Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?

This is my surprised face

But is that the “real” Nicole, or a metascammer trying to piggyback on the scam?

Any joy the little people still have in their lives is potential profits left on the table

Judging by their mugshots, they were perpetuating a longstanding family tradition

I suspect Nicole is a similar sort of operation to Aidana the pretty lady dentist from Kazakhstan, only aimed at people who’d be more sceptical. So instead of stealing images from a fitness influencer, they got some from a more average-looking young woman and made up a story. If it’s like Aidana, there’s a guy somewhere (probably in the hinterland of Russia or elsewhere in the former USSR) whose day job is to string the people who reply along, lead them into believing they have a relationship with this lady, make sure they’re absolutely sure this isn’t a scam, and then pig-butchering them for all they’re worth.

Perhaps he means the conservative canard that belief in a common good and/or attempting to make the world a better place are the root of all evil, and that, had they rejected public service and instead competed against each other in one marketplace or another, there’d have been no Holocaust and no gulags, only millions of naturally unremarkable deaths

If the speech is a Hitler speech, you can probably download it straight from Xitter these days.

Their hearts would have to beat a lot slower, as pretty much every species gets 1-2 billion heartbeats per lifespan.

The handful of pet Galapagos tortoises are something like that.

I’m 13 and this is edgy

Looks like buying the Washington Post paid off then

And yet, shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our rooms

Do they mean “Firefox can get your location data to pass on to pages you give permission to, who we cannot guarantee won’t share it with advertisers” or “Firefox reserves the right to do a deal to monetise the tantalising firehose of location data coming from your device unless you specifically opt out”?

Kiki before bouba

Every country in Southeast Asia that gets waves of rowdy Western tourists has markets selling cheaply made T-shirts with these kinds of designs. They’re cheap (at least in western currency) and people end up buying them as souvenirs and as gag gifts for mates/coworkers.

I’ve seen one with the same colours/typeface/drawing style only it was about smoking weed or possibly banging two chicks at once. IIRC, it was purchased in Thailand a decade or two ago.

Also, villains are often coded as minorities, whereas the heroes are basically the mainstream.

That’s basically Inspirational Skeletor.

“communist” (and “woke” and other epithets) is a term of tribal identity. The Dems could lean fully into Handmaid’s Tale christofascism in the name of bipartisanship and they’d still be “communists”, for the same reason a rival sports team are still the enemy despite no ideological difference.

Well, they do have cliffs