And have been saying it for seventyfive plus years. I read pulp fiction mags online - every time I read an editorial about the coming energy crisis (or food crisis, or population explosion, or whatever) I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. 

😉 You have read it and have a considered opinion (not just a knee jerk hot take based on the movie). I was prepared to point out that the first chapter continually makes the point that the humans could destroy the skinnies six times over from orbit, but instead use the Marines to apply pinpoint mayhem with minimum…

Now I’m intrigued. What exactly do you see as the overall message of Starship Troopers? (The book, not the movie.)

Unfortunately the biases seep in no matter what. Even self-learning AIs are limited by the initial data they are given, and that data gets filtered thru the programmers. Racism in, racism out. 

I lol’d at that pic, it’s very Aussie. I worked medical claims for the DVA, and there were so many farmers of a certain age who just didn’t have medical records, cause they hadn’t been to a doctor in thirty years, or where you had to override the system that stops you getting benefits for more than one of the same…

I feel so bad for Kesha. Regardless of who did what to whom, this is a woman who has spent the last ten to fifteen years trying to get to a place where she can follow her chosen career, and been blocked at almost every step. How much do we lose every time this happens? Why is her suffering somehow an acceptable price…

I work tangentially to healthcare and occasionally kids - I have a Working With Children (now a Working With Vulnerable People) card, which EVERYONE who is even vaguely associated with kids has to get, teachers, pastors, volunteers, cleaners, drivers, nurses, coaches - you get one, you show it or you don’t get…

Hmmm, is that graphic that makes it look like his name is ‘Bottom Boris’ the result of:

Free will? Nope. It’s literally in the mission statement: Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. You get free will only so you can give it up. And then everything else is supposed to be taken on faith.

The very fact you have to ask, about a mass shooting at a news outlet, effectively a domestic terror attack on the democratic ideals your nation is based on, that happened less than six months ago, is ... actually I can’t finish that sentence, all my hyperbole just fails. 

Oh yeah. Broiler chickens take about nine weeks, cute chick to roast dinner, which incidentally is short enough to fit in a school term (although not cost effective, unfortunately, the year after us all animal pracs were cut, vege gardens and quick growing crops only). And they are ugly mofo’s too, all the nice…

My immediate thought. My next was: would he admit that to his staff when demanding another phone? Would they get him a new one straight away, or would they delay? Would they set it up for him, or just leave it in that impossible shrink wrap so his tiny fingers have to struggle and maybe give up, giving us all some…

That took waaaay too long for such an obvious pun. Where are all your stars? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is anecdata, so take as you will. Abusive husbands I’ve known will rationalise a ‘line’ and so long as you don’t cross it, you are okay. While there’s a woman to take the abuse, as long as the kids obey him and don’t show resistance, they are ‘good’ and don’t get abused. If they start to resist him, or try to…

And charity workers have to go thru all the crap and throw it out anyway, which costs time and money they could actually use on helping people.

Jeeze, I remember that from the 80’s, when bushfires got right into the heart of Sydney (following the park areas around the Lane Cove River). Even when the smoke held off and you could breathe, the haze made everything eerie. We had those cheap lace curtains for privacy, you could see them turning yellow. Look after…

I had a notion, that any statue or memorial he gets for being president would be offset by a wall (ha!) listing all his victims by name. Then I thought, why stop there? Tattoo the names on his orange hide, and let him serve his sentence in a cell of one way glass, so he has to see those names every time he looks at…

There’s a yogurt store called Sixteen Handles? Like, for reals? 

Yay! We’re number one!

Truly majestic creatures, so often overlooked.