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Oi. Don't go speaking ill of magic eight balls like that. They only have like five or six answers they'll give out, however contradictory they may be. Cadet bone spurs is far less consistent.

Hey, we might be able to sustain a larger population than projected if we can (effectively, if nothing else) de-age the elderly. Just think for a moment about the amount of labor currently past the retirement age biological immortality (or at least substantially increased lifespan) would allow us to stop paying benefits for and force back into the job market :V

Hell, with the experience advantage, assuming the neurological degeneration could be reversed, we could even disproportionately tax them and support younger generations in their stead if they corner the market in the process.

... I think I'm starting to get enthusiastic about this, actually. We could turn the whole thing on its head. In exchange for immortality, the ones benefiting from it can alternate labor periods (so they still get the opportunity to freely enjoy their time, of course) so those that don't immediately need the lifespan extension can enjoy their formative decades without much concern.

Give folks the choice. Work so that others don't have to, or die when biology intended. Basically what most places already do in the elderly's favor, just in reverse once the physical and mental deterioration that makes it happen that way have been halted. Best idea, I swear.

Millenials stronk like mathematical paradox. But only stronk in ways older people can use as scapegoat fodder for their own failures :V

Maybe something like Make America Respected Again (too similar to MAGA?), has the same populist undertones while being a rebuke to his foriegn policy?

All quips since aside, I can't help but think that would be a poor acronym -- not because of the similarity, but because Mara is the name of a demon. Buddhist in this case, but it's borrowed commonly enough from what I've seen. Gods know no one in particular would notice or care since it's not a christian one, but still. Somewhat ill omened. Mara didn't succeed

... now, if this slogan also comes with the army of lusty daughters, maybe we can renegotiate. Try to get some lusty sons in there, too. It's a new age, and we got more than one old dude to seduce from the path of enlightenment, here.

Sure, but would this administration care?

Mount the bed, bed the mount.

Dragon riders, ho!

Best lizard brothel within sixty material planes.

Make sure to also go with the grain. Cats get annoyed, scales get snippy.

Why do I wake up to this, brain.

Also bloody hell you've got your sexism backwards bb. It's old stupid masculinity crap that's still keeping people from wrapping their bigger head around males being victimized by females more than most things. If it'd been male on male there probably would have been notably more uproar, ha. Brain also wants to know why it's waking up to this, too, but now that I'm cognizant enough to notice it's ree reeing again, it's less confused :V

I trust ABBADON not to get sketchy with this, though. To skirt the line, maybe, but I hardly think this is going to devolve into gay smut for teens with a poorly articulated rape fetish.

Oh, sure. Was mostly trying to articulate that I'm less worried on that front with lesbian stuff than I would be with heterosexual, since "poorly articulated rape fetish" describes way, way too much of the commercial romance genre.* Though if the ads and whatnot are anything to go by male homosexual material has a problem on that front, too...

* Well, either that or I've been beating the odds like holy hell when I've skimmed or read romance novels over the years.

Not sure how exactly I feel about this one.  On the one hand, it's nice to see Cio being so direct, skips a lot of the screwing around that normally goes on.  On the other hand, while Cio has been pretty clearly interested this whole time, Allison hasn't really showed a strong reciprocation of those feelings.  There have been a few little hints but nothing that screams: "I like you!" from her corner<snip>

Like... isn't that okay, though? It's really damn rare to see in fiction but it can be nice to encounter a relationship where one or both sides just kinda' ease into things. A more chill build up... relative to the gut stabbing and whatnot, anyway. No need for strong reciprocation or screaming (well, on screen anyway *obligatory wink wink nudge nudge*), just folks getting along more intimately than usual. Smooth fluff, as opposed to the spiky and on fire sort.

Though actually, now that I think on it a second, lily-flavored (maybe homosexual in general, I don't browse enough male on male to have too strong a handle on common themes with them) romance plots having one participant being notably more aggressive/interested/whatever are fairly common, so I'unno. There's an argument it's a fairly normal romance scenario, I guess.

Conceptually it's common with romance in general but that particular setup also has a nasty habit of getting real sketchy real fast, and at least when they're not playing fan-servicey molestation angle yuri/femslash/whatever tends to be fairly on the up and up when they're running with that sort of character interaction.