hundreds of thousands got sick

An estimated 7 million deaths since 2020. About 250 deaths a week in the US on an ongoing basis. And that is just deaths, not serious sickness or long term consequences after being sick.

who knows how many survived because they were vaccinated.

We dont know, but we can estimate. COVID-19 vaccinations averted between 1.4 to 4 million deaths during 2020-2024.

Too hard. Best offer is more resource extraction, ologopolies and housing bubbles. Final offer.

No AI building biometric databases scraping public pictures where you are from? Babies are able to consent to have their data uploaded there?

featuring … the integration of combat artificial intelligence

warning shot

People from any of the numerous climate-driven disasters in 2025:

… rents … still remain 14.1 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels in December 2019.

Isn’t that just a bit more than they would have gone up by now anyway? I get 12.6% increase from Dec 2019 to Dec 2025 at 2% annual inflation. Is my math wrong?

Not saying this is affordable, especially because other essentials have gone up way more over the last 6 years, wages for a lot of folks have not gone up enough to keep up with those increases, and your rent doesn’t adjust without costs (moving costs, breaking a lease cost, etc.) making it hard to take advantage of rent drops. Just seems like an important part of the story. If inflation had been stable, where would we expect rent costs to be today?

“SWEAR TO ME-OW!”

THIS MUSIC IS MAKING MY HEAD HURT. WHY CAN’T THEY PLAY SOMETHING GOOD? LIKE OASIS.

Must be nice to be important enough to have your jail time only on weekends. Heaven forbid the punishment for theft, abuse, fraud and modern slavery interfere with the majority of your week.

Found the Cylon.

Hey, silver lining, maybe this’ll turn out like the Huston Texans’ 2013 season?

“At least he died doing what he loved…”

Which was not his girlfriend, who, coincidentally, he explicitly chose not to make his fiancée, and who he also sent a clear message to via buying one engagement ring’s worth of whip-its on the way out.

Everyone can afford an apartment in New York on a barista salary if they have an aspiring chef as a roommate.

You want some of the impacts of making those value added products in your back yard?

A key reason why Canada ships its oil, lumber, and minerals elsewhere for processing is because there is a human cost to processing these things that moat people don’t want to pay.

Also, where clean processing is possible it makes processed materials cost-prohibitive when you can just buy the stuff from jurisdictions where health and environmental laws are lax or non-existent and you can process however you like.

Well, tax the dirty processors and eliminate them from the supply chain, you might suggest! That’s not easier either, see eliminating forced labour from the supply chain as an example.

I’m not saying nothing should or could be done about Canada’s extraction-only economy, just that it isn’t as easy it may appear at first glance.

The Foundation adaptation on AppleTV. Where, famously, spoilers

Thank Dr. Tina Hesman Saey, and the publisher for valuing and employing skilled humans and not Copilot.

Would battle be right? I don’t know if people are fighting back in shootings. I think it would be to run away, per “Pumped Up Kicks” so

cum fuga, magna cum fuga, maxima cum fuga?

Why would there be infinite possible bridges for me to build? There are only so many places where I would reasonable want to build a bridge. I also have a finite life, totally possible bridges are further limited.

Besides, 100% of the bridges I didn’t build is 0, infinity doesn’t even come into the equation.

Good try tough. I’m sure 60% of the time it works every time!