Take a bag, fill it with water, and grip it loosely at the top so all your fingers wrap around like a loose fist.

Now, without turning the bag, use your other hand to empty it by squeezing out the water.

You get most of it out, but there’s still some in there, even if you squeeze violently and it seems like nothing else can come out.

Also, for most of human history, if you’ve poisoned yourself ingesting something, chances are the next thing you’re ingesting is still poisoned. It’s only recently we’ve worked out distilled poison and purified water. So, biologically speaking, better to just be sick for a day so you can get to a different water/food source.

Diplomacy. They can improve diplomacy. Will they? Absolutely not. But they could.

Carbon taxes need a caveat that prices cannot change due to the tax. Otherwise it’s just another way for big business to profit.

“We had to raise our prices because of the carbon tax!”

“But the tax is 8% and your prices have gone up 20%”

shrugs “Dunno. Carbon tax.”

Jokes on you, commie! Space is part of the US of A. You put a flag up there, it’s yours. Thems the rules.

I pause videos to read what’s on screen.

The add on I need is to automatically send the advertiser a message telling them I’m boycotting their product due to their participation in increasingly shitty advertising.

I still fucking love Star Wars. I’m super excited for this game.

I will never pay $110 for a god damn video game. And neither should any Star Wars fan.

Oh no! Actors being paid the minimum legal amount?!

Think of how much it will cost to produce now that they have to pay the least they can possibly be allowed to pay someone!

In other news, new evidence shows Hitler “wasn’t such a great guy” even as early as 1932.

I’m not a scientist, I don’t know one way or the other if there are “cleaner” fossil fuels. But I believe the Exxon CEO when he claims there are.

Hanlon’s Razor doesn’t apply to CEOs. It’s always 100% conscious malicious choices.

While it’s easy to believe Exxon would make up “we could have done it cleaner but it cost more than the market would bear” its much more in tune with big oil’s real strategy of “we absolutely knew about it and beyond doing nothing, we actively suppressed action about it and spent a lot of money ensuring no one else would too.”

I always felt that way about Hershey chocolate! Glad to finally have confirmation that it literally tastes like I just threw up.

The real key is local bottling where local production isn’t possible.

Ship vats of Coca-Cola syrup to the 200 largest cities (more or less) in North America and create local bottle circulation.

Spice it up with local bottle designs or recycling marks. Now you’ve got novelty sales, collector sales, eco-conscious sales, ‘support local’ sales…

I wouldn’t be shocked by how poorly Blizzard treated its employees unless they literally had someone pacing through the office whipping employees whose retinal activity slowed below minimal compliance.

Humans have hit living things with sticks and rocks since we learned it hurts them more than us. You can’t blame patriarchy or the media for that.

Hate and fear are inherent to people. But that’s like how we have an inherent appetite for sugar, fat, and salt.

Love is like exercise. Sometimes kids want to do nothing, sometimes all they want to do it run around. They need to learn that it is good for them and ultimately makes them feel good. Some do on their own, some need to be taught, and some don’t learn it and make a point to avoid it. And the longer you go without doing it, the harder it is to start again.

We built societies and civilizations on the very idea of being greater than our nature.

All hail the Line!

Isn’t that… all laws?

So you want hair and nails to grow consciously?

Like if I want to grow my hair out, I need to actively concentrate on it for a year? Or can I grunt out a moustache like a cartoon? Both are problematic.

Bregg’s it

“It was the gun that shot my grandson! The gun, I say!”

“Will you get rid of the gun that shot your grandson?”

“When you pry it from my cold dead fingers, commie!”

Yeah, to say a successful business is a monopoly because it is far reaching is absurd.

Call me when Good-Old-Epic-Steam launches.

That’s the important distinction. It’s not a black hole. The money isn’t gone. Google keeps the money.

Scary that it’s in their best interest to either let monsters grow a following, then demonetize them, and reap the reward, or occasionally whip up a controversy to steal from a popular creator.