Is the alien carbon-based or silicon-based? Uh, the second one. “Zilliphone.”

They want to send a message: violence against those in the oligarchic hierarchy will not be tolerated.

I fucking hate this god damn country.

I can’t remember the last time I played a game on Windows. Four or five years, maybe.

The World3, global system dynamics model projects global food production peaking this decade. That doesn’t necessarily mean that’s for certain what’s going to happen. It’s only a projection, and only one model, but I think it’s an important model. It’s a projection based on the assumption that there are physical limits to growth. That assumption seems pretty irrefutably true to me. There is a finite amount of energy and other resources available to us on the planet, seems inevitable that we will hit some hard limit(s), eventually. The World3 is an attempt to project when we might hit those limits, and, if the World3 projection is accurate, it might be soon.

Without realizing it, Mike Beasley makes a great argument for why private, for-profit health insurance shouldn’t exist.

Well, good.

The US is in the fast lane on the super highway to full stupid.

Pfft, Linux users don’t date. We’re all virginal, paranoid shut-ins.

Idk who Andrew Ryan is, but if he’s evil, I agree with you.

Mark Zuckerberg’s mentor is Peter Thiel, a man who believes that corporations should seek monopoly power, because “competition is for losers.” Peter Thiel is also a mentor to JD Vance. He, and I’m sure Zuckerberg and Vance as well, see Trump as a useful idiot. Trump is their avenue to taking control of the Federal government.

While law enforcement does not believe Thompson’s killing is part of a trend targeting health executives, the attack underscores the vulnerability of these high-profile executives.

Yes, very vulnerable people. I mean, not as vulnerable as an elderly cancer patient who’s been denied care, or a working class family driven to bankruptcy by medical debt, but, you know vulnerable to righteous retribution. Except, they’re not really even vulnerable to that, since they have the resources to pay for private security.

The US is disgusting. I hate this country so much.

…the internet is flooded with expressions of support and love for the suspected killer—a development experts find concerning.

When we built our home a few years ago, we made sure that everything in the house was electric: no gas water heater, no gas stove, and no gas central heating. Our heat pump works phenomenally well, our electricity bills are very manageable, and we don’t have a gas bill, at all. It’s great, I highly recommend it.

He’ll likely be convicted, and he’ll likely spend most, if not all of the rest of his life in prison. It’s an incredible sacrifice he’s made. That takes immense bravery. I only wish more people were that brave.

That’s nearly 2/3 of Americans, a pretty strong majority. Those other 38% of Americans can go fuck themselves, right along with the corporate oligarchs they worship.

Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun. Peaceful protest is outright ignored, economic protest isn’t possible in the current system, so how long until we recognize that violence against those who lead us to such destruction is justified as self-defense.

These companies don’t care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?

Deny, defend, depose.

Higher education is too expensive. Not everyone can afford it. Also, some people can’t go to school full time because they need to work. I know some people would say these people should be able to do both, but that doesn’t work for everyone. If you’re someone who got a degree while working full time, good for you, but I’ve tried working full time and going to school and I found it to be really difficult. If there comes a point where people decide they have to choose between school and work, well, school is going to lose every time because school doesn’t pay the rent.