Honestly, it’s breathtakingly beautiful. And there are cults fuckin everywhere.

Nah, humans already reached the maximum lifespan thanks to modern medical care. It’s basically doubled in the last century, and the last decades suuuuck. A century or so is all we will ever get. Billionaires are just as obsessed with immortality as ancient emperor’s, and it’s as unobtainable as it ever was. What are they gonna do, implant virgin’s organs when they’re 103? They’ll never survive the surgeries.

And Iraq. No Iran either.

The only Windoes PC in my house is my work PC, and I barely touch it at home.

I did the same but paid off debt and bought a house. Still ain’t sure whether I chose wisely.

Good luck assholes, I barely speak.

Company gives me a Starlink for deep remote work. I’m doing my part!

I think the real goal is the billionaires uploading their minds to achieve immortality. Definitely impossible, but that’s what I think.

I’ve never had cable in my entire life. Parents never paid for it, and I got so sick of watching planes crash into buildings 25 years ago that I stopped watching it entirely. It didn’t take long before advertising drove me crazy, and I’ve never been back.

I’ve been arguing with strangers online ever since. I should get back into books.

No don’t kill him first.

Jesus spent lots of time with prostitutes.

Same here.

Good lord. Because the dollar exists, and people in other countries are free to reference it without changing their numerical punctuation standards. Other languages have their own spellings for America too, and in their own alphabets. They don’t have to switch things up for us.

Don’t worry, the American dollar won’t be the de facto global currency much longer, so this kind of thing will just fade away. Of course, that means we will have to learn new systems.

It’s a humiliating way to enter the galactic community. We would never live it down. But we could use some humbling. I’d accept the help.

Nah, they are nowhere near as good as the movies, nor are the villains all that smart.

That’s neat. I wonder how cheap a drone could be made to destroy them?

People in countries that use . instead of , still use $ without changing punctuation when referring to the dollar.

We perfected building a near peer military with Russia in mind. We build massive fleets of wildly expensive machines and great arsenals of similarly expensive ammunition. We made almost all of that shit overwhelmingly dependent on the supply chain of a flammable, nonrenewable, black fluid easily controllable by the nation we just attacked. One which has taken seriously the new lesson that such militaries are obsolete and top heavy. The way forward lies in small, cheap, autonomous suicide drones, cyber attacks, propaganda, and economic pressure. They’re one of the few countries to take that lesson to heart. We have recently decapitated the competence of nearly every powerful system of our nation; political and military, and pushed our economy to the brink. We are led by hyper-overconfident, insecure, malicious idiots supported only by a cult minority of our population.

Not quite perfect is right. The rest of the world should bind together to pressure us, hard.

Still though, we need a new HAZMAT category now.

Ship the size of a continent slips out of the skein alongside a Federation starship and immediately runs a scan that siphons up all the art and science records onboard.

“Science officer, wtf?”

“Hey there! We are The Culture! We’ve been partying for the last few hundred cycles, and this month has been particularly wild. Everybody thinks y’all seem cool. Wanna get fucked up, go lava surfing, and chat about life? Just park that thing anywhere.”

I’d love to watch that one.