Used oil, maybe?

Depends. If you’re streaming Dire Staits on a $250,000 stereo. You’ve probably missallocated funds approaching a moronic level from a functionality perspective. However, if you’ve got half a billion in the bank, I’d say it’s a far more wholesome idiocy than for example, real estate. Money inherently means less to rich people. The difference of a few thousand to tens of thousands are, bewilderingly, fairly inconsequential to many people. I’d just assume they put that money into listening to music rather than super pacs or something. Hell, maybe they’ll actually hear what the musicians are saying and they’ll actually grow a little.

The issue with audio is the same issue with all hobbies. Spending a lot doesn’t make you an automatic expert, let alone even know what you’re doing. An expensive bat doesn’t make a bad player good, an expensive stove doesn’t make a bad cook good, expensive clothes doesn’t make an ugly person beautiful, an expensive running shoes don’t make an out of shape person healthier.

I find shitting on audiophiles particularly annoying because it’s smugness on both sides of the equation. The people who buy in think they’re better than everyone just like the people who see the con think they’re better than the rubes. If I had to pick a side though, I’d honestly pick the audiophiles, because at least they’re having fun.

Red coat was abducted.

We’re the only country to use nukes. We nuked a country not once but twice. We’ve always been the bad guy.

Only if they take Washington and Oregon too.

I recommend taking any means necessary.

I really wish Baby Steps had won something.

The leading cause of death for Roman Emperors, and most rulers throughout history, was violent death, primarily assassination or execution, followed by suicide…

You know, maybe we should consider this option more thoroughly.

Yes, whenever I’m selecting a location to shoot a bunch of people I always prefer one that’s vacant.

Which is kind of what I’m getting at. I’ve read that we have the equivalent to as much as a crayons worth of micro plastics in our brain. A crayon, while not particularly scientific, puts a pretty fine point on the issue in an intuitive sense, and also addresses the cumulative nature of the pollution. By the head line it seems like they are only talking about a certain sized micro plastic, and without further context they might as well just say “a lot”.

“Particles” is almost useless as a measure. They’re not movie tickets, I’m not interested in their discreet number. Give me a defined quantity. Is 10,000 particles 1 gram, half a gram, a tenth of a gram, what?

“You’re eating far too many particles of salt, we’re going to need to to cut back by at least 2,000 particles every lunar cycle.”

That weird bot that assumed that woman’s identity and was messaging everyone?

Olive drab?

I don’t know, I’ve probably never been nearer to a life of crime then in the depths of the black deck.

This makes me nervous about the Criterion Channel.

20 years ago was 2025

Damn I slept better than I thought.

Consensual Death would be a good band name.

Just a sode note, even if he was a financial genius, it isn’t his job to “lead the economy”. At best he would supposed to accomplish that through appointments and consensus if that were his goal. Here isnhis job description per the constitution:

The U.S. Constitution contains the only official “job description” for the President of the United States. According to Article II, Sections 2 and 3, the President:

1. Is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the United **States, and of each state’s militia when the nation has need of it **> 2) Has power to obtain information and opinions from heads of the executive departments
2. May grant pardons and reprieves for crimes against the United States
3. Makes treaties with other countries with the approval of the Senate
4. Appoints ambassadors, federal judges and heads of executive departments – all subject to the approval of the Senate; the President also has power to fill any vacancies that may happen while the Senate is in recess
5. Must report to Congress from time to time about the state of the union and recommend whatever measures he thinks are necessary
6. May call members of Congress together on extraordinary occasions, as well as adjourn their meetings when they cannot agree on their own about when to do this
7. Receives foreign ambassadors and other public officials
8. Is responsible for enforcing the nation’s laws
9. Issues commissions to all officers of the United States

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

Am I missing the article link?

I will always bring this up. During the “birthday card” period, Trump was a Democrat. Democrats don’t care whonis implicated, we just want to punish ghouls.