I’m actually terrified by religious people and their unshakeable belief that everything’s gonna be okay because Sky Daddy will fix it and if we destroy the world well that’s just accelerating His plan so it’s all good.

Concerned about the consequences of our actions? Here just take some opiate-of-the-masses and chill out.

There was a group at Burning Man that would shoot a pair of trousers out of their ”pants cannon” at shirt-cocking dudes as they walked past. Sounds like it would have come to blows if you’d been there.

I do this too. I’ll come home and say “heyyy 6-7-8 my bruhs!” and their eyes will roll right out of their skulls.

I’m middle age with tween and teen kids and have been hearing that shit all year.

“I do not have the life energy left to do this again.”

Ohh man I felt that quote in my bones. Young people: you cannot relate. This is not about waking up for work feeling drained and demoralized. It’s about having all kinds of passion and desire but hitting hard limits in your body that were never there before, and getting less and less out of yourself all the time even as you feel the blows more and more, and then sensing that decline accelerating.

Hell yeah. I love the way Trek makes people like this piss and squeal and moan.

We’re living in an age where entertainers mirror their audience. They aren’t about escape from reality or ideals to dream of. They are about wallowing in reality. They excuse the sorry condition their audience is in. Frankly, I think they occupy a brain space that used to be occupied by having friends. We have all had stupid friends we sit around and do stupid shit with, right? Well, not anymore. Now you just watch this idiot on your phone. It’s depressing as hell.

Arizona, too. Not even one of the true asshole-of-the-country states.

Yes, it’s now easy to get real information AND bullshit. I guess the reason I see this as an improvement is that I think it’s always been easy to get bullshit.

Fast food is bad enough for your health that maybe being closed 1 day a week is actually a positive :D

For sure. It’s just hard to overstate how cut off we used to be from information back in the day. Your professor says something you think sounds suspect? Well, off to the library to find a book on a similar subject and HOPE you can find the answer you need within. That’s still an excellent way to get information and sometimes the best or only way for certain things. It just used to be the ONLY way for ANYTHING and I’m glad those days are behind us.

Our girls are hitting puberty six years early

Oh? What’s his supposed correct age for this?

I was taught in college that girls reach puberty earlier now than in prior centuries in part because they are exposed to light for more hours per day thanks to electrification, and puberty is in part triggered by an internal clock keeping track of how much light you’ve been exposed to in your lifetime.

Of course we leaned a lot of shit in college before the internet which turns out to be nonsense now. But I believe exposure to light is more important than we generally recognize. If you trace our evolution back to the beginning, you’ll find light sensitive cells far far earlier than anything involving actual vision.

It was on his Facebook group. Same way he gets all his information.

I swear to god we have a used car salesman for a president and a snake oil huckster for secretary of health. It goes downhill from there. Everyone talks about fascism but the kakistocracy is fucking real.

Eventually the public will turn on the facts. Meaning: they will turn on the people who print them. People are assailable even if facts are not. Then you get three things:

1. people become afraid to print facts
2. any bit of doubt or experimental flaw in science supporting facts will get blown up and used to invalidate the science entirely
3. cranks with “alternative facts” who’ve always been marginalized will step up to finally be heard

This is not a prognostication unfortunately, just a faithful observation of what’s happened to public health information in the US recently.

Pretty sure I know the answer to that. It has two parts:

1. they think bong hits are funny
2. they have zero experience with trauma

Yeah, wow. It’s not enough to keep Sharia law from ruling the land. It’s not even allowed to rule a private individual’s life by choice. So much freedom!

Perhaps we can have a slightly more granular system than giving a fuck, yes/no, 1 or 0, black and white. May I suggest perhaps we count how many fucks a country has to give for women? On that scale, we would properly see that the US gives far, far more fucks about women than Saudi Arabia. I’ve been there. Do not casually equate the two.

Could this be as a simple as: they have a superfan who is older or has some other condition that causes them to be incontinent, and they wear an adult diaper?

I mean isn’t he exactly wrong? Unrestrained AI development is what could lead to the creation of a malevolent daemon with the potential to destroy mankind.