I think Idaho Winter by Tony Burgess does this pretty well. It’s a wild read.

Annihilation is my go to comfort movie. I’ve probably seen it thirty times.

For me personally, I used to have really bad heartburn until I started using straws pretty much exclusively. Rarely do I get heartburn anymore and I also don’t belch as much either, which I was doing a lot of as well.

I do use metal or glass straws exclusively though, even in the car I have some in a case in the cubby so I don’t have to use those awful paper straws if I am ever forced to grab food in the car.

I have some glass ones I found in my local dollar store, they’re wonderful

He’s also so so funny! I expected a dark humour but he is so sharp and witty.

World War II: The Sequel “Let’s Gidderdone Right”

You’re an amazing beautiful being and I love you forever! 🫀🫀🫀

Dns blockers for the wiiiiin!

I’m so glad you enjoy!

Shooter Jennings is another you may enjoy, very alt-country southern rockish.

Lukas Nelson and The Promise of the Real is a great band that is also alt-country but more like indie-ish beach rockish bluesyness. It’s hard to define lol.

Enjoy your adventures into alt-country and if you want more recommends hit me up!

Sturgill Simpson! Song is called Turtles all the way down and the music video is also pretty epic.

Ooooh I have not heard this one before, I like it. I’ve used cowbro in the past but generally just go for bro-country. Gonna throw supermarket cowboy into the mix.

My kind of country music:

“There’s a gateway in our minds That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane Where reptile aliens made of light Cut you open and pull out all your pain Tell me how you make illegal Something that we all make in our brain Some say you might go crazy But then again, it might make you go sane”

That was super informative, thank you.

Since you stipulated our species, to me, the answer is an external threat to the whole. Aliens, higher or lower dimensional creatures, cryptids, flame unicorns sharting lava, even angels or demons if we want to get real wild.

Even just the threat of an existential terror such as these and probably a lot I missed, (feel free to add to the list! Feed me your existential threats!) has the potential to bring the species together to fight on a larger scale.

However this doesn’t eliminate war just moves the focus. So I’m not sure if I’ve answered your question or not but I had fun doing it!

Oh they absolutely do care, you’re exactly who they want the data from. The “average person” is a goldmine for data collection. They profit massively from your existence and you should definitely care at least a little about that.

I opened jerboa and this was the top of my feed. I was extremely confused for much longer than I’d like to admit.