It’s actually the other way around I’m afraid.

When oil is 200/barrel industry will switch out of simple necessity.

Bats. Imagine having a friendly familiar. They could also be used to carry messages.

Yea, this is gonna be the big one. I can feel it in my bones.

Now that you mention it, they are kind of OP. Flight, stealth, hypermobility. And looking like absolute BAMF’ers at any size or angle.

Well fuck. Add another contender to the apocalypse bingo, why not.

Goddammit. Why do some dementees get fucking murdered while others get put in charge of the mightiest country on Earth?

But they don’t ask questions. You can teach them sign language to a degree and they WILL use it to communicate, but so far none of them has ever posed a question to their researchers.

Nothing a quick pill won’t fix.

Now, convincing your wife to take pills for YOUR illness, that’s another thing.

That’s fine, I’m sure billionaires will pick up the tab when all regular people clear out of the Strip.

The longer this goes on the more it seems like the explicit goal rather than a side effect.

Peace trough power.

Kane lives in death!

Still running Win11 on my gaming rig. The very first time an update breaks something again it’s gone.

Nopepad now.

I actually think the young crowd at MS would resist this. This looks much more like a top-down decision from marketing overruling engineering.

Last month? Takes years in my case.

ACAB

It’s pretty obvious from where I’m standing that a far right takeover of Europe is also on the horizon and there is nothing we can do to stop it. There is so much power and money behind these movements, and they only have to succeed ONCE, where we have to succeed EVERY TIME in order to keep our protections.

It won’t last though. We’re going the exact same route USA is going, just slower and more splintered. But the end destination is the same.

Independence would have been the best possible outcome, although I agree it was unlikely at best.

I remember posting about how giving HK back to China would inevitably lead to this outcome.

That was in the early 2000’s. So incredibly sad to see it happen exactly as predicted.