Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)

"cat food dish come in a nice box u can sleep in gives u food and that is good BUT there is a thing to block u from eat all food at one time! u have to wait. Very poor feature. Two star."

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I may "live under a rock" but so do some of the best people* I know.

*people may be ants in this case

@LordCaramac

"I am pretty sure we are experiencing the beginning of the end of the Industrial Age"

I don't know about all that. We are accustomed to 'growth' and technological progress. It may slip back or stall. It may even simply fail to grow as fast as it has previously. But I don't think we're going back to a previous age, even if we fail to do our best to address challenges like the climate.

No, what we do risk is that millions will die needlessly. And without them we will achieve less.

@LordCaramac

We have created an interconnected world economy that requires billons of educated and skilled people to function correctly. What I fear most that that there are far too many who don't understand that we don't have any people to spare. We don't have any children we can afford to fail to educate or any communities that we can let fall to waste without the whole system shuddering and breaking in ways that may even reach the best insulated.

@benroyce

I love the modern world and I will fight about it.

I love my antibiotics and clean drinking water.

@StephanieMoore @benroyce

I shattered my leg 4 years ago and with the exception of some loss in flexibility I'm basically good as new. My leg looks like a puzzle in the x-ray.

My uncle had a similar complex fracture in the 1950s and cannot fully extend his arm. He's been marveling at how the surgeon fixed me up.

@KydiaMusic

Like this.

WHY isn't there a more huge blue sky research fund into gall wasps?

They can control plants and make them grow things for them.

They control plants better than human gardeners.

One of my kids in robotics camp had this running joke where she'd just randomly do 'outros' and 'intros' like:

"Will the motor start? Find out in the next episode of robotics camp!"

"... And we're back!"

"Writing code! Let's get right into it!"

To which I'd say "WHO are you talking to, Jamie???"

But this is, one of those contagious jokes so I'm now constantly saying "And we're back!"

YouTube video:

"Six US Presidents Who Have SWORE."*

Listen I'm a schoolteacher, I do not use swear words and they jump out at me more than for most people but it's *odd* that given what else is going on an F-bomb got so much attention.

*I will explain the possibly obscure reference here. For a time there was a genre of videos ... aimed clearly at children about which "minecraft youTubers" had said a *swear word* ... oh no. gasp. shocking.

@oldladyplays

I think you are correct, but I have no intention of watching him do anything again unless I'm forced to so I will just take your word for it.

@qkslvrwolf @Andres4NY

Turn out here is low. Mostly old people who always vote. And half of the the Bronx is kind of suburban.

@qkslvrwolf @Andres4NY

I always vote, and Cuomo sent me 8 ugly glossy fliers. Called me twice and had three people on the corner littering all over the place with more paper nobody wanted.

And he had a bunch of miserable people doing fliers who clearly didn't care and were being paid $8 an hour to stand in 100 degree heat.

None of the fliers said anything that I cared about at all. Not one.

Today is your last chance to vote NYC. Put an ice pack in your cap and go vote now.

Also: Please do not rank Cuomo.

Please don't fall into the trap of blaming this all on Trump and not recognizing how many other people have laid the ground work for this to happen.

The unilateral action, the assumptions about what the US should be doing and what other nations are doing.

It shouldn't have been possible for a president to do this. But it was. Why is that?

Trump is responsible for pressing the button but he didn't build the ugly machine.

And I'm hearing the whole "consent machine" cranking back to life.

"Oh we think he did it the wrong way, but maybe it'd be OK if he asked congress." NO.

"Now that the US is in a war it would be unpatriotic not to support it, even if you don't agree with how it started." NO.

Just no.

This was illegal. But more important than being illegal it's wrong and a bad idea.

Pull the breaks now. Do nothing more. Maybe in YEARS we might get back what was destroyed.

@Em

Doesn't Iran mostly want nuclear weapons since so many other nations have them?

So, maybe they'd be less likely to be bombed like this?

It's a state run by a hard-line, right-wing, conservative and religious political faction. They must never have the bomb.

If you don't understand why the US is doing something, if you are confused and think "it makes no sense..." you are not undereducated on foreign policy.

You are correct. It makes no sense. Stop looking for what just isn't there.

"Surly they would never-"

"No. They would. And they have before."

Don't waste time in this particular way.