Ta!

What show is it? : )

That might make an excellent new humanist symbol? Maybe with the edges rounded off so we make it clear we're not 'spikey' like so dogmatic ideologies are? ; )

It's always baffled me that in the rich world we now have the most well nourished and medically protected generation in the entire history of our species... and yet people still endlessly, anxiously and pointlessly fret about their diet and health.

Fascinating question. Whatever those values are, a kind of pugnatious, proud, unpretentious independence runs through them all, and that can be a double edged sword. And of course those values will vary from class to class. Unarmed police are a proud tradition...

The MAGA brigade have a deep visceral dislike of people being under an obligation to help eachother out... which is absurd, given co-operation is fundamental to human progress and civilization.

I too loathe religion. But many unhappy people are terrified of death, so ain't gonna become atheists. I increasingly think a better strategy is to try and nudge such people towards the kind of 'anti-revealed-texts' DEISM Thomas Paine advocated, and was cancelled for.
polyp.org.uk/books/paine-...

She's a beaut!

If you give her a share, she'll take you off her 'things to snack on' list as a return favour... ; )

Toon c/o polyp.org.uk

Much as I loathe Trump, he's one of the few American politicians to at least admit, no matter how deviously, that globalization has destroyed American blue collar jobs.

No, it's pointing out that Reagan's love of free trade was part of a broader policy to dismantle American industry by exporting manufcturing to chase the poverty wages of the poor nations, to benefit the rich: it was no more in support of the avergae American than anything Trump is doing.

But Reagan was the thin end of the era of unrestrained corporate power and globalization... one that destroyed millions of American jobs as the rich sought out poverty wage workers abroad. Trump is a turd, but using Reagan as a benchmark of comparative decency really doesn't work.

We were 'a little' behind ourselves in the 60s, but still had huge and sensitive radio dishes, eg Jodrell Bank.

Other than that, yes- it's statistically way more likely to come from a more advanced one.

I love drawing brains! They're such spookily iconic, fascinating objects. polyp.org.uk

One of the most troubling, undemocratic aspects of globalization is it allows the ultra-rich to sabotage perfectly reasonable taxation policies by threatening to withdraw themselves and their assets from a country... which is why she's forced to target those further down the pyramid.