Zombie-Mantis

Oh shit, for real? Fuck yeah!

It was a little bit like how the Donkey became the symbol of the Democrats, from people calling Andrew Jackson a Jackass.

The elephant was sort of picked for them, it comes from a series of old (1890s I think? I’d have to go take them again) political cartoons depicting the party machine as an enormous animal that couldn’t be managed easily.

They learned to keep those backups after the first couple of times.

As a Mexican I can confirm I’m already eating a lot of rice and beans, and I take the bus instead of flying. It’s really not that bad, it’s mostly over production of resource intensive corps and fossil fuels, which we could have already transitioned from without any real detriment.

Yes, “retrieve treats.”

It’s possible that it she was a white man, and absolutely nothing else was different, that she very well might have just barely eeked out a victory. That’s still a failure. It should have been a blowout. It was a failure of a campaign, racism and sexism against the candidate by the general public was a component, but the least relevant one.

Do gay be crimes, apparently

Please elaborate.

I wonder if he genuinely thinks this. Surely he’d have to if he bothered to say so. I can’t imagine a cynical political actor would waste his energy explaining himself to a public that he isn’t accountable to. Thomas and Alito for instance don’t really say jack shit, because they don’t care what you think.

It’s an ok sci-fi action move, but Star Trek has never been about the action, the best stuff was always when two sides come together and learn from one and other. That’s the whole point, really.

“It could be worse”

Sucks but it’s true, and you’re getting vote-bombed for it.

Corporate consolidation of media, systematic dismantling of the education system, decades of red-scare rhetoric and crackdowns on left-populism, corporate capture of both parties and the state-funded spread of radical Evangelical churches.

This has been the general plan for decades, ever since the New Deal and Civil Rights movement, to unwind every inch of progress ever made since the abolition of slavery. The Epstein Class will take us all kicking and screaming back into the darkness of unenlightenment, a new dark age of unspeakable horrors.

Also, a lot of normies like Star Wars as a normal action franchise, so there’s some general randomness to the sample. Star Trek pretty specifically appeals to that specific type of nerd, there’s a lot more consistency in the results you can expect.

Well… Here’s hoping KDE Plasma Mobile takes off I guess…

Oh, yeah. Gardening is lovely, just don’t expect to be able to feed yourself (or anyone else) in the immediate future by planting some tomatoes by your kitchen window, starting now. It would be a while before you could harvest, and it would be a very small yield, assuming you get a good healthy crop. A lot of people act like the average Joe or Jane could feed their household and neighbors with minimal effort and a few square feet of free space by their window, when that’s just not realistic - at least, not for most people.

It’s a little late to start a food garden. You won’t be getting any harvests for a while, and it won’t be much. Best to stock up on shelf-stable goods now, and build community for mutual aid.

Nahhhh, just use ravens whispering messages to your ear