Lovely

Yes and no. Yes in the sense that the envisioned future has no place for them. No in the sense that industrial textile manufacturing actually increased the productive output of society as a whole.

Be on the lookout for any other food containers they might be getting into. They might actually be originating from somewhere else, and opportunistically getting into the rice.

This may be an obvious point, but most of Iran's borders are land borders.

This will effectively kill android as a platform for general purpose computing. A lot of users are going to just... not install software if it's sufficiently annoying, and devs are going to gradually stop developing stuff if there just aren't a lot of users. The future of android is gambling skinner boxes. And you can be damned sure that they're going to stick that shit into dumbphones if enough people drop out of using smartphones.

"Riding a bike" has become a reliable enough social marker for someone cops would love to harass, that I'm surprised that it doesn't already happen constantly. Especially if they want to just make up laws-of-the-road on the fly to justify it.

Imagine how hard you have to fuck up to lose to democrats

There were dozens of people at every step of this process who knew exactly what they were doing, and went ahead with it. Probably relished in it, but at minimum accepted it. I just can't get over how many people willingly participate in pure evil.

It's a fun debate to have.

Bike maintenance might become untenable after awhile if you can't get ahold of lubricant or tire repair material. Even some of those new-fangled airless tires will eventually need wear down and need to be replaced. I expect that it would be fairly high priority of a rebuilding civilization to get that figured out, otherwise they're going to have to revert to horses out of necessity.

Very fun-filled weekend for Little Beaver, we went out to a lot of parks. She's getting coordinated and strong enough to climb up on top of things and then topple down - I'm trying to let her fall safely so that she gets to know her own limits.

If I didn't want to get assassinated in public, I would simply not spend my entire professional career stoking an atmosphere of political violence and making it widely known that I'm a vicious and evil asshole who wants the worst for everyone.