Fuck Ken Paxton. I hope he gets trapped in quicksand inhabited by starving sand fleas.
Also, in the broadway poster and the fan edit of the movie poster, the position of the hand communicates “I am telling this person a secret.” In the original movie poster the position of the hand communicates “I’m hiding a zit” or maybe “I have a toothache.”
Allred isn’t my ideal candidate for senate but he’s still light years better than the zodiac killer of Cancun, and I’ll happily vote for him the first day of early voting here.
I remember learning that after my dad told me stories about badgers near the Minnesota farm where he grew up killing dogs significantly larger than dachshunds and thinking “how the fuck does that work??”
I could swear that I read it on NBC news, but I can’t find it now. Here’s a Newsweek link, though: https://www.newsweek.com/former-kkk-leader-david-duke-endorses-jill-stein-trashes-donald-trump-1969710
NBC is reporting it, which makes it seem unlikely that it’s bullshit.
“That’s how I got the nickname ‘the Doc Ellis of geology’”
Damn, eating well has more useful coverage than the AP.
Every day is some variation on shitty.
I want to remind you that you are reading fiction and that fiction writers bring all their biases with them when they write.
For a somewhat bitter antidote to the despair, I encourage you to read David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. One passage towards the end, in particular, really made me rethink some of my depression. They talk about how wars leave indelible marks in the fossil record, and throughout most of the record there are no indications of war: peace is the rule, not the exception. We seem to be in an anomalous period of human history, and getting back from the brink will require a lot of work.
The interactions you mention from the book don’t seem to be borne out by actual human experience. In times of distress people are more likely to help each other. Listening to accounts from the ground in Asheville is largely a tale of people who may not have thought much of each other a few weeks ago helping each other because they are all humans who need help. I don’t see any reason to think this would change if the scope of disaster was bigger. The key problem seems to come from people thinking they should be in charge, and that’s easy enough to deal with.
So, “industrial food production” is an expansion of the term used and makes it more accurate as well.
Yes, although that would arguably be too quick 🤔