Since January 2023.

If somehow a miracle happens and the billionaire-friendly right wing of the Democratic party (which is the majority of the party) suddenly dies and people like AOC and Bernie can take over, then I think we'd see at least some change.

Ah, the non-slop version of this meme. Nice work, thank you for your service.

I visited Japan in 2008, before Google Lens was a thing. My Japanese was rudimentary, like A-level. But I got by. I had a problem with my Suica card and the people in the subway station didn't speak any English and my Japanese certainly wasn't enough for the situation, but together we fixed it. And another time I wanted to ask something in a store and the woman had to fetch her coworker who spoke English, so that was fine as well. I would guess that today English is more wide-spread, particularly in Tokyo. So I wouldn't be worried to visit today, when my Japanese is even worse than it was back then. I must say that trying to communicate with a language barrier, while frustrating, is also what brings us together as humans. Most people around the world are decent people and are willing to help somebody in need. That makes for nice vacation memories.

Now they can do what they do best: fuck all.

Don't get me wrong, it's amazing that despite their best efforts the fascist fucks lost. This is a big win. But at this point I have zero faith in the Democratic party to do what needs to be done.

Things that are not going to happen for 100, Alex.

Common sense, really.

Yeah, let's hate children having fun. How dare they. Dude, reality will hit them soon enough. Let them enjoy an evening.

A while ago I did the math on this:

I think someone pulled those numbers out of a dark orifice. 74 million bananas seems laughably low. A quick research yielded about 9*10^11 (nine hundred billion) bananas being consumed world wide per year. I got that number by dividing the 109 million tons of bananas that were consumed world wide in 2022[1] with the 120g average weight of a banana[2].

I don’t think it’s possible to get reliable numbers for monkeys consumed as bush meat. However, in 2012 there was an estimate of 3000 gorillas being killed as food each year in Cameroon alone[3]. So it’s probably safe to assume that the number for monkeys is much higher.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/banana-consumption-by-country [2] https://www.scaleforgram.com/blog/how-much-does-a-banana-weigh [3] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/african-monkey-meat-that-could-be-behind-the-next-hiv-7786152.html

That is perfectly normal.

I just recently started listening to Nothing Else Matters again. The cello version from the Wednesday soundtrack. Two years ago I listened to it over 300 times, according to Spotify.

Fantasy money vanishes, more at 11.

Isn't that this Russian princess, Anasthesia or something?

Shoes on the sofa. What the fuck.