Actually come to think of it.. Japanese do seem to be on the low end of world wide tourism. Been like that forever, and I can't blame em. The rest of the world must look like absolute anarchy to them.

"Roving gangs" always imedietly plops a Mad Max sort of picture in my head.

I haven't heard his name in over a decade. Didn't know he was still in the game. Has he done anything particularly bad on social media lately for people to dislike him??

Exactly. Most people that want to be cops are just high-school minded bullies that enjoy authority. They aren't inheritly evil, just bossy. ... usually.

Journos want the same but more. Complete subjugation.

The wife is probably pushing the idea because she is homesick.

Don't sock puppet, Rick. It's kinda regarded.

Do they not have phones?

nah

My brain might be fried, but are those men? The bodies look very manish to me.

It looks fine. But the glory days of Mortal Kombat are so incredibly gone that I have no idea who this is for.

...neither of those add to 100%.

I like to naïvely think to myself that at least a fraction of the people that go missing did it to escape.

That's Morlock, Eater of Worlds. It technically has no gender. It is simply Morlock. The pronouns are just a formality.

(ok, I actually feel a little bad about that)

That's actually a pretty good litmus test for twitter tranies actually... brilliant

Is Grok starting to adapt a catchphrase?

I watched a vid on ancient Japan and hoo-boy. it was very much an active practice back then there. It's very much a dark part of our species that isn't soon to stop.

I was never one to really board the whole autism vac thing.. but I mean. There are an awful lot of em these days it seems. I am but one man who can only live one life time, so my perspective and scope is admittedly quite limited. I have no idea if humanity has just been silently dealing with them since time immemorial, but with the internet, it sure feels like there's been a spike in my lifetime.

I know the mid 20th century had that whole psyche ward thing going on, but I'm pretty sure those were mostly populated by schizophrenics. Not autists.

What I find interesting about the whole thing is how the abandonment felt so... orchestrated. Like, why did pretty much all of them agree at the same time to skip it? Something doesn't smell quite right. Am I being paranoid?

1.4 is a very specific number.

I have not seen that bit. Thank you for that

I can't help but chuckle at the fact there is a place called Chad and it's fourth in rapes. Thats..That's... interesting. Like it's just some guy outdoing whole nations. Like a supervillain

Hold on, I need a pen...

They coming for my fiveskin? Over my dead body.

I had to move into my grandparents home for a time to care for my grandma in hospice. For not a single solitary minute was my grandfather not blaring the fucking news. The amount of times I had to hear about the Jan 6 insurrection about drove me to start eating concrete. I was going insane.

I'm sure India could give them a few good suggestions /s