CharlesDarwin

I still am laughing at what Wonkette used for their image and headline on how the qons are reacting to Mamdani.. 🤣 🤣 🤣

"Wingnuts Exactly As Calm As You'd Expect Over Mamdani's NYC Primary Win" https://www.wonkette.com/p/wingnuts-exactly-as-calm-as-youd

Well, the Stupid-Americans did.

The planet keeps {Chinese hoax}'ing.

From what I understand (besides all the other effects of this it apparently causes), the end result for someone affected, if they were an omnivore that ate beef/pork/lamb would just switch to eating all seafood/poultry?

So, besides the extremely problematic ethics of spreading an extremely harmful condition worldwide, I think the net effect would be that a different set of animals would be getting killed, not that people would suddenly be eating more ethically....

Can confirm IRL, too. I'm not vegan, but vegetarian. Cannot tell you how many rather stupid conversations I've had (initiated by omnivores that discover I'm vegetarian, which I don't exactly advertise, but obviously there are times it comes up if you are sharing a meal at work, or with friends/relatives and so on).

That's even with me not really having any desire to proselytize or anything. It'd be one thing if I was upping the ante in response. But there is a certain kind of omnivore that seem to be deeply triggered by the existence of veg*ns. I mean, it really really seems to bother them.

Thing is, that ability to evade that is intentionally built in. It has to be. We have KYC laws here and anything over 10K is tracked.

The fact that the ultrawealthy are able to manipulate money in ways so that it's not tracked and/or not taxed has to be by design.

He's right. Let's see if people could live off 999 million in assets.

Haha! So true.

What's funny is that even the craziest end times type of xtians that believe that shit will still carry a phone with them everywhere. I used to have fun with a few of them that I know of pointing out that, hey, they pretty much need it for everything now, what do you think that means, hmmm?

They try that "but but but it's not the gubbermint doing it! It's the private sector." and I ask - who do you think runs GPS satellites? :)

It's a sliding scale for these people. Used to be these types would point at Social Security numbers and claim that was the "mark of the beast". Then it was credit cards. Then it was UPCs. Then RFIDs. And now they carry phones with NFC on virtually every single one of them, along with a GPS tracker, LOL.

And now we have systems that can track people by recognizing their gait and their face, as well as other biometrics. There are things reading license plates. So does it even matter what you might carry on you, or not, at least if you live/work in certain cities?

Without question.

Just a few months into this term, I had a conversation with a magamushbrain that was telling me that Taco was hopefully going to "fix" the terrible economy we had under Biden. I mean, what the actual fuck. To hear him tell it, we just came out of a situation where we had gas rationing and staglation or the Great Depression or something, vs. what I could see with my own eyes, which is that virtually every economic indicator was good or heading in the right direction.

This conversation was happening nearly at the exact same time that the markets were in freefall because of the toddler-in-chief's screaming about how much he was going to tariff every single thing, by the way.

Weird cons: "Don't have sex unless you plan on making more beautiful white babies you bring to term! Don't even masturbate and porn is bad stuff."

Also, the weird cons: "Oh, our fucked-up cruel policies will result in more death, including babies? " {whistles, backs away, counts money}

I wonder if Doctorow has expanded his discussion of Enshittification to talk about the very special cases where Republicans/conservatives are involved in making things even worse than the typical kind...

This fuckin' guy.