Insects are not meat.

I fucking hate this.

Especially when they basically self-hypnosis themselves into the placebo affect and swear that their magic powdered crystal enema can fix everything.

I’d rather just make it easier for the assassin to get me and end the bullshit on day 1.

the internet before advertising, before it became a utility, before it became ubiquitous and essential… When it was just that weird thing that nerds toyed around with…

Gods those were the days.

No search engines, Had to find websites on the internet yellow pages, via a web ring, or because someone gave you a slip of paper with an address, that was always written out to include the http://… and visitor counters and guest books… people always filled out the guest book, and it wasnt spam, viruses, or bullshit. actual, legitimate comments from the majority of visitors.

all at the blazing speed of 28.8k

and now I am unbearably depressed and sad.

Believe it or not, I don’t care.

I dont know how or why you expect me to return to a site, that I said I stopped going to for years, explicitly because of its admins (and quite a few users) very hearty defense of AI child porn, to try and search through 2 years of god only knows what horrors and potentially jailable offenses, just to find the thread to give to you.

edit Just to be clear since tonality is absent in text. I say this neutrally, not with any shade thrown at you or anything.

i got the ick from that site a year or two ago and stopped going when the admins of the site fought WAY to hard against criticisms about allowing AI generated child porn and very energetically defending keeping it on their site.

jokes on you, thinking trump is capable of feeling embarrassment for his actions.

I can plug in a USB drive/cable on the first time, successfully, without flipflopping the connector (and then USB C had to come along and invalidate my only worthwhile achievement)

Yep.

Its an act of pure vanity to spend hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to forcefully conceive a child when there are so many children out there, desperate for a loving home.

also they just live longer.

outdoor cats average…what…5 years? Indoor cats can get to 20. a lucky few even more.

Are the cats wanting to be outside, or are they just wanting to be away from you?

Cause I’ve never had a cat that wanted to be outside. Sit in a window and watch the world, yes, but as soon as you give them the ability they ran and hid.

i just want to wear bog standard briefs. I need support, but i run hot so i dont want extra coverage, and i also don’t want buttfloss.

because theyve been laying groundwork and slowly infiltrating every corner of our society for over 50 years.

The slow burn was for purpose, to keep people from noticing, and so that anyone that did notice and point it out would look like a crackpot.

and, imho, I think they didnt expect the opportunity trump presented globally, in his first term, but they chose to come out of the shadows and try to exploit it regardless, which is why they’ve had the stumbling blocks they have had that has given opportunity to fight it.

If people were smart enough to listen to informed opinions, and listen to facts, they wouldnt have become antivax in the first place.

Yes, People are stupid.

They rather believe one discredited doctor that lied because he had a vested financial interest in selling his own product over the competition, and a washed up worthless husk of a failed playboy model, over their own personal history of being vaccinated, their doctors assurances, and the global medical community insisting on them not only being safe, but urgently critical to have.

Americans are some of the most stupid, and most easily propagandized people on the planet. Especially conservative Americans.

you cant. cause someone will have to own the hardware, to install it, to pay the bills and maintenence. So someone will always have critical control over some part or another.

and that wont go away until we become a Star Trek utopian society… and given the way things are in the world right now, we’re going in the exact opposite of that.

I’m American.

I dont have the money to stockpile anything.

And thats fine. You are entitled to your opinion, and your opinion is based on actual things.

As long as you don’t denigrate and insult others for using it, or try to pretend you’re the superior linux hackerman for not using it, You’re all good.

This is why i dont have any interest in glass side panels.

I dont even like clear side panels, but if i have it i’ll take acrylic… sure, it supposedly scratches easier, but wtf are you doing to get it scratched in the first place? probably the same kinda stuff that breaks tempered glass, lol.

I think the immediate deaths would all be from people who need electricity to run medical devices.

Followed shortly by people who require refrigerated medication.

Followed by elderly who die from exposure to extreme, unconditioned temperatures.

and that would be in the first, oh, say… week or two.

Then, with fridges full of rotted food, your first major death wave will occur as masses of people lose their absolute goddamn minds in panic and fear and start food riots/try to rob from others/raid big industrial farms/neighborhood gardens/etc, which leads to mass deaths from starvation, exposure, exertion, desperation, and gunshot.

Which will even out after about a week or two.

Then you settle in for the slow burn. 3 months out you’ll have another, comparatively small wave of deaths from people who run out of non-refridgeration requiring medications.

Then another slow burn until manufactured canned goods run out in stores and scavanged homes until a wave of starvation.

All in all, I’d say you’d probably be over the bulk of the mass deaths after 6 months, and with a significantly reduced population… Which will be to the benefit of the survivors, since less people per mile will make farming/hunting easier, and life safer… because while raiders/thieves will always be a overarching concern and safety issue, at this point, most of the desperation should have passed along with most of the desperate.

There will also be, for at least a generation, possibly two, the lingering unspoken understanding that more people than anyone would ever care to count only survived the famines and fall by eating the long pig.