As foretold by the prophetical Team American: World Police

Reminds me of this cute lil short story: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/treks-end/

Boo-urns!

Wow. I knew they were sick, but holy shit, I didn’t realize they were that sick.

People ain’t gonna do shit until it either kills their pocketbooks or they start dying themselves, in large numbers. And then they’ll find a way to blame it on those damn elite scientists.

To the United States! The cause of, and solution to, all the world’s problems.

My personal preference is to vote for a candidate 1) who has a chance of winning and 2) seems to embody the intelligence and moral character necessary to make difficult, potentially unpopular, decisions. Ideally they’re somehow smart and able enough to make unpopular decisions a little bit less unpopular. So, I guess this means smart, ethical, and charismatic. I feel like this is one of those cases where I get to pick two one of those traits, and it has to be charismatic.

A charged Li-Ion battery aflame is no joke, as we saw when it was the Galaxy Note 7. It’s a major concern for EVs catching fire in tunnels, parking garages, and ferries. They are SUPER HARD to extinguish- legacy techniques don’t really work.

Another example: In August of 2012, an explosion and fire occurred in one of the lithium-polymer batteries on the Foss hybrid tug CAMPBELL FOSS. - the reinstallation report

Here’s the report of the event itself: https://professionalmariner.com/battery-related-fire-damages-famed-hybrid-tug-puts-it-out-of-service/

He said UNICEF was sending lifesaving supplies including tents, tarpaulins, hygiene kits, recreational kits and health supplies: “We are ready to bring in even more, but we need the support of our partners.”

Some $5 million has already been released by the head of OCHA from the Central Emergency Relief Fund and on Saturday UN procurement agency, UNOPS, announced that thanks to donors it was releasing $10 million to aid partners in the emergency response.

Let’s hope the supplies and money go to the people who need it to survive their plight and not to the junta pieces of shit so they can stay in domineering power longer.

Excerpt from The Dictator’s Handbook providing relevant context about Myanmar’s past (mis)disposition of foreign aid following a natural disaster:

There is no magical way out of this — there will be blood | Opinion Story by D. Earl Stephens

Alternate link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250318050135/https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/new-civil-war/

I struggle with this one on a philosophical level.

[Theory] In a representative government, are the elected officials there to just summarize and convey the aggregate opinion and will of the voters? Or are the voters identifying an individual who embodies the most virtuous among them, who will do what is best for society even if it disagrees with the aggregate opinion?

The military junta, facing criticism for poor response, appealed for foreign aid amid ongoing conflict.

Of course they did. And I guaran-fucking-tee if they get any aid it sure as shit isn’t going to help anyone who needs it. Myanmar has plenty of precedent already for callously letting its citizens suffer and die at the hands of natural disasters.

It’s a paradigm shift where we go from having an expectation of privacy even in public spaces to its inverse. Not only do we not have a right to privacy in public; we don’t even have a right to see ourselves as the government and police might see us — a set of still moments in place and time from which they, not us, can decide what our story is.

What could possibly go wrong?

I think Black Mirror came up with a solution of sorts to this.

Poor lil Piggott the Bigot Lover

I typically just use my cybernetic surrogate for protests. It’s customizable like Mr. Potato Head, so I currently have it configured to look like the adult love child of Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Nick Cage, and Kristi Noem.

Well now I have another question to add to my list of things to discuss with the surgeon before I accept any organ transplants.

Nah, pinch off the supply ASAP. Maybe it’ll make them finally colon their reps to return to a state of nearer sanity.

We really are just living in some alien race’s reality television show, aren’t we?

Pretty sure bidets are woke. Has something to do with the silent t and the fact it shares many letters with “biden”

Steal toilet paper again*