gently landing on a pile of one million corpses, the exhausted bank accounts of millions of households, debris of hundreds of recently cleared homeless encampments, and the supple, bloated bodies of the long term disabled 🤠
Another jobs report that has soft landing written all over it. Unemployment still near a 50-year low, with core inflation close to the Fed's target.
Cue another few dozen articles about why Americans are right to say that the economy is terrible.
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Kevin Kelly, 2011 www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/july...)
Phil Hartman calling himself a "Grinchophile" and explaining how the movie was made basically like a live-action Troy McClure www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4eD...
The best argument for continually-existing video stores is once many many years ago @is-he-psychic.bsky.social and I walked into my local and said “I’m looking for the movie where Sean Connery wears an orange diaper” and the beautiful woman behind the counter walked us right to Zardoz.
police officer: do you know why I pulled you over
me: (adjusting my apple goggles to see if the pedestrian lying on the hood of my self driving tesla is real or an illusion) give me a second
my wife started wearing a VR headset in bed. I said honey it makes me feel like youd rather be with someone else. she said don’t worry, I wear it with them too
I'm tired of being a faceless cog in a corporate evil environment. I feel that I would thrive as an underling or goon in a less alienating, smaller-scale environment of evildoing where I can really see the impact I'm having when my boss says stuff like "yes... everything goes according to plan"
Something I was mulling over today as I was reading some history of Luther’s 95 theses: What’s the single most important piece of persuasive writing ever produced?
Werner Herzog voice: “The life of an adolescent humanoid turtle trained in the fighting arts is a bleak and turbulent existence oozing with pain. Unable to mate. Unable to form bonds outside of their addiction to the pepperoni pizza. Trapped in a half shell of ego death, chaos, murder.”