Favo kills a lot of time for me. As does 2048 and any nonogram game.

That’s the hit song from my doctors weekend garage band.

It was the seventies.

Cool story, bro.

It has literally nothing to do with the topic. But hey, good rant there, bud.

Ah yes, the “columbus gambit”. Let’s see how it works out for them.

That guy earning twice as much as you is still far closer to you than to the guy above him. He may make twice the amount as you, but the guy above both of you makes literally 400 times as much (per day sometimes). It’s like you said, we’re all on the same team.

Non fungible tokens

Middle class IS below the poverty line.

The poverty line is a number made up by the wealthy to keep the “less poors” at odds with the “more poors” So that we don’t join forces and guillotine the motherfuckers.

Immediately reshoot Season 8 of GOT with what I thought was going to happen.

If a seagull lives to it’s thirties I imagine it’s flying around with nothing but Smashmouth banging around it’s brain all day.

I mean, I guess that’s true in a peculirar sort of way in which nothing really exists outside of our perception of it.

What I mean by that is that whatever we see, hear, taste, etc… is merely neurons firing in our brain, processing a signal that it receives. So if we’re looking at a tree for example; that tree is just light/energy waves vibrating on a specific frequency. It’s only when it hits our optic nerve and travels to our brain that it’s translating into something that we call a “tree”.

So when the eyes are closed, the random interference pattern could indeed be interpreted as you say. Goog catch. Kind of makes you wonder.

Simple answer without typing a textbook is simply that the longer a language exists, the more individual “quirks” it picks up.

Words or idioms from a different language, regional differences in pronunciation that become common, changes in preferred spelling, etc…

Language is protean and ever evolving, which means that no (natural) language is ever going to be without it’s own unique weirdness.

What you’re seeing is the inner workings of the holographic universe we inhabit. Your brain interprets the signal as static.

/Obviously I’m not serious…

Well I wish someone had told me that before I went through with the surgery.

Three words…

Cock finger puppet.

IMO, consumers aren’t necessarily stupid as much as corporations have very expertly learned to weaponize FOMO through advertising; allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to “whatever the consumer is willing to pay.”

Is that “capitalism”? Yes…technically. But to me, it goes against the spirit of capitalism, which at its heart sums up as “Farmer has a cow that produces milk. Farmer sells the chicken farmer down the road his extra milk and charges enough to be reasonable but doesn’t get greedy because he needs eggs.”

Corporations don’t need our eggs. They don’t believe they need anything from us and so don’t care about being reasonable about profit.

Its “capitalism”, but in my opinion, a perverse, stilted form that should have been kicked to the curb the moment Reaganomics started making it popular.

Just remember folks…if it’s not open source, and you’re not paying for the product, then you ARE the product. Likely a tracking nightmare.

6.5 Drachma, can be converted to 6 sesterces or six ducats.

Obviously I’m kidding.

The truest truism that ever did truism is that “power inevitably corrupts”

“work as much as you can, use as much as you need.”

You don’t need technological advancement to be sustainable if your population remains relatively small and static. Hunter Gatherers actually follow pretty much exactly the formula you described above and ended up with far more leisure time than their agriculturally “advanced” counterparts.