Hahahah no. Humans haven’t changed. We still love to gawk at death and pain. We just don’t want to admit it directly.

Rubber-neckers slowing down the highway for a crash on the other side aren’t doing it to make sure they are safe. They are hoping to spot some gore.

Right? Like I thought everyone agreed the Japanese internment camps was a dark spot on our history.

Guess it’s just because we like the Japanese now?

Gotta say “antifa” (ann-TEE-fuh) so it sounds like a bad thing. Like an exotic gang, like al Qaeda or something. That way, normal people think antifa is the enemy, and in doing so, they support fascism without even knowing it.

Naming and pronunciation are key. They got half of America terrified of a fucking train halfway across the world.

B-b-b-b greed is human nature!

Yeah, go check out how any society outside of Europe worked before colonization. Winner writes the history!

The colonists were able to easily defeat most of the natives by out-arming them. But does anybody ever stop to think about why none of these societies ever invented guns? 🤔

LPBs sucked…when you were an HPB.

Your first mistake was going to Pep Boys. Maybe just me (I have a longstanding vendetta against them), but they are the worst of the auto parts chains.

Napa or O’Reilly’s. AutoZone and AAP only exist for me if I can abuse their online coupons. Pep boys may as well not exist.

Very biased print media tends to use the least-flattering shots in articles about politicians they don’t agree with.

This is very intentional, and definitely a “both sides” thing. Though conservative media sometimes goes a bit further and alters the photos extensively to make them look even worse and use old/out-of-context photos. I particularly remember one where Biden was shopped to look red with skin conditions, and the lighting altered to give more of a gloomy atmosphere, making him look a bit demonic. That was on Fox News (.com article). I remember finding the original photo and posting it side-by-side on Reddit years ago.

I’m not saying this because I like or am trying to defend Trump. He’s a piece of shit and needs to be held accountable. Just keeping people aware of the subtle ways they (all of them) try to influence our opinions.

“Some fear he is exceeding powers”

Jesus tittyfucking Christ. Ya think?

It’s supposed to cut necks, tho. A guillotine that cuts corners is practically useless.

Not just that but the pilot can be on the other side of the world from wherever the fiber leads out.

Most likely the fiber is coming out of a bunker that just has some switches and a TACLANE or something similar. Doesn’t take much infra…you need that, some sort of low-latency network connection, and room for drones to take off.

Once it’s set up, the site can be unmanned. Hell they can rig it to blow itself up after the mission is complete, so that nothing can be recovered from the infra if it’s found.

For that matter, most of the drones flight path could be pre- programmed…the pilot only there as a contingency. Doing that, one operator could control several drones simultaneously.

Cattle, not pets.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow.

If I fail, if I succeed… At least I lived as I believed.

The worst thing about this is that fish is probably the least sustainable protein around.

That’s saying a lot, because beef is pretty fucking bad, but at least we can raise beef rather sustainably, it’s just not cost effective or scalable, especially if you want to be a bit humane about it.

Most commercial fish we consume are middle- or top-food-chain. That means they need to eat other fish. Which means that even farming them relies on harvesting fish from the ocean, or farming an entire foodchain below them (and adequate for each life stage, at that). Farmed fish are implicitly dependent on traditional ocean fishing.

Just keep on holding presidents in contempt until you get someone rational. I think the first stop for that is Rubio.

When a friend of mine told me a pack of Marlboros cost like $15 in RI I was amazed. How the fuck are people paying almost $1/cig?

Yeah and it’s being funded by Musk and Thiel.

If somebody told me, 27 years ago, that paying for eBay auctions would be the first link in a chain of events that would lead to the downfall of US, I’ve thought you were crazy.

I apologize, everyone. This is entirely because of my teenage photography hobby. I should’ve kept on just mailing money orders.

To put it into perspective…if Elon Musk were working paycheck-to-paycheck, he found enough money in the couch the night before payday to buy a pack of smokes.

The bombs were only 80 years ago how are they already so buried? Does dirt pile up faster than I thought??

Damn England. 30 minutes on hold for the non-emergency line is a bit much.

But at least the homeowner didn’t get shot, so point for you.