My favorite one of these unconscious linguistic rules is expletive infixation. We say “fan-fucking-tastic” but “fanta-fucking-stic” sounds completely wrong.

Mutants are the next stage in human evolution. Canonically they are stronger, faster, tougher, and heal faster than regular humans. It’s not unreasonable to think they age slower and live longer as well.

I’ve seen these all over Chicago, usually growing near the roots of a dead tree. I’ve been told in the past they were ink caps of some sort.

Make the tax directly proportional to the number of unhoused people in the city. It created an incentive for rich people to actually fix the problem.

IIRC, he was created by Vought (the corporation that makes super powered people) to be the perfect justification for them to seize military power in the US.

Air Bud/John Wick crossover

Shout out for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. There are worse ways of spending your spare change than a donation to this organization.

https://www.au.org/

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

George W. Bush

Same vibes.

1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourselves any idol.

3. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God.

4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.

5. Honor your father and your mother.

6. You shall not murder.

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not give false testimony.

10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, wife, or property.

He is 10 for 10 as far as I can tell.

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All the ones I know of have closed. They really only had overpriced replicas at the end.

As opposed to nature where you are forced to hunt for food under threat of starvation.

Adding insult to injury, because of the pipeline of equipment to the police, we don’t even get cool cheap military surplus like during the Cold War.

It’s the Center of the Galaxy, like the Center of Disease Control or the Center for African American Studies.

I listen to podcasts while driving using Amazon music. They recently disabled the ability to fast forward over ads using the steering wheel buttons via Android Auto. You can only fast forward now through the full phone app. Someone is going to get in a car accident because of this.

It is a virtual certainty that at some point a meteor large enough to wipe out all multicellular life on the planet will strike the Earth. It is an absolute certainty that the Sun will eventually burn out leaving the planet uninhabitable. Something else might wipe out our species long before either of these things happen, but it’s not a bad idea to have another inhabited planet or two as a backups.

Along the same lines as Discworld and Hitchhikers Guide, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The Amazon tv adaptation is excellent as well.

“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” is what I always recommend from Heinlein. I feel like this one in particular has stood up conceptually and thematically over time. AI, space colonialism, predatory capitalism, class revolution. It all feels very relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Someone must have had a concrete squirrel sculpture in their yard that this guy mistook for prey.