The trouble with this either/or is that COVID-19 breaks it. We've had vaccines and still had virulent pathogens, because people had tantrums about mitigations that were informed by this.

Almost?! Many of the fans and some of the writers were proud to be part of an insular genre backwater with craptacular writing. "Literary Fiction" was firmly scorned.

After the election: *sigh* we've got ourselves a Red Tory PM

Then later: *shit* we've got a Tory PM

And now: *fuck* we've got a Poilievre clone with the conspiracy BS sanded off

I see they have the same attitudes towards privacy in meatspace as they do in the online world.

Just discovered you now.

The drawing on your home page is a mood that I'm really feeling. Thank you.

Unbelievable naivety for anyone to think this is good for Gazans, surely it stokes anti-Palestinian sentiment instead.

Yeah, interesting how the far-right doesn't even figure into the '7 Segments' except hidden away as part of 'Loyal Nationals'. Instead it's the left that's singled out as 'extreme'.

Appliance manufacturers can't code their way out of a paper bag without throwing AI into the mix. Both my dryer and dishwasher have bugs that slightly (dishwasher) or moderately (dryer) limit their functionality. I'd expect "smart" appliances to randomly self-brick with little recourse for the owner

Is this an AI-generated image?

Ah, hadn't noticed that they were different. The blue link works.

Well they sort of do, but only when they can use it as a campaign bullet point.

Your YouTube link doesn't go to the part you quoted, fwiw

TJ Klune, Chuck Tingle (thank you Puppies for shooting yourselves in the foot so spectacularly), Ryka Aoki, Chaz Brenchley, Becky Chambers. Recently Catherine Leroux' THE FUTURE blew my socks right off.