so the dinosaurs “ruled the earth” by just milling about aimlessly and eating shit but if i do that i am “obviously depressed” and “disappointing your father”?

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

- zero paranoias
- learns about pronoia
- one paranoia

Oh my god. www.404media.co/ai-generated...

I'm reconciling them right now very easily. It's bad when the state wields its virtually unchecked power to destroy the lives of the powerless and presumed innocent, and it's good when the powerful who act like they are above the law get fucked.

the state’s new science textbooks are full of all sorts of helpful tips like this

It's hard to convince younger people the economy is actually great, when they're able to directly compare what they get for their money - ESPECIALLY when it comes to housing - with what their parents and grandparents were able to get.

[About to tell you the most fucked up shit you've ever heard in your life]:

Guys i have a funny story

And they’re saying we delved too greedily, they’re saying—do we like delving, folks? Do we love it. Mo-ri-a. We dug a thousand perfect mines, okay, but the elves, they don’t want you to know, and they’ve been very nasty to me