I’m just gonna say it: there should be fewer cicada broods. We already have like 16 types of ice. We’re supposed to remember what ice IX is and brood IX is? That’s like trying to remember which Google app name means “send a text message.” Google Talk XIII or whatever cursed thing we’re on now. Just far too many.

I stopped eating them when I caused COVID so this is excellent news.

I’m glad we’re turning something so horrible into something positive but I’d still like more info on how the NFL and WWE — doing security sweeps for the Super Bowl and Wrestlemania, respectively — discovered Radium-226 in one neighborhood. It was apparently the site of a munitions factory during the Vietnam War but some sort of classified shenanigans were clearly afoot.

https://www.fox8live.com/2019/07/02/public-records-reveal-details-about-discovery-gert-town-radioactive-material/

Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices to stave off previously unknown levels of human misery.

The alternative is communities (like Louisiana’s “cancer alley”) impacted in way worse way.

Your move, Monaco.

I’ve always thought of consciousness as a bottom-up phenomenon. Less conscious things come together to create a larger consciousness.

No evidence of that, obviously. But if we’re all assuming things, that’s what I’d assume.