I used to think this, but here’s the problem: new resources to extract mean absolutely fuck all under the current global paradigm.

There’s enough iron out there to make several tons of it available to every human in existence for whatever they need or want to do. Will that happen? No. It’s not profitable for the owner class to do that. Instead, they will fight amongst themselves until someone has an effective monopoly on asteroid mining, and then limit the supply so they can generate maximal profit (De Beers, anyone?)

We have the capability, right now, to feed everyone on Earth. To clothe everyone. To house everyone. We don’t. Any resources out there that we might find useful will be gated behind the same greedy, psychopathic group of leeches that currently control everything else.

The planet isn’t being destroyed because we had no choice. The planet is being destroyed so a bunch of MBAs could show off a nice graph at the quaterly meeting. It is very much delibrate. Any resource extraction in space will solely be done in that it is more profitable than doing it on Earth, climate be damned. We need to fix that problem before asteroid mining for the good of Earth and humanity is even an option.

This is a bit, right?

Empathy for others should be a legal requirement

Bring back guilds.

You’re still streaming music?

Automatic discounting of anything you’re saying because of use of LLM slop. Jesus fucking Christ dude, why are you coming into a situation where people are looking for clarity and feeding them garbage from the Hallucination Machine? Be better.

If they’re forming a relationship with an inanimate object? Yah, that’s arguably even more concerning.

Skill issue tbh

I used Redact a while back. Super easy. First replaced everything with filler text, then deleted. Just in case mods have auto-rollback for deletion.

Ah yes, because there are only two parties.

This is entirely an emergent property of FPTP voting. Just do PPV or something, smh my head.

Irish and Italian people would like a word with you

We’ve already established hospitals are legitimate targets in this war, as seen by Israel directly bombing them. Not sure why this is even news.

Seems like every country is doing this these days. People should form a union for the stateless. They’ll outnumber everyone else pretty soon.

Unsolicited advice incoming!

Green beans stir-fried with tofu or something are great. Could also try broccoli stir-fried; if you manage to cook them just enough that they still have some snap, they’re great.

Asparagus painted with butter, grilled, then served with lemon juice squeezed over them are heavenly.

Spinach I only like fresh so I sympathize.

The chat built into my hospital’s charting software has the ‘thumbs up’ react so you can quickly and easily show that you’ve read it. So for me it just means ‘heard’, ‘roger’, etc.

Martial law generally has legal mechanisms in place to provide some limitations to duration etc.

In other words, it would be an improvement over what is currently happening.

I’ll be honest, Russia invading Israel would be a real, “Let them fight” moment.

Actually, what it does is ensure that members of the community who do not own property (most of them) will be impacted without any say in the matter. It’s an incredibly stupid and unfair system, and is pretty obviously so.

You can also minimize the maillard reaction by not eating meat. Just putting it out there.

That is not a newspaper. That is AI slop masquerading as something useful.