Its genuinely scary how close we’ve come to the brink on so many instances, though.

Like, there was concern that an atom bomb could set the entire atmosphere on fire by some of the scientists on the Manhattan Project.

Or the fact that we are not currently living out a nuclear holocaust survival fantasy due to the common sense of one soviet early warning radar operator.

the only thing more terrifying than how many times we’ve actually been on a legitimate brink, is how blase people are about dismissing it cause “bad things always happen, and then get better. no big whoop”

Theres no point in watching it without fact checking and moderation, without those its just gonna be republican propaganda with occasional interjections by easily ignored sanity.

And you can have your freedom, for only the low low cost of 1200 dollars per freedom, per year.

bro, it was not the openness, it was the gleeful aplomb.

Like, imagine a 7 year old telling a story about their first trip across country to a major theme park, where they got to spend a day with their favorite princess, and how, even 40 years later, thats a story they tell with great joy, and a big smile?

Only replace the trip and princess with what she said her dad did.

It was fucking unsettlingly creepy.

five minutes after meeting her, she went into a graphically detailed spiel about how her father sexually abused her as a child. and she was very upbeat, happy, and smiling as if it was a delightfully fond memory the entire time.

I dont know what the end of the story is because by the time she got about, what i hope, was a quarter of the tway through, I had already been so completely creeped and skeezed out that I had developed a cold sweat, and I just got up from the table, said nope, and walked away.

I was kinda fucked up for a short while afterwards.

genuinely cant tell of sarcasm or serious.

thats how far we’ve fallen.

To all women in red states.

You don’t have to vote red. Your husbands/boyfriends/fathers/whoever will never know who you voted for. They cant be in the cubical with you, and no one can report who/what you voted.

You can vote for democrats, and just tell the people around you that you voted republican, so you don’t have to face anymore risk of violence than you already do.

Its always fun being ridiculed, mocked, and insulted by your family because you dare to point out the dangers of something obviously dangerous.

And yet, when shit hits the fan… who do they come running to begging to fix it?

Why, You, of course.

because you must forever clean up the shit, but you can never prevent the shit.

I’m not bitter or anything.

Anyone who used these DNA analysis services were idiots to begin with.

There was no way in hell that valuable genetic data would ever stay private with no commercial or police access.

This.

I am so sick of that goddamn song.

Those commercial displays are nothing but heavily stripped down TVs with anything unnecessary to being a advertising display removed. and maybe a tiny, grossly overpriced and heavily cut down computer built into it to run the slideshows/menus/whatever.

also, TVs in a certain size range are generally cheap because manufacturing has gotten to the point that each mother can produce a ton of screens for it. and the reason that cheap range size has gone up over the years is because improvements in the printing technology and the size of the mother glass.

Those typically come at commercial pricing, which is insane.

Eh, I’d say the diddler vibes have been there for more than a couple months, lol

My gut says it’ll be diddling.

Self righteous assholes like him always end up being diddlers.

insert a political cartoon of an average republican saying “I’ve nothing to hide” while a trying to hide a mount Kilimanjaro of shit and controversy and illegal behavior behind them.

dumb TVs

Only one company makes Dumb TVs anymore, Sceptre, and the quality is very hit or miss due to the way they acquire their screens.

I’m ignoring your bloviating bullshit cause its already been refuted, despite it being a masquerade and irrelevant to the point of the topic at hand, all of which is nothing but an example of you desperately trying to distract from that topic.

And that topic is mail carriers not having the right to choose what gets delivered and what doesn’t based on personal feels and opinions, and that doing such deserves to be punished to prevent others from doing the same.

Something that, when you deign to acknowledge the topic at all, have argued against, because you agree with them, and you want to let government employees do whatever undermining, institutional destroying bad behaviors they want as long as you agree with it… Which is the core component of most right wing arguments “I agree with it there for its right and moral”

claiming the odor of pot is, was, and will always be a bullshit lie and manufacturing of probable cause.

“Why would a MEDICAL IMAGING FACILITY have a high power draw? I BET THEY ARE GROWING WEED IN THE MRI MACHINE!”

I didnt know they could use the “I smell weed” excuse to raid buildings and stuff now.

Thats just like, the magic words that make all rights disappear, innit?