Makes the game Grounded seem not cartoony enough!

South Park is certainly helping, then

I want to believe so bad that it’s the first tiny glimpse of resistance work from within at play here…

I’d love for some kind of “social model of a great human” canonization process… A bit like the Nobel prize, something determined by a committee or something, but it would have to be people that were actual genuine fucking awesome humans.

I’m thinking Steve Irwin, Fred Rogers, etc…

Am Canadian. Got stung by a wasp on the foot last Saturday. Got worried yesterday when i noticed the red area around the sting grew. Contacted my gp’s office at the CLSC, got an appointment to see her this morning, got a scrip for antibiotics since she thinks it’s likely an infection, picked it up this pm and starting it tonight. 0$ for the consult, antibiotics are ~60$ (that’s the only place my private insurance kicks in, my out of pocket is 12$).

And this is a very standard experience in Quebec - with 1 caveat: my family’s fortunate enough to have an assigned GP, there’s a shortage and a pretty long (2y I think) waiting list; on the flip side there are a ton of walking/24/48h appointment clinics (also 0$) for those without.

When i say 0$, i want to be clear: it’s not free, it’s part of what’s covered by the RAMQ, which is the provincial health insurance company, but our yearly premium for that insurance is at most 800$.

That’s what happens when the health insurance is designed to hedge and amortize social costs rather than generate profits…

Fucking shit americans, PLEASE fet your shit together, make it stop… I know this one is a tiny drop in the ocean of rotting shit that is the Trump fascist regime, but fuck…

Sorry, sorry, i know, you’re just as horrified…

There’s a ton of scholarly and peer reviewed articles and studies on the “architecture of fascism” the “art of awe” etc, and how through history, grandiose and gilded decor and architecture has been used to manipulate, convince and enthrall the masses.

Example: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/propaganda-and-the-jesuit-baroque/hardcover

You just know there’s some old vet that systematically lights up his cig on this every time he does it, all casual

Well they did want the naked truth from him

I remember reading a fascinating article (or Reddit post, at the time when those were sometimes awesome) from this guy interviewing his mom, a COBOL programmer… Wondering if it’s related…

Update: found it but it was deleted

Update: found it on the waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160719020302/https://medium.com/@Svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.kiw240b6p

He looks board

Let me clarify: the business didn’t need the employee to be there, it needed the employee to be pliable.