2025 the VA is legislated out of existence. No replacement is ever proposed. Fuck our service.

Oh, no. Do NOT fuck them.

Yep, gimme the food and a kind word, then leave me alone and let me read.

Yeah, Jesus would send you lot straight to hell.

I am so sorry it tastes like that for you.

When monsters arise, you fight them. Not because you can win, but because they must be fought.

Trust me, we got screens there too now.

But we do get good excuses to smash em now and then. Oopsie doodles.

I’m not young anymore. I will no longer dedicate significant time to any TV show. 26 episode series are creatively ideal. I already have hundreds of books, records, and films to finish, and too little time even for them.

Will the regulatory body be stacked with, and bribed by auto execs?

It’s pathetic how far they’ve lowered the bar.

Yes, I’m aware of the treaty, but that thing won’t be worth the paper it’s written on if the billionaires think they can have their own asteroids.

I’m not sure, but that might exceed the total monetary value of the entire solar system if completely disassembled and sold as raw material. Anybody wanna try and do the math? Cause I know I can’t.

Yes, those things are indeed food.

A particularly insidious strain of Christianity trained me to resign myself to a premature death when I was still a teenager. Hasn’t happened yet, and I’m in no hurry, because I care deeply for others. While I hate religion very much, it did instill in me very little fear of death… I’m afraid for the fate of humanity so much more than my own.

I mean, wasn’t gonna.

I’d have to look at Ajit Pai.

… in Minecraft!

You might want to ask Ajit Pai.

Well, it’s a critical text in the history of Wicca, since it began the practice of burning accused witches. It also contains a great deal of the prevailing myths of the time regarding them. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. Finally, besides historians, they’re some of the few people keeping the text alive in the eye of pop culture, since the church no longer wants to be openly associated with it.

Because it was the official church doctrine they used to begin persecution of anyone charged with witchcraft in the European middle ages. It didn’t simply justify all the tortures the church is famous for; it set that ball rolling as the legal document behind it all, written by a bunch of deranged zealots. It was used to genocide the native European religions and cement the power of the church. The perfection of the art of torture, all the burnings and rigged trials, all those horrors began with that book. Anytime you hear people freaking out about witches even today, anywhere, Malleus Maleficarum is the root of it all. Throughout the centuries, it shaped the brutality of European colonialism around the globe as one of the most influential books most people never heard of. Due to the extent of colonialism, it destroyed more lives and culture, and caused more agony and torment than probably any other book ever written.

It’s obscure, archaic, dogmatic, bloodthirsty, batshit legalese translated into Old English from Latin. These days it’s mostly of interest to particularly focused scholars, Wiccans, and edgy teens dipping their toes in. I wouldn’t expect it to be a good read.

For maximum WTAF, throw in Demonology by King James. Yes, that King James.

Probably the most evil book ever written.