OpenStars

They still be together forever... (in the pattern buffer!).

For Ripley, it was!? :-P

Uh oh, he eat bad noodle. But not egg demon one!

Don't be silly.

Other places do not exist, obvi.

Which is basically irl news at this point, or at least less biased than mainstream media.

To be fair, the journey of a thousand miles does - or at least should - not begin with a single step, but rather with figuring out which direction to go in.

Plus I'll send my thoughts & prayers at 'ya too! (upgraded to real bullets if you don't obey quickly enough)

And climate change is only one of the several issues that is highly likely to end human's brief stint on this planet Earth.

Just off the top of my head, another is the impending WWIII beginning with Russian aggression, which after the Civil War pt. II the USA looks extremely likely to not only cease funding Ukraine but I shit you not may literally join hands with Russia to fight WITH them (people in some areas - and not just a handful - are flying 3 flags: USA, Confederate, and either Hungarian or direct Russian, some reputedly at literal police stations / firefighters). And too there's China, and blah blah so TLDR here: "war".

Which starts us off with a good phrasing, very biblical 4 horseman-esque, b/c there's also the next upcoming plagues, which if people are concentrating themselves into fewer, already-built-up areas, is going to expand further. Especially if they are so unedumacashiated (sp) as to willingly volunteer to forego vaccination, for the sake of preserving additional resources for the wealthy.

And famine too, don't forget the famine. The forces of Automation and Globalization are complex, intricate, and have benefits but also detractions especially within the most wealthy countries where e.g. uneducated workers having their jobs sent overseas may cause them to more readily vote for Trump. Who then spreads vaccine disinformation and advocates for literal war, either on the side of expansionist Russia, or against expansionist China, or somehow even more likely both at the same time, or perhaps he'll pick on some smaller country merely b/c it's a Tuesday (hey, remember when he assassinated another country's military leader? Pepperidge Farms remembers!).

And, full disclosure, having to pay more at the grocery store isn't "famine", but REAL famine is happening as well, and as more visible local needs increase, the more remote forms of charitable aid is expected to decrease?

So we've got pestilence, war, disease, and famine - I'm just going to call it now: BINGO! :-P

Some places are friendly. Some aren't. Many that are, label themselves as such. Some don't though.

What if I was though, and like this is my dream, from when I'm a bug? :-P

C.L. Lewis blew my mind when I read this one take from him: what if like all of life is a chess game, and we are merely pawns in it... BUT we are also the player, moving ourselves around!?

I don't think that's the case, or at least there is no evidence of such, but that's not the point, the point is to imagine what might lie just beyond the box that constrains our thinking too narrowly:-).