Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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meara - Jun 18, 2026 6:36:41 am PDT #13078 of 13080

Thanks Megan!! I may contemplate some of that. Hard to hate the bubble when it makes me 401K look so fat at the moment, and wouldn’t want to miss out on gains but goodness there must be a burst of bubble at some point here. That said in my non 401K financial life I am wildly over conservative so maybe it evens out. TBD.

Aurelia you had the fermented shark?? You are a brave and trusting human, my goodness.


-t - Jun 18, 2026 7:06:27 am PDT #13079 of 13080
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Thanks, megan, that’s very helpful!


JenP - Jun 18, 2026 7:14:45 am PDT #13080 of 13080

Thanks for that, megan.


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