It’s interesting who we call terrorists and who we don’t. If an Arab nation or organization had done this it would have been called a terrorist attack. Israel does it and people defend it.

Terrorist is a meaningless scare word for “people we don’t like”.

Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”

WE ASK THE QUESTIONS!

Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.

sometimes with a better PR team

Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.

Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.

I lay my shirts flat on a side table. Much quicker than hanging or folding, and still prevents wrinkles. Socks, underwear, and jeans I don’t fold, but I separate into different piles that go in drawers and shelves.

In my experience exhaustion makes the dread spiral worse

As Aladin put it "Got to eat to live, got to steal to eat"

Yep, the loggers want the forests to keep producing trees

The Michaelangelo approach

I remember figuring out how to use math to draw boobs on my graphing calculator

It’s a US thing.

No, the speed of the pedestrians relative to the portal is not zero.

Society and the economy are not a zero sum game. Killing half the population wouldn’t make the survivors twice as rich. It would send society into chaos which would make the remaining people’s lives far worse.

There’s a store in London that sold human milk ice cream.

The Nard Dog

I saw momma kissing Santa Claus