Tribalism didn’t end when civilization started. Anyone not in the tribe is lesser, because the alternative would mean your tribe is lesser.

More specific to an iPhone, if you have one, you can do all the social iPhone things like FaceTime. Don’t have one? You can’t FaceTime, so there is a social friction or impediment to socializing. Then there is the “othering” of the green bubble and blue bubble thing. You can’t share photos or videos the same if you don’t have an iPhone. Since we are in a digital age and less physically present, not being able to digitally socialize the same way also inhibits socialization.

All of this is by design. Apple intentionally creates an ecosystem that will excert social pressure on people to buy their products so they can be part of the group like their friends.

Do they prefer “plant parents”?

I wonder if phosphor water could be absorbed by plants via the roots so tons of plants could become bioluminescent and all of the plant people could have some Pandora-esque nighttime ambiance.

Brb, looking for phosphor powders online…

Edit: Naw, won’t work. Injection like they did is the most viable means to introduce bioluminescence… Lame.

It is like you don’t even care about profits and value the consumer.

If they leave the buttholes in, it could do well for the wrong reasons.

Cats would have be a success if they kept the cat buttholes.

Know your worth and you don’t know what you got.

One person’s trash is another’s treasure, but sometimes fixing and cleaning up an item devalues it to the right person.

A misprint is the most valuable form of currency, but most see it as a fake or worthless.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and ugly is ironically chic when value is irrelevant.

Self depreciation is fair value in your economy.

Putting money in a car for personal aesthetic taste or greater performance doesn’t add value if the engine is blown.

I think I was 10. The bridge made my nose hurt and I think I got headaches for a few days from it or the lenses themselves. Changing frames causes some discomfort for a day or two.

Now I can wear glasses for over 24 hours straight without issue.

My vision wasn’t that bad from what I recall, but now I am at a -5.50 or something. I wear contacts when I leave the house and greatly prefer them, especially the transitions contacts that tint like sunglasses in sunlight. Seriously, the transitions contacts are glorious with my light sensitivity and it makes colors really “pop”.

There is potential for Secret Wars, I guess? Maybe they could be part of a Guardians movie. Unlikely they will be part of a Doctor Strange film, but could be.

If you have a door cam, never answer the door unless you know the person.

Use sense, cops wear body armor and show up in numbers for a warrant, obviously armed, and not in street clothes in one car that isn’t an American brand. If they try to kick down the door, shoot through the door until you know you fucked up. If they use a battering ram, don’t make the situation worse and hope for a fat payout through the courts if you aren’t up to some shit.

Fumigation after envelope repair.

You need to, or preferably a pro, need to go around and seal up every possible incursion point and then gas the fuckers.

There is no solution but the final solution. Traps and poisons are like addressing a leaking roof with a pot to catch the water falling on the floor. God help you if you are on piers or block foundation, your fight will be Sisyphean.

Fuck these things. God damn prehistoric cosmic horrors of miniature size.

According to the admin, 1.6m people have self deported or been deported. They also said they arrested more than 352,000 and deported more than 324,000. Not sure if the 324k is from the 352k, I think the 324k is included in the 1.6m.

200 days, 1.6m deported. 8,000 per day average. 2.92m per year, 11.68m over 4 years. 11m is the conservative estimate number of unlawful immigrants, Pew says 14m, but the upper estimate is over 21m.

So they claim they have hit 1m a year a while ago, but we would have to trust their numbers are accurate. There are indications that at least 600,000 have left the US, but that is pretty much based on vibes because concrete numbers are impossible to obtain.

Fuck that jazz, I know where to go to watch anything for the cost of Internet access and an understanding of legal grey areas.

$80 buys a considerable amount of tacos a month and streaming services haven’t earned the perceived value to eat into my taco funds.

That’s neat. I knew they had contacts that would temporarily shape the cornea and your vision would start out great and degrade through the day. “Programming” the cornea is pretty cool.

I don’t think I would get LASIK because of the risks, but I have been interested in the EVO ICL lens replacement. If this procedure ends up going retail, I will look into it.

Well we are well past 1, so we are looking at at least 1 more if we are being disingenuously optimistic.

Some of it is that you have to be a legal citizen or have a TIN, so people will use someone’s account to deliver under if they don’t have those.

Maybe with some fucking with the districts that won’t happen without some sort of judicial order.

Looking at the numbers, D presidents win with hundreds of thousands of votes and D governors win with a 10% or greater margin.

I hope Deadpool is in Secret Wars and they include the scene where he meets Venom.

Not a class 3, shame that.

Pretty much zero.

The Dems would need to have an actual platform other than orange man and couch fucker bad. They keep running on feelings and vibes without a concrete plan to improve things. Not that they will be able to accomplish anything of value, given the circumstances, which will not help in 2028. Then there is the 3rd parties that could form that really makes things worse.

Without a serious effort by the Dems, we are almost certainly going to have another 4 years of Republican Whitehouse in 2028 and the best hope is a slight majority in Congress.