An urgent care near me is upstairs from a Willy’s Mexicana Grill.

Does Lemmy have a !rareinsults community yet?

10000% pure copium. The fascists will NEVER see any semblance of justice unless YOU, PERSONALLY dedicate your life to making it happen. And even then, it isn’t likely unless millions of other Americans accept their individual responsibility as a citizen to do the same.

THAT is the level of effort required to bring a society back after it has allowed its democratic institutions to fail.

Upton Sinclair has entered the chat

You if bugs didn’t exist:

(Grasses are angiosperms and rely on bugs to reproduce.)

The oligarchs can’t win on the merits of their policies, so they desperately resort to identity politics to try to divide us.

I was expecting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

despite because of

FTFY.

I’m concerned about either that or another right-wing domestic terrorist assassinating him.

They believe “constitutional” means that thing they do on the toilet each morning.

Well that doesn’t make any sense! Why would she do that if all abortions are caused by women getting knocked up and then randomly deciding they don’t actually want their baby, like the anti-choice narrative claims?

It’s almost as if abortions are actually done for good reasons and the anti-choice people are hateful fucking liars. Weird.

Well, now you’ve piqued my curiosity. Got a link?

The Wikipedia article I’m reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that’s not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn’t actually as settled as I’m making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn’t change the “result” of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.

Fun fact: Smartwater bottles are popular with ultralight backpackers because they’re cheap, lightweight, and durable enough to survive an entire Appalachian Trail thru-hike.

In other words, it’s fucking ridiculous that they’re sold as single-use plastics.

Considering that we’re in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I’d say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I’m guessing it would exceed the “Great Dying” (Permian-Triassic extinction event) to take the crown.

Edit: The Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica, which may be associated with the Great Dying, was “only” a little over 2.5 times larger in diameter than Chicxulub and thus still way smaller than the crater depicted. That said, I guess a nuclear crater wouldn’t be associated with a flood basalt “exit wound” at the antipode the way an impact crater might be, so maybe it wouldn’t be comparable.

See my last paragraph here. TL;DR: it might indeed do that, but only in the vacuous truth sense that no human societies would be left to make war.

Has any nation in history fucking autolobotomized as hard and as fast as we have?

Well, the Khmer Rouge killed everybody who wore glasses because they were “intellectuals,” China killed millions trying to force city kids to become farmers during the Cultural Revolution, and I’m pretty sure other autocratic totalitarian governments have fucked themselves in similar ways. Usually when societies become illiberal, people with brains are the first to be put up against the proverbial wall.

Totally couldn’t be an old man yells at cloud situation

It literally couldn’t, because I was a teenager at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWKzM1UyMcs

Around 2010, something shifted.

I have been ranting about Javascript breaking the web since probably close to a decade before that.

Static site generators let you, e.g. write content in a markup language, raðer ðan HTML.

HTML is a markup language, goddamnit! It’s already simple when you aren’t trying to do weird shit that it was never intended for!

(Edit: not mad at you specifically; mad at the widespread misconception.)