But can’t we just have a LITTLE Bladerunner style dystopia, as a treat?

Treehouse of horror 28: “The worst thing Homer’s ever done”

Edit: Make sure you check season 29 for this since they lag by one

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes.html

“Key findings include the annual ingestion of 39,000–52,000 microplastic particles by individuals, with bottled water consumers ingesting up to 90,000 more particles than tap water consumers.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389425018643?via=ihub

You are in for a fucking treat, this is “Godzilla as natural disaster” in a big way and I loved it.

From the IEEE article

If the worst happens and the dome is punctured, 2,000 tonnes of CO2 will enter the atmosphere. That’s equivalent to the emissions of about 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777. “It’s negligible compared to the emissions of a coal plant,” Spadacini says. People will also need to stay back 70 meters or more until the air clears, he says.

Elden ring cosplayers, ugh.

Sure, if you only listen to small artists and you drop them when they get too popular I guess you can preempt this whole problem, but I don’t think practically you’re going to see all the fans drop an artists as they start blowing up.

I think what actually happens is that someone sells out and gets too much money and keeps coasting until a backlash drives their fans away from them actively (canceling). It would be nice if your self governing system worked but I just don’t have confidence it will ever overpower the marketing snowball effect.

Again I don’t think people are happy with how things are; it just seems to be how shit shakes out in an attention economy.

At least the face isn’t steering the brain like most organizations!

You’re right that we shouldn’t expect them to align the majority if the time, but it’s not a reaction to the way things SHOULD be. If the person who disagrees with you gets a bunch of money they can wield it against your interests, and they will. It’s a shitty matter of pragmatism that people have been forced to widen their view.

I doubt most people enjoy the situation society has landed us all in, we just wanted cool music and instead we get cool music with celebrity endorsed PACs hiding just out of view.

I nominate “Chubtractive”

I’d walk into the other room first and drop a mirror in the hallway on my way back so I could see lmao. My employer wouldn’t want me touching a hot bulb since that might be a workplace hazard they’d be liable for after training me with stupid riddles.

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You’re not going to believe this, but the easter bunny actually has nothing to do with jesus either.

I hope you get some being time for yourself then!

I don’t think it’s your fault you can’t figure it out.

Read some of this and see if you notice any common themes.

Are there any holidays or celebratory rituals you do like?

Powerful rage comic energy

This is why you don’t walk around assuming you understand things well enough to solve people’s problems for them.