Different scales of the same type of process. One of increasingly scalable and flexible colony structures enabled by abstraction, rather than reliant on genetic evolution to adapt.

Yes the Neoliberal wine glass has never, nor would ever "trickle down". About now is actually when economic cannibalism takes off. Civilisation has become too expensive to maintain, expansion halting, the only viable new frontiers are digital and escapist. The 90s Digital Economy concept.

The color is dark
In the light of death
Are you ready
Under the sun
Are you ready
Under the moon
The time trial
It will pass
This is the end
The end of the
end

Are you ready
Under the sun
Are you ready
Under the moon
The time trial
It will pass
The price is high
And the music is dead
Are you ready
Under the sun
Are you ready
Under the moon
The time trial
It will pass

FWIW this is far more normal in the Philippines than most global news and weather has recently been.

Perhaps the hegemony plan is over and the prepared stakeholders are cashing in? Rhetorical.

Splendid cartoon, captures our unusual PM at his unique best in Akaroa. Also reminds me how the "whataboutism" term coined a few decades ago effectively stopped so many people feeling able to complain about hypocrisy at all. Because whataboutism suggested actions are supposedly never comparable.

Doomterious?

timely!

should certainly shorten the emergency given its nature.

it won't be documented in many other familiar places. The US has "Five Eyes" and one being my own country, I can assure you they are wide shut.

Yes it is. Good luck everyone!

Tragic joke or tale of tragic failure? Both.