Well yeah, if you’re trapped in one of our many prisons, you get to look forward to slave labor! Slavery is perfectly legal and constitutional, as per the 13th amendment.

As an American, seconded.

I’m trapped here, don’t YOU risk being kidnapped and trapped here or sent somewhere worse just because you wanted to see the Grand Canyon.

The “I’m doing the thing you’re doing but throwing it back at you” and “thanks or whatever” definitely is.

I’m cool with people snitching on someone pouring greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

They’re being helpful and assuming you may genuinely not know the word, and are giving you the correct version for the context.

Getting defensive isn’t necessary.

I wouldn’t categorize myself as agorophobic, as I DO enjoy my time spent outside as long as I’m not in crowds or socializing with more than a handful of people, but it definitely got worse after covid.

Home is where what little stuff I do have is, and there’s nobody there that I dislike or dislikes me. Outside is increasingly hostile for humans with climate change, and the likelihood that I might get shot over my political stances because a neighbor thinks I might have different political views has never been higher.

So yeah, I don’t go out as much either and covid was definitely the tipping point of “I don’t go out much anymore”

That banner SLAMMED Jeff bezoz!

I’m sure he didn’t just chuckle to himself and sleep even more soundly at night.

should be impeached

Impeached and then executed for treason.

Gotta start them while they’re young! Cuts back on down time for the meat grinder.

Well then by definition, it’s no longer secure.

“Tourists hit cyclist and fled the scene”

… Probably Americans.

reads the very next line

Wow, I’m soooooo surprised. Shocked, even.

Can American tourists not be shit for FIVE MINUTES???

“genocide is okay as long as it’s the right people”

-someone insane

now I know for sure covid was going around even before the pandemic was announced.

My friend group was making jokes and memes about it in december of 2019, so 100%.

I wish you a rapid recovery.

Funny Spock

Oh god please no

Give me socially awkward, trying to be funny but not quite getting it yet Spock.

1999. I saw picture of a penis in a bathtub someone had titled “Moby dick” on my first day.

Forums were everywhere, and most websites from private entities looked like someone vomited gifs and word art everywhere. Backgrounds were the most insane of colors and oh my god I just now realized one of the sites I used to visit in the early 2000s was popular with trans people, the trans flag was all over the place and literally was the background

Also MySpace.

I have a permanent solution to banking crises:

Ban capitalism globally.

It’s foolproof. It will stop any more banks from having any sort of crisis.

That’s literally what it feels like: being stuck in an objective (the planet) and you have a teammate that’s SUPER gung ho about the fact he’s got a bomb vest (nukes) on that will go off if he dies, and you’re just praying he doesn’t catch a stray round (attack) while shooting at people from the doorway (doing proxy war things or just straight up committing/supporting genocide/ethnic cleansing/war of extermination/etc) or lose connection (leadership going insane).

If any of those things happen, you know you’re all toast. And it’s all mostly outside of your control.

I hate to use video games as a metaphor for literal nuclear war and sorry for spelling it out like I’m talking to a child but I felt it was needed for clarity.

We’re all on the planet together, and no one will ever be able to force everyone into submission, the more we fight the shorter time we have as a species.

nobody should have nuclear weapons.

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if the scientists working on the Manhattan project had all agreed it’s too much and intentionally sabotage every test.

Yeah, but this way you get to make sure your intended target actually gets hit instead of assuming the following nuclear wastwland would destroy your target like everything else.

It’s like the Martyrdom perk in fps games. You die and drop a grenade or c4 pack or something and explode, hopefully taking out the person who killed you.

It’s just a dead-man switch to get the AD part of MAD.

Effective? Maybe.

Incredibly stupid? Yes.

Is that stopping the US and Russia from doing it? Lolno we invented this dumb shit.

The world is run by insane people who would rather see the planet scorched into a lifeless rock than admit their way of doing things might be wrong.

It works at the current 93 billion light years of observable universe (46ish in every direction)