Much would be solved if we were to eat one of them. I mean, it works for the chimpanzees…

The building in the thumbnail is the Zuul building from Ghostbusters

… Just saying

Well, ideally we could implement some sort of requirements for procreation.

Unfortunately any such restrictions quickly becomes eugenics. It seems like we could find a little space between some racial purity bullshit and “Dem doctors up in that hospital are killin’ lil Cooter Jr with all dem fucking needles, injectin’ him full of the 5g microchips and the autism!”

But, if you just dial the resolution back: it’s not their kids - their stupid is killing the whole species as well as the biosphere. Ergo, nature is healing…

Dying from the end result of a superstitious, anti-science, anti-intellectual outlook…

Nature is healing?

Warned… yes.

You know early 80s punk sounded the alarm, what was it, 40 years ago…

Cows didn’t let us ride them, and look what we did to them… Look what we did to them!!!

The police exist to protect the wealth and assets of property owners, not to serve the public trust.

Besides, the police in Portland are especially bad when it comes to anything, well, anything other than cracking down on non-violent protesters.

Sadly, oue focus is such that we as a culture are incapable of maintaining attention past a few news cycles. Why the distract/delay tactic they are employing is so effective.

Of the two Johns,

We can either focus our attention/outrage on the current POTUS who is doing everything in his considerable power to destroy the rule of law and our ability to hold the others accountable

Or

A guy who was last relevant when we frosted our tips, used 56K dial-up, and when the movie Office Space was having its initial theatrical run.

Bill Gates is fucking irrelevant

We are being fed an edited/redacted/delayed version of the MILLIONS of documents that provide enough red meat and celebrity sacrifice to distract us.

And we are falling for it…

2.0?

Somehow I always just assumed they would name it the Dos Equis virus…

It’s strangely tasty.

Tried it when I first heard about this and somehow the crunch and the butter work really well with the untoasted bread.

Maybe TikTok just isn’t smart enough to get it?

Fuck that.

Prior conditions.

ALL the prior conditions. U.S. healthcare will prove to be just as fatal, optimizes suffering, far more expensive, and the frustration of knowing you could be cured easily by a functional system run by a caring society.

Lot of grey area this side of libel, especially for active v passive voice.

The other one is when an underage suspect is a person of color you get “17 year old man” rather than “17 year old minor/child/student/driver/suspected victim of police brutality” etc…

Broke down into a full-on ugly cry. Went on for about 20 minutes. Made the rest of the interview really awkward…

“died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing”

Fucks sake AP, what’s with the passive voice here? Was he holding his fucking breath??

Well worth a read. Phases of the American Civil War:

A “2nd” Civil War would just be going from a cold to hot phase of the same conflict, ongoing since the 18th Century

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/09/phases-of-american-civil-war.html?m=1

Actually, The only world building they did firmly establish was that the aliens did not matter…

For all the audience needs to know, they used the gas to transfer their consciousness into a new host, and they do this everytime they visit a new biosphere.

But no, you fucking de-cloak early during one childrens birthday party in South America and your ass is a joke, you get fucking anthropomorphized for the next 20 years…

Who says they were the aliens?

Man, the aliens sat it out in their dry ass ship and sent a crop of vat grown drones to go harvest all the organs they wanted on a world covered in H2O.

The drones aren’t bright, but the get the job done. They only last 30 hours or so before they start decomposing, so it doesn’t matter if they get locked in a pantry or clubed with a bat.

You think a starfaring species would come all the way to Sol 3, and not being a bio organic drone to go out and brave the hazards of an acid covered water world hell planet?

Shit. Don’t get me fucking started on how many people miss the point of the aliens in fucking Signs.

Great.

International policy played like a game of Civ where you are bored and about to quit, so you attack everyone, just to see what happens.