THE YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN

Have you considered getting hornier friends though.

Come on, hold the line you lumpy bastards. Don’t give up the best leverage you’ve got.

Yeah. Yeah. That is also obvious, now that you’ve pointed it out.

For one thing she’s smiling; should have been a dead giveaway.

I am having a surprisingly complex mix of feelings about being too old even for the revised age.

If this is ai it’s getting scary good. Maybe just good old fashioned photoshop. Forgot that was an option for a minute.

In a functioning society I think that would be criminal.

While true, making the change now and doing so conspicuously is nothing less than Ed Bastian signaling loyalty to Trump to curry favor.

Disgusting.

Oh yeah. This is my jam.

I’m really not sure how it’s aged otherwise, but the premise of Jennifer Government is built around a concept that is not-unlike your joke.

It’s cyber punk so basically the goverment has collapsed or been severely weakened and people take the last names of their Employer (e.g. Deacon Soros) and society has basically coalesced around these few Alliance Loyalty Programs; each with their own complicated agglomeration of corporate partnerships behind them, competing against each other much the way nation states do today.

I think the author eventually became better known for the online game he made, NationStates.

Based on OP’s screen name, they might be going after a pretty niche, but surely thriving, target market.

I for one enjoy a frisky Lemmy.

This observation hit like a ton of bricks.

Dua Lipa’s book club seems like it would be that top-right one but she seems to put real effort into it and she is actually a pretty good interviewer.

But I’m a fan so I’m probably exactly who the agent is thinking of in this scenario.

You’ll get no sympathy from me, Mr Primavera, if that’s even your name. Sometimes the effort is part of the flavor. Makes it a little sweeter.

Not to detract from the gravity of the situation but that big map up front is absolutely sick as shit though.

I assumed it was Doug Wilson for some reason.

I used to moderate a subreddit about talking to Trump Supporters, and my mod team was pretty small but we were close even though not all of us were Trump Supporters. I think about them a lot.

I also had this dynasty team on some mobile space war game, with so many branches and feeder teams and tons of in-game and real life geopolitics. It was wild, and again, I was really close with my fellow team leaders.

And in both cases I’ve never said a word to any of them since leaving basically. No Ill will, just going to a different school now, so to speak.

Wait, were you born that way or are you talking about them? I am weirdly invested but confused.

Ah see I do kind of disagree with you then. It’s interesting that we seem to agree on the illegitimacy of the Pope but diverge sharply on how he should use his ill-gotten influence.

My thinking is he doesn’t need to offer practical solutions, he needs to use his ill-gotten influence to at least pull the discourse in the right direction - and to keep speaking up to remind people that all of this is wrong and not normal.

And again, most world leaders themselves are not going to listen much, I definitely get that.

Oh yeah, probably, but that’s different than being childlike. I guess you mean it’s naive for him to think it is going to make any difference him saying that.

Probably so. The power of the pope in geopolitics is at a pretty low ebb. I’m not claiming so but wouldn’t be surprised to find out he’s got the least influence he’s had since being simply First Among Bishops many centuries ago.

He still has a ton of influence with the catholic flock, which is huge, and with a lot of non-Catholics aside from a few groups that repudiate him.

So it’s nice of him to use his platform, but let’s be real, in terms of influence among world leaders, he’s The Catholic Pope moralizing at a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian Nationalist. Not the most receptive trio.