You think he knows those are two different people? He probably thinks “Hunter” is one of Joe’s nicknames.

I love this idea. The more we think about the future, the more we will think about how to make it one we might actually want to live in.

Is there a legal definition of sentience?

Surely we’re at the point where we can at least agree that whatever is going to happen is not going to be good.

What, so you’re fine with it as long as it’s other people’s kids suffering in the tire fire of a future we made for them?

Mmmmm, hot ass-water.

At a certain point you can just accept that you’re being watched, people are plotting against your well-being, and also most of it is beyond your ability to control. So you focus on what you can at least pretend to control and move on with your life. So Google knows when I scratch my balls, and some future authoritarian will flag me for speaking out for progressive causes. I can’t stop all of it, and I won’t ruin my own mental health obsessing over it. I shrug and go on living.

Kinda? Every time I see one I think of that Simpsons episode where Homer’s brother lets him design his dream car.

I haven’t seen the latter, but I admit I don’t go out of my way to enter those particular corners. That’s sick behavior whoever is perpetrating it. Hamas is fucked and needs to disappear. The Israeli regime is also fucked and needs to disappear.

My anti-Israel stance is about the shitty humans in charge of its current regime and their abhorrent human rights abuses. It has nothing to do with the religion of anyone involved, except to the extent that all fundamentalism is bad… my heart goes out to all the Israelis who have been hurt by their government’s bad decisions - which includes cultivating a violent extremist opposition allowing them to justify violence of their own. The US uses the same playbook, and I condemn it for that too.