If you’ve never crafted a meme with your soul when you were kinda fucked up, and weren’t that great at editing in the first place, then we can’t be friends.

Weasels Ripped my Flesh is the first to come to mind, but I’m also partial to The Muscular Sorrow of Sadbrain Beardman

Maybe no one came to his party because they knew he was on the list

Crazy idea:

Start a right wing punk band

Exclusively write songs about how capitalism and that status quo are great

Charge thousands of dollars for albums, tens of thousands for tickets

Make millions of dollars off rich chuds

Use those millions to fight the status quo

Today of all days 🫡

Is this a linear algebra joke?

Behold, living in Japan

The horse

Sure it does, you just have to buy the stuff that’s expensive because it’s quality, not expensive because it has WiFi and touchscreens and stuff.

There are tons of models out there that cost half that much. Sure, there are fancy ones with wifi and touch screens you can spend $1000+ on, but a basic washer is like $4-600.

Pretty sure mine are passive with a little speaker that selectively transmits low decibel sounds. If the batteries die, it’s still passive protection, I just don’t get to hear people talking.

Give it another 15,000 years, it’ll get more interesting

I think I paid around $1200 for my Maytag commercial, not one single problem in the last 5ish years.

People have mentioned energy use and safety, but adjusting for inflation they were also way more expensive, a washing machine in the 50s was over $1000 in today’s dollars. If you’re willing to spend that much, you can find great reliable appliances with long lives.

Bottom up is better, the stem becomes a useful handle for those last few bites

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme

No way, velociraptor was way smaller, you’re thinking of utahraptor

Yeah he makes some solid points, it’s worth a read. The bomb stuff was just a ploy to get it published, it’s not like reading it is going to turn you into a bomber.

Yay, another opportunity to share one of my favorite illustrations ever

I’m all about a federated commune of communes, seriously, but at scale how is that really much different? You can’t have billions of people living on the planet, or hundreds of millions in a country, without some kind of coordination. It’s not practical for millions of people to vote on every little detail, you’ve still got to have focused representatives to, at minimum, collect information into policy that can be voted on in the first place.

Really the only two options, barring authoritarianism, are direct democracy or some kind of elected representatives. Direct democracy doesn’t really work for most considerable topics (agricultural production, electric grid installation, hospital equipment, etc.). Even if people knew enough about the subject to make informed decisions, most people won’t bother engaging. So we’re inevitably left with some kind of representative democracy, councils don’t really eliminate the fact of electing representatives, or the consequences when certain demographics over or underperform at the polls.