I'll go with the Alzabo from Gene Wolf's worlds. Mimics the intelligence of anything it eats and begs its prey to be eaten in the voice of (already eaten) loved ones.
The people who submit, don't do so out of momentary stupidity, but because the Alzebo/Loved Ones make such a compelling case that the only way to be reunited again is to join the beast.
Wow. I guess I need to eat more bagels
The poppy seeds don't contain the opiate, the surrounding latex contains it (visual: pomegranate seeds, and the inedible flesh you free it from).
Some of that opiate might get on the seeds, but its mixed into such quantities with other poppy seeds that the potency level is diluted to virtually nothing.
I think the book Sapiens makes the point that wheat has trained us into cultivating it for selfish needs.
(Except that it's wheat, and that we annihilated 99% of its brethren to pick out the one that we liked so we could effectively clone it. But yes, we are the slaves...)
No history, no origin, it just exists. Lmfao
There's this old game I was taught to play at Christmas called wet biscuit.
Essentially everyone sits in a circle around a cup of water and people take turns adding coasters under it, until the glass eventually spills
I read that as you retired in your mid-20s, not that you retired in 2020.
That's the ideal, but I imagine there'd be a great deal of equity required to get the ball rolling, and people wouldn't immediately change households to build a new utopia, but would likely have to go through the arduous process of either doing the work, or setting up the committees to do the work.
The end goal would be different, but I imagine it would be the same daily slog, just with perhaps slightly better hours, and maybe less enthusiasm for doing it since the threat of homelessness and starvation would no longer dangle above our heads.
A small minority would bounce out of bed every morning with a burning passion to complete the mission, but I think that same minority tend to be the ones who happily work dog hours and dog wages in feel-good startups
Eh, it'd be the same routine under socialism but the end goals would be different.
I keep mine only attached to ad-hoc networks with no outside signal, but there's literally no saying whether it has its own modem
Given the measurable power output, I'd think not, but who's to say what it does when connected to stable power node after X hours.
Shall I compare thee to an overstretched rectum? Thou art less loose and more temperate.
... who the hell are these special users that Firefox apparently pander to, and what mass of people do they constitute to make them so powerful?
More importantly, how do I join this special club?