A rock with no electricity is just a rock. Meat with no electricity is just a body. Electricity is the only conscious thing there is.

Also PETA got involved, because they’ve never seen an animal-centric story they couldn’t weasel themselves into.

Showerthoughts from 1972.

Jeff Goldblum can upload a virus to take out an entire alien spacecraft. Probes are a piece of cake.

I would have sworn this was remade not too long ago, but it turns out that never actually came about. There was some recent news hinting that it may still happen, though.

https://comicbook.com/horror/news/they-live-sequel-status-update-future-sandy-king-john-carpenter/

In regards to whether this could mean a new chapter in the narrative could actually be coming, King hinted, “There might be.”

The term identity politics may have been used in political discourse since at least the 1970s.[19] The first known written appearance of the term is found in the April 1977 statement of the Black feminist socialist group, Combahee River Collective, which was originally printed in 1979’s Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,[22] later in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, a founding member of the Collective,[23] who have been credited with coining the term.[24][25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics#History

I need a mnemonic to remember how to spell “mnemonic.”

“The last generation just doesn’t get it” - current generation.

Yes, in case it wasn’t clear, that’s what I was trying to say. The “beer and world record publisher” are related. The “tire and restaurant rating” are related. Both unlike the Stanleys which are not.

Or the tire and restaurant rating.

Any given star is constantly emitting an unimaginably large, but finite, number of photons. A tiny few of them travel tens to hundreds of (Earth) years, only to end their journey in your eyeballs.

Stanley, the cup company, didn’t even make the Stanley Cup.

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This reminds me of a question I’ve had for a while, but hopefully isn’t too offensive.

Is there a word for the feeling of “relief” that other people/places are going through the same shit I/we are? It’s not quite schadenfreude; there’s no joy to be had here. Just a sense of togetherness. All my problems aren’t uniquely mine, or even uniquely American (even if the degree may differ for certain issues).

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Schrödinger’s Politician

Trump himself was supposed to “drain the swamp” as he’s the only one “strong enough” to do it, but his own DOJ never brought charges against Hillary because they’re corrupt and “woke.” But also, Back the Blue fits in there somewhere.

Their narrative is whatever sounds convenient for the 5 seconds it takes to get to the end of the sentence. There’s no coherent ideology that binds it all together, because it’s so self-contradictory that would be impossible.

Everything old is new again. Time is a flat circle.

Correct. Spez is either a pathological liar, or incomprehensibly stupid. But probably both.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/big-boy-federal-felonies

Skip to 26:15 to get to the discussion of this number, but tl;dl, 5-10 years minimum, and there are plenty of factors that could increase that.

Oh, but the whole show is entertaining, so listen to it all if you have the time.

It’s pretty common for big companies to not show a net profit. Remember Amazon wasn’t profitable until relatively recently, because they would reinvest all their cash into growing the business. They could have shown a profit any time they wanted; just stop investing in infrastructure, etc. It’s often a choice to run at break-even or even a loss while capital expenditures are high. I have no idea if that’s what’s happening behind the curtain over there, but it’s one possibility.