Might think about taking a break for a while. I have to, sometimes. Do some camping and mostly unplug. Anything real big goes down and you’ll hear about it.

Marathon, not a sprint. Fuck em, we’re harder. Country boy can survive.

I really like your analysis.

I really fucking hope you’re right.

He sounds like a pretty awesome dude. Thanks for sharing. Also sounds like he has you pretty well trained, he gets to ride and sniff.

We don’t have a small dog right now, our elderly Chihuahua reached the end a couple years ago and my wife is still raw.

I never really figured out you had to drive as fast as possible and that the fuel level was actually a countdown timer. I was crazy about the cartoon and remember being so disappointed with the game.

That’s really funny to me. What was his name and what was he like?

Creator’s blog post.

The English Offical Table of Drops for hanging. Helps prevent the head from popping off or doing the air run.

This right here.

I’ve recently been seeing a lot more of what I’ve heard called Blue Anon. I am seeing it get argued against. Shit could get real ugly if it takes hold.

I’m having to repeatedly remind my family to check sources, think critically, and not jump to conclusions.

It’s imperative we remain skeptical and analytical.

This is actually wisdom. I use a 4x fudge factor.

beat me to it.

Your logic is sound and I’m not heavily disagreeing with you. My gut says the claim is hinky. (Obviously, my gut and hinkiness are the gold standard for truth and reason.)

I’m skeptical but you might be right. It’s real fucked up that we have to even consider bullshit like this.

I’m waiting to pass judgment on the flyover. He’s totally that petty, but, I don’t think he’d plan that far ahead. He’s way more reactive than proactive, especially when it comes to stupid stunts.

While it’s possible the flyover’s purpose was to intimidate the victims, it feels like disinfo or convenient rumor.

Correct, specific to his fiction. I don’t know if I’ve read a non-fiction book of his. However, I’ve never read a bad article or essay by him. He has great insight.

There really is no one in control. Not really. There are people and groups with spheres of influence and power. I wish there was an evil illuminati out there in control of things, at least it would be organized.

Best I can figure, most everyone is faking it. I’ve spent time with CEOs, military officers, rich people, big time evangelists. They’re mostly faking it, some even feel imposter syndrome like normal people do.

This isn’t to say that they don’t perpetrate great evil, but they’re also not superhuman or super intelligent. Many of them are of average intelligence at best. They’re just lucky or lack morals as we know them, reframing their moral system to excuse their actions. Everyone is the hero of their own story even when they are corrupt to the core. Hitler was a dog lover and vegetarian.

All this to say, there is no silver bullet for cancer. There is no magic carburator invented in the '70s that gets 100mpg. There is no over unity generator that will provide free power. Somebody would steal those secrets and sell them for millions.

I half expect that the insurance companies will run the numbers on end of life costs and maintenance costs of disability and still cover the standard schedule of vaccines. Deaths/crippling get expensive enough and they may even require vaccinations to keep insurance.

The wingnuts in question here likely believe the antivaxx shit, or see enough politcal advantage in parroting it that it has resulted in this. In some sense, the GOP has been too successful, now they are married to the lunatic fringe and have members from that fringe. They’re stuck on this ride as well. Hope they choke on it.

His ideas are fantastic. Execution and characterization are spotty. Been a while since I read anything of his, but IIRC, he has a tendency to dip into surrealism or absurdity that feels cringey instead of his artistic target.

In some ways, it’s similar to a lot of Golden Era SF. You read it for the ideas, not the story.

I do have a favorable opinion of him and his work. I’d really enjoy Doctorow being paired with a traditional fiction author and both being rode herd by a hardass SF editor.

A conspiracy like that would require a level of organization that isn’t present.

It’s willful ignorance and cultic tribalism gone real bad.

They really believe there is a vaccine conspiracy that causes autism and is being used for mind control or whatever.

Jesus fucking a goat.

If this goes on for long there will be so many dead or crippled children. So many dead people. It won’t stay constrained to Florida. This will put immunocompromised people at risk all over the country. Herd immunity is fucked.

Also, if it lasts long, expect other willfully ignorant states to do the same.

Fuck, I’m tired.

Reminds me of an emachine.

Here’s a ET1161-07 from 2009:

You’re probably right, I think the rib one got recycled a few times.

@lightnsfw@reddthat.com is making sense here. Throw the book at him and maybe have a psych eval done. Republican, so might as well check his computer for child porn.

That being said, spiking a kids ice cream with ecstasy pills makes no sense. It tastes awful, they would be hard to chew and an obvious foreign object in ice cream. If the girls didn’t OD, they’d be bouncing off the walls.

I could see someone that doesn’t actually know anything about drugs thinking this is a good way to frame someone. In reality, Drugs Are Really Expensive, as well as MDMA users/dealers generally not being willing to hurt children for nothing.