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Had no clue. Fuck cancer.

Seems okay.

He picks the outcome that’s the simplest to explain. But you could explain it as a sadistic goal, because look at what second Thanos wanted to do upon learning the universe didn’t appreciate him the first time. Kill it all.

Neither addresses the problem, they just both push it into the future. Half the population/double the resources isn’t even a reasonable amount to give much more time. It’s better for drama though, because disappearing 99% or more of the universe would have really set back the Avengers, if any of them made the cut at all.

Pretty terrible trolling actually, as it was just a side comment on the slide into acceptance of crap by the masses. If it was trolling because it wasn’t funny, then so be it, but that’s been a long tradition of humor forums to have commentary that is serious, not funny. I did upset some people, so if that’s the bar for trolling, then sure…

But toys were better back then. No one has dismissed that claim, because they know it’s true. Sorry.

Nah, Gen-X here. That’s our parents and grandparents, brainwashed into the cult of Edward Bernays. The place was already doomed long before we got here.

This is Humor. It’s supposed to be dark here.

Yeah, I’m old. I also had better toys than kids these days, and they don’t even realize it.

Probably banned for kids now because someone determined it would damage their ego or something. I always say the era of good toys ended when Tonka started making plastic vehicles. Somehow LEGO still got through the purging, barely. How a destroyer of feet still exists in today’s fragile world is perplexing.

Tech ourselves into dead ends and then wonder how it happened.

That very fact is part of the alarm. The Southern Strategy was far more successful than its creators even dreamed.

Most of the Appalachians is now located within the eastern part of the United States as runoff. Imagine how long it took for huge mountains to erode down and wash outwards into the ocean that distance.

And the Appalachians are still young compared to a few other mountain areas around the world.

I thought I had Soylent Green figured out. Had knew the punchline long before I actually sat down and watched the movie. It was 70s level, so it was both good and bad as far as a movie itself, reminded me a lot of Colossus The Forbin Project in its feel. The forecasting of a environmentally desolate future also felt prophetic. Then a bit after seeing it I ran across someone reviewing it, and they pointed out that the biggest shock isn’t the end…the end is bad, but it is only a higher level of what has been the real horror throughout the whole movie. Complacency. And that is why we are in Soylent Green today, it’s all around us. And like all these other classics, we haven’t learned anything.

Or the frame quality drops, and we’re all Jerry. “My man!”

Just like cats.

He asked to stop laughing first.

That “having a chance to beat Trump” is even something said these days is insane.

Imagine a parallel world where there are two or more candidates for leadership who argue over the ideas to better the country and world, and all of them have their valid points. Where the difficulty is in figuring out who is a better choice, but even the worst winning would be okay.

I mean ever now and then I think we could have had that.

“How did it come to this?” Yeah, Theoden, I get it.

No argument that he’s not a great choice. But we’re not being given a way to make another choice, unless it’s to vote for Trump. And if you want to go down that rabbit hole of health and mental issues…sure, it’s a whataboutism. What about it?

We’ve got one of their pull around vacuums. Superior product, best vacuum I’ve ever had in reliability and features.

Good to know. I regularly pull it out and clean the vent with a vent extension brush anyway, once I got a house with a long vent where all sorts of things can settle. Huge fire hazard that most home owners don’t even think about. It seems to be catching the lint it ought to be, but perhaps this goes back to the idea that even in a line of product you can have good and bad machines made.