It's true. They're seriously talking about genetically enhancing the disease-spreading capability of ticks to make people allergic to meat to force them to stop eating it, and they call it "morally obligatory."
While the right has been getting brain gooped by Attention Whore #1 Donald Trump, the left has been organizing , reading entire paragraphs, and saving America from mass surveillance.
There is probably a correlation between morality and sense of humor.
Larry Niven once theorized that humor is associated with an interrupted defense mechanism.
The idea is that you have a situation presented to you which would normally trigger a defensive response, but when you realize it is actually harmless, the response that you experience as laughter or amusement is your brain's way of derailing that inappropriate defense mechanism.
Because it isn't appropriate to fight or run away from harmless things.
This mechanism become easy to see when you look at very simple or developing senses of humor. To a baby, unexpected + safe = comedy gold.
And my cat Dante's favorite joke is "I BITE your toes! ... but actually, I don't bite them! I just lick them by surprise, watch you jump, then run away mewing and looking pleased with myself!"
Humor can become quite sophisticated, but I've never yet seen anything funny that couldn't be understood this way.
But there's a certain type of evil person who is evil precisely because they don't interrupt defense mechanisms.
They fight harmless things. Even beneficial ones. And they give you long lectures about how the harmless or even the wonderful thing is ackshually super-problematic.
This is the visible symptom of a form of neurotic hypervigilance which can, and often does, progress to the point of simply lashing out, figuratively or even literally, at random parts of the environment, because the brain has constructed some narrative whereby it's a threat.
The humor response is our natural way of not doing this.
Vaccines are so terrible that academic journals cheat and break their own rules in order to censor the most important data. It's an astonishing admission of guilt by the mainstream scientific community.
Today's South Australian Budget reveals an expected 79% increase in fine and penalty revenue over the next four years.
The budget papers say that growth in fine revenue mainly reflects an increase in the number of road safety cameras at high-risk sites.
More speed cameras. More AI surveillance peeking through your windscreen.
The Government will say it's about safety.
One speed camera on a downhill section of the South Eastern Freeway collected almost $5 million in fines last year.
Fines and penalties revenue is forecast to rise from $176.6 million this year to $315.4 in 2029/30.
"Safety" sure is a lucrative business model for those in power.
Note the propaganda designed to sway your perception.
Many Aussies want to, and do, 'boo' performative, white-guilt-promoting 'Welcome to Country' ceremonies (conveniently left out of this headline is context in favour of making it seem as if the 'booing' was directed at Anzacs), but perhaps won't now for fear of comparison to 'neo-Nazis'.
Also, you do not live in a free country if you can be found guilty of 'offensive behaviour' for making sounds.
This is going to be one of those laws we'll look back on later and say "fuck that was a bad idea". Anyone who has ever done drugs in their life knows the correct amount of drugs to have in your system before driving is 0. This is what happens when fucking ANU nerd bureaucrats are let loose on policy making for real life. The reason why no one thought to make this law in the last two decades, is there were enough policy makers who had actual life experience, and had actually done drugs, to know it was a bad idea. Don't smoke a cone and drive, fucking ever. Don't do any drugs and ever operate any kind of heavy machinery, ever. The fact we are deviating from this CENTURY OLD standard suggests something deeply wrong with the people running our Governments.
This is a really important case that affects us all.
The European Court of Human Rights will be hearing the case on the legality of vaccine passes in 2021.
Mika might end up bankrupted over pursuing it.
That would be so wrong.
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