“I don’t call it a crisis anymore. This is a state of failure. That’s why for years I’ve referred to it as water bankruptcy,” said Kaveh Madani, the director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

“A crisis is a state that you can mitigate, you can go back to normal at some point if you put forces together. But the damages we are seeing to the ecosystem, to the nature and even to many parts of the economy and infrastructure are irreversible.”

The US Southwest and Southern CA will be at this point by 2027, according to projections based on current consumption levels. Lake Mead will be dry, and everyone who depends on it to live will be fucked. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06102025/colorado-river-water-supply-report/

I’m not even entertaining the idea that we’ll take emergency action to avoid it. That seems too unrealistic that our governments would be that responsible.

The consequences aren’t a secret. Look up the Planetary Solvency actuarial report from earlier this year, for starters.

#relatable

Elizabeth Warren’s “I think I’ll have a beer” will live rent free in my head forever as the prime example of clumsy pandering.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/why-elizabeth-warrens-beer-moment-fell-flat/579544/

Honestly, Debian KDE is pretty close. And there are even distros that mimic the look of WinXP if you want.

They could resolve most criticisms by just continuing security updates for W10 and otherwise never touching it again. But then what of their surveillance-based revenue?

He’s on a mission from Gahd

Yoink!

🤷🏻 We’re still fundamentally irrational animals. Our powers of reason are limited, and our quirks are easily manipulated.

I think this has a LOT to do with how susceptible a person is to reason that goes against their existing beliefs. I also turned away from the conservative rhetoric in my early twenties. I wasn’t really invested in any group, just talking with a few dudes on a gun forum. I didn’t have a lot to lose in terms of social investment. But for rural people, going against the right wing narrative could mean being isolated from their whole physical community.

“hey old frat buddy, wanna buy my thing?”

“Sure” (golf swing)

The art of the con!

Christians are decrying Jesus Christ as “too woke” now. All bets are off

We tried a vibrating ring once, and that was a bust. All I remember is how good it felt when we took it off and just went bare. And excuse me, I need to go find my wife for something.

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He led an insurrection on live TV, got away with it, and got reelected. Nothing is going to happen until the propaganda machine is torn down; or, more likely, the whole system just caves in on itself under the weight of its own greed and mismanagement.

Sorry Mickey, this one’s a dud. All my fingers are smaller than the average dick, but the average dick can only dream of the results my fingers get.

Everything is on a downward trajectory. Like 8 companies own the whole fucking planet and everything on it.

I hate it

One of them was “how’s life in the fast lane?” Colloquial and open ended, so the other person can go whatever direction they feel like with it.

Yep. And now we have little old ladies, who should’ve had their license yanked years ago, driving 4 ton trucks to get groceries.

Yeah. I got over my hangups about small talk when I started working for a well-known people person with a big, room-filling personality. Watching him “work” several people a day, I realized he was just on autopilot, repeating the same lines over and over like an NPC. I realized, “shit, I can do that.”