Next headline: "The economy is doing super duper awesomesauce but Americans keep saying shit's fucked: Economists baffled"

No thank you, I just ate.

Anyone else think it’s cool to just fly solo as a good human, no religion attached?

Religion does not have a monopoly on morality, despite what many preach. Be kind, and believe what you want.

They're already learning this.

I am in a solidly blue district. 4 out of the 7 school board candidates, ALL of the non-incumbents, were running on some sort of "family values" or "parents' rights" platform. A couple of them were within a few hundred votes of taking a seat last year. This year, their statements to media were highly scrubbed because they knew to tread carefully and avoid the dog whistles. And this week, one of them unseated an incumbent (and the only POC in the group). I'm glad the trend is going in the right direction nationally. But I wouldn't call for a victory lap just yet.

Im sure that there are other lifeforms in some other system just not the flying sorcerer type.

Ugh, I hope you're right. Flying aliens would be bad enough. But if the bastards can muticlass and use magic as well... we'd be doomed.

nonspecific positive imagery and music

Ask your doctor about [results of syllable dartboard] today.

Me before reading the article: It's got to be dates. Excel thinks everything is a date.

Me after reading the article: Even the workaround is halfhearted. Jeebus.

“We prefer to be called ‘housing providers’”

Landlords provide housing like scalpers provide concert tickets.

It's more likely than you think.

I never would have guessed that Musk is a billion times worse than Lex Luthor, but the math is right there. Terrible.

Humans: "Give wasps a chance!"

Wasps: "Fuck humans. Fuck them all. Over and over. With your ass spikes. Bonus points if you take out an eye."

In this timeline, the edge is so far gone that it's faded into myth.