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If not, it’s still possible to enforce right to repair; most of these arms are able to have 3D-printed components, saw a YouTube video on that.

Don’t let this timeline become Cyberpunk 2077. Please, just don’t.

Welcome to the Genetic Age. Hopefully someone’s researching the Ecotopian or Digital Democracy civics, it’s almost Turn 2025 AD for Sid Meier’s sake!

Yes, but for reasons I don’t remember at the moment, “444” is considered joyful laughter, not danger. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

Anyone who loses a loved one to Dementia has my condolences. I count myself very lucky that it doesn’t run in either side of my family, the thought of my dad or mom being in mental anguish and confusion terrifies me.

Yes. Cute and it grows up to be fucking badass. Nice!

Yes, our honey-making insectoid foes! Use your worthy nemesishood to save these elephants from these barbaric warlords! Sting them!

In all seriousness, however they pulled this off, and partly due to my fear of bees and wasps, I approve. Elephants are not stupid, killing them for profit like these African warlords is cruel and said warlords don’t tend to care one bit about animals or people. Having something attack them that they can’t just shoot is going to be(e) a gamechanger.

I’m aware trophy hunting is a thing but I’m also aware they don’t just draw names from a hat. When African megafauna are chosen for trophy hunters, it’s almost always because they’re too aggressive to their other (endangered) peers to a lethal degree. Harvesting ivory enmasse to buy trafficked weapons is much, much more dark a shade of morality given they mostly tend to use the weapons on innocent people (usually impoverish natives) within Africa. Sadly, in Africa, being discriminated against for being dark-skinned does not seem to have always imparted the wisdom of “tolerance for everything but intolerance and causing harm”.

Too low density. Those buildings are mostly suburban one- or two-storey homes most likely, and much of what isn’t is not more than 4 floors and a lobby.

Not saying it’s a bad idea. I’m saying too much car-centric planning can permanently “lock-in” car-centric living by making it too expensive. Those assholes in the auto industry knew exactly what they were trapping society in.

Only because Trump and the GOP are in bed with the neo-liberals behind closed doors. This is one enemy: Rich assholes, regardless of their supposed political views.

That being said, there’s a big difference between “the bad president must die” and “kill all the rich people down to the last child”; nothing calls for a Holocaust, nothing. Please at least remember that when the concentration camps Trump is fucking preparing to make are ready, you CAN stop them from taking people by defending them, you CAN fight back, you CAN say “Fuck this, I will not let my country become Nazi Germany 2.0 when I have everything to lose.”

And tbh, I have nothing to lose and STILL would view that as all the more reason to die to protect everyone else from the Party for Leopards Eating People’s Faces because I didn’t want Trump back in and never would have voted for him (I’m not American though so I couldn’t) and even I didn’t think Project 2025 was real until the Repugnicans took their masks off surprisingly early. Nobody SHOULD have had to consider that info viable, it sounded like a ridiculous conspiracy theory and I cannot blame someone for voting for the Leopard party when the leopard party is named “free statehood party” instead and everyone they talk to believes that’s true.

Spreading false hope and “we should kill ourselves” are also very different. Guess which one people do when shitface gets elected? I’ll give you a hint: People need something to live for even if there is nothing to live for.

Well shit. That’s… That’s legit dangerous. Japan could honestly use an influx of elderly care workers, I hope they realize that before it’s too late. I know immigration isn’t any more popular in most countries than in the US, but that is scary.

I mean, I am terrified of wasps, but I recognize they’re a crucial part of the ecosystem and just don’t fuck with them. It’d be a phobia, except I don’t panic, I just gtfo if possible and freeze if I can’t. Wasps (at least here) don’t tend to chase things that react to them by increasing the distance between it and you.

That being said, big wasps in general are indeed jerks who will bite and sting you without mercy. Hornets? Yellowjackets? Tarantula Hawks? Ew. Small ones though? There’s these little guys I’ve seen all the time that I just assumed were small ants, turns out they’re (harmless) wasps that use their size to avoid detection and don’t even sting. Entomology is a lot like filling a Pokédex, the “common wisdom” (the descriptions) does not always match the in-the-field observations of scientific value (the actual creature that might help you).

Admittetly that’s the response I’d want to give too, just keep in mind wild animals tend to get very defensive around humans. I don’t doubt the wolf might take it the wrong way.

That being said, there was a news article about a successful rescue of a wolf stuck in river ice; they mistook it for a dog and brought it to a vet, honestly the wolf was (pun not intended) pretty chill since it knew it would have died there.

And of course, Canis lupus, Canis lupus familiaris. Can’t blame you for recognizing the fact that dogs are a subspecies of wolf. Orf, orf! :3

At least they didn’t elect their evil overlords, but I guess this isn’t the place for complaints about politics. At the very least, I’m not anti-democracy, just very scared that America has re-elected the worst decision they ever made.

Capitalism, on the other hand, has clearly proven a terrible choice of economy for long-term health of humanity, regardless of whether the government lived under is authoritarian or democratic. Some of my favorite things in life have been capitalist in origin, but they were not worth the direction we’re heading.

Self preservation isn’t selfish. Nobody sane wants to see somebody else die for no reason, and almost everyone has a family or a group of friends they care about, however limited or fake. Collapse helps nobody, look at what happened to Russia, and if society would collapse not even capitalism would survive. Too many executives can’t afford the price of assuring their own safety for them to just carry on into a cyberpunk or industrial-feudalist society.

I know, I don’t get why people are scared of them. Yes, a wild rat can be infested with all sorts of nasty parasites and diseases, but you wouldn’t try to pet a rabbid racoon either, that’s a wild animal.

Tame rats are adorable, don’t believe the stereotype. ^ _ ^

Resume? I’d have a lawyer on the phone. No money for a lawyer? Kill your boss and then yourself, fuck reality.