Made Line

they got married btw

Can @raccoonmilf vouch for this? Super rad if true.

Yes it’s true

No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.

see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles

International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?

Conversely, “alternative medicines”? Are we talking the traditional practices of non-Western societies which have an ancient history of being the cultural tools that allowed communities to take care of the health of their members and are nowadays rigorously studied within these communities to adapt them to the needs of the contemporary life, and can offer important prompts to modern medicine? Or are we talking about a white woman who traveled to India twice, followed a five-hour seminar and knows everything about inner energies now

this is one of the reasons it’s so hard to translate on the fly 😭 monoglots just don’t understand and think you’re bad at the source language 😟

I feel like a horse with no name is probably the best song in the world. Not even my Favorite song just the best

They should've let Stratt pull her "fuck your intellectual property" stunt with the big agricultural megacorps too. I want her to give Monsanto the middle finger.

Like realistically this kind of thing *was* absolutely happening off-screen; she's doing everything she can to help the world survive until they can hear back from the Hail Mary, and large-scale crop disruptions are going to be one of the biggest and most immediate effects of astrophage-induced climate change. She's going to demand that companies start working on more resilient crops post-haste, and she's going to do it in a way that makes Everyone hate her: fast-tracked GMO seeds (for climate resilience and nutritional completeness) with no patent protection and a focus on open-pollenated varieties so they aren't dependent on a single seed source. She makes the megacorps release some of their staple crops under the Open Source Seed Initiative and Grace worries that every person in the meeting is going to jump up and strangle her on the spot.

OSSIfication of the agricultural industry