Then why the ball touching ceremony?

“Roadside picnic” is a good book about similar thing. Aliens land on earth and leave bunch of crap behind. People try to figure out what it is but it’s so beyond them it’s like caveman trying to analyze microcontrollers.

Have you seen anything interesting recently (that’s not Start Wars or Marvel)? I’m always looking for good SciFi.

Have you seen Incorporated: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4118466/ ?

Shows really well what it might look like. Great show, such a shame it got cancelled.

Funny, I said similar thing in a different thread and was immediately accused of victim blaming.

Maybe. More likely current system will not survive this and we will end up with some sort of neo-monarchies where powerful leaders control most of the countries (Putin, Xi, Trump… we’re already pretty close) working hand in hand with corporations and billionaires operating as independent states and people either working for them, starving or both.

The current system no longer works for an average citizen. Current and future generations can’t expect a higher standard of living than our parents had while the environment gets destroyed all around us. This disillusionment with current ruling class leads people to support anti-establishment candidates which tend to be far right populists. It’s still possible for socialists to provide a valid alternative but in many countries the left is too fragmented and/or too focused on the wrong issues.

What future?

journalist: People say Putin is the world leader with the most shit in his pants right now

Trump: I don’t know, I have a lot of shit in my pants also

Despite the adjustment, the organisation was firm that its longstanding prohibition on whole-blood transfusions has not changed. It anchored the continued ban on its reading of biblical instructions to “abstain from blood,” signalling that the shift applies only to the four major components, not to transfusions in their entirety.

People died because of this and now they just go “we looked at the rules again and we think they actually mean something else”. What the fuck is this? The Supreme Court?

It’s always funny to see people on lemmy calling for boycotts, saying how stupid companies are for not making products they want to buy and predicting how badly things will fail only for the masses to completely ignore all this and spend money on the same shit as always.

So do they have the scale printed on the wall or do you have to ask?

Why eat?

Kennedy says he only eats meat and ferments.

Isn’t she from the party running on family values?

https://boebert.house.gov/issues/pro-life-and-family-values

*Additionally, I believe that strong families are the foundation of American society, and I oppose efforts to redefine marriage as anything other than the union of one man and one woman. *

And apparently a bunch of that woman’s staffers…

Not that it’s going to change anything (MAGA loves hypocrisy) but I think that if a politician makes family values the core of their brand it’s fair to report what family values they actually represent.

I think kids usually start speaking earlier than that.

Are they afraid that someone will be eaten by a croc or that someone will kill 500 crocs in order to organize a sport event?

And in your scenario the cops understand the difference and just give up and don’t prosecute you? Good luck with that.

I didn’t want to know that 😭

Of course, if you know you’re fucked either way you can do whatever you like. In some places activists can operate in public but in places like US, Mexico or Russia you either operate in secret or risk repressions, no way around it. I mean, you wouldn’t expect the law to protect you from the government in Russia, why would you expect it in US?