NGL the AI generated image make DG look cool AF

Dude needs to take a page from the Republicans - if you can't influence society via culture, just capture the judicial branch.

Back in the pre-Elon days I idly wished Twitter had something like RES to be able to tag idiots. Now ofc the blue check does a good job as a first-pass filter.

Ah these are the dudes with the unbelievably cringe Reddit dating history.

Wat

[Grace's] grandfather, a British scientist at GlaxoSmithKline, found that poppy seeds yielded less opium when they grew in the English rain, so he set up an industrial poppy farm in sunny Australia and brought his family there.

To grow opium???

(OK I guess for medicinal purposes but maybe point that out)

They're like grade school kids still trying to put on the same amateur music show 10 years later and wondering why no-one is applauding.

Love how the poster frames making an apology not as "the ethically and morally right thing to do" but as "this one weird trick will increase your karma on LW"

Their crippling addiction

My worthy pastime

"Where we're going... we don't need clinical trials!"

As always with rats you get call-backs to more or less bad SF. In Varley's Steel Beach, the universal AI keeping everyone "happy" on the Moon invents a nanobot that cleans your teeth and gives your breath a minty fresh flavor. The leader of la Resistance naturally hacks it to disable it, no Man is gonna prevent me from having filthy teeth!

Also in on of Paul McAuley's short stories, the main character reflects on the total destruction of the Earth's ecosphere, which was caused by a genetically modified perfect coffee plant which took over all of life.

I believe there's a normal progression for any cult where they are convinced that The Man is out to get them.

A variant of this organism was first created in 1985, and volunteers deliberately inoculated themselves with the modified strain. This has, to our knowledge, caused no ill effects since.

Who needs the FDA when you have vague hunches?

it’s only a matter of time until big, scary armed guys come for me, as they came for so many other nerdy misfits.

Citation most definitely needed.