Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?

–Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

Don’t forget about PFAS!

Could they do the thing that airports do with geese, where they get a Labrador to run around and bark at the birds and the birds say, “Ehh… fuck this area” and leave of their own accord?

I assumed that it meant “toast.”

Literally this

Teddy would never.

What the fuck is wrong with kids listening to their shitty parents?

/I know a lot of people get raised wrong in households that teach them wrong things and it takes a lot of effort to get better, but… it’s pretty astounding to me to imagine someone listening to their parents tell them that Donald fucking Trump is a Cool Guy.

via SMBC:

Wanting TWO MIDGETS SHITTING INTO A BUCKET to have A BIGGER, BLACKER DICK is woke.

13 year old: “I’ll just take the death penalty, thanks."

unless we have a major nuclear exchange

I was going to say, it really depends on just how hard we go on the “let’s kill everyone” vibe.

Under a blanket. In any weather. I have cold urticaria, where if my skin feels even the slight chill of cool sheets, it assumes I must be under attack and deploys just enough histamines to make me feel itchy and keep me from sleeping. It fucking sucks. I’ve just barely learned to cope with it.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

I’m so fucking sick of people complaining about what the Democrats should have done years ago when the Republicans have been actively disassembling this country for my entire adult life, and are really getting down to the “rip out the wiring and sell it for scrap copper” phase.

"The number is 40 percent within weeks. Do not contradict the president.”

These ghouls can’t be trusted with reality.

How long have you been working here? Okay. You like working here? Okay.

How many college educations could have been fully funded for $3 billion? How many elementary schools built? How many other worthwhile problems could have been solved, rather than building a bunch of worthless crumbling garbage out in the desert?