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Airplane ears… murder eyes… lacerations on her body… The turds resting outside the litter box… The sliced up furniture… At least one artist was harmed in the making of this image.

Splurging on Hamburger Helper and frozen broccoli.

When grocery store food is a 3-hour project away.

Add a bit of mayonnaise and you got yourself the ingredients for some grilled cheese sandwiches.

Just making sure you’re up to date on your intestinal parasites.

I really hope they instituted democratic elections or at least established a clear line of succession because the power vacuum caused by the sudden disappearance of the entire top level of revolutionary leaders is bad news for everyone hoping for a peaceful couple of decades.

Imagine growing up to find out that your parents never paid a dime to help your aunts and uncles whose donations you were raised on.

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5 slave owners versus 1 slave

Gladiators are paid to fight, not to polemicize. — Roman Football League, probably

If you can choose the 1000, that’s Death Note Season 2.

Most dogs have servile idiot personalities. This makes me suspicious of anyone who says they are a “dog person”. It’s not a great accomplishment to be loved by a creature literally bred to love their master unconditionally.

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This is why you keep the same person assigned to perform the same test for the duration of a study. If there’s going to be deviations from protocol, they should at least be consistent.

You don’t need to play Eve Online to know Market PvP is cutthroat, but it helps.

WinCo?

AudioAnchor. Audiobook player. Works great with Syncthing. Hasn’t been updated in 3 years and doesn’t need to be.

It is not a novel about good things or a good future.

If I recall correctly, Snow Crash expands upon Stephenson’s short The Great Simoleon Caper in which the US Government tries and fails to delay its inevitable bankrupting as its citizens evade taxes en masse by using cryptocurrency. The full anarcho-capitalistic collapse and dissolving of centralized powers continues in the sequel Diamond Age when automated education at-scale finally becomes creative enough to invent machines capable of bypassing the last technological barriers against printing weapons of mass destruction. Usually, I’m in support of stories in which centralized power is decentralized and fewer people are in command; Stephenson’s works of fiction explore this space but with armchair passivity, neither arguing for or against the politics of their fictional characters. In this sense Stephenson is conservative; post-cyberpunk instead of solarpunk. Stephenson is more likely to blow up the Moon, kill all the main characters, or fast-forward three thousand years than to try and dream up a plausible pathway for us, the readers, to live in a world not controlled by billionaires. This is why you hear so much of Stephenson from the likes of Microsoft or Facebook; socialist alternative stories such as those by Kim Stanley Robinson tend to recommend assassinating billionaires or purposefully collapsing the housing market for the sake of preventing billions of deaths from climate change, all prospects that are not profitable to the ultra wealthy such as Jeff Bezos who hired Stephenson as a consultant for their rocket company, Blue Origin.

Actual hot take.