Gentlemen, the Hammer might fall. Next year. On another planet. Ala Issac Asimov.

Maybe he had in mind the Juan de Fuca Plate.

Beat me to it.

There comes a time when we don't heed a certain call
When the world mustn't come together as one
There aren't people dying
And it isn't time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can go on pretending day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We all aren't a part of God's great big family
And the truth, you know,
Love isn't all we need

What I couldn't figure out was the emphasis on shopping; I thought these applications were for security. Cutting someone's hand off to make purchases seems a bit extreme.

Of course it's not Atlantis. Everyone knows that the continent of Atlantis was an island which lay before the great flood in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.

Hey, come on. TFA says after 4 years Bitcoin is being used by a "handful of businesses," including a sweets bakery in San Francisco. At that rate Henry Ford would have had about 105 cars in circulation by now! Look out for that Bitcoin juggernaut!

Had to look up "colocation," too. Thought that was how dolphins communicated, or some obscure form of coral. TFS is chockablock with portentous word choices.

Those other sports at least offer a modicum of complexity, and showcase human physique/initiative. What NASCAR and driving sports of its ilk offer in the way of intellectual pleasure I couldn't tell you. But the spectacle of vehicles moving around at high speed just seems to click with people. I always think of the similarly monotonous Roman chariot races, which at least sported a bit of hand-to-hand combat from the drivers, but otherwise don't seem much more interesting than cars flying around and around. Perhaps there was a survival advantage for humans who were transfixed by herds of game hauling ass around the veldt.

Mostly I posted the link because it's funny, which is about all I have to contribute here anyway.

You would question the base ethics and thus intelligence of spectators of a sport that fundamentally involves cars driving around in a circle for hours on end?

There are worse sources for inspiration. "I see you're trying to 'die you fucking piece of shit,' would you like help with that?"

Isn't "ignore" a bit casual a term to use here,too? It's not like random mosquitoes are going "Hey! This nasty stuff - I'm going to ignore it! See that cabbage leaf? Nom Nom Nom muthafucka!"

Thank you, General Turgidson, that will be all.

Maybe it's their favorite cereal.

I'm so freaked out I had to take a stress pill and think things over.

Sounds painful.