252 there's no place like home for the holidays

Back where we started, here we go round again.

They're out of toilet paper at the Safeway I go to. Those are paper towels filling the empty shelves. Outside of the usual holiday crunch, there didn't seem to be any other shortages.

It could be any day. 

It seems like there is an extra effort ahead of the holiday from the media and government to get us to stay the fuck home.

It's depressing, but there it is. 

In other words, Quédese en casa para el Día de Acción de Gracias.

No, really.

It's not any better where you want to go.

Do you remember O44 torching the economy before leaving office? Me neither. But it's happened with every GOP junta in my adult lifetime. "The great recession?" That was all W43.

More highlights of 2020...

Remember my drawing of something like this for personal space while dining? The inventor came up with this a while ago, to wear in the rain, and then had the brilliant logical leap that I never made: put it on a sick person instead, and save us all the effort.

Seriously, guys, the machines want us to live a life of leisure. Just not one where we're consuming endless resources. Think lots of time to enjoy less stuff more deeply.

(That's an AI weeding machine.)

The villain suit from every sci-fi movie ever is now available for lease, just $8500 per month.

(Since we're on the subject of monthly payments.)

Of course, just as soon as I get a tablet, I learn the game has moved forward. This seems to use an e-ink screen like the old kindles, for crazy battery life. But it's not really a computer-lite, it's more like a kindle-plus.

Yesterday's tableture:

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