This is me . First finding the energy to shower . Then finding the energy to leave the shower . Then finding it to dress myself . <| sep |> Beat me to it ! In a continent full of assholes he somehow manages to be the worst . <| sep |> An entropic tendency towards death that can be delayed theoretically indefinitely . <| sep |> That ' s why I say it should be run the way the scientific community is and said nothing about the government being involved in the process in any way whatsoever other than that the government can ' t be involved , for the reasons you cite . Like it or not , that ' s probably what ' s going to have to happen if we want to force the media to actually do its job and to protect the integrity of the republic . Freedom of speech is meant to prevent a government from controlling the narrative , it was never meant to allow the media to lie to its people . Spreading lies and disinformation can ' t be covered under free speech anymore such as it ever has been considering we ' ve had libel and slander laws on the books for a good long while now . In fact this absolutist thinking we apply to our principles is the main cause of all of these problems , especially in terms of free speech , and unless we adopt a more complex and nuanced approach this shit will keep happening over and over and over again until the republic finally crumbles under its own weight .