Back home in Tyria

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

Here's a health to the company and one to my lass Let us drink and be merry, all grief to refrain For we may or might never all meet here again.

To 2025:

Hell, they even cover the devastating heaviness of MASS SHOOTINGS without censoring or watering anything down.

They've been doing this for YEARS, and it's ALWAYS handled with dignity, respect, seriousness, understanding, and love.

This clip is from 1968 and discussed assassination after Bobby Kennedy died.

Yes, I read dictionaries. Today's is: A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose (1785) 2021 Edition. Not a formal dectionary, Grose collects vintage Thieves Cant, slang from soldiers, sailors, and tradesmen. Prisoners, beggars, and other societal fringes. Useful and entertaining in its own right.