I’m partial to Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping”, since most of it is literally just somewhat-rhythmic talking... and it’s about booze, as well, so it seems like a nice safe choice for that sort of thing...

I hypothesize that it stems from their childhoods; the ‘cool’ kids were ‘into’ sports or ‘war’ or anything EXCEPT complex literature based on something other than relatively recent historical events. There are other ‘nerd-signals’ techbros could use, but Tolkien remains something of a ‘common language’ and also seems…

I’d like to mention a relevant, parallel observation from another English writer:

I could offer a couple of theories, mostly built around different components of trauma.

Yanno all those posters of Che Guevera, and Karl Marx, and other ‘leftist heroes’ that keep driving the regressives into a tizzy?

Yeah. Basically the only way to keep him out of prison for the rest of his life is to have his security detail consist of three beefy guys to restrain him and an intern to keep shoving ‘hamberders’ in his mouth to keep him from talking... but again, he would need that for the rest of his life because he can no more…

Oh, I dunno, it might depend on the meds. I hear that ketamine shows promise for treating mental illness.

That’s part of the problem: it’s NOT ‘just one guy’. Don-John Two-Scoops should never been allowed anywhere near public office, precisely because he lacks the savvy to comprehend a menu that doesn’t include ‘combo meal’ options with ‘hamberder’. For all practical purposes he served as a living Trojan Horse to…

They’re _trying_. Unfortunately, there are significant swathes of the American populace, whose voting record tends toward R-for-regressive and who’ve managed to get a lot of similarly-squawking idiots into positions of actual power, who are threatening violence... again... should laws be applied the same way to the…

Sadly, there are people out there who have somehow internalized the notion that drinking ‘just water’ is beneath them, or that it ‘tastes terrible’.

Oh, I dunno, there’s a fine and rich tradition of “underground newspapers” springing up in the wake of authoritarian idiocy like this. I look forward to seeing THAT saga play out...

Re: “Are we having fun yet?”

Blame Bill Griffith. To be fair, it used to be hilarious:

Oh, come on. “Benignly-subverted expectations” are one of the cornerstones of comedy, along with “frustration”.
“She-Hulk: Attorney At Law” is right up there with “Birdman: Attorney At Law” and... uh... “Space Taxi”?

I’m curious about how ‘stuff’ gets into the injectors to begin with. I’m unaware of any 3D printers on the market today that will let the users play with whatever plastic they can fit into some sort of processing-unit. Most of the time you need to have special filaments. To be fair, each different type of filament…

Is she “Christian” and/or “rich”, or any of the other descriptors normally associated with this level of entitlement?

That, and whether or not the owners/operators have made personal enemies out of law enforcement. That’s where PROsecution comes loaded with PERsecution.

Exactly. His game involves eliminating the ‘unprofitable’ avenues of research while basically claiming a portion of the profits from EVERY drug that this venture makes possible.

Facetiousness aside, what will happen when the primary ‘feature’ that defines the border between the U.S. and Mexico dries up? This presents an interesting geo-political problem, since rivers tend to serve as border-markers in a LOT of different places around the world...

Sir, you forgot the critically-important “step zero”:
Have enough “liquidity” so that investing so much as a single dollar will not put the stability of your food-supply, utility-connections, and permanent residence at risk.
Which, I feel obliged to point out, INSTANTLY ‘disqualifies’ between 7.10 - 19.79 per cent of…

“Implant”, hell; that’s shaped foam-rubber with broom-bristles glued to the front.

This guy is just one steamroller-massage away from being forced into revealing himself as an actual cartoon character...