Global pandemic got memory holed when we collectively decided to pretend it’s over.

People who are climate change denialists in 2026 are way too far gone.

If anyone needs convincing at this point I’d say it’s those who think they know of / believe in climate change but vastly underestimate the severity of the problem. Like they’ve never heard of feedback loops or peeped the sea surface temperature anomaly graph.

The truth is closer to the Newsroom clip than “it’s going to be hotter and there will be more extreme weather events, but humanity will definitely carry on because I find that thought more comfortable than the alternative”.

If we haven’t reached the point of no return, political inertia will carry us there as things stand.

Good idea! It’s much easier to cool things in space!

Why are you looking at me like that?

How about one infographic or flowchart to rule them all explaining all the different ways to install a program, for starters?

Just ^{NSFW obviously} normal conservative straight things.

I went straight to finding other sources and snopes because surely this is just too funny.

No. Bad. Why have you done this? How dare you? Have an upvote.

“Every man has his price.”

Why was yours a six pack and a roll of toilet paper?
Could you not resist such a pithy morsel from WeWillOwnYouMuahaha inc if only for your pride?

Gonna push Biden left any day now.

This is your daily illustration that ideology is stochastically a function of environment and incentives.

It’s hard to find sun-worshipping angler fish.

You’re probably going to have to give up something. Look before you leap.

My friend was so fed up with windows cooking his idle laptop I didn’t argue with his quick answer to “are you sure you want to go all in right away, not dual boot?” when asked to walk him through setup.
Turns out the something was every specific piece of software he simply must have for his art commissions (the one company doesn’t do stylus pressure right on linux for no real reason), and the one game he was really into at the time.

The premier Great Filter, perhaps.

The standing around with banners is supposed to carry an implicit threat:
“Deal amicably with us peaceful protesters, or you’re going to have to deal with people taking direct action.”

We’ve been educated to misunderstand this.

The LLM / image gen AI centipede.

There are people, it is true—nay, a great many people—who smile at such things, because they are not sensitive to noise; but they are just the very people who are also not sensitive to argument, or thought, or poetry, or art, in a word, to any kind of intellectual influence. The reason of it is that the tissue of their brains is of a very rough and coarse quality.

Something surprisingly few people get about AI is if it had any intelligence at all it would surpass us blindingly fast, no matter the starting point.

It’s never going to be in the news that thinking machines got 23% smarter over the last month or three.

There’s an old comic I wish I could locate that has people standing at a train platform awaiting superintelligence. Nothing happens, then someone staring down the track says I think I see- whoosh and it’s already gone.

I’ve had one lie to my face and the person next to me about what they said to us less than a minute prior.

It’s understandably difficult for people who haven’t experienced it to understand or believe it.

Afraid not, and even if it popped out of existence the inertia is still there.

The challenge of designing/iterating on a better system is easier than the political challenge of getting a chance to try it.

And then you have to defend that chance from saboteurs, enemy propaganda, poisoning the discussions on how to proceed, sanctions, invasion, literally anything and everything the old world can do to try to smother it.

We can all decide the government should take their money, and politicians can do exactly what capital wants as always.