Note from the Editor:
Food stamps were something I never thought I’d be on, and I was almost in tears every time I had to go and sign up for them. There were always hideous and hideously irresponsible people there. I felt so out of place, wondering why the hell I’d had to experience that.
It was how it was, though, so I filled out their paperwork, waited in line, tried not to look in the general direction of any of the extra-disgusting assholes, and filled up my cart with whatever was allowed. Over the years, I’d discover that the food-banks in the small towns, and faraway from the populated areas, actually had the most selection and flexibility. Contrary to my initial assumptions, the giant food-banks in the big cities were controlled like prisons, and barely gave you enough to get through a few days or meals.
Surprisingly, a smokin’-hot redhead in couture and fitted boots kept sending horny vibes my way one time I was at the food-bank in Bozeman. She was knockout-gorgeous, and really wanted to connect with me. I couldn’t believe such a hot piece of ass was in a place like that. Why was the Universe doing that to us? Somehow, it made me feel a lot less bad about being there, myself; if the hottest girls alive were there, I guess I could be, too, and if they were checking me out and trying to will me to hit on them, I guess I didn’t look so bad… even when dirt-poor.
You’ll see jokes here about rationing, starvation, and other food-related themes. There are also fake advertisements (a.k.a. “ad parodies”) that poke fun at all the extra-unhealthy chains such as McDonald’s. I’ll always have dark jokes about the “food” America allowed its top people to push.
In Inisfree, food is free, it is always healthy and fresh, and everyone grows most of their own. They also get constant help in this, as well as help cooking whenever they wish. No one goes hungry, we have no food bank/s, and everyone is spared the emotional, financial, and dietary hells I was subjected to while living a ‘normal’ life as an American slave in the Outlands.
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- U.S.V.: Unmanned Submersible Vehicle; a ‘drone’ submarine, such as a robotic mini-sub
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Garrison, Utah, Crash-site Laboratory Construction: an underground R+D facility built around a downed airship too challenging to haul away
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This is another good point; billionaires are often targeted by fake news, and this is because they are easy-targets; name-dropping them is something a lot of people can understand, and a lot of people have defaulted to negative assumptions, especially when their jealousy or greed is stirred up. Anyone successful, or even just doing well enough to not be struggling all the time, becomes an online punching bag. How else can competitors, in a system based on and obsessed with competition, ever hope to compete… if they don’t tarnish the images of their competitors with fake news? If their competitors have good or even superior products, and they don’t have a way to make their own products at least as good, they are left with two options; fail and go out of business, or fail by making and spreading fake news in hopes of shifting sales their way.
Any time you have a money- and competition-based system, people will do whatever it takes to compete and get that form of exchange. It guarantees fake news –just like wars guarantee camouflage, weapons R+D, assassinations, and all other forms of lying and cheating to gain the critical upper-hand. Simple logic, simple facts.
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