It would be so fucking funny if Amerael attacking Iran was the small domino that eventually resulted in the collapse of the global fossil fuel industry.

The trailer looks more anti-AI to me. It also looks like pretty bonkers fun.

Markwayne Mullin

Oklahoma

Yep.

The well-laid ambush:

Mr. Elysium is helping me build my game

Madani said the world’s “checking account” – surface water like rivers, lakes, and seasonal runoff – is basically being emptied.

He added that the “savings” humans inherited – groundwater, glaciers, and other long-term stores – are being drained.

The growing number of visible crises around the world, including mounting water shortages, he said, look like classic warning signs of bankruptcy.

Truly, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of…you know, the thing.

On his birthday

I think there’s very little reason to read Hegel unless you’re a scholar. It will not help you understand anything. He’s a notoriously obtuse writer.

My company that spends billions of dollars to set billions of dollars on fire is in danger of running out of dollars. Please someone who understands money help me (and also give me billions of dollars).

Truly inspiring what a person can accomplish with only a dream and also a few million dollars to blow.

Like carcinization causing all animals to eventually evolve into crab, Israelization causes all US-backed “bastions of democracy” to eventually evolve into cum-stealing IOF troops.

Even in death

The following day, a store manager discovered the bottle next to the checkout and suspected it may have been consumed in breach of store policy. After reviewing CCTV footage,

True Detective: Bodega

Shoving AI into everything, including the base of your skull.

Yeah by “here is where you can say whatever you want” they mean “here is where I can say whatever I want, but fuck you.”

Prions can lie in wait for years (or decades) before manifesting in symptomatic cases. That’s part of what makes them so dangerous–vast swathes of the population can be infected before the first person starts showing symptoms. Most of them also don’t have any conclusive non-destructive diagnostic test. They’re diagnoses of exclusion and symptom; the only way to know for sure whether or not any particular case is caused by a prion is to do an autopsy after death. Those characteristics together make it the perfect “stealth” plague: invisible until the first cases, and already ubiquitous by then, with no known treatment or even diagnostic instrument.

If we wanted to get really “English-teachery” about it, you might compare that kind of functionality to ideology, and think about the role that ideology plays as a behavior motivator (and historical Prime Mover) under capitalism (that is, under ultraliberalism and moralism). Joyce rejects it as a causal agent of the revolution because she is, as others have noted here, actually a materialist and it is a stand-in for ideology. I have no idea if the devs meant that parallel to be drawn, but it’s an interesting reading.

Boring-ass teens continue to win, as is tradition.

Betteridge’s Law strikes again.