Anubis places my heart on the scale … it breaks the scale, rolls off the table, lands on and breaks Anubis’s foot

Anubis: … EXTRA HELL IT IS!!!

Tap root finds your motionless foot at your computer desk as you endlessly and mindlessly scroll through the internet.

Potato: this will do

What is the economic benefit of this?

And if there is no or little economic benefit, what chance is there that we will ever see it happen?

This isn’t an Israeli or American problem anymore.

It’s a world problem.

We’re all complicit in allowing one country to destroy another.

We’re all complicit in allowing a genocide to occur.

When the Jewish holocaust occurred, the world said never again. It will never cease to amaze me that the latest genocide is being perpetuated by the same people who keep reminding the world of how terrible it is for one group of people to dehumanize, disregard, dismiss and destroy another people.

Yes they have … there were periods in human where some individuals were so enormously wealthy and powerful that we referred to them as kings, queens, emperors, or living gods that had ultimate control over the life and death of everyone in their sphere of influence.

Today is no different, we just call them billionaires now.

Humanity outgrew the idea of all powerful monarchies and God kings … we’ll eventually outgrow the notion of any one individual owning so much wealth they don’t need in one lifetime.

Unfortunately, we are just dumb animals that by then, we’ll invent some other selfish method of concentrating power to a small group of people.

If we ever make it that far.

More like a cougar settling into a hunting spot and waiting for their prey

I guess that’s what humanity is aiming for … a holocaust we can all accept.

… and again … and again … and again

The only thing we learn from history, is that we don’t learn anything from history.

No one is safe including the rich.

The biggest major effect that global warming will have in the next few years or about 20 to 30 years is … mass migration. Once that starts in earnest, countries will be breaking out in conflicts everywhere. We aren’t cooperating with ourselves within our established borders now, what do you think will happen when millions of people start moving around to avoid the heat and more natural disasters.

Everyone will suffer … the only thing the rich buy themselves is time because we are all headed to the same global environmental apocalypse.

I feel good that I’m middle aged now because I will have lived my younger years when the world was doing relatively OK.

I feel bad for anyone born right now because they’ll either see the beginning of the end or start surviving it.

Which system are we talking about here?

Saved by the bell

A saying thought to originate from the old custom of safety coffins … where corpses were tied to a string to the surface above them to a bell. So that in case they didn’t die and were still alive, their moving body could pull the string and ring the bell.

If you were buried alive, and you rang the bell and were rescued … you were ‘saved by the bell’

Looks at the Borg system and loss of individuality … the individual is taken care of, biological needs are met, they are made stronger, you get personal shields for protection, your health is taken care of automatically, your senses are augmented and made stronger and more perceptive, you can interface with any digital or biological system, you are in constant contact with the whole community, you live in a community of equals like yourself.

Looks at the system we currently live in

At one point even putting the government up for sale

Just stuff the whole thing in a blender, mix for 30 seconds and drink it.

Or just take the money and still prosecute and never mention the money.

Someone handed out $120,000? wow, I hope they find that money

It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.

Imagine starting or rallying towards a civil war

… for some dumb, stupid, meaningless, ignorant, arrogant and self serving politician like Donald Trump.

In that same vein of logic … they should name the Highway Construction Worker as our Provincial Animal at this point.

If only we could come up with a new more modern way of transporting heavy goods … like mass transports … using only one giant powerful engine … with trailers of goods all tied together by the dozens … on a sturdy road … maybe made of iron … we could build these roads specifically just for these massive transports, separate from the public to keep people safe and save our roads from damage.

Whoops … wrong thread (I am rewording my original response to this)

Trucks gained all importance because it meant it all consumed more oil and gas instead of saving energy by having trains. Why would corporations spend tens of thousands on fuel for a train pulling tons of material across the country when they could spend billions and billions of endless fuel on millions of transport trucks destroying roads made of oil and asphalt that have to be repaired on an annual basis?

They would have burned out faster if they had the internet and social media 1750 years ago