9 months later:

Wife: (goes into labor)

now playing: E1M1_At_Hell's_Gate.wav 🔊

The women glow, and men plunder! :D

“It’s him. It’s Kenny Al G!”

Not a motorcycle?!?!

This seemed like such a motorcycle song!

You’re not alone, kindred spirit! Even when I knew the correct lyrics, I still hear it.

And when I learned about “dunder” or “double underscore” methods in Python, my first thoughts were:

__Chief__()

__Mifflin__()

Rivers OTOH, JFC. My little kids pulled 3 grocery bags worth of bottles out of a tiny area just underwater.

People are so braindead when it comes to bodies of water and alcohol.

Obligatory “Without a Paddle” scene:

https://youtu.be/SCFA3Y3dKkI

bottles, packaging, food or explosives

Why does this thing touch on design elements from all these categories‽

It looks like a fragile mortar round full of beer.

Honestly, our timeline is clown-town enough at this point that this would 100% be a marked improvement and possibly plausible. Like yeah they’d make mistakes but I bet they’d be actually trying, if suddenly thrust into leadership of a once-powerful nation lol.

🎵doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo🎵

Those are all really interesting factors to consider and I appreciate the response!

I’ll come clean, when I wrote it, I was just making a funny, like… A “decaying vacuum” would suck less over time. . .than a black hole. Lol XD

To your point though, less likelihood of finding other life is such a wildcard, for sure. (Less likelihood of meeting cool benevolent spacefarers…but also less likely to be spotted by something like Mass Effect’s Reapers, or accidentally bring home Xenomorphs or extragalactic pathogens lol)

And…not being able to ever see the beginning of everything…my curious mind says that’d be such a bummer but also…oddly beautiful? I’ll have to ponder that…

Well, that might suck slightly less in the long run?

Honestly expecting them to defluoridate water any second now, citing quack sources, and will then be aghast at skyrocketing dental issues.

… Dental will still be a luxury insurance, of course.

takes some asshole one second to step on it and destroy the whole thing.

Absolutely. The last one to just go “lol nah” and demolish the working class this hard was Reagan, and we were still reaping the fallout from those asinine policies when 2016 hit!

Last I tried it, it blinked red and blue also hahaha.

“Hwat in cornnashun!?”

Sounds like we should talk about it louder and get her some boxing lessons!

I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a cartoony trapdoor in the Oval Office right in front of the desk, at this point.

It hasn’t been this hard for Americans to find work since 2021

And before that, 2020, and before that, 2012, and before that, 2008, and before that. . . .

I suspect the system is designed this way, to put people in a near-permanent cutthroat burnout-hustle state of sheer desperation for anything even resembling stability.

It also keeps the working class as a whole scattered and inwardly conflicted, so they don’t mass up against their masters.

Believe it or not, mathematics majors who didn’t put “engineer” on their resume. :(

(This is a joke not meant to insult anybody, aside from whomever is responsible for this “degree market value” idea.)