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Metaphorical buses get the guillotine.

Real buses get nicer seats, better driver pay, and more stops and buses doing the same route.

It's best in spring and nice in fall, for sure.

But you should see Washington County on the drive between Houston and Austin in Springtime.

Yes! Also known as Widow's Tears and Ol' Fuzzyface, apparently, I shit you not.

I hope to one day know the names of as many plants in my area before I kick the bucket.

I am in North Austin where this was photographed, but I know for a fact these also grow in northeast San Antonio. IDK where else.

It's not all bad here all of the time.

Security is not a wall. It is a maze.

Speaking of The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, does anyone happen to know where the music in this clip is from?

https://tankie.tube/w/jQwHX7nRqcidp6KSNPHybC

The music is obviously not from the original movie. It was added by someone else. I don't think I'll ever know its source.

These look rad, and I will be trying to find copies now, so thank you. I used to play a lot of interactive fiction games, text only and images including, so I know I am gonna enjoy these from a medium and style perspective. There was this game called DeJaVu that was surprisingly immersive. Pretty good noir art.

Whether those books you mentioned are good cyberpunk, IDK. Let us know what you think after you read them?

Right?? Like, mooches are bad!

But if you buy into or inherit moochdom, that's somehow socially accepted!

Back in 2003 when I was waiting tables during university studies, my Physics II professor gave us the equation to determine wattage from solar irradiance based on photovoltaic conversion rates. At the time, it was something like 30% efficiency. I did some napkin math, and figured out that it would take around $1.2 trillion to buy enough PV cells from a retail supplier to build a 90 mile by 90 mile square PV farm deployed somewhere like New Mexico which could generate enough electricity to power every economic sector in the US -- residential, commercial, industrial. Then, in 2008 during the mortgage and credit default swap financial crisis, Obama gave $800 billion of taxpayer funds directly to the banks to make them solvent, and directed the Fed to begin the disastrous QE policy, dumping $24+ trillion into the economy over the next decade and a half.

When Obama did that, that is when I realized that this country (America) and maybe even human beings at large are simply too stupid, too short-sighted, too selfish and primitive to do what is necessary to make our civilization a sustainable one.

Everybody afraid of being mooched off of.

We Americans are trained from birth to hate a mooch, and to be especially hyper vigilant against getting taken advantage of by those "lower" than us.

But we will let those we see as our "betters" take advantage of us all day long. Subservience to power and sycophants to the wealthy.

Is this why fascists and nationalists will almost never convert or join the prole revolution? Because they have been trained to reject the mindset of the victim and will refuse to admit they have in fact also been victimized by the system that they imagine protects them and which they imagine offers them their very identity? So instead they can only scapegoat the other.

Good poster. 🥰