That's perfect. It's now my headcanon too.

I like to think of them as artificial con men. They sound great. They have confidence and are complimentary and are very agreeable, but they will tell you what they think you want to hear. Whether or not what they are telling you is truthful isn't even part of the equation.

The author makes a pretty compelling case for letting Phil go. Can you imagine the owners of a sports team continuing to pay a Manager millions of dollars a year despite them getting their asses kicked every time they suit up?

I kinda like escape goat.

Are you in Louisiana? Would providing this data be considered sharing under the law in question?

You can create a town with less than 300 votes? TIL.

El Salvador.

A few bad actors can undo the work of thousands of hardworking people who care. I genuinely don't know if the problem is solvable if it requires cooperation of the entire species. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

He won't.

Personally I don't think humans are going anywhere. We might destroy most of the biosphere and a large portion of humanity but I bet in the end roaches go extinct before we do.

That's how attributions work. They're in quotes so we can distinguish what he actually said from the general summary of events that the article is providing.

Buildings don't eat food.