Excellent question.

Well, good! I’d embed Ode to Joy for this moment of progress and sanity but the solar energy companies already have a pretty good spokesperson for this new age:

Hopefully this also means they are reducing the number of factory farms in the process. The runoff from those things is awful.

That was the subtext of “We don’t serve their kind in here!”

The Expanse is awesome. These comments are depressing.

Once there was a time when clean drinking water was considered a free, public resource and clean, maintained drinking fountains could be found everywhere. Then something went wrong in the 1970s and we stopped giving a fuck and didn’t want to pay to maintain this public good.

Campbell may be right. And obviously we’re exchanging the known agony of the human condition for the unknown agony of the posthuman condition. But think about this, at least it will be different, if it isn’t better.

My theory is that these two:

“But I’m trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!”

As a child of the Cold War, I’m not even going to jump into this popcorn fest of comment drama and misunderstandings.

Preparation for the vocabulary portion of the GRE. I swear by it.

Exactly. The main commonality we have, aside from death, is we are dragged, kicking and screaming, into this broken, bleeding and tragic world. And no one gives us a choice. It’s just “Here’s life. Nope, that can’t be fixed. Nope, that’s not gonna happen. Enjoy yourself!”

The joke. You failed to parse it.

Tsk. A failure of imagination.

Well, if she didn’t like it, she shouldn’t have to do it. It should all be voluntary.

Nope. I’m very, very, very tired of being human. All the small evils we inflict on one another. The alienation. The bullying. The cowardice. The reflexive fears of the different. The unthinking oppression. All the dysfunctional soap opera.

Well, looking at this in a science fictional sense, some of us would view this as liberation, not destruction.

This is not a generational thing, Stillwell. it’s deeper than that.

I’d cite that SMBC about dental bacteria poop but I can’t find it. I wish Weinersmith had a better way to search his comics!

Yes, dead-on satire of post-Thatcher UK!