I’m just this guy, you know?
Carl Sagan co-wrote a paper about what we would expect to find if there had been aliens in the ancient past. Erik von Danniken took this and added a bunch of racism to create Chariots of the Gods.
Carl Sagan, to his credit, was regretful for writing the paper and sparking this ridiculousness.
Hopefully this works out better than the time they made iTunes for Windows
Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with
I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.
The Kinks are better than The Beatles
I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.
When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers
The closest thing I have to a worst enemy is the mother of my children, but my kids also really love my cat so I don’t know how I’d answer.
I’m not actually sure what they do with the calves but it’s not growing them as normal meat cows.
They raise them for a little bit and then slaughter them and sell it as veal.
His hell is trying on gloves that don’t fit for eternity
So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.
Get back to me when it figures out The Question.
If black people had gone back to traditional religions after emancipation I imagine the Reconstruction would have been even more filled with racist violence. Assimilating into the dominant culture is a survival strategy.
See also: The Sikh family who lives near me who had to take the symbol of their religion off their car after having it vandalized for being “Muslim.”
This reminds me of the shift in the car market when Japanese cars entered the market after the Oil Crisis. American auto makers, used to building unreliable land yachts, couldn’t adapt fast enough. Now we have American car makers building electric land yachts that people can’t afford, and are threatened by cheaper foreign cars.
Third-person perspective
Monkey’s Paw: You are also paused. You cannot move to unpause. You are trapped in your own consciousness forever, as is everyone else.
But would we remember between quicksaves? Would other people? If my boss quicksaves before our meetings and then I quicksave and honestly tell him what I think about this job, whose quicksave would take precedence?
I heard somewhere that the reason people want flying cars is the same reason they wanted flying horses.
I have to go to Dayton for a week at the end of the month and if I could sleep in my own bed I’d hate it a lot less.
Chemistry is just messy physics.
Biology is just messy chemistry.
Physics is just messy math.
One should always be drunk, that’s all that matters.
So as not to feel time’s horrible burden
That breaks your shoulders and bows you down
You must get drunk without ceasing.
But what with?
With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose.
But get drunk
“Be Drunk” by Charles Baudelaire, as interpreted by Liam Clancy
I remember when iTunes was called SoundJam MP and that was much nicer than iTunes. I still miss its eclipse visualizer.