There was a schism where all of a sudden profit became more important than quality. That’s when capitalism started showing it’s purely destructive roots. We rode that train for a while though but now it’s time to get back to being the best we can be, not fucking our brothers and sister up for a token that represents some sort of vague value.

It’s deistically significant to plus or minus 2 parishioners.

In elementary school we never heard of autism, and this was way before Talwin and Ritalin came on the scene, but we had something called “Mrs. Dooley’s Class”.

Is that Candy porn?

I don’t categorize myself so I’ll leave that up to you.

I walk alone. Why do you multiply me? Is it my “type” you refer to? Those of my “ilk”?

There is no debtor’s prison in the usa. Charge everything you can, especially if you are poor. Let the chips fall where they may. With any luck the government will bail out the citizens like they do for the airlines, car companies and banks. /s

I don’t know about the altar in front of the chair but drunk ukulele sounds like a lot of fun!

You’re right. I read this and I’m credulous. Come on down from the cross, we need the wood.

The ball is oval. They just need to restrict the age of players to 13-19 years old then they could call it “Ovalteen”. That’s gold Gerry! That’s gold!

Be positive! Anything is possible. The people will rise up once again! The underground is now more powerful than the mainstream due to the “societal” shift into absurdity. Blood is more powerful than a token representing dubious value.

And thus ended the soccer wars, just like that.

Was Marx an alcoholic? I heard, from my good friend Bruce, that a bunch of other philosophers were hard drinkers.

Thankfully a lot of people have a movie making machine in their pockets (cell phone). Content will eventually be produced by the masses, competing against the behemoth media companies. Barring that, local community theatre productions. Maybe get a cheap CD player or two and put it in the back closet and then start collecting CD’s again. There is more stuff in media history to consume than there is new stuff being produced. A lot of it is better.

When growing up in the 70’s “computer programmers” were assumed to be geniuses. Nowadays they are maybe one tier above fast food workers. What a world!

Playing the complete “Carpenters Christmas” album at least once.

I’d add that you should be able to criticize anything you want on Lemmy. Sometimes you are right and the whole world is wrong. Especially if some Chinese Linux distro messed up your laptop. /s

Axe-u-a-lee…

I’m like De Niro’s plumber character in the movie “Brazil”. Is that anarchist? Defying government bureaucracy in order to sneakily fix a citizens toilet, even though all of the approvals and permit forms will take weeks to complete.

Partially, yes. Human nature is an interesting thing, full of contradictions and inconsistencies. I remember a quote by Mark Twain…“Some people will go way out of their way to become offended”. The reason that the word “forgiveness” is endlessly bandied about is because it’s the right thing to do, but one of the hardest things to achieve. We’d rather live in our heads and reinforce the chains that hold us there.