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.
Misread the title as ‘Doctor Who’ and thought holy shit, the new series is seriously dark and gritty…
(But also, fuck these fascist monsters and their semi-literate gunmen)
Sure, concentrating wealth and resources like this will doom us all, along with the entire biosphere…
But we got this banger: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5w2QwdYik&pp=ygUVYmV6b3Mgc29uZyBibyBidXJuaGFt
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…
Well, maybe diphtheria won’t be that bad…
The Texas power grid doesn’t fail - it functions perfectly.
The only issue with it is this weird misconception that it’s purpose is to deliver energy, rather than to transfer wealth upwards…
“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??
Why would you wear a uniform to the unemployment line? Why wouldn’t you go home and change clothes after your television appearance? Why is that even a fireable offence??
I mean, I assume a sheriff’s office wouldn’t have fired him over the overt racism… It is Kentucky, after all.
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
Salient as always and sorely missed. Without him, who is left to keep the bastards on their toes?
“Should”
Jesus. What a waste of ink…
But then who will protect us from those 20 guys with box cutters?
You remember, the ones they used as the excuse to establish the ministry of the interior.
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.
The trigger men for the killing fields of Cambodia and the Tiananmen Square Massacre were illiterate peasants from rural areas…
Absolutely shocking… that it took this long for such an obvious outcome to occur.
Guys, somehow I don’t think the US Congress is going to save us…
Guys, I think we all need to be worried about an invasion of Greenland and fucking Canada actually happening…
Maybe TikTok just isn’t smart enough to get it?