Same for Jules Vernes - The Time Machine book in the part where the traveler meets the Morlocks and the Eloi.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine

Maybe, but only if I become a dictator to remove and spread my power to smaller government organizations. Basically instead of having one source of power, I dilute the government into multiple governments that also police each other and not one of them have power to govern over all others. Additionally, police and military would be the only “governments” that have slightly less governing power than the rest because while we still need police and military I don’t want them to use their weapons to muscle their way over the other governments.

Note: I am not saying it’s perfect or covers all cases, but I believe that having a central point of power is the biggest issue with a dictator becoming corrupt and this applies even to non-dictators (hint-hint). Maybe I am wrong and I invite polite discourse on the subject.

I have a 2D

The D is for you babe…

Recycling is a fraud. It was invented by the oil and plastic industry to pass the blame to consumers and shield themselves from repercussions. While some plastics CAN be recycled, its only numbers 1-3, every other plastic cannot be recycled or its so expensive that companies had no incentive to do it, and this still doesn’t include paper that also has a limit on what it can be recycled to.

Rain white noise

Starting? Shit ain’t funny any more… Not that its ever been honestly

American here, I was over the moon when I visited Amsterdam and everywhere (even in stores) had water fountains that not only had clean drinking water to refill water bottles, but where so prominently displayed (we hide ours by the bathrooms, if we have any), and most where very artistic or at the very least matching the aesthetic of the store.

Yeah I saw that. My issue was due to what happened in Charlotte, NC where they had a very similar wording for their downtown area only to later remove the caveat where the builders had to check what public transportation is already available.

This is great… So long as the city also increases access to safe public transportation to the citizens.

Senior UI architect here. I didn’t know shit about crap when I graduated college as far as programming, and I was on the fucking Dean’s List and graduated with honors. 95% of what I know I learned it on the job after college. Today I work from home and have a comfortable income so don’t let your fears take hold. You still have to study on your own creating personal projects which will teach you way more programming than what you learned in college.

Who’s pretending? Not here! We know we broke

Did you check your pockets?

Richard Scarry’s “What do people do all day” is such a fun book that even now I wish I had again just to flip through the pages and see the intricacies of the drawings

Steven Segal

Hopefully it isn’t very expensive, otherwise companies won’t adopt it voluntarily

What is this?

Destiny 2 - RIP CAYDE 6

He was such a likable character by the community that Bungie actually brought him back… somehow, as some sort of reincarnated-ghost-person-thing

For when you are awkwardly in a party and want to have something to talk about

Patriotism is really good to have, as one loves it’s country and will defend it, but also sees its issues and tries to address them in some constructive way.

This is not to be confused with Nationalism, where the thought that your country is the only richeous one and all others are shit to the point you feel superior to the citizens of other nations and don’t want to admit the issues of your country or fix them in any way.

Note: These are loosely based interpretations from me as its 3:30am and I cannot sleep.

Yep, but only local artists, this is why I buy CDs when I travel internationally.