Odd Thought

If you've donated enough blood,

over a long enough time,

it's almost a sure thing

that your blood ended up

in some guy's hard on.

A Thought

Be prepared to change your worldview.

The more confident we are about our beliefs,

the more our brains ignore contradictory evidence,

leaving us lost and blind

in an echo chamber of confirmation bias.

A Thought

Dear "conservatives" -

Generally, you've been voting for politicians who are in the process of making abortion illegal.

Guess who's going to be getting most of the abortions once those politicians make abortion illegal.

And guess who's going to be having most of the babies because they can't afford to travel in order to get the abortions all those white women are getting?

If you're really worried about that "Replacement Theory" crap, you need to be onboard with Pro-Choice.

Buncha fuckin' idiots.

Today's Big Think

Does the world embody beautiful ideas.

Frank Wilczek for Big Think

Nature uses fundamentally simple principles

to power emergent complexity.

Today's Thought

Your body is not a temple.

It's a taxi cab.

It gets you from point A to point B

in reasonable comfort,

and it's designed to withstand

a reasonable amount of abuse.

Enjoy the ride.

A Thought

Wikipedia has built the modern-day equivalent

of the Library at Alexandria

simply by relying on the nerds' compulsion

to correct each other.

An Observation

 

Those Hyper-Patriotic Americans who hate foreigners and immigrants are the same people who hate large numbers of Americans too.

Today's Thought

Maybe it's not that the price of gas

has gone up 60 cents a gallon.

Maybe it's the fact that even

a temporary increase in the price of gas

puts millions of American wage-earners

at risk of going broke.

hat tp = @DanPriceSeattle

A Thought

Over and over and over again, we've heard "conservatives" tell us it's a cherished privilege - and an honor beyond imagining - to fight, and to bleed, and to die if necessary, in order to protect and defend the sacred Constitution of these United States.

I'm just wondering why so many Republicans seem so willing to fight and to bleed and to die trying to shit-can it.

Overheard

Your stomach always has a load of

fresh warm puke ready.

Odd Thought

American Christians

idolize conservatives Monday thru Saturday,

then go to church on Sunday

 and pray to a liberal for salvation.

Today's Deep Thought

A game of Monopoly with

current prices,

and an average entry-level salary

would be unplayable.

A Thought

Among the many weird things about the text messages that were flying around on Jan6 is that when Don Jr felt the need to get in touch with his dad to plead with him to chill out the assholes attacking the Capitol, he had to ask Mark Meadows to do it.

Unless of course, it was just a little CYA.

Today's Factoid

Here in USAmerica Inc, there are about 560,000 homeless people. We could provide all of them with healthcare, a 1-bedroom apartment including all utilities and wi-fi - plus a monthly stipend of $1,000 for some food, clothes and a movie once in a while - solely at the expense of America's billionaires, and every one of those billionaires would still be a billionaire.

The way we're doing things is stoopid - we have to do better.

USAmerica, Inc

A Thought

I find it comforting 

to think Ronald Reagan 

is spending eternity in hell 

waiting for heaven to trickle down.

Wisdom Available On Twitter

If you think people should suffer as you did early in your life because you

"turned out fine",

then you did not in fact turn out fine.

@daniel_swensen

Deep Thought

Maybe we should to stop to consider

the probability that god sent COVID

to rid the world of

wingnut talk radio hosts,

alt-right podcasters,

and charlatan preachers.

A Thought

I have to marvel every day at what the billionaires and DumFux News have pulled off so far.

They got wage-earning folk to hate the very people who want them to have better pay (and to enjoy some of those fringe benefit thingies that should go along with every job) - who want them have safe drinking water and clean air to breathe, affordable healthcare, decent education opportunities, and the power to push back against big banks and the giant corporate conglomerates that eat companies and shit people.

It is a wonderment. But I s'pose that's always the way.

@GhostPanther

Deep Thought

Imagine a guy scarfing 3 slices of pizza at a party because he's afraid they'll run out of it, and a guy who takes just one slice for the same reason. That's basically an illustration of The Tragedy Of The Commons, but damned if it doesn't perfectly describe how fucked up America is right now.

Today's Deep Thought

A scuba-diving pregnant woman

is technically a submarine.

hat tip = Reddit r/showerthoughts