Better Red than dead!

Not with that attitude! What has become of us? We used to do big things like put monkeys on the Empire State Building.

Ok so that covers the post part.

Hellraiser and the original Dune. Claymation looks so fake now, but it didn’t back then.

You know those movies as a young kid that you watch over and over? This was mine. From like 7 to 12 I would have these recurring dreams of a school with a flag in front and then going the stairs into a basement. I wondered where the hell it was coming from, then I watched the intro to the movie again in my 20s.

If not arachnophobia, then perhaps starship troopers?

Haven’t seen writingprompts in a while, really liked that one.

Zappa has entered the chat.

Wanna sound super cool with just a few simple licks? Pick up a bass. I liken it to skiing. It’s easy to get passable on it, but takes years and years of experience to actually be an expert.

Dude’s heels were probably sinking into the dirt during press conferences.

I wonder what kind of entry fee he’s going to concoct now that it has been new and ruined improved.

Yeah, why is this a shitpost? It’s more of a life hack.

I’ve had this odd thought lately that I just want to put into the ether. And honestly, I’ve been a free trade person pretty much all my life, because I think free trade can and should empower societies to trade what they’re best at, and it has the capability to help pull billions out of poverty.

But one thing I’ve always thought was fucked about free trade is the countries that we exploit, that is, those that pay the kind of wages the US suffered through in the 1800s and early 1900s. The kind of labor that works too long and still barely struggles to survive.

What if the tariffs do balance that a bit better? What if American workers get a fair shake to do work for American consumers? What if this awful, awful dark period in our lives somehow gives the Vietnamese or Cambodian worker a better life because the US is no longer willing to buy goods from countries that exploit their workforce?

I personally don’t want to be part of the tomato problem if I can help it. This is on no way an endorsement of the current administration, but why the fuck did it have to be this administration that acted upon this? Why couldn’t it have been prior administrations over the last 30 years?

I don’t understand how this is legal. I thought map drawing had to be done after the census, not every election.

This strategy surely does have other risks. The last general election slightly skewed red by 1 point. You simply need to have the trend shift a point in the other direction and a lot of these and more become blue.

I’m assuming you already know about the Illinois district that’s shaped like a U?

Gonna disagree with you there. BloodSugarSexMagic was nice when it dropped. Music video of them dancing in their underwear with P-funk was revolutionary at the time.

Their stuff in the 2000s though? Yea, too overproduced.

Flea slappin’ bass though…that dude is a legend.

Oh look, if it’s not the consequences of my own actions. Rest assured they’ll do it again next time too, because the GOP has now sufficiently bribed them.

I feel like Alabama is gunning to be a Dollar Store Florida. Excellent for retirees, good for sports ball, pretty much shit for everyone else.

So I guess that would make Texas something akin to Bucees - bigger, still a bit shit compared to other large competitors, and ideal for some real weird people watching.

Jamming, here again, I’d be very surprised if a disgruntled teenager or 20-something going postal is going to put enough plan and prep to purchase jammers in their act. For those that do, drones can be tethered now.

And yes, drones can bump and do bump into things, but I think you’re underestimating just how sophisticated these the professional versions of drones have become over the last few years. We’re not talking the $100 versions with a cheap camera that you and I have anymore.

I’m going to disagree with you here. I think this is an excellent use of drones. If anything, Uvalde taught us that human versions of policing have one major defect/feature…they also don’t want to die.

You throw a swarm of drones whizzing into a high pressure scenario, the shooter’s fight or flight response is going to be triggered. They’re either going to pop off a few last shots…which they likely were going to do anyway before getting caught, or they’re going to run to the nearest open door and shut it to hide.

No lethal explosives needed for this use case. A few flash bangs, maybe some tear gas, a taser or two would likely do the trick in all but the most dire of situations.

Now, what this says for our constitutional rights on the other hand…at some point we as a collective society are going to have to decide whether we want to be “free” or whether we want to be “safe”. Personally, I’m none too happy with the way I’ve seen things progress over the last 24 years.

Apple, especially when it was considered a “luxury brand.”