You mean the Moops.

We’re on the very edge of a new age of feudalism which, as we speak, is being ushered in by murderous fascists and their axiomatic drive to start civil wars.
A small cabal of billionaires totally stopped caring, or at least pretending to do so, about the common folks. They really want all the money and all the power in the world, and it’s now within their reach.
The “opposition” is either complacent or terrified.

That was disturbing.

I’ve been thinking about this exact thing for the past few days.
The people I used to know are increasingly turning fascist. It’s like in some vampire or zombie movie: All of a sudden, there’s an unabashed nazi sitting with the group at the table. Next time, there’s already two. (It’s a rather big club, fortunately.)
But I fear the day when the group is going to look at me as if I’m the weird one, for not being a fascist.

If life gives you melons, make melonade.

Suicide (as in: the band) was formed in 1971, and I’d argue that for more than 30 years, their sound was ahead of its time.
Here’s Cheree, guess in which year this song was originally recorded.

I’m reminded of “Johnny Mnemonic,” the 1995 movie. From IMDB:

In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerative effect called “nerve attenuation syndrome” or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS.

It seems to me that AI is the real “virtual internet” here.
Although rather unrelated to the topic at hand, I also liked this quote:

… [Henry] Rollins, who is uninterested in science fiction, joined the cast because he liked the film’s focus on an upcoming disadvantaged underclass.

I’m getting flashbacks to the knife dildo from the movie “Seven.”

No shit?

Kinda shocking to learn that satansmaggotycumfart is among the ban-happy ones.

R. Daneel Olivaw <-> Weird Anal Love

♪ I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink moon’s gonna get you all ♪

That’s actually pretty good. And really not what I expected.

Would you like some making fuck?

He must be using up toothbrushes like other people are using up toilet paper.

The premise is wrong, though. Resin tends to be acidic. You know what doesn’t like acid treatment? Chitin, on account of being a polysaccharide.
And even - or especially - if the resin was perfectly neutral, it would slowly suck the fats stored in the insect’s tissues out of the same.
Plus the O₂ that’s slowly diffusing in - and out - of the resin will, especially in connection with sunlight, decompose more and more stuff.
Whatever the decomposition processes are, you can see an orange-tinted sort of halo around the mantis. That’s the mixing zone - mantis molecules, meet resin molecules.

It’s death, Jim, but not as we know it.

Or this one:

Not only the CO₂, but also the glassware you put the water in for measuring can very significantly alter the pH. Some scientists I know systematically screened different, presumably clean, containers because of this effect before progressing with their experiments.

Two wheels don’t make a bike.