Riskable

“Witchcraft” or, “we really didn’t like them”?

Nah. The rich have more than enough money to cover the missing people.

Those schools are heartless!

Arrr! Just say a prayer to the bitch queen of the sea every day and you’ll be safe in your hammock, pirate.

Foam mattresses float. Just keep a bottle of water and a hand axe under your pillow 👍

AccuWeather just uses the NWS data. They’d be lost without it.

Because they probably just took the first image that was generated without even checking it. For today’s generative image AI you usually want to generate great big batches then pick the best ones.

Then if you’re looking for high quality in your meme you’ll also use inpainting and pull the result into Krita or the GIMP to make further improvements (e.g. add text with a proper outline/drop shadow). Then when you’re done you’ll use AI to upscale the image to a great big size so that it’ll look nice when you print it out and hang it on the wall in your cubicle or stick it to the office fridge or some filing cabinet 😁

So… To save lives in situations like this you need to collect taxes to pay for a socialist weather prediction and emergency management system.

Texas: “Taxes and socialism‽ Forget it! We’d rather die. All we need to defend ourselves from weather or anything else is big pickup trucks and guns!”

Well, Mr Smartypants, if it weren’t for capitalism you would’ve had to make that chair/table leg yourself so then you’d only have yourself to blame which is the same as having no one to blame!

Your ma has lots of experience and wisdom in this regards.

If you don’t know shit you need to eat some real food!

So why are beliefs so important for ao many people then?

They’re a coping mechanism.

Reality often sucks, so how do you go about your day knowing that so many suffer so many injustices every day? Easy! Just ignore them and pretend like everyone will get what’s coming to them in the afterlife 👍

It’s the perfect system for tyrants: Think I’m a monster who abuses my power and intentionally makes people suffer? Well, if you even try to do anything about it you’re going to hell! Overthrowing an openly evil government is not what Jesus would do!

It’s the same mental gymnastics that people use when they blame minorities for their problems. It’s not me or my beliefs (about the world) that are wrong! It’s those trans furry kids and immigrant invaders who are destroying the very concept of everything I believe in!

Nietzsche would be proud 🥲

WTF? This sounds incredibly dumb.

It won’t protect children from anything but it will annoy TF out of Australians and take away their privacy.

The Trump administration—and conservatives in general—are treating oil that can only be extracted from fracking like it’s old fashioned oil wells. They’re not the same. The output from a traditional oil well is easy to predict: They have a specific amount of estimated oil and over (a long) time you need to add more well heads to keep the same level of output but in general it’s well-established science. You can extract from them for decades and decades.

Fracking can extract a lot of oil from a tiny area all at once over the course of just a few years. In theory you could extract oil from the same fracking well for 40 years but in reality it’s just ten years. No fracking (for oil) has lasted longer than that as far as I’m aware. You can still extract natural gas from the same site though (I don’t know the specifics on that).

NOTE: What makes fracking wells only last ten years isn’t that you can’t get any more oil out of them. It’s because it takes too much energy to get more oil out of them. Forget how much it costs: There’s an amount no one will pay to extract a barrel of oil from the ground and that is “more than one barrel’s worth of energy”.

Whereas wind and solar power will last forever, fracking is a boom that will only last another 20 years or so. By screwing over solar and wind power Republicans/Trump/conservatives are screwing our future. It takes a long ass time to replace fleets of vehicles and the time to do that is like ten years ago. We need to ramp it up too if we don’t want to get caught in another energy crisis around 2035 (that’s approximately when the output from traditional oil wells drops to the point where fracking can’t make up with demand anymore).

Wait: Are we sure they’re actually people?

“Ma!”

Also, it has to be shouted. As a kid—coming into the house from who-knows-what adventure where I destroyed an item of clothing—again. Or as an adult trying to reach her over the sound of Fox News with the volume up way too loud.

This is the way.

“It’s the work of the devil!”

Maybe they were right all along. 🤔

Get a tortoise and feed the berries to it 👍

(That’s what we do at our house)

I think you mean Rust, old timer 😁