Eh, I figured he just skipped five hundred years of a period of history pleasant enough to live through, but extremely boring to read about. It’s pretty clear with Foundation and Earth that _____ has added enough superpowers that ___ can’t be stopped in any meaningful way.

The Asimov books seem to be largely about how one would go about mitigating the damage from the fall of the space-empire, in hopes of finding a way to keep society from collapsing for a millennia,

Very cool; thanks!

Could I ask you for the fake sausage recipe?

“Vegetarian” and around fifteen years ago matches the 2005 Hufu hoax; it was just a student prank. Martin Robbins mentions it during his 2010 summary of what information we had then: https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/05/human-meat-taste-cannibal

The ASPCA would like to have a word about your toad in the hole.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Human Flesh.

Yeah! Except that doesn’t work.

I do occasionally get to use Polish as a race card, but on my side of the country during this decade, it’s, like, the three of clubs.  (Welsh is the deuce.)

ANTIPOPE IN OUR LIFETIME

Paper at https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/GC/D1GC00931A . Unfortunately, dealing with plastic waste has two parts: (A) depolymerizing the plastic, and (B) doing something useful with the resulting monomers. (A) is difficult and essential. (B) is both easy and optional. The paper only discusses a…

Bayview. About as far southeast as you can get and still technically be in San Francisco.

(It turns out that what you actually get if you Google “plate of eyes” is stuff you don’t want to drop into a light-hearted forum.)

I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

“Well, we haven’t been able to convince anyone to eat the fruit.” — Unidentified speaker, National Papaya Council general meeting, May 27, 2021.

I Can Has Teething Ring by Chock-Full-O-Rat ®.

Prepare for another round of Unexplained Global Happening, or UGH.

It’s an interesting question. Specifically for an EMP, the gearheads ( https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1112148-diesel-year-with-no-electronics-in-engine-2.html ) simultaneously point out (A) engines, diesel or gasoline, have a LOT of fiddly little electrical and electromechanical components in unexpected places,…

( https://kinja.com/daveassist is greyed here, but I got a notification that ‘e replied “Wait, I’m missing this, does the film claim that no electricity works at all, such as no more lightning or static from carpets, or is it no more electronics, such as transistors and chip devices?”)