Stone Age: We made this thing extinct one at a time by inventing a better way to throw darts.

Early Modern: We hath mayde these thinges extincte by bringing cattes whence there should nought be cattes.

Contemporary: lol we did a mass extinction with our plagiarizing nonconsensual porn machine lmao

It’s just amazing how infantilizing and demeaning we make this type of work in this country.

Btw Prop 12 was just a law in California that won’t let you sell pork that was raised in inhumane, overly confined conditions. This has been a massive crisis for the industry (since California buys a bunch of Iowan pork), so they are meeting with both of Iowa’s senators about it.

These two own a private jet with "When Pigs Fly" written on the tail that sits in the Des Moines airport. Do you understand how degrading this is?

Meanwhile, here's what it looked like when a young upstart defeated the incumbent in Iowa eight years later.