I'm a big fan of Mike Judge, normally, but the concept that stupid people are out-breeding intelligent people and that this will lead to a planet of idiots is literally Eugenics 101

Edit: you'll notice (if you haven't been failed by your education 😊) that I made no mention of shadowy cabals, but that doesn't magically invalidate my point any more than the fact that movie's writer made some good cartoons back in the day

No, because that's a massively false equivalency.

The plot of Idiocracy explicitly accepts the eugenecist premise that 'genetically stupid' people breeding will result in a planet of idiots, whereas the Handmaid's Tale merely demonstrates the result of misogynist policies being implemented by society.

Again, I never mentioned any conspiracy. You're reading things into my comment that aren't there. His intent has no real bearing on the matter.

Idiocracy is eugenicist propaganda.

The rise of stupidity has nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with the deliberate dismantling of public education.

According to the myths she's just as likely to turn him into a deer and have him ripped apart by dogs

I got bit by a dragon fly once, and I wasn't threatening towards it in any way. I just stuck my finger out in the hope that one of the many dragon flies would land on it, and one did, and then the fucker bit me for no reason and flew off

Trying Americans for protests calling it terrorism is a form of terrorism.

There are no Americans involved in this story...

So is the US

It's dictator-chic

Animal Farm wasn't a critique of communism, it was a critique of the way the Soviet leadership sold communism down the river to enrich themselves.

That's my point. America actually has roughly 10 times as much oil as Norway, but in Norway everyone benefits from the oil rather than just a handful of mega-rich oil barons.

Lemmy doesn't have opinions, it's a collection of forums made up of completely different people with completely different opinions. What possible reason could you have for expecting everyone to think the same thing as each other?

This is hardly surprising, I've been aware of them since before then, and I don't have any intelligence agencies

It was an option, but the fact there's an article about it suggests he got caught, and I imagine the consequences will be worse than having to attend a work party.

Other options (with consequences of varying severities) include: jumping out of a window; never quiting the job until you die so they can't throw you any parties; not showing up for the last day of work; telling your colleagues you don't want a leaving party.

No mention of Cambridge Analytica? Not saying the Russians didn't influence the vote, but they definitely weren't the only ones.

I'll never understand why white furnishings are so popular. How are people supposed to relax in their home knowing anything they eat or drink could permanently stain their carpet/cushions/whatever?

One of the NPCs in your main camp will complain if you stay in the camp for a while.

This one annoyed me, to be honest. He's like "Arthur, Arthur, you need to go out and earn some money for the camp!", but when you look at the logbook most of the NPCs are bringing in about a dollar fifty per day in pocket watches and so on, whereas I've paid in over a thousand bucks in the past week and have singlehandedly bankrolled every single improvement to the camp since the game's start. Ungrateful sons of bitches...

This is a very badly written headline/article.

Gaelic and Scots are two entirely different languages from two entirely different language families. Gaelic is a celtic language, closely related to Irish, while Scots is a germanic language, closely related to English.

While it is true that Gaelic is sometimes referred to as 'Scots/Scottish Gaelic' (to differentiate it from the Irish word for the Irish language), calling it 'Gaelic and Scots' is 100% incorrect.

Outdoor domestic cats and wildlife: How to overrate and misinterpret field data

"Dutch are dumb for putting people before profit" says journalist who will never have to live in the effected area...