Bach on organ in general, specifically BWV 565 reliably makes me cry. Also Max Reger’s Introduction And Passacaglia In D Minor.

And then on the other end of the spectrum, I once got some really bad news while listening to Pantera, and now I’m afraid to listen to them out of superstition. But that’s not really applicable here I suppose.

It’s quite clear the only way we’ll learn is the hard way. We’ll see how much smug entitlement we can sustain when the world moves on without us.

I don’t know, tow trucks still use gas, so they may still suffer some knock on effects.

Yes, but at the cost of long range visibility and wind, which I guess would only be a problem in certain specific circumstances.

Assuming a “jug” is 1 liter, and we’ll assume we’re drinking the 473 ml standard monsters.

Just between the monsters and pedialytes alone we’re looking at:

320mg of caffeine (about 3.5 cups of coffee)

~250g sugar (500% daily recommended, roughly equivalent to 63 sugar cubes)

~3660g sodium (~160% daily recommended, roughly equivalent to the sodium in 26 strips of bacon)

Add all the booze that made you drunk in the first place and I’d say you’re well on your way to punishing some serious porcelain.

I think it was so successful because of how solid the song is. As soon as you hear that aggressive drum intro the song is so catchy that it all appears at once in your head.

Gute nacht!

I’ll do it, Chicago has terrible taste in food. Deep dish is preposterous, Malort is an abomination, and despite how you feel about ketchup, relish should not look like the ooze that creates ninja turtles.

Smart people make things good, people forget what bad is, bad people take advantage of good people, bad people subjugate good people, good people do something smart, repeat.

One of the 8 US presidents who went to Harvard. Including John Adams, both Quincy and senior, to give you an idea of just how long Harvard has been around.

There are like 79 Nobel prize winning alumni, with 11 of those being peace prizes. Something tells me that “none” is a pretty low estimate for “good for the world”.

Harvard offers need-based financial aid to approximately 55% of its undergraduate students, covering 100% of demonstrated financial need. Families with incomes below $100,000 are not expected to contribute to their child’s education. In 2022, families with incomes of $75,000 or less did not pay anything toward the cost of education.

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Well, strictly speaking, if your location didn’t change you’d be transported into empty space. So you wouldn’t have very much to worry about for long.

A small protest in a red place is likely more meaningful than a large one in a blue. Thanks for getting out there.

I generally agree that he’s not a business man in the strictest sense. But he is undeniably “successful”. He’s lived the lavish lifestyle of his dreams, he’s never suffered any meaningful consequences, and he’s been elected president twice. Even if he is eaten alive by ants tomorrow, he’s already lived for 78 years, enjoying fame and attention, playboy interviews, committing crime with impunity, and seizing the nation itself to serve his pretty needs for vengeance. Hell, he has literally dodged a bullet. True justice is out of reach I’m afraid. It’s more like his measure of success is corrupted. Success to him is not synonymous with productivity. He is at his core, a rapist, getting what he wants is only technically the point. More important is taking it. Getting away with it. Stealing it. Breaking something. Exerting his will. That’s what he’s about. His business is spiritual, not material. It’s coercion, and force. And in this field, he is quite “successful” indeed.

Keeping a business running takes sustained effort. This sack of shit is more in the strip out all the copper and turn a quick buck leaving wreckage in your wake type of business man.

More and more I feel like he’s just trying to get us embroiled in something that provides cover for him to ratchet into the next slot of dictator. If he can get a real crisis on his hands he’s plausibly cleared for all sorts of seemingly desperate measures. Such as third terms, and criminalization of “sentiments” (“doesn’t like me” turns into “supports the enemy”, opposition turns into enemy, temporary emergency actions turn into permanent dictatorship).

I suppose what I’m trying to say is the less we rely on reddit, the faster those niche communities grow in the fediverse. The cost for splitting your energies is that it slows the growth of one and prolongs the antiquation of the other.