The first part of doing this intellectual exercise should be to eliminate the obviously unacceptable options. For example we can pretty definitively say, right off the bat, that a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay is not worth considering even for a moment.

Giving everyone a reasonable path to citizenship. Immigration is good. It’s good economically, culturally, and morally. The only argument against immigration is bigotry.

Are you suggesting that imprisoning them indefinitely is somehow the correct solution?

You got my hopes up. All I want is a keyboard that has swiping and doesn’t ever auto-insert spaces. Unfortunately this ain’t it.

Imprisonment until when? Because at some point you’d have to let them out, and then you’re back to square one. Crossing a border to seek a better life isn’t a crime worthy of lifetime imprisonment.

They won’t give them a path to citizenship because of xenophobia, plain and simple. Immigration is good for the economy, and there’s no such thing as “stealing jobs”, so it only comes down to wanting to maintain cultural (or ethnic) purity.

Texas. $7.50, but I buy the organic, pasture-raised, fair trade, small batch, artisinal eggs where the chickens are all partial owners of the egg-laying co-op. It’s a chicken coop co-op.

The price has gone up significantly, like $2 or more, since last month. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but I’ve never spent $7.50 for fucking eggs.

Regular cage-free was like $5.50. Didn’t see any of the normal sad chicken eggs last time I went.

Ok. I’ll start commenting more literally right now.

Maybe it’s not obscure enough, but for me, Starflight on the Sega Genesis remains the greatest space exploration game ever made.

It was unforgiving the way games were back then, which added to the feeling that you’re just out there in unexplored space.

More than 800 different planets, most of them empty (except for resources), but that just makes it so exciting when you find an artifact hidden in ancient ruins.

And an incredible story on top of that. A huge mystery unfolds organically as solar flares start destroying planets across the galaxy and your explorable space slowly shrinks.

The back of the manual was a journal written by another starship captain who sent it to you from the future. It serves as a guide and a warning, giving some valuable locations and clues, in case you’re having trouble finding the path.

Oh, and the soundtrack! I can still bring it to mind thirty years later. Haunting.

https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_learned_nothing/

You sure about that?

Just watched the episode of Hit Monkey where a character does literally this.

Past me is absolutely furious that I don’t have one ready. We switched to a pagoda style fountain a few years ago, so the best I can do is this low quality picture of him from 14 years ago as a kitten.