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A screenshot of a posted interview with Colorado GOP governor candidate Victor Marx, and a reply saying "Swear to God, if Colorado elects TEMU Kenny Rogers..."
"If I was going to design a facility to grow algae, I would probably design a facility that had a lot of surface area and was very shallow, so you have sunlight down to the bottom. And put a lot of nutrients in it. And that's pretty much what the Reflecting Pool is. It's just a perfect facility for growing algae." The decision to paint the bottom a deep shade of blue, scientists have told me, raised the water temperature and accelerated the growth.
A field of long pools where algae is grown commercially.
A photo of President Dwight D Eisenhower with the quote "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
A screenshot from a YouTube video called "Potion Seller". A man's distorted face grins close to the camera, with the subtitle "my potions are too strong for you traveller".
This is a screenshot of the same reddit comment I linked to.
The cover art for Metallica's album "Kill 'Em All"
A sci-fi room with an orange portal on the left connected to a blue portal on the right. From the video game Portal.
A photo of creepy masked faces from the movie "Eyes Wide Shut", captioned "Was Eyes Wide Shut a warning?"
It's useless to call for civil debate as "politics in the right way"; politics has moved beyond words. Where there are words at all, they are but a way to express a meme, a vibe, an aesthetic. They are a method to channel brainrot, like any other medium of communication. To expect words to mean words, for them to attach to objects in time and space and to line up with any internal logic - this is the sort of cringe that will fade into the periphery along with the millennial pause, that half-second of silence where the older generation gathers their thoughts.
"This should be understood as a genuinely humiliating moment for America, one in which our elected leaders succumbed to the murderous version of calling Moe's Tavern and asking for Heywood Jablome."
A world war two era photo of a building with a Nazi eagle on the exterior, and a modern photo of the same building with the eagle removed, but a discolored silhouette remains where the eagle used to be. A caption reads: "Americans: we have a game here where we try and find buildings that were obviously built as Pizza Huts but aren't anymore, you can still tell from the shape and roof of the building. Do you have anything like that? Germans: uh"
Screenshot of text: "It's like the famous Marshall McLuhan quote, 'the medium is the message,' right? If they're getting out there in the message of the time, that means the message is still fresh. Christians are still relevant in the AI age, and they're doing it and like that in itself is all that matters," Laughlin said. "Even if it's clearly someting that anybody could rightfully sneer at if you had any sense of what makes good or bad media aesthetics."
An ad for a product called "decked", that says "skip the line, get decked at a dealer"
Screenshot of text: "TikTok is full of tradwives explaining how their lives became better once they got out of the 9-to-5 grind to make cereal from scratch for their children and let their husbands do the breadwinning. (That the most successful of tradwife influencers are actually the primary breadwinners in their homes is an irony the influencers themselves seldom discuss.)"
Luigi Mangione illustrated like a saint in the Christian church, with robes and a halo.
Wired magazine digital subscription costing $12/year, renewing for $30/year.