Oh and potato chips? Forget about it. Dill pickle, salt and vinegar, ketchup… We can’t be expected to go on without ketchup chips. Looks like big red has got us this time boys. 😋

Yeah but who cares? Twitter was dead the second Elon bought it and we all knew it.

$250,000 a seat tourist submarine… The ocean can have them.

Kinda hilarious that Butler thought everyone would lose their homes to drugged up pyromaniacs rather than the reality: the homes will still exist just no one will be able to afford to live in them. Maybe she figured that this would be too unbelievable for readers to engage with.

I suspect the US’s path might be like Parable, with a big spoonful of The Water Knife and a dash of Ministry of the Future.

Ghouls.

No it can’t

Well just air drop them a good indica and we’ll have this whole thing sorted in a week.

I get your point, but I think the image you have in your head of rustic countryside life, hard work and an honest living isn’t the reality these child slaves are part of.

Seems a bit less terrible when you inherit the farm at some point, for one. Second, one would assume that parents would take steps to prioritize their child’s health and safety and wow do they not do that on industrial farms. And third, can’t be an honest living if you’re not actually being paid, you know, a living.

I don’t think both sides are experiencing cognitive dissonance. In practice, they both appear to be working against the interests of the working class.

Seems like the humans are in a bit of a pickle.

On one hand they can keep using fossil fuels, and that will allow some humans to live more comfortably while they pump so much planet warming gasses into the climate system that it guarantees the future sterilization of the planet.

On the other hand, they could mandate a planet-wide ban on fossil fuels, which would be problematic because their food system is entirely reliant on fossil fuels, without which they could only feed about one billion humans.

Or maybe they will choose to gamble, and attempt to exert their control of the climate system through stratospheric injection of sulphate aerosols. It will be neat to see what possible unanticipated consequences this leads to!

Well whatever the humans choose, just know that we’re all rooting for you! 🍿🎉

They don’t seem to be coping so well with a non-AI-saturated ‘post truth world’.