call him a square

It is very camp

powderize some egg shell and sprinkle it on like salt, all those baby cow enzymes or whatever are kinda superfluous to your skelleton

Perhaps. At the same time, we also had a better reputation then. A lot of countries were quick to jump on board when we decided who was gonna get invaded. Maybe they would have been just as eager to pull together and go green? Not that we’ll ever really know, of course.

Maybe… but… remember ten years ago when there were all those articles about how “China is building train stations to no-where!” and today those same train stations are now in the center of new bustling cities? Isn’t this what we’d expect to see, right at the start of a pivot to green energy?

my dad once said that if he was in Bush’s position, he would have used 9/11 to justify decoupling from Saudi oil and push for more solar and wind development

I still think about that. So many missed off-ramps to this…

don’t worry, you can start shutting down france’s nuclear generators once you run out of your own

pay pal’s website asks if I want to verify through text, then freaks when it discovers that it is not a phone app, but instead a webpage on a browser with no SMS functionality to ask permissions for

some of the more obnoxious sites never actually removed the old www.tumblr.com/login. Poke around with your site of choice, there’s probably a legacy login that would have been more work than it was worth to remove.

So is this a more classic case of Apple’s usual tactic making their things needlessly different to move more product?

Behavioral, not subliminal. Interacting through a market selects for individual, atomized behaviors from people and corrodes social spaces that used to exist outside the exchanging of money and goods.

kinda like that George Lucase interview where he pointed out Soviet filmmakers had more creative freedom than he did. They weren’t allowed to call for regime change. Otherwise, they could make whatever they liked. George had to make profitable movies, which is a far narrower slice of what’s artistically possible.

they took the cocaine out of the cola waaay before that

The simple fact that we can’t form coalitions like in a parliamentary system has the liberal left deadlocked. Democratic leadership feel like they don’t have to compromise with their left flank to win, while chastising them if they lose. Actually having a system where two parties have to hammer out an agreement to share power would at least turn the fuckin’ page already.

Of course, to get a system like that in the States just puts us right back at the image heading this post.

…what…?

A while back I saw a response to that tweet, it went something like

How many of us would throw up if we had to pluck and gut a chicken? The dorito isn’t that impressive.

Sure, in a reductive sort of way. Kind of reminds me of native americans who, after being forcibly taken to europe and seeing how the people lived, concluded that no one there was free.

I think that criticism is still fundamentally true. But at the same time, what we have now is different from slavery. People are no longer legally considered property. Yes, labor is still coerced. But that coercion is now baked into the system, rather than an explicit interpersonal relationship of owed and owner.

But the pyramids required an understanding of mathematics that hadn’t been discovered yet!

Motherfucker, you ever hear of multiple discovery? It’s math. Anyone who’s interested can derive the principles behind it. Which is more likely, aliens? Or an Egyptian person with too much free time and a penchant for staying indoors?

Senate Bill 1140 and Senate Bill 1144 have passed in the state of Idaho. These bills will regulate and dictate when bike lanes and sidewalks can be built in Ada County, including Boise. The bills were sponsored by now former Senator Mark Harris, who is from Soda Springs, Idaho

Guy from Caribou County, ~300 miles away, dictates how Ada can construct its infrastructure. Of course, he claims to be a smoll government type, yet is somehow fine using the state to tell counties what they can and cannot do.