So I’m gonna go looking once I hit “post”, but anyone got any links to specific cams?

Edit: I found https://www.openoceans.org/web-cams

Well, if studies on microplastics are any indication, they DO carry your trash.

Just indirectly.

I once had a granola wrapper blow away in the wind, and I felt so bad I started looking for trash on my way out.

Then I realized I could be doing that every time and I started bringing shopping bags with me on hikes and grabbing any trash I see until the bag is full or I leave.

It’s made me realize something.

Even the people who hike several miles into deer paths, the kind you would expect to be the less than casual group and therefore should know better, are fucking disgusting.

Humans are gross and it’s nothing new, we know the most about ancient cultures that left a lot of garbage.

You know, it’s always funny when sci-fi shows have doctors that refer to current year medical practices as “barbaric” or “Savage”, but honestly looking back just 50 years? Same feeling.

200 years ago, the local “doctor” will probably tell you to take a swig of the bottle he just dumped on your wound, because he’s gotta saw it off. Hopefully they at least washed it since it’s last use.

200 years from now? Eh. Doc will wave a light over it, you’ll be fine.

My shower spider gets a reminder of our deal.

“You know the drill. You stay up there, I stay over here, nobody has to be injured today.”

Sometimes the spider decides to come over to my side and gets flushed or squished, but they knew what was expected of them.

Thank you for writing, Concerned. Of course, your question touches on one of the most basic biological impulses, with all its associated hopes and fears for the future of the species. I also detect some unspoken questions. Do our benefactors really know what’s best for us? What gives them the right to make this kind of decision for mankind? Will they ever deactivate the suppression field and let us breed again?

Let me assure you that the suppressing field will be shut off on the day that we have mastered ourselves…the day we can prove we no longer need it. And that day of transformation, I have it on good authority, is close at hand.

Welcome. Welcome to City 17.

You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my Administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors. I have been proud to call City 17 my home.

And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17.

It’s safer here.

I’ll be deep in the Goddes’s embrace before I pronounce it “oRiOn”, you blue-skinned bastard!

Yeah, I think that about sums it up.

Ooh how many times have you heard that it’s somehow your fault for not doing enough to get anyone else elected, your fault for not having a degree, your fault for not seeing this coming 10 years ago and making plans then, or your fault for being a dirty American who is American and therefore deserves all the bad things happening?

I’ve gotten all these, and more.

My personal favorite was being told in the same conversation by two different Canadians, that I should move to Canada, AND that Canada doesn’t need some “backwards ass hillbilly trash who wants to fuck his guns as much as his sister” because I mentioned I have family, no college education, and firearms.

Personally I’d prefer to move to an EU country, but if the US ever really did want to invade Canada, I’d want to be there to help defend Canada. You know, with my guns. I’ve inherited quite a few, have training to use them, and am absolutely willing to train minorities on their use to defend against fascist racist phobic pieces of human refuse.

So basically for one reason or another, country on the planet seems to want someone like me.

Instead we get to sit here, in this shit hole country. Grasping at anything to try and help pull it back from the massive sinkhole it’s slipping into. Hoping that enough people help us to make a difference.

I don’t think there’s a relevant peanuts panel for this…

Literally the most hilarious thing I’ve read all week. Honestly I wonder if anyone who was involved in this article actually believes that.

It just reads like more placation of the angry masses. “no need to burn things down, we promise he will be gone soon, no protesting necessary either”

And if you want to see someone doing the very thing being discussed there’s a video of it…?

Does everyone have to justify why their comments are there, or just ThePantser?

They could halve their prices and still make bank.

Markups at retail stores are insane, places like Walmart are the worst.

“I was just doing my job” is an excuse that I thought we figured out, as a planet, was bullshit in the 1940s.

Set a trap for whoever comes to haul things away.

im guessing some people have political reasons to dislike russia

If you consider trying to genocide a neighboring country “political reasons” I guess.

I’m getting very tired of being told I’m overreacting because such a thing could never happen.

And then the thing happens.

Rinse, repeat.

At least some nutters have the decency to say that it’s mind controlling chemicals, not the “you’ll be dead soon” kind.

Kind of like the covid vaccine. I should have been dead in 3 6 8 months a year 2 years 3 years 4 years I’ll be dead in 5 years!

I can confirm yahoo still exists, and they’re great for my junk mail since I don’t have anything signed into it, it was made before you needed to link any personally identifying info so I think my name is still something like “fart boob” or something like that. 13 year old me thought it was hilarious.

Honestly if someone managed to hijack that account, either they’d quickly realize it was worthless or I’d be laughing as I tell them to have fun with their garbage, I’ll be sending some more soon.

I’ve meditated a lot.

I’ve done a few drugs.

I liek drugz

My brother in law, without skipping a beat: “obviously he meant Micronesia”

My reply, apparently not enough to get a response: “So you’re okay with a president who’s so cognitively vacant he can’t tell the difference between two very different sounding words?”