The third pincer is already inside Europe, in the shape of fascist parties that get funding from the US.

Every war involvement is unpopular in the US, doesn’t make the country pacifist.
“America keeps fighting the last war” they said already way back in the 1960s, for all I know.

If sugaring his entire body was good enough for Julius Caesar, it’s gotta be good enough for you.

Reminder that, per Wikipedia, aflatoxins - the poisons in molds - “are among the most carcinogenic substances known.”
Furthermore, aflatoxin B₁ can permeate through the skin and its LD₅₀ can be as low as 300 µg/kg.

If “Fire” is supposed to represent radioactive elements, quite a few corrections would be necessary.
Other than that, nice concept.

Relevant “Nearing Zero”:

Plumber?

LLM-written article.
Intriguing topic, though.

It has to get worse before it can get better.

Look at election results all over the world. Capitalism is already collapsing… into fascism.
If history is any indication, this means being not productive enough might not only get you fired, but also imprisoned or disappeared. Gotta kickstart a whole trillionaire class soon.

No time to sleep, gotta cram in some of those “extracurricular activities” to prove to future employers that I will do work for free.

Wow. I didn’t even think of that.
Bots, of course, will be exempted from verification. See also: dating sites & apps. Unless governments (which ones?) handle and enforce things. But will they have the resources?

YT has become really bad. I’ve seen entire threads of dozens of weirdly similar comments crop up within minutes, driving certain political narratives. It’s awful, eerie. Like witnessing a world-wide invasion of rogue terminators from the future in real-time.

“So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous, botted likes and upvotes.”

Sometimes everything is wrong.

Yeah. I’ve traveled a lot this year, and the negative trend I’ve been observing here in Europe is not a lack of bathroom doors, but the fact that the showers themselves are not 360° surrounded by walls, panes or shower curtains anymore. So now there’s no way bathroom floors can stay dry.

To those people ITT actually discussing this tweet as if it’s real: Have you ever been to the corporate shilling place known as Reddit? The gaslighting there is so strong, it could give you a sunburn.
Now Twitter seems to go down the same route.

AVIF started heavily creeping in, too.

They make up these definitions themselves, then become entangled in them and nothing is won.
For starters, let me recommend Solé’s terrific book “Phase Transitions” which answers the question whether or not a virus can be considered “life” from a phase space POV.
From this, you can, with some years of pondering and meditating, abstract further and hopefully, finally go completely Zen: Can there be an answer? Does the question make sense? Do definitions make sense?

“Sorry I’m late. After all those scotches I had to piss like a racehorse.”

Or maybe it’s a butterfly’s dream of being TrackinDaKraken.