Sounds more like a shitty ET calculator with some glaring omissions/faulty assumptions.

The fact that this is what it’s come to just to protect people from a world-wide disease outbreak, like very other outbreak proceeding it....

Conservatives on this issue/the dress code: “No, not like that...”

“The best was a local celebrity who apparently swallowed Barbie Doll heads because he enjoyed passing them.”

They already did within days of the first round of masking and “soft lockdown” in 2020.  Freaked them the fuck out, while actual adults were just like, “ok, cool, we’ll make it work.”

I’ll assume alcohol was involved. Not really sure how else you’d miss or ignore the multiple warnings, both audible and visual, as well as the giant ass outside air and noise now present in the vehicle.

The next two months in the South are going to be an utter shit show.

You have to do what I do, lock myself in my room when they visit (because my wife is apparently unconcerned and unwilling to tell them not to), and actively decline any and all trips to see any of them. It sucks, and it may one day cause a rift in our marriage, but I only get one shot at life and I’m not going to…

Belief bias.

Counterpoint: Fuck other people. I’m not engaging and waiting to find out just how big of an asshole they are. The upside is not worth it.

Exactly. For a party that believes in local control, they sure don’t seem to believe in local control, do they? Authoritarian fascists gonna fascist.

They’ll get re-elected, absolutely. My in-laws have had multiple family members with Covid still unable to taste or smell almost a year later, some with chronic fatigue, and some of their long-time friends have died. It doesn’t matter to them who is responsible because they still constantly shit on democrats and…

We’ve always been past the tipping point because we don’t live in a world where the greater good matters at all. It’s nothing but short term profits and comfort. Always has been. Stopping this would require empathy for the plight of others and sadly most humans have none.

It’s not really, though, is it? The brake lines have already been cut, and there’s no real path to end the greed and lack of foresight that would be needed to fix this. It’s done, over. Short of some miracle of fusion energy happening yesterday, we’re on this ride and we’re not getting off because not enough people…

So then every member of congress ever put in congress is guilty of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, correct?

Flooding, on fire or infected, following an early century of massive loss of life from warfare, and a latter half century of rapid and aggressive expansion of unequal wealth distribution.  The next century is going to be very, very interesting, and I’m too cynical to believe it will be anything but a disaster.

I dunno about “nobody will ever remember”. I fully understand there’s no such thing as ethical consumption in American capitalism, and I’ve been paying for and playing Blizzard games for 20 years so I’m complicit. Even thinking about playing now after all of this leaves me feeling incredibly icky. I know my withdrawal…

Mazepin’s been pretty busy spinning off on his own and damaging his own car for the most part so far.

Good. The fuck is wrong with people? Never in my life have I seen so many “adults” refuse to act like anything but children. Hell, right now the children ae behaving more appropriately than the “adults”.

You mean like the coastal elites the conservative party currently idolizes?