Nah, it’s way easier to send a satellite to take a look.

It’s impossible to secretly launch enough payloads to build a moonbase in the first place. Every launch has to pass through low earth orbit and rockets are shiny. There are too many eyes on the sky to go unnoticed. Even then, there’d be radio chatter between the Earth and Moon, and satellite redirection from the far side. You can encrypt radio signals, but they can’t hide.

That’s a real person? I don’t know… wait is that the one guy who never showers and has roaches crawling on him?

Good lord. Because the dollar exists, and people in other countries are free to reference it without changing their numerical punctuation standards. Other languages have their own spellings for America too, and in their own alphabets. They don’t have to switch things up for us.

Don’t worry, the American dollar won’t be the de facto global currency much longer, so this kind of thing will just fade away. Of course, that means we will have to learn new systems.

No, Walmart destroys communities.

Seems like somebody missed out on cakefarts.

Yeah, viral zombies won’t last long in the southwest. I ought to be good with just shutters on the house.

Lots of food is gonna rot.

People in countries that use . instead of , still use $ without changing punctuation when referring to the dollar.

No, the reason why is completely obvious.

Why are we paying rent at all?

More than I need anymore. None.

I’m not normal, no. I can’t say I’m doing great. But I’m actually far more stable now than I’ve ever been. I’m preparing for bad times to help others as best I can. I’m not ready enough. I protest when I can. I try to read older books rather than the latest clickbait. My work actually matters, so I don’t feel drained from it. I mostly quit arguing with idiots, online and off. They’ll feel the pain soon enough. Good. I do mock them to their faces. If they change, I might help them. If it gets as bad as I’ve always suspected it will, I’ve already lived longer and better than anticipated. I’ve never feared oblivion. Sounds nice these days. If I die, I’ll die fighting the darkness. I’m content. Let them come. Good people will still live on. If we let the fools and psychos in power destroy our entire biosphere, well then we will have proved Humanity never deserved the stars in the first place.

If we make it, keep pushing humanity forward. We are all one people and we are worth the struggle. We are the only known intelligence in the Universe and we must learn to act like it, or die. Don’t let us down.

So that’s how I’m doing.

I have zero objections to portraying nazis as pedophiles and having children kill them.

Only part I disagree with is the only thing more powerful than hate is love.

Yes, love is strong. But hate is weak. Plenty of concepts are stronger than hate.

The person you replied to wasn’t talking about fucking off into nature. They were talking about building a better world.

Oh, the rich are helping people to the best of their abilities?

Furthermore he was utterly obsessed with his own supposed genius.

No, it has to be much lower than that. People need to feel like that kind of wealth is utterly unobtainable and shameful.

I used Windows 10 for a while. But now I’ve completely moved to various flavors of Linux. I’ll get GrapheneOS or something on a phone if possible later.

Only place I still have windows 11 is my work PC. Nearly all the main annoying crap is managed away by IT, and it’s still irritating as hell.

Definitely three times.