The internet has warped my mind.
Yesterday, I heard a story about a torture prison in Assad's Syria that was using a press to do horrible things to human beings.
My mind immediately thought:
"TODAY, ON ZE HYDRAULIC PREZZ CHANNEL..."
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Wasn't there a Star Trek episode about this?
We're the bad planet that the Federation has an existential crisis over helping.
Strange New Worlds s1e6 "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach." Heavily adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
i read Catwings when I was a kid and cried at the ending
...and learned decades later she write science fiction. who is this woman.
She's one of the treasures of English literature.
Her children's books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.
..she invented the "ansible", a communication tech achieving faster than light travel, which would later be used by Orson Scott Card and other science fiction authors, mumbles away with book
I think it would be faster to list the episodes that weren't about this
Was the city's name Omelas?
We are all the ones who walk away from Omelas on this blessed day.
Speak for yourself!
...I haven't read the book yet.
It's just a short story that's like a 10 min read
I didn't know that! Thanks!
If it was at least it'd be good to live in it
Meanwhile our real world is still a hellscape even with the child sacrifice
What does it cost to do this?
Maybe it should just be a thing.
Almost nothing relative to the us budget.
An aircraft carrier costs almost nothing compared to the US budget. That's not a useful metric.
Less than it would cost for you to sell your body for sex? More than the cost of a single elephant? Less than 500 lbs of tulips during the crypto boom accounting for inflation.
Much less than an aircraft carrier how about that
And this wasn't the USA government. It was a city or Make-A-Wish. (I just have the tweet to work from.)
how funny would it be if the kid was dying of a preventable disease and couldn't afford the treatment
Don't worry. If you live if the USA, that time is coming under Trump and RFK, Jr.
Invest in Iron Lungs. You'll need them once the first generation of kids ain't getting that polio vaccine.
Hilarious
Treating immune-mediated aplastic anemia involves suppression of the immune system, an effect achieved by daily medicine or, in more severe cases, a bone marrow transplant, a potential cure.[31]
🤣😂😭
Can somebody with art skills make a comic of a Make-A-Wish kid wanting to spend their wish on shooting a health insurance CEO as vengeance for bankrupting the kid’s parents for the cancer care? Maybe a panel or two of Make-A-Wish refusing and the kid saying something about how they’re gonna die soon anyway so the deterrent of penal punishment would be useless against them? Cyanide & Happiness could probably pull this off
Oh wow, they made a live-action version of the Witcher 4 trailer!
It took a second before it clicked. Nicely done.
That's a wild but accurate take.