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  • What would you do to hitler before the genocide if you knew what would happen?

    While we all like to imagine that a time-traveling assassin could prevent WWII genocide and atrocities, the reality is that nazis didn’t appear in a vacuum. Do you believe that eliminating trump would end what’s happening in the US?

  • Public education in the US is a system of propaganda-loaded indoctrination designed to stifle critical thinking.

  • California, Oregon, and Washington are all donor states that contribute a combined ~$160 billion more to the federal government than they get back each year. They also make up $3.1 trillion of the GDP, they have all mainland west coast ports, and they’re major agricultural states. They’d honestly be better off if they banded together to Bugs Bunny off.

  • It’s 1800 miles from Yaviza, Panama to Oaxaca, Mexico, and these little munchers made it in 2 years.

    Oaxaca to Brownsville, TX is 766 miles, so the US could see them arrive in a few months. Seems speedy to me.

  • It’s ok, everybody. The insurance companies are contracting with 3rd party companies and using AI to make decisions, so we’re all good.

  • Or maybe you’re prescient. Roving bands of cocoa robbers who surround armored ice cream trucks is a plausible dystopian scenario in the US, and now I’ll be disappointed if I don’t get to see it.

  • … Danish unity party called the new US powers “alarming”. The party’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Trine Pertou Mach, told Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten: “It is quite far-reaching that we are handing over law enforcement powers to a foreign country’s military police.”

    According to the agreement it is irrevocable for 10 years. But last week, the Danish foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said that if the US were to take over Greenland, Denmark would be able to pull out early.

    “It goes without saying that a complete or partial American annexation of Greenland would entitle Denmark to terminate the defence cooperation agreement,” he wrote in a parliamentary response.

    It’s fine to give the violent domestic abuser many big guns and keys to the house, because there’s a protection order. So if the victim is killed, we can kick out Mr Bullyface.

    -Lars logic

  • In 2015 a biologist from Alaska told me about the ~40,000 seabirds that had all starved to death, at ground zero on his bay, in a matter of weeks. He had been studying these murres for years, and he cried as he described the horror of it all. It was the start of the 4,000,000 bird die-off, which was apparently not newsworthy.

    I don’t remember many conversations in my life, but this silenced alarm hit hard, because I saw that our mass extinction had arrived.

    https://www.audubon.org/magazine/single-heatwave-killed-half-alaskas-common-murres-shocking-new-study-reveals

  • Sometimes I let myself think about life before “civilization”:

    The stories of flocks of migrating birds numbering in the millions, darkening the skies for more than a day.

    The plains with an ocean of waving grasses that sustained millions of buffalo, and the symbiotic chain of animal life that thrived in their wake.

    The thousands of waterfalls that cascaded into freely flowing rivers and sustained riparian zones filled with vertebrates and insects.

    Forests full of trees that were thousands of years old, sheltering the abundant wildlife.

    I think of fireflies and bees and the absence of machine sounds, and I kinda wish I could go back in time to just … prevent hominins.

  • The United States has been dodging the ICC since Bush the Younger yipped out. Membership and retroactive accountability is long overdue, and hopefully it will start with ICE.

  • Stop it. It’s bad enough we have to wade through nearly two years of campaign assaults prior to POTUS elections. The spectacle of the last inauguration was just 14 weeks ago, and we’re fucking exhausted. Just stop it.

  • “The building or someone is on fire”

    When I was working in property management, certain people would frequently call me in the middle of the night for what they considered emergencies. They’d wake me up because a stove burner wouldn’t heat, or a lightbulb was out, or they just remembered that a door creaks. This shit got old real fast, so I began training the night callers that “emergency means Fire, Flood, or Death”.

    One man was unfazed by my Fire, Flood, or Death mantra, so every time I saw his number ring in, I just shouted into the phone FIRE FLOOD OR DEATH? FIRE FLOOD OR DEATH?!