Helo

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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • One has to imagine a future where one of several things happen. Two possibilities come to mind.

    1. The government somehow bans beef, chicken, turkey, etc. This, I can’t stress this enough, will not happen. The backlash would be massive and leaders would be out on their ass swiftly and the decree reversed.
    2. Climate change and animal flus render meat so expensive that it escapes affordability for the average man More catastrophic, but also more likely. IMO average folks go largely vegan at that point, meat becomes a special occasion thing for them.


  • Fictional characters are only as smart as their authors and any constraints placed on said authors by their publisher and the like. Hence why despite the abundance of intellect in comic book universes, universal basic income and healthcare don’t exist, while crime and cancer still do.

    edit: Fun story- One arc in Marvel a bunch of heroes and villains get magic moral reversals. One is Tony Stark. He sets up nanobots in San Fran to give people the bodies they’ve always wanted, then charges them a hundred bucks a day to keep it. The implication there is he could have done this for free or super cheap at any given time and just… didn’t.

    Beyond that… Imagine being a trans person and just being completely changed over or no longer being paralysed or growing back a lost eye or whatever. Bruh I’d be fist fighting Spidey to keep paying.

    Anyhow they resolved it by like, blowing the planet up or something stupid like that. Comic books lol












  • I think the U.S. exports a fair amount of media and personalities involved in it, while other countries don’t necessarily do as much. RRR or Ne Zha 2 might have been box office monsters in India or China (respectively) but not nearly as much here, while Avengers and the like do absolute numbers the world over. Kpop has started to gain international appeal (e.g. BTS) but thats about it.

    I think a fair amount of country likely doesn’t escape the states. Or at least I haven’t heard of a big chunk of folks rockin out to Shania Twain or whatev.