Yeah, going to war is bad for people. If we are going to ask people to do that for us, it is only right to support them while they deal with the resulting harms.

So you’ve read Babel then.

I went with my wife who had not read the book. We both loved the play.

It’s the phone call in Scream.

You want me to check the replies before I contribute my unqualified speculation? That’s outrageous.

So a noir Kolchak the Night Stalker?

The fact that life is pain is precisely why hope love and joy are so important.

Is it bad that I’m wondering how these things would carry over to a civilisation which evolved from water bugs/hippos? Would the water bug working classes get laid because their king faked a war to find love? How bad would it be o clean hippo bars every morning?

I saw something a while ago saying that in contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, men are less likely to be successful because they are more focussed on big game. Women were more likely to just bring back something to eat, rather than something to show off with, and mixed groups hunted best.

You sleep beneath the ocean floor,
You dream of eldritch times before
When once you ruled the fervid Pleistocene.
Your visage blinds the mortal eye,
You live and yet eternal lie,
In aeons even death may die
Jolene

Yeah, someone cloned my mum’s account in the months after her death. When I reported it, they told me my mum had to contact them. Which was obviously challenging.