Let's be honest here. None of this is journalism that speaks truth to power. This is conservative owned and backed media playing up nothingburgers to stink-palm the Liberals according to conservative communications strategies. Just like the Carney quip to the grassy narrows protestor.
So we can consider our sun dying and Andromeda colliding with the milky way as crappy backstops.5 billion years for a maybe is not great. I don't know about you, but I don't have that kind of patience. We need fresh ideas. I like your singularity idea, but getting crushed isn't as artistically coherent as a quality shattering and if you've checked the price of singularities these days, its not really in the budget.
I think the most viable option I've heard so far is a mega asteroid. Do you know any suitable candidates for rent?
Ladies, Gentlemen, Nuclear Engineers, Aliens bent on conquest and demi-gods or demons bent on wrath and destruction; Look, we have a job to do. The earth probably isn't going to shatter on its own. At least not with that attitude. We need teamwork. Collaboration. Hard math. Next, next-next-next-gen explosives and a lot of them.
Not enough fissile material on earth. With enough asteroid and planetary mining, and .... ah never mind. You are probably still right. "Shattering" implies breaking apart and defeating earth's gravity well.
We'll have to get started on antimatter bombs for the required energy density, I guess.
Bad example. In the US it's super cool to deny care for dollars. Illness and death are built into the system from for profit hospitals to health insurance and pharma pricing.
Edit: Downvote all you like, but Luigi isn't a folk hero without reason.
Yes. Many are deeply morally and ethically good people. I know a few personally. They view defending the indefensible as the price to pay for society to have a free, fair and functional justice system. They are true believers in what the legal system aspires to be, even when it doesn't always live up to its promise. They know a bad guy going free is harmful, but must be balanced against innocents being victimized by a vengeful society as more harmful. They love to lose when the evidence is compelling against their client knowing justice was served and the sometimes severe punishments are applied to a human being with their conscience clean.
No. Well, not always. There are shitty people everywhere. Criminal Defence can pay really well and pay and prestige attracts more than a few self serving dark triad types.
Same goes for judges. I am generally fond of European courts and Canadian courts where Judges are often appointed from lists created by comittees of law societies or their equivalent. Their peers tend to select the best legal minds among them as nominees. We tend to score very high in comparative analyses. Contrast this with the US election of judges and political appointees of Supreme Court Justices and, well, you can see dumpster fires of a bad system everywhere. Elected people are unduly influenced by the pressures of their electorate or campaign financiers. This tends to result in vengeful false convictions of innocents and disproportional persecution of underclasses, political or economic motivated injustices, and well heeled crooks and creeps going free.
A little late bud, but welcome to the party.