Truly the “Kings Cup” of animals.

Remember when banks were allowed to weaken regulation and move towards self-assessing risk and capital adequacy levels?

If they shut down taco bell it becomes the flag of the Fascist Neo-Confederacy of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

As far as I can tell? No, but I just did a search of the onimbus for some keywords. The mental image feels very Adamsish though, doesn’t it? I may have unconsciously plagiarized it from somewhere. Props to you if you can find the source. Maybe it’s a Pratchettian quote? Or Giamanic?

When given a robot voice, all it learned how to do was scream endlessly.

Hit that dirty birdie.

Housing problem solved?

Wait, can everyone else here actually throw a ball?

Wrong, the grass enslaved humanity. It was like “I hear wheat is doing well, I wanna get a hominid slave species that will protect me from pests and propagate my genetic line whilst literally clearing away all competing plants for miles.”

And corn got their slaves, and as the plant relaxed over successive generations they grew more bready and delicious because the only predator eating them was also ensuring their monocrop dominance so get fat and whatever who cares!

Seems like we’re overdue.

And if we had spent the tens of billions on healthcare or housing we would have created as many or more jobs and also had something useful to show for it.

Yeah, but humans are not very effective at organising humans to act in their best interests in a coordinated and logical manner. I feel that this will be even more of a challenge post-collapse. Some bunkers may get caulked. Most will get left alone.

zero other providers in my area.

Your current ISP:

No Italian rebel crisis, no more Cato, no more independent Pompeii, Julias Ceaser got married, this Cicero guy really knows how to argue. So much better than the 70s.

I mean, they are? They are additional consumers in an economy increasingly being driven by consumer spending, where spending per person is falling. So, adding more people keeps things afloat even though each person is spending less.

The main issue is that high immigration is a bandaid (doesn’t address the issues causing spending to fall in the first place, and new spenders just get sucked into the same crappy economic climate once they get here as everyone else) and it comes with a host of other issues (e.g. increasing scarcity of high-quality, appropriate and affordable housing leading to further reduction in consumer spending).