Also, having known Navy folks, I can pretty much guarantee this "Golden Fleet" will be known as the piss boats. If they're lucky.

Look, a navy just isn't a navy without large nigh-immobile targets bedecked with giant noisy ineffective guns.

Zarclaus?

No, I'm well out of my depth these days.

Thanks, but that's what I was afraid of: no reasonable way without mucking things up. I'll just have to go through and do periodic anti-AI sweeps, I guess.

Soooo... How does one downgrade a computer that came with Windows 11 preinstalled? Please don't say Linux, even if I felt up to switching to Linux there's no way my nonagenarian father could.

It is a story of failed Utopias, a cautionary tale against Utopian thinking. Both the Flintstones and the Jetsons face the same problems their ancestors tried to escape. One cannot make needed change in society by dictating fundamental views of technology. In the following six hundred pages, I shall

The Jetsons are the other side of the agrarian/technophilic schism, a walled-garden society based on pure science and adoption of new technologies, which has since fallen by giving responsibility for thought and improvement to the machines, while humans are reduced to minimal capabilities.

The reflexive addition of "rock" and "stone" and such are the last remnant of cultic linguistic restrictions, and the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo is all that is consciously remembered of the priesthood.

Also, when they visit the Jetsons it's not time travel, it's hicks going to the big city.

Absolutely not! Ragú brand tastes vile. You need good marinara for proper spaghettification therapy, not this weak-ass garlic ketchup jarred stuff. 🧐

* Are experiencing.

It's not in the past tense. Everyone pretending it is exacerbates the problem. One reason we can't grieve properly is because the thing we're grieving is still happening.

And use alt text, you ableist curs.

Stop calling the Epstein victims "women" unless you have absolute proof they are above the age of majority, and have the damned decency to redact their names, faces, and bodies regardless of the original state of the media released.

Because of allergies and asthma scented candles are (with apologies to candle scent lovers) all on the same plateau of respiration-obliterating horror for me, yet somehow I just know these smell even worse.

Very kind of you. 😁

"Turtle Island Liberation Front" sounds like a fake extremist group created as an FBI/CIA op to lure in Native American protesters, but they all spot the white people nonsense a mile off and sit back laughing as they run around trying to arrest each other.

It was a bit much for me, too, and I like spiders. I felt a squorsh and a squiggle, and looked inside, and a spider the size of my palm was looking back reproachfully.

I may have screamed just a little, and it got a ride across the room by air mail. 😅