And I would’ve gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!

And remember, those donations can be written off in your taxes!

A can of tuna is about a dollar, that’s probably good for 2 sandwiches.

I think that qualifies as cheap. I mean 1 tuna sandwich probably costs about the same amount as a pack of ramen, and it contains actual food.

Sandwiches and soup. I always preferred tuna, but grilled cheese or ham and cheese are solid too.

And people with good aim and a sense of humor always left their last shot for the dog.

Ok, but what does any of this have to do with the GameCube in the thumbnail?

Fuck Martha Stewart too

Obviously, that’s the point.

It’s like when someone says “oh Steve… that guy doesn’t have the intelligence of a toaster”

Clearly Steve’s an idiot, but you don’t have to jump in and attack toasters, nobody’s claiming toasters are geniuses here.

You really think the country has been this fucked up the whole time? You think this isn’t new? Don’t kid yourself, it has not “always been like this”. They want you to forget, they want you to accept this as normal…

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

The current administration of this country is a bizarre, grotesque aberration. If this were normal, there wouldn’t be so much to ruin.

That’s what we’re saying, they’ll be getting less money because of this. It doesn’t make sense.

It’s a leftover from an earlier and more honorable time in American governance.

Oof… Yeah that’s about right.

You’re running off the assumption that the survivors know useful information and that theyre also able to utilize that useful information plus be able to source needed materials since they wont have travel

I think we’re assuming books will continue to exist.

I think one of the real marvels of civilization is the redundancy of information. For every college course you’ve taken there’s a text book, and there may have been dozens of physical copies of that book used in your class, but also for many other classes at other schools that taught that same subject. There may have been 10,000 copies of that book in circulation across the globe, in many different countries.

It’s not impossible to lose information forever, but we’ve put in some really strong defenses against that really happening. There are a lot of libraries in coastal areas which could flood, or big cities that could burn after wars or riots. But there are also plenty of libraries in small towns, and at high elevations. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Aspen has a public library for instance, and so do some of the small towns nearby that you don’t know the name of.

I mean, why do you say that? I don’t know if any other species that lives in a greater variety of environments. There are humans living on every continent, including Antarctica. There are humans living with support in space and under the sea.

We have migrated, to everywhere. And we can adapt, to almost anything.

And to clarify, I don’t think we’ll all survive, but I highly doubt we’d all die.

You know, I doubt I’ve seen any movie over 10 times, at least not since I was a kid watching the same vhs over and over. But I’ve probably seen office space more than any other and I’ve definitely never noticed that. Good eye.

So you’re the guy who liked that movie!

No, people can absolutely be stolen, when those people are already slaves. In fact that is often the language used, stolen or taken. “Kidnapped” is reserved for free people.

Well he’s telling the story this way because it still sounds better than the reality, which is probably more like “yes, I willingly supplied underaged women for Epstein to rape. Actually, we both raped them, a bunch”.

i’d bet any list with more than 10 entries would include metropolis, nosferatu, citizen kane and star wars,

I’d add the Shawshank Redemption to that list as well, and probably the Godfather part 2.

Oh… You’d notice it pretty quick when all the radioactive remnants from the bomb are vaporized into fine dust and spread out into the ocean in a constantly spreading plume.

I bet people would notice real quick.

Edit: autocorrect had turned “vaporized” into “baptized”, that made for a real confusing sentence… 🙄

Heh, maybe the problem started when they changed their name. They aren’t “Apple Computer” any more, they’re just “Apple”. That must have happened somewhere around 2005.

It’s true, there’s always the exceptions, the edge cases. But if I’m thinking about this statistically, who’s likely to breach this first? How many hackers from column A are hammering on this, how many from column B? I just think state actors and corporate interests are in fact the thing to watch out for. There just seem to be much fewer gen z computer geeks than there were millennials.