Judging by MBS’s steam account, the next Battlefield is going to be an extraction shooter about the coalition of the willing securing pipelines and putting out oil field fires. Also Tehran doesn’t get nuked in the game, it got nuked 20 years ago, and this is framed as a Bad Thing With A Silver Lining. The Line is your primary hub city and your ground vehicles are things like solar powered Abrams and cybertruck but good

What they are describing is a natural reduction in population that occurs automatically when countries become more economically developed. Trying to steer this is gonna have downstream impacts. You are not going to roll out these reforms everywhere all at once, so where are you going to start? Because if democracy and a global economy are still going to exist in 2200, relative population sizes matter. If, say, India develops their rural regions, does a 180 on feminism, and halves their population in the process, but Pakistan doesn’t, that’s going to have geopolitical ramifications, and not good ones. This kind of thinking scares me, no matter what the framing is. People are good, and we can have more of them, and we should have more of them. We just need to be smarter about how we use our resources.

You cannot build a policy in such a way that population halving is distributed equitably unless you run a global forced sterilization lottery. Which has its own ethical problems. Maybe we could, idk, all agree to eat beef twice a month instead of every day and stop throwing shit fits over renewables and nuclear before economics and water scarcity makes fossil fuel plants impossible to support. Just a thought.

Trolling is a art

Oh yeah? Which half? WHICH HALF MOTHERFUCKER?!?💢🪿🔪

The headlines we’re looking for are going to extrie-extrie news. TRUMP DEAD, US PRESIDENT DIES IN OFFICE, DING DONG DONALD IS GONE type shit.

Also let’s be real memes are the real celebrity obituary of our time.

I actually kind of like it. Nobody ever shut up about how old biden was even though his admin did all the work. Trump is a much worse – sorry, I mean “hands on” leader, so his age is even more relevant. When he acts like the petulant baby he is journalists should absolutely remind everyone that he’s a geriatric.

Valve is legendary for being a good employer. I remember hearing about an employee who tried to tender a resignation when he was diagnosed with something chronic and debilitating. Can’t remember what. Anyway, point is, he decided he couldnt do his job, tried to resign, Newell refused to accept it and told him “your job at Valve is to get better. Come back when you’re better.” So the employee kept his pay, his benefits, all of it. And this was right around the release of HL2, so Valve was not yet the monopoly market maker it is today. Gabe Newell is a billionaire. He may or may not be a good person. But he is a forward thinker and a good boss.

It changed color, that’s how you know it’s working!

Cooking is a process. Hell, cleaning, peeling, and slicing are all processes. Clearly there’s a level of processing that’s OK. But they never actually talk specifics, so it’s impossible to tell where they draw the line. Is canned food okay? Salted nuts? Cheese? Discussions about UPF are different; those people usually define what they’re talking about. But the MAHA people are incoherent.

Can’t have the Romulans getting pissy.

Definitely possible, but the original post happened in 2023. The story already died once, and it’s only back in the news cycle because of the MCRC’s ruling. She probably will get a fresh bump in gofundme donations or whatever from bigots nationwide, but I seriously doubt that’ll last. They get bored pretty quick. As far as picking up clients as bigoted as she is, Traverse City is a tourist town that went for Biden in 2024. She got condemned by the mayor and the backlash was so bad she privated her Insta.

True. Without humor a person goes blind.

Beyond the obvious moral problems with discrimination (which are well covered here) this is just bad business. Profit has no gender identity, and she’s undoubtedly driving away cis customers who are sympathetic to trans rights as well.

Arguably getting penalized by the state might be good for her business in the short term by focusing the transphobe outrage cycle on her, but how long will that last?

literally crying and shitting and pissing in my pants rn, how could u do this to me

I’m gonna echo a sentiment I saw on the last packet tracer meme. Posting these without a content warning is literally violence. I’m having flashbacks to NET 101. someone should stop you people,

The use of color here is brilliant. I love the design of these comics.

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No they don’t. Either they maintain power and the mess continues, or they lose power and the mess continues and they get to blame democrats for it.

Canola bomb is actually preferred for marketing purposes nowadays