Society-wide veganism via massive livestock pandemic is going on my 2025 bingo card.

I find it especially infuriating that the smug “We told you so” nonsense from the reddit libs is happening amidst this happening in the background. Biden and Harris spent four years acting like he’s not a threat, are not acting like he’s a threat now, and now you’re blaming voters for not taking their dire warnings seriously?

That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing the paper! Ethnomycology is such a fun field.

It definitely seems dangerous to let them near anything remotely edible.

It looks like I managed to get myself banned before I could ask the many brave warriors in the thread what they did to “fight” beyond showing up and ticking a box on a ballot.

Well it sure as hell wasn’t profit.

Update: Here’s an NY Times article on the annexation of the West Bank.

It’s from 1982.

They’re actually going “wheeeeeee!” because falling into the atmosphere is very exciting.

Anything else I say at this point would be fedposting.

There’s also random.org which uses noise in meteorological measurements.

The Guardian had an editorial this week making a similar point. People got to experience life with an actual social safety net for a while, realized how much easier it made life even in the midst of a global pandemic, and now they’re pissed that it’s gone.

The trolley problem and its consequences have been a disaster for mankind.

I went a few rounds on Reddit before the election asking what I should do given that I didn’t feel like Biden delivered on the issues I care about the most (Gaza and the climate), and he eventually threw up his hands and said “fine, vote for Trump, stay home, I don’t care.”

People don’t really feel like their party listens to them, get repeatedly told that there’s only two options, and then get surprised when this sort of incoherence manifests. Sure, some people are dumb and don’t actively seek to educate themselves, but folks are also beaten down by a system that constantly condescends, discourages participation other than voting, and mounts militarized responses to protests. I can understand why you’d give up and just do what punishes the incumbent even if it leads to a worse outcome overall. I didn’t make that choice myself, but I can understand it.

pack hunting velvet worms

Noooo Biden needs to do the funniest possible thing before he can step down.

Livestock manure isn’t supposed to enter municipal wastewater. It typically gets composted or tossed in an anaerobic digester.

Never mind, according to the CDC the source could be milk from infected animals.

It doesn’t matter what she said or what she put on her website; she never tried to create a coherent vision of who she was.

Kamala: I believe climate change is an existential threat and am also completely pro fracking.
The Libs: See, she said climate change is an existential threat.

Kamala: We should have a ceasefire and my support for Israel is unconditional.
The Libs: See, she called for a ceasefire.

Not that this is a particularly new phenomenon among politicians. Heck, it worked fantastically for Trump despite the fact that his speech is essentially gasses escaping from the fermenting porridge that is his brain. The question folks should be asking is why it didn’t work for her. Her lack of charisma? The fact that dems seem constitutionally incapable of not sounding condescending? The fact that no one reads candidate websites any more and the campaign’s messaging was mostly “Wow the Cheneys like us now 😍”?

The CIA is quietly preparing America for Trump’s acute onset migraine.

It’s depressing the hell out of me that the attitude “We told the people that they need to support our candidate in spite of the clear and obvious harm that our candidate pledged to perpetuate” followed by losing the election is not leading to “Wow our lack of compassion bit us in the ass and maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to sell our souls next time.”

“There’s nothing as toxic as unmet expectations.”

Part of the problem here is that white cis hetero males are still bathed in sense that they should be on top of the pile throughout childhood and are suddenly getting dropped out of high school into a world where that’s no longer the case. Stable jobs and healthcare will help but I think this is also a situation where a cultural shift needs to happen.