This man is the reason I follow federal politics rather than a sports team.

I have to watch this, to see the man with the clarity of adulthood and an understanding tempered by experience. I suspect it will be funny, but not for the reasons it’s supposed to be.

Think 'em like training weights. When you get a good cue it’ll be like “Why are you smiling?”

“Because I’m not left handed” and then the real fancy choreographed pool tricks come out

Yeah! Fuck Britain for making us pay for the war we started with France! Why, I heard they’re charging less for tea than us local businessmen are! Lets go smash the cheap tea to protect our price gouging!

There had been that Weapons Law, for a start. Weapons were involved in so many crimes that, Swing reasoned, reducing the number of weapons had to reduce the crime rate.

Vimes wondered if he’d sat up in bed in the middle of the night and hugged himself when he’d dreamed that one up. Confiscate all weapons, and crime would go down. It made sense. It would have worked, too, if only there had been enough coppers - say, three per citizen.

Amazingly, quite a few weapons were handed in. The flaw, though, was one that had somehow managed to escape Swing, and it was this: criminals don’t obey the law. It’s more or less a requirement for the job. They had no particular interest in making the streets safer for anyone except themselves. And they couldn’t believe what was happening. It was like Hogswatch every day.

Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

but seriously, if you want to post about shitty things happening in europe, I’d welcome it. Shitty things happening in the US gets kinda over-represented.

to make europe burn or to show europe is burning?

Yes

The nicest part about a straw man so distant from anything real, is that it makes talking with people about real politics much easier. Just avoid the buzz words. Find clear, none-cliché ways to phrase your ideas, and people will agree with the most dyed-red communist analysis.

that’s a helpful graph. i’ve become very skeptical of particles lately. Feels like things are easier to understand when i think about them as wobbly nebulous fields - electromagnetic stuff especially. “sharing an electron” isn’t nearly so clear as just thinking of it as the bit where two fields overlap. Particles seem like a cheep trick to make the sums easier.

it’s how cowards say “i don’t know”

Male Kananciuê millipedes have “rather complex” genitalia, researchers said. Its genitalia is located near its head segments and has an oval shape, photos in the study show.

they’ll mention the weird genitals, give it top billing – but will they reprint the photos? Fkcn cowards

astrophysicists should learn from this example

Five-Eyes operatives have risked everything to deliver this picture of the biological weapon

I['m pretty sure I] know this is a joke, however

No. Teachers do not make their living by owning capital, and thus are not bourgeois.

Was opium to him tylenol or fentanyl?

Yes. Those are both painkillers, and each has its use in medicine. If your gran was laid up in the hospital with a borken hip, they’d likely give her fentanyl for the pain. Funny enough, fentanyl is just a medical grade heroin (or, as it’s also called, opium).

When Marx was writing, cocaine, alcohol, and opium were just about it for modern medicine. Of those, opium had the fewest side effects. It killed your pain and, as long as the dose wasn’t extraordinarily high, it didn’t kill you. That was it. Compared to alcohol or cocaine, it was by far the ideal treatment. Remember, penicillin wouldn’t be discovered until the 20th century – at this point in history, you’d be lucky if your barber-surgeon was cleaning his blades between patients, let alone washing his hands!

We should bring back prohibition for, like, half a decade just so people can appreciate how fucking easy it is to brew alcohol and also to bolster the labor movement with renewed ties to organized crime

Records stored in Granite Mountain Records Vault include genealogical and family history information contained in over 2.4 million rolls of microfilm and one million microfiches. This equals about three billion pages of family history records. About 40,000 new microfilm rolls are added to the vault each year.

that seems like a lot of microfilm. my genuine guess? There’s probably a wide variety of physics, medicine, and equipment texbooks alongside all the geneology stuff. There’s a pretty strong survivalist undercurrent in Mormonism, and it hinges on the church being the only institution to to survive insert any given collapse narrative here. Having a library of useful microfilm under a mountain seems like the sort of generic capital-p Prepared that would appeal to members and Church leadership.

My joke guess? After failing to find archeological evidence of iron tools and horses in the pre-collonial Americas, the church launches a secret intuitive to manufacture their own proof…

good for them

It’s the same with insulin. The cap is only for senior citizens on medicare

A proxy war against Russia and trade restrictions on China somehow don’t count as a new cold war

…is… is mushroom not vegan?