Between the Buried and Me, a progressive metal band that is considered legendary, is philosophically political in so much as that most of their albums are about the inevitable decline of humanity and the destruction of everything due to capitalism, greed, regressive ideologies etc. If you’ve never listened to them you should start with the Great Misdirect. Spotify has a live version I think and it is phenomenal.

Inb4 president 47 Trump let’s them succeed for shits and giggles

I adore Legal Eagle.

I get what you’re saying, but at some point we have to admit that there really aren’t any adults at the table. A direct example is the governments covid response and another more recent is the emergence of the so-called freedom caucus. Basically I subscribe to the depressing notion that all these fuck head fascists that came before have sewn their seeds and now there is an alarmingly large amount of the populace who have drank the koolaid, made from those seeds, and even worse is a lot of the original sewers (heh), have lost the thread and are drinking their own koolaid…

There is a primate that washes their fruit off and it is a learned behavior. They have taught all the other in the species to do the same thing.

Very well said. Is it even possible to quantify intelligence? I mean, you can obviously measures brain size, which they did, and that was lacking, then they measured amount of gray matter, which matters a lot more, conclusively, but there is also the fact that even losing pieces of the brain cannot stop a person from being fully functioning due to neuroplasticity, and then you have concepts like IQ tests which are verifiable steeped in white exceptionalism aka racist as hell.

It seems like the issue is more nuanced than all that.

Not to mention grades are about doing the work and having the discipline and organizational skills. There are plenty of people who are very intelligent, but lack both of those. US testing metrics (is that the right word?) are heavily flawed. This isn’t even bringing up the racist aspect of most institutions, including educational being headed up and formulated by white people.

Hackers are revving up their fingers

Uh oh

ITT: Really good story prompts…

Is this an original ? If so, do you write because I want more. You had me wanting to look up the book to buy it lol. Good shit

Man is gonna fuck around and get ass-assinated.

EDIT: That means he is doing a bang up job for those not paying attention

I came here to see if someone mentioned this fact and was going to do so if I didn’t see anyone beat me to it lol.

Lol talk about nostalgia straight into the veins…