Chuck (Andrew) Sweet

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Author. Human. Humanist. Not a dick.
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Wondering how to start reading my science fiction? I created a handy readers' guide to help out!

hesperiapublishing.com/andrew-sweet-author-blog/readers-guide

The Equitable Person — Right and Freedom

Throughout the preceding sections, we have discussed something called an equitable person, and we have described various aspects of the person without indicating much about what an equitable person actually is besides identifying potential behaviors. We remedy that here, as it informs us of the natu

Right and Freedom

Banning choice was never ever about anything but abusing women and children.

@Dahlialith and Mark Joseph Stern wrote this article about the horrific Texas case and showing how Texas abortion laws are another tool for abusers to abuse their partners.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/texas-lawsuit-suing-friends-explained.html

A Texas Man’s Pathetic Attempt to Terrorize His Ex-Wife’s Friends Over Her Abortion

It’s the latest frontier in the battle over reproductive rights.

Slate
The Vigilante “Justice” Award — Right and Freedom

So this week, MTG decided to nominate Kyle Rittenhouse for the Congressional Gold Medal in H.R.6070. Kyle Rittenhouse, in case you’ve forgotten, left his state, acquired an AR-15, and then proceeded to a riot a state away that was already in progress allegedly in order to protect the property of a f

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Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

To be clear, I'm not concerned about Disney losing control of Disney World. That arguably should have happened ages ago.

I am concerned about personal vendetta's by politicians being rubber-stamped into law. You should be, too.

https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-politics-florida-f96b0bf82cf5d9deea8ff55ada47d8e0

Disney faces losing control of its kingdom with Florida bill

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney’s government in Florida has been the envy of any private business, with its unprecedented powers in deciding what to build and how to build it at the Walt Disney World Resort, issuing bonds and holding the ability to build its own nuclear plant if it wanted.

Associated Press

Useful Chess Terms:

tempo - the decision for the moves is yours. For example, if I pin a knight, that knight can't move. If I threaten a piece, the number of moves the opponent can make without losing the piece is a bound on their decision-making

pin - make it so that a piece can't move without endangering an opponent's more expensive or strategic piece

reveal - the prestige! this is when you move a piece that shows all your hard work, often tying together seemingly disparate earlier moves

I think these ideas are useful for thinking about many zero-sum scenarios.

Florida is a problem. If we don't fix it, this problem will continue to spread. There's an entire generation there being intentionally deceived, and many of them will not understand the world enough to make good choices for our nation.

The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies https://nyti.ms/3wOL2D0

The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies

The official course looks different from a previous draft: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional.