Only tangentially related, but: I’m a school bus driver and a very popular name for kids these days is “Rhys”. I really enjoy asking them why they’re named after chocolate-covered peanut butter as it drives them crazy.
Only tangentially related, but: I’m a school bus driver and a very popular name for kids these days is “Rhys”. I really enjoy asking them why they’re named after chocolate-covered peanut butter as it drives them crazy.
the barrier for getting Linux to work is too high right now for a very large part of the population
My elderly (late 80s) parents have Windows on their laptops and it would be impossible for them to use it without my regular intervention. I might as well take the plunge and set them up with Linux.
This is the most basic fact that people in the US need to be made aware of: we spend literally twice as much per person on healthcare as the rest of the developed world. Twice as fucking much!
a lot of research and medical progress comes from america, financed by medically bankrupt americans
The real beneficial research is financed by taxpayers. The medically bankrupt finance the obscene profits of health care corporations and pharmaceutical companies, who do not spend much at all on primary research. The “research” they invest in is how to productize and market drugs.
I just gave it a listen today on my bike ride. It’s pretty good - not what I expected but not surprising, either. I’d characterize it as Kate Bush meets Dead Can Dance meets early ‘70s King Crimson, and since I like all three of those acts I like Gibbons’ album as well. I was surprised to see that it’s her first solo album.
Put money in your 401k! Nothing else really matters as much.
So cynical … what makes you think “a startup aiming to broker paid licensing deals between publishers and AI companies” can’t be trusted implicitly?
“Baby’s Got a Temper” is also a banger, but it’s a bit of a tough sell when you’re singing about how great Rohypnol is.
Charlie, poison, voodoo people and of course Keith’s firestarter.
First Prodigy song I ever heard was “Their Law” and that’s still their peak IMHO.
I think if you’re the son of a gibbon, it doesn’t much matter whether you’re a bastard or not.
I wouldn’t mind being Beth Gibbons’ bastard son.
Its pretty similar
No, that was the sequel.
Plot twist: Richard Gere was actually George Washington!
Nothing drives me as crazy as my phone constantly putting in “thus” instead of “this”. Nobody fucking ever uses the word “thus” in a text message.
Take WWII for instance, being neutral kind of says yeah we are cool with both sides.
Being literally surrounded by the Third Reich meant their choices were neutrality or actually joining up with Hitler, so they really can’t be criticized for choosing neutrality. They can be criticized for their actions during and after the war in helping the Nazi leaders squirrel away the wealth they stole from the Jews, something that was not necessary for a neutral nation to do.
I’d rather rip on Sweden which at least had some possibility of joining the Allies but instead supplied Germany with the high-quality iron ore they absolutely needed to keep their war machine running - the exact same thing they did in WWI. They also supplied Germany with much-needed ball bearings, but at least they sold them to the Allies as well.
They don’t even have a duty to know what the law is.
Pat’s
Lol you get assaulted just for going to Pat’s.
It’s funny how many times I’ve had guys threaten to rip my fucken eyeballs out, specifically. That must be why we have a famous eye institute here.
The real crime is the peppers - you’d get assaulted if you ordered those here in Philly.
When I say “I’m not interested in politics”, what I mean is “I can’t bear to listen to another right-wing crank regurgitating the latest bullshit he’s read on Infowars”. Sometimes it means “I can’t bear to listen to my 100% white sister-in-law castigate me for not using the term ‘LatinX’”.