Komodo Rodeo

Same, that shit was hilarious (pun intended).

1972 biz roundtable plot

I’d appreciate some illumination on this point, having never heard anything about any specific business reorganization in '72? America specifically, or was there some kind of global shift that I’m not recalling?

What’s the difference? I’m not a glass expert over here, is there some kind of fundamental difference?

Might be time for the King’s citizens to invest in smuggling. If European coyotes can get an entire person across the Channel, it’s not impossible.

Blatant fascism in the United States of America.

Glad to hear that you made it out the other side as well. I’m worried about contemporaries stuck eating shit, or worse living back at home with Boomer parents eating shit.

Show them some love (porcelain chunks), and word will spread.

Solid suggestion, I got four downvotes with the picture of the gigantic log, and 25 upvotes after editing lol

I’m not sure who pegged the number for major change at 5%, but the good news is that with the numbers seen yesterday, a rough 1.45%-2.33% of total U.S. population (342,678,000 est. as of Oct. 18) made it out. Great work by the organizers and demonstrators, roughly halfway there.

Social infrastructure FTW, a far more respectable way to run the ship. I’ll keep with the boat analogy to use another idiom; “a rising tide lifts all boats” society shows wisdom in encouraging the kinds of conditions where their citizens can succeed without significant barriers, and improve the whole of it afterward (instead of the banking institutions which extend predatory high-interest loans) with their success. Hats off to Sweden.

Aaah, OK, that makes good sense. I was trying to figure out how to integrate that into the story as I read it but started balking after the 3rd one lol NBD, thanks for the post.

What’s the deal with all of the “opens new tab” entries?

Describe for me how far from a city center or incident you think that you would have to travel - minus the car/uber/taxi/bus/train. 5, 10, 15, 20+ miles until zero cameras and a Superman telephone booth costume change?

Have you heard the expression ‘pulling the ladder up after themselves’ in relation to Booomers, and the housing/labour market?

Lived experience and/or delusion. Many can’t seem to absorb that the labour market didn’t stop changing in 19-fucking-73, and it shows.

I couldn’t believe how dogshit so much of their advice was the last time I was searching for new work, and how irate they were that I wouldn’t take it - because it was useless and/or hazardous to my financial stability in the situation at hand. That coffee drinks-avocado toast shit seemed like satire at first, but some of them actually believe it, and had I been spineless/stupid enough to allow them to push me into the courses of action they were insisting on I think that it might have killed me.

Pre-19th century: would literally make out like a bandit, assuming they knew how to fight & had supernatural powers

20th century: would make out like gangbusters until the invention and widespread use of CCTV

21st century: without active electronic/optics countermeasures, it’s all over, anonymity of secret identity impossible to keep

Same scenario goes for villains, who were previously able to simply outrun/outwit pursuit by authorities, often within the same country. Wire services made this more difficult, depending on the pursuers in question, then moreso with radio, then moreso with telephony & TV broadcasts, then moreso with the advent of the internet. Current tech can analyze recording of subjects and lift face shots, as well as highly specific information like gait (now sometimes touted in the same way as debunked “bite mark analysis” circa the 1980’s courts/justice system). A hoodie would be workable only under the loosest conditions, the second that anyone pulled off the hood, or the subject in question were photographed both with/without it on, it’s all over.

Needs absolute anonymity like the internet circa 2000. Remember ratemypoo.com?

Edit: How’s this instead?

hands on hips “That’ll stop them.” /s