Diplomatique Terrestrien attempts to introduce "one sentient one vote" on some planet out in the galactic boondocks, and the natives instantly grasp its corollary: one less sentient, one less vote...

I'd believe the low of SV to be such a force; the high appear to be heading for https://www.angryflower.com/348.html , and I've been away for over half a lifetime, so I don't know what the mid may be doing. Blowing in the wind, probably?

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