Not to absolve these people, but half of our government has been at full on war with education since at least Reagen. They’ve been fighting tooth and nail for an army of uneducated meat-bots for the past 40 years, and now their investments are paying off.

…on stolen land. Using the labor of the indentured and the enslaved.

RoboCop is my go-to New Years Eve movie. If you press play at 22:58:25 on the Director’s Cut, you should get within a second or so of synchronizing Clarence Boddicker’s digital hand grenade countdown with midnight.

Heart of gold by Neil Young.

Bam Bam by Sister Nancy.

The Weight by The Band.

Courtney Barnett in general.

The family contains more than 2,000 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spider, gyrating spider, long daddy, and angel spider.

l o n g d a d d y

He…was born in Chicago? Why shouldn’t he get a say?

Huh?

Fuck you, Afroman.

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?