The odds are certainly some of the best we can hope for:
Higher political engagement in general from Millennials and Gen Z than in the past.
It’s a general election, so higher voter turnout in general.
Trump has been banging the drum of fascism (or at least authoritarianism), so people will turn out just to vote against him.
Republicans have been glibly attacking women’s reproductive rights and medical procedures like IVF. Both issues will increase turnout.
They showed their ass when they acquitted Paxton.
He’s not running against someone like Beto. He’s running against a former football player, and if there’s one thing Texans love, it’s football. Cruz is already unpopular by virtue of being himself.
All those Conservative folks moving from California to Texas are moving to Florida, now.
He also acknowledged that lawmakers who crafted the legislation tried to go “up to the line” on previous Supreme Court precedent on state immigration powers and no further. (A 2012 landmark Supreme Court decision shot down an Arizona immigration law that tried to give state and local authorities power over immigration enforcement.)
“Now, to be fair, maybe Texas went too far,” Nielson said, according to CNN.
This is basically admitting to the federal appeals court that the law is poorly crafted and unjust.
The lawyer later explained that if the federal appeals court finds parts of S.B. 4 invalid, it should “sever” those parts instead of blocking the entire law.
Oh, so now the judiciary is supposed to play at being legislators? Here’s an idea: maybe the fucking Texas Congress should stop being assholes and do it right the first time. Instead of trying to toe the line to be as maximally cruel as they can, they should try some empathy.
But who am I kidding? This is the party that tossed out the case against Paxton, thinks human rights are political chess pieces you can sacrifice, and supports rapists and criminals like Donald Trump.
Yeah, and you know why? Because Texans don’t fucking show up to vote, especially Democrats and other left-leaning folks.
They are the living embodiment of, “We’ve tried doing nothing, and we’re all out of ideas.”
Voting won’t fix all your problems, and it’s nonsense to think it would, but it would certainly go a long way towards protecting women’s right to choose.
When Science ceases to be useful as a method to discover and explain things.
But on a more specific note, that’s impossible to answer, because you would have to know what that finite set of “knowledge of everything” is, if it is indeed finite. Since we can’t know what the upper limit of “what is knowable” is, it’s impossible to even roughly project when we might know almost everything.
To complicate matters, you can’t even break the problem down. How about half of everything? A third of everything? One-tenth of everything? How much do we currently know compared to those subsets? We simply don’t know.
And what if we discover other dimensions? Or what about another universe? What if there’s infinite universes to discover? Knowledge is emergent as a result of doing science, so as long as there’s something we don’t know, we’ll have scientists out there doing science (or whatever its successor is).
The placenta is not pleasant to look at, so I can imagine pills make it more palatable. I don’t think a lot of study has been done on the effects of eating placenta after birth, but it’s technically a separate organ that belongs to the baby.
So no matter how you spin it, they’re eating baby organs.