Category Archives: Talk

Talk about politics, society, science, computers, internet, psychology, and philosophy.

NATO Expansion

NATO Expansion According to Russian Propaganda

American: It was a while ago we expanded… let’s expand into… what country is that? Atlantis? Africa?
European: It’s Poland.
American: Yeah! Let’s expand there!

NATO Expansion According to the Rest of the World

Russia has Georgia for breakfast.
Poland*: HELP!

* Poland here represents any country sharing maritime or land borders with Russia from Turkey to Sweden, or for that matter countries sharing history with Russia….

Different

90% of people: It’s OK that you’re not exactly like me. I’m sure we can make this work anyway.

The other 10%: We can’t accommodate people being different. How do you think the world would look if we allowed everybody to be different? Get in line and adapt! … You can do it!

Hallucinators

Alien overlord: So, about this…?
Assistant: Helios… or Sol. It has many names.
Overlord: Right, was it the fifth planet?
Assistant: The third.
Overlord: Ok. And they’re called hallucinators?
Assistant: It seems a fitting term. They hallucinate when they dream, when they interact with many types of written language, when they watch, so called, visual narratives not to mention when they think about their future. It’s hard to tell when they don’t hallucinate.
Overlord: Right. So the recommendation?
Assistant: We steer clear of these crazies. We cannot have these beasts roaming the galaxy. We might even consider putting up a fence…