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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  uhm... "war by assassination"? if any of the targeted men (99+% probability they are all men) stepped onto US-UK-EU soil, what then? as much as I'd like to see 'em hunted down and dragged off to stand trial, shooting 'em...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  mazel tov! you've stumbled into the shitstorm inevitable end result of a supply chain focused upon optimizing for goals of both high volume and low cost... which is what consumers made clear were their priorities... extended reliability interferes with those...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  to be filed under "stupidity never dies, it gets optioned by Hollywood" OMG...? WTF...! "‘Yes, this is real’: LA recreates Glasgow’s Willy Wonka disaster – sad Oompa Loompa included" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/los-angeles-willy-wonka-pop-up-experience...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  could be worse... could be raining... https://youtu.be/42TxiRldx8I...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  hmmm... speaking from utter ignorance, my reflexive response to "transfer an atomic nucleus into a state of higher energy" is wondering if this technique can be exploited as a battery to store energy...? or... as a 'atomic nucleus laser' to...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  huh? about three hours during which this site was not loading...? oh good... MI5 hasn't decided we're unwelcome foreigners who ought tend to their own national knitting nor that this site is a threat to a properly ordered society ...not...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  hmmm... the drill down on that? the difference between poor peasants stewing garden snails plucked off when they tend their veggie garden... and ruling elite having escargot glazed with garlic-mint-chives butter sauce served upon unchipped china, as per the snooty...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  there's the difference in seeking variations and the lux (higher rung on the style ladder than mere luxury) of choices than dire need if you could only afford third-hand, repeatedly repatched clothes then second-hand is regarded as aspirational and brand-new...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  literacy ought be reserved for the elite... as well having enough actual cash for the purchase of 'lux goods' such as brand new clothes rather than the usual of what peasants deserve: third hand patched 'n re-patched { sarcasm off...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  the proper joke there...? Emanuel Crank, certified organic food consultant...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  difference being, after 9/11 still thousands of people working day in day out... thus garbage... just that the ugly horrid mess disrupted what had been a quasi-stable urban ecology covid? 90+% of people did not come into work and those...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  to filed in the department of "we'll believe it when we see it happening" The world’s most advanced economies just agreed to end coal use by 2035 https://lite.cnn.com/2024/04/29/climate/g7-end-coal-fossil-fuels-climate-intl/index.html...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  here's another fun fact: the lack of food waste during WW2 triggered a die off of rodents in cities... not just Europe, also USA as well try to imagine that... oh wait... we don't have to... during covid quarantine, there...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ah yes... same mindset as here amongst the NYPD... "tazers are not just less-than-lethal weapons of intimidation, if you hold down the trigger, you can use 'em to coerce a confession from a suspect if you're in a windowless police...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Another potential motto for those of the ruling elite -- US or UK or China -- being “If It Were Good Enough For My Grandfather It Will Be Good Enough For My Grandson™”... ...not too late to return to utilizing...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  { eye roll } here in US there are several batshit crazy politicians advocating for interstate border checkpoints... directly violating the US Constitution and 200 Y of regulations-laws-commerce for those on this blog not deep into the weeds... 48 states...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...tweak your scenario to occur during Wisconsin winters or Florida summers... thus... frostbite of important bits of flesh or bitten a zillion times by mosquitoes...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  given the spike in certain insect populations... sure... why not turn 'em into a cheap source of protein ...and that's another Netflix series right there instead of the horrors of "Soylent Green"... the banality of "Crickets 'n Chips" portraying the...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  heh... I vaguely knew that but thanks for simply re-enforcing my snark... please imagine the social twisting 'n turning of another full decade of rationing... it would make one hell of a dystopian Netflix series... call it "Proudly British" or...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...meanwhile here in the US efforts at reversing direct voting for candidates seeking highest offices is a campaign plank for the Republican Party Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) does a much better job of explaining than I can... and she is vastly...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  you forgot to mention the inevitable ban upon anyone publishing any article containing too many facts it would not be "censorship" but rather labeled as "information filtering" or perhaps "media simplification" here in the US, in the first hours of...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  you need flour and water and salt and electricity to make noodles not enough wheat imports and tap water is documented as getting nasty with toxic crud... but plenty salt from everyone's rage tears given the spike in 'free market...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...rationing as the American sage-athlete Yogi Berra put it: "It's like déjà vu all over again." my snarky prediction is UK will institute rationing by the end of winter of 2026 but there is good news! back in the bad...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  ...and then there's this https://www.fox.com/animal-control/ surprisingly chuckle-loaded...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  we all have need of the cerebral eqv to junk food for me, it's been a hodgepodge of stuff like Grimm, Sight Unseen, Chicago Fire, Batwoman, NCIS, The Rookie, Good Doctor, and (of course) Star Trek: Discovery right now I...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  okay, the Tories are gonna lose... even to a utter noob such as myself, seated so far offshore of the British Isles, there's nothing for 'em to do but be seen weeping and drinking themselves into a coma come that...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  given your understandable rage, and fearing for your BP, my advice for you, do not read up on Florida and other states deliberately (maliciously so) (a) withholding payments for medical services already covered (b) as well efforts to slow walk...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  i dunno if this helps but it is free and legally so... https://www.cbs.com/shows/ghosts-uk/ https://www.cbs.com/shows/ghosts/...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  yet again I shall preach to da choir... now I'm wondering how many other politicians are this level of creepy "In Trump’s tiny mind, dogs are venal, treacherous creatures...To the president, dogs are capable of many things, none of which...
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  having met (and dated and worked alongside) trust fund offspring... I can identify several blindspots in your summary... sex, cars, drugs, gambling, vacations (as distinct from partying), etc... they wreck themselves if nobody is providing frequent reality checks with consequences...