Our culture phrases damn near everything in metaphors of war. The war on drugs. The battle of the bands. Bob lost his battle with cancer. It’s absolutely pervasive, to the point it’s almost as invisible as the air.

The public library has tools and such in a lot of places.

Is this a right wing pigeon from outer space?

The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.

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Lyndon LaRouche. I’d occasionally run across a few of his minions out leafletting and they oozed that culty wacko vibe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche

And then squeegee down your forearms and aprons and get back to work.

You just pull the wrist hole open and dump out the excess hand water every hour or so.

Heyo!

I couldn’t tell you, TBH. I have only read the series of books.

Well it’s a series, but Three body problem. It should have been right up my alley, but I got so tired of every decision by every character being stupid that I couldn’t be bothered to read the last fifty pages of the last book.

Even if I charitably assumed the point of the book was to show that people are weak and stupid, the series was such a ham-handed strawman as to undercut its own commentary. And even worse, it had just enough interesting ideas to lead me to believe it was going somewhere worthwhile, but it never did.

It’s been years and I’m still pissed off that I wasted a week on it.

I guess the Talking Heads were on to something. https://youtu.be/PH5JvU19_YQ?si=gqbkXoBWCngdkCpV

You ever stand behind a couple of geezers in line somewhere and they start talking about some random stuff? They didn’t know each other. They were just bored.

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For the confused, bells peal. Labels peel.

I think the cleanliness of the blade would be less relevant than the massive infection pouring from your pierced guts into the wound.

So the last time was chloroplasts, right? And that worked out super well for all the other organisms and didn’t do anything catastrophic to the atmosphere, right?

It depends on where you are. Public consumption laws are local.

Named after a man who went on to chair ANSI and be president of ISO. That’s a dude all about measuring things.

No need to cook it perfectly, just sufficiently. Nobody lets me grill the chicken because mine is good and sterile all the way through. It’s also dry, so a ways past “perfect”. But I also know how to make gravy, so it’s all good.