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Kbin does that sometimes

Ding ding ding. It’s incredibly rare for authoritarian governments to disarm the far right. The police have shown time and time again they will not protect you, and that’s if they’re not actively joining in

We protect us

If I have to have microplastics in my balls, then the fish do too dammit!

It’s something people don’t realize. We may be a scourge on the Earth, but we’re still nowhere even near the top of the list of worst things to happen to this planet.

As the other reply brought up, Theia crashing into Earth. Flood basalt events. The Chicxulub impact.

We may be able to cause some real awful shit, but we still are nothing compared to what the forces of nature can produce. And just to clarify, I’m not saying this to in any way downplay the seriousness of climate change, or that we should do nothing about it.

The answer to the ruthless indiscriminate killing of civilians is not more ruthless indiscriminate killing of civilians

And the scary thing is, a significant portion of the country will actively cheer him on for it. The dude could go into a full on fugue state, take a shit on the stage and start jacking off, and the MAGA dipshits would still be talking about how that’s somehow 4d chess

I think survivorship bias plays into it as well. Yeah, most the stuff on the radio today is kinda meh. Most the stuff on the radio in those days was kinda meh too. All the meh songs got forgotten, and you only remember the bangers. You’ve already seen it happen to 00s music and we’re watching it happen with the 10s.

But yeah, it’s wild how many people look at how accessible different types of music are now and just… don’t go looking.

I’m relatively certain that JFK did similar during one of his earlier elections, but that’s going off memory of something I read a while ago.

Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

If we’re going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.

Ah yep, you’re right that’s the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.

I didn’t get a ton, but I’m so glad I got to see what I did. I’ve been waiting to see the aurora my entire life. Hopefully before too much longer I can finally take that trip to Reykjavik I’ve been dreaming of for so long.

So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she’d get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that’s the general gist.

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So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

Russia could’ve, y’know, just not done an illegal invasion of Ukraine.

While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

It’s a feedback loop. A fairly small jump can get you trending, which makes people watch it, which makes it even more visible, rinse and repeat.

Anyone who’s name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise…

You don’t know even know my real name, I’m the fucking Lizard King

Especially when you have constant pressure to be that way from everyone around you. Truth be told, I’ve always just felt bad for the kid. Sure we’re to the point where you’ve gotta expect him to at least start thinking for himself, but that type of deprogramming takes a long ass time.

There’s plenty of tech from my younger days that was fun then that I wouldn’t find fun now. An original iPod is not one of those.