Agreed

The question presumes that providing defense for someone that is guilty is more of an ethical problem than prosecuting someone that is innocent.

I believe the opposite. I think even if someone is guilty they deserve a fair defense.

With you until the last paragraph, but if things drag on like this for that long and we haven’t collapsed we’ll have been balkanized into the neighboring states of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google.

AFAIK there’s not a story to it. It’s just using pollination as a metaphor; and now that I think about it, the flower isn’t even mentioned. Typical.

People could lay vertically in their hiding pods stacked on each other and we could put wheels on the bottom like those big baking sheet racks in commercial kitchens. But then we would need someone to push them…cue the bats!

Reminds me of this

What a time to be alive.

Cat 6 of 9 tails

Otherwise it’s a “sparkling invasion”.