Only two thirds! Wow, that's optimistic.
… said the corrupt oligarch nearly drowning in debt of both a financial and political nature.
He'd probably call people having money in their savings account wasteful since it isn't in his account.
Most people are basically good… to the people that matter personally to them. Unless they're like Vash the Stampede, a typical person's umbrella of empathy includes only friends and family they regularly see, not humanity in general.
Efficiency for whom? A thief holding a bank teller up at gunpoint is more efficient than working a 9 to 5.
“In this supply-constrained environment, efficiency of centralized control only makes sense!”
“For whom? Also, why is the supply constrained in the first place?”
“Well, we used hype from central bank-level investors to lend us enough to buy up all the supply. We have sooo much debt that we need every penny of efficiency we can get.”
The Sims 1 jumpscare sound
“A substitute for oxygen?” “New Oxygen Lite™!” — MST3K, “The Crawling Hand”
“Not because you're a rabbit, but because you're black.”
How many diapers did that baby steal? Insurance companies say each year of human life is worth about 50,000 USD, so, cynically channeling Jonathan Swift, shooting this baby that could have lived to 60 would only be “justified” if the little one were hauling away 3,000,000 USD worth of diapers. That's about 500 metric tons of diapers.
And if possible, aim to pierce the lungs of your dreams, not the bowels. And be especially careful not to puncture the bladder or you will spoil the dream meat. Easy mistakes to make when field-dressing your dreams.
Dated: 2026-02-19. Added: 2026-02-19.
Image caption “A photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre in 2001, in Ms. Giuffre’s book. She said in a civil case that she was forced to have sex with him when he was a prince. Credit...Niklas Halle'N/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images”.
Image caption from Nobodyʼs Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (2025) by Estate of Viginia Roberts Giuffre: “Prince Andrew, me, and Maxwell in Maxwell’s London townhouse in March 2001. I asked Epstein to take our picture with my disposable camera. Hours later, I was forced to have sex with the prince.”
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