Random thoughts

[florduh]

Calling nuclear weapons "atomics" is fuckin cool.

There's also "family atomics" in Dune. Man, if I had access to family atomics....let's just say I feel like my HOA would be behaving very differently

 

[coolbreeze]

"Sir, I'm afraid atomics are against the rules and, please, ask your son to stop tunneling through people's yards!"

 

[florduh]

Me on the way to the HOA meeting.

 

[Bologna]

 

[florduh]

AI created a rock anthem for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, entitled "Forever United (Yugoslavia Forever)".

It is (somehow) a certified banger.

"In the heart of Europe. A nation stood strong. Yugoslavia. Where all could belong. Under the leadership. Of a visionary man. Joseph Ti-to. The leader of our...lannnnnd!"

 

[Bologna]

 

[vapviking]

Holy crap, today wife and I are married for 48 years! And we lived together for almost 5 yrs before our wedding.

I have shared, among many other things, a lot of cannabis with this girl, spanning this entire time frame.

I'm basically an atheist, but I consider myself blessed to have found her.

 

[Bologna]

 

[cybrguy]

 

[cybrguy]

 

[florduh]

Amazing things happening in the Adultery subreddit

 

[florduh]

getting ready to trigger the commies at the coffee shop this morning

 

[Bologna]

There's about 4" of literally solid white concrete poured all over everything outside right now and the power's been out for over 12 hours, trees down everywhere, it's a huge mess... plows are pretty much useless. Smarch is one of the things I hate most about New England...

Good thing I brought my trusty ol dynavaps, lighters and fuel, IHs and batteries with me (good thing for the other humans near me too). What's the point of having an awesome "apocalypse" device if you can't use it?

Edit: yay! power's back on...! I missed you soooo much, Old Head - Terp Ready system...

 

[macbill]

Happy Palm Sunday

 

[florduh]

getting ready to trigger the commies at the coffee shop this morning

I need this on a hoodie to go with my laptop

 

[BabyFacedFinster]

Way back in the day, I remember my friend Steve used to get this high end weed from his dealer friend. Steve would say it was such good weed that they sell it already ground and pressed. You'd buy $40 worth and end up with a small handful of these little pressed cylinders of weed. About the size and shape of a hardwood pellet, like they use in wood stoves. I thought it sucked because it didn't look like a lot of weed for the money. Now I see that we were both being scammed on brick weed shake, but who knew these things back then?

I also recall that we rarely got names for the weed we purchased. We identified weed in amounts, not strains. If you had the cash, you could pick up a two finger or a three finger bag. It all tasted the same as we were smoking it.

Of course, you'd be jonesing when there was no weed to be had. It was time to scrape the bowls.

 

[Bologna]

 

[florduh]

We really fucked up as a society.

 

[vapviking]

We really fucked up as a society.

They were spot on about production, just waaay off on the distribution of the benefits.

Pretty sure I was gonna have a jetpack by then, too...

Mainly still waiting on the nuclear fusion thing.

 

[florduh]

They were spot on about production, just waaay off on the distribution of the benefits.

Right. But production is real. Distribution of benefits is simply a political choice. I guess people in the 30's through the 60's didn't think we'd make the dumbest possible political choices

IMO, the linchpin decade that explains almost every problem we have today is the 1970's. The rich and the business elite weren't happy with how the benefits of our production were being shared between Capital and Labor during the immediate Post-War period. In the 70's, they launched a revolution that reached its zenith with the election of Regan.

 

[cybrguy]

 

[coolbreeze]

 

[florduh]

Social media has always been pretty cancerous. But old Twitter was at least a decently useful news aggregator. Especially during an event like the bridge collapse. But if you tried searching "Baltimore Bridge Collapse" on new Twitter, you'd be greeted with the comment page from Der Stürmer.

Elon basically turned Twitter into the Biff's Casino timeline from Back to the Future.

He pays for engagement, which incentivizes the dumbest people alive to say the dumbest thing possible at the given moment, so everyone gets mad at them. This makes the website unusable.

I know old Twitter wasn't perfect. You couldn't do free speech (slurs). But...Hill Valley in the main timeline wasn't perfect either. They were anti-small business (gambling and organized crime). But it's pretty obvious which option is better, right?

 

[florduh]

Crooked Hillary has come out against the Adams Administration's cuts to the NYC library system.

I can't believe it's come to this but, hear me out...

 

[macbill]

Today is my last full day in Palm Springs. I have to go home to the cold and the rain. I've been here a 1/3rd of a year. I'm anxious to get home, especially since I barely finished a remodel before I came. Although I'll leave in the morning, I've made a few trips to the station wagon loading up the all the shit I bring. I don't even have room for a passenger. I keep telling myself I'll bring lss the next time. Famous last words.