I don't think this person knows what "An army marches on its stomach" means.

When I heard about growing human-compatible organs in genetically modified pigs, one of the first places my sci-fi dystopia brain went is pigs with human wombs so a pig farm is a cloning factory.

On of these things is adapting crisis pools to use as the Clocks in Blades in the Dark, taking a "City move" to roll the crisis pools to possibly tick them up or set them against rival crisis pools.

When I argue with my mom about the scientific consensus of Global Warming, she says "You've got to follow the money." As though there's a conspiracy of paying scientists to make up global warming instead of hundreds of billions in fossil fuel company expenditures to combat that consensus.

If the anecdotal evidence of my parents' ultraconservativism is anything to go on, they speak about populism, but it's just another motivated reasoning to hate the groups they already hate. "Elites" aren't the wealthy billionaires extracting capital unless that billionaire is supporting democrats.

Not overselling: This is fucking incredible

"An army marches on its stomach" so

a) keep it fed and
2) don't give it the flu.

After spending some time noodling with converting Werewolf the Apocalypse into Cortex Prime, I'm looking at the same thing with Changeling the Lost (the better Changeling game by far). Am I going to do this with every WoD game? Will I do it for Hero/Demigod? Send help!

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Oh, so it ISN'T because of government deficit spending?

Ah. A common misconception. This actually says "Weed Kine" which is basically a message from a vampire who is still in his immortal form addicted to cannabis and needs the mortals to smoke it so he gets his THC fix when he feeds.

I can't grow a beard. It's all neck with like a pencil mustache. So I go clean shaven. But being light-haired, I never thought I would get that distinguished graying at the temples, but I appear to have lucked out.

Just think of it as simulating the writers' strike that interrupted early TNG.

A cardboard protest sign that says "Our expectations for you were low, but HOLY FUCK"

A cardboard protest sign that says "Why didn't this guy know it would be this bad? What's wrong with him?

Imagine showing up to a protest, but to protest this sign with this.

This is so clearly the right wing "You won't let me excuse my bigotry with religion!" complaint that they've been trying since the civil rights era.

And so I will circle around to my constant point: the instinct for a comforting aristocracy is endemic in the human populace, and the job of democracy is to ruthlessly destroy it whenever it appears. Not build a political, legal and moral (prosperity gospel) framework which fucking encourages it.

I’d add that this is also evidence of just how mentally and morally cooked the tech oligarchy is. They used to know this was “inside voice” stuff. Now it’s meant to be the organizing principles of society.

This season of Dimension 20 has great Never Stop Blowing Up energy. It's completely unhinged. It's like a whole coterie of Fig Faeths trying Hilda Hilda bits on NPCs.

This is like when Mitch McConnell defends Republicans' holding Obama's last supreme court seat for Trump by claiming that "Democrats started it when they were the majority in a bipartisan vote against the confirmation of notable nutbar Robert Bork."

The giveaway is that they treat "culture" as indelible and genetic.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Predator Badlands (2025)
dir: Dan Trachtenberg

I want to take the day off just so nobody wishes me happy birthday and makes a fuss.

"First there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light!' And there was still nothing, but you could see it."

Plus, are these expert scientists? Or the ones who would sign on to a space journey without knowing what the mission was before they went?

I genuinely think it's time for an updated Paramount Decrees/Fin-Syn rule for the streamer era. And because it's my industry, I want to roll video game production into it. Platforms/Distributors are limited from production.

It's taken me years to add them to my style, to get rid of just using commas and have parentheses and em dashes to make my writing more legible while being conversational.

We've seen videos of US government paramilitaries executing people in the streets and Yaccarino thinks that taxing luxury vacation homes is one of the scariest things she's seen.

Mamdani is proving over and over again that the reason other elected leaders don't do this stuff is simply because they don't want to.