Unpopular opinion - I like the look & the idea of the Cybertruck.

You are the first person I’ve seen say they like the look. But if we all liked the same thing, what a boring place this would be. Or more boring.

It might not be great, but it’s something. As a life long fan since the Bjorg era, not being able to watch tournaments for years has been kind of deflating.

The exact phrasing varies, but in most states, the details of the law are the same: Any “commercial entity” that publishes “material harmful to minors” online can be held liable—meaning, tens of thousands of dollars in fines and/or private lawsuits—if it doesn’t “perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.”

Sure seems like that would cover a lot of websites, including most news sites.

It’s a good book. I would argue that although he had a hard go of it, and long days, his life was much more fulfilling than 99% of the lives that people live these days; probably more fulfilling than the lives of the people that lived during his time as well. There’s a reason people love escapism.

Thomas Paine posited that if a man, unencumbered by society, could meet his basic needs (food, shelter, etc) in x hours of work per day, then society owed that same person the same basic standards of life for working that same x hours per day. Where I’m from, the Native Americans had to work about 2 hours a day to meet their needs, and so became really great artisans with their “free” time.

Closer to present, my parents were able to buy a comfortable suburban home while working relatively low paying government jobs. That includes my mom taking off approx 6 years to take care of my sister and I until we started elementary school.

When Europeans first came to America, there were schools of cod off the coast that you could literally dangle an empty hook into the water and catch fish. Passenger Pigeons darkend the sky for days on end with their migrations, and the thundering of huge buffalo herds could be heard and seen throughout a good portion of the continent.

[Life expectancy] fell to 77 in 2020 and dropped further, to just over 76, in 2021. That’s the largest decrease over a two-year span since the 1920s. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-the-us-is-falling-202210202835

Sure it’s not all bad. But it’s far, far from all good as well. Sometimes bitching is just the sign of an unhappy person, but often there are some real truths behind the complaints.

I need to emigrate.

(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2

Math checks out from this end.

I can not imagine a sequel to Gladiator being as good as the original…but, damn, imagine if it was. That first movie is a classic.

It’s below the first one now, according to the page’s update. Not that rottentomatoes is super accurate on movie quality anyways.

I grew up watching the TV show and didn’t hear the song with words until I was maybe a senior in HS. Kind of blew me away.

In Future Shock,

Alvin Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a “super-industrial society”. This change, he states, overwhelms people. He argues that the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation”—future shocked. -from WP

This was published in 1970

I’ve heard “over yonder as the crow flies”, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard “over yonder as the crow the flies”.

I love that saying. And I’ve known that for a long time.

Humanity. I know it’s kind of self-defeating or something, but humanity just scares the shit out of me.

People need to spend a little time at a nudist resort. They’d learn real quick that naked isn’t sexual.

Easy there Black Mirror.

The majority just give enough to lessen their tax burden. Should have at least a 50% wealth tax on anyone on the Forbes 400. Fucking vampires.

The DNC exists to protect incumbents. Don’t be fooled, the Dems (elected officials, not voters) don’t want ranked choice.

More voters went from Hillary Clinton to John McCain in 2008 than went from Sanders to Trump in 2016 -Source

I’ve yet to meet a Libertarian who wasn’t just a lazy Republican.