You know, vampires sleeping in coffins is a brilliant idea. Ever been inside a coffin? It’s very quiet in there. That might be something I need to start doing since I cannot tolerate noise while sleeping. I sleep very lightly and a mite landing on a gnat’s butt wakes me up.
Since vampires are supposed to have super-sensitive hearing, perhaps they sleep in coffins to avoid the cacophony of the rest of the world rather than to dodge UV rays.
Company at heart of 97,000% drug price hike bribed doctors to boost sales.
As I noted, the entirety of the US medical establishment is a criminal enterprise.
Please observe that this doesn’t make every single medical professional a criminal, but does mean that the entire enterprise itself is a criminal one. If you are not capable of nuance, think of it this way: not everyone at Enron was a criminal, but the entire enterprise was a thoroughly-corrupt racket. The same is true of what passes for medical care in the US.
Burger King will sell meatless burgers, but they’ll cost even more than regular Whoppers.
Told you so. This is a huge boon for companies now that the propaganda is starting to work. They can peddle an inferior product at inflated prices while greenwashing themselves so hard that they emit viridescent Cherenkov radiation*.
The future of fast food is plant-based. Nationwide fast-food restaurants are pivoting to vegetarian-friendly menu items.
Bet you that above was taken straight from a corporate press release. This is almost as brilliant as the neoliberals declaring any resistance to globalism to be “racism.” If I were a diabolical cackling evil genius, I’d commend both of them for their sagacity and cunning. As it is, though, I am just a tad too clued-in to eat their flavorless fare for fat fees. This is the smartphone of food.
*Green Cherenkov radiation is always present, actually, but due to the peculiarities of the human eye peaking at green, we perceive the admixed radiation as blue.
I want to punch Nazis and liberals who want to ban single-use plastics. I know those drooling libs don’t deserve it nearly as much, but they are just about as stupid in their own way and surely deserve some face-punchage.
Obama had no scandal, behaved w/dignity & extreme decorum.
But
-Increased centralization, bureaucratism, faught federalism
-Crony capitalism, bankers > $$ than 2006
-Intrusive state w/evil nudgeboys Sunstein/Thaler, IYIs
-Blew up Lybia, Syria, exterminated Syrian Christians… https://t.co/YvjglRgaHk— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 27, 2019
Obama was the Hannibal Lecter of presidents: refined, elegant, in control but a murdering, scheming sociopath not that far behind the scenes.
It worked a treat, though, as most people care more about decorum and presentation than results and reality. So far, Trump has not done even 1/10 the harmful things Obama did. Sure, it likely is that he’s not competent enough to do so but what does matter is results, after all.
Sleek neoliberal bastards who eagerly spout diversity slogans have convinced us that the true threat to everything good is some pickup-truck driving Uncle Ted in a MAGA hat. We donate tons of free labor to enrich the sleek bastards in return for the chance to rubbish Uncle Ted online. In the meantime, the sleek bastards are robbing both us and Uncle Ted and repeating “Nazis, Nazis, Nazis everywhere” to keep us at each other’s throats.
Large corporations in combination with monopoly, oligopoly, and crony capitalism (assisted by a generous side helping of inequality) are the true factors vitiating the health of the country and our society. The above-mentioned factors require an unimaginably vast and comprehensive propaganda and surveillance apparatus to preserve, so here’s a fact: most of what you think, believe, understand, is corporate-mediated and essentially corporate-controlled. This is true of everyone, because there is almost no viable alternative.
Believing some white dude in a red hat making 40K a year is in control of any damn thing is daft to the extreme, just as certainly as believing any immigrant is by nature a dangerous terrorist-in-waiting. These are narratives of subjection and domination and the left is just as enmeshed in them as the right, even if they are “kinder” about it all.
The Leftovers was so deliriously good. And Nora Durst is the only character from a TV show I’ve ever actually missed when not watching the show itself.
That Nora Durst is not a real person is just wrong, somehow.
It’s a strange paradox of life that your reputation is often better the more you don’t care what other people think of you, and the more you can afford to not be concerned. When you’re striving and struggling for every crumb, they are hard indeed to wangle but when you don’t need them or want them, they arrive in droves.
I’d rather smack myself in the face repeatedly with a boat oar than live in a tiny house.
The details might be challenging but the basic story is simple: Your working 60 hour weeks, to the degree it is financially motivated, is not virtuous but imposes huge negative externalities through competition onto the rest of us. We should tax the fuck out of it. https://t.co/B4QJWg3Y3c
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) April 26, 2019
I think a 25 hour workweek is ideal for productivity. Beyond that, companies should be taxed for any worker they require beyond that time. Say, a flat tax of $10,000 for every 10 worker-hours beyond that maximum.
Most people’s productivity dives precipitously after 4-5 hours. That’s just human nature. And forty hours a week is really too enervating and time-consuming.
I tend to give some people bad vibes because I am hyper-alert. I can’t help it. You try having redneck bullies kick your ass for years and see what your alertness level gets set at.
Anyway, I like being always alert. I don’t actually like relaxing. Perhaps I am just accustomed to it. Nevertheless, relaxing is not relaxing to me.
If I were dictator, I’d immediately shut down Facebook as it has no real positive use. It’s destructive societally, socially, individually and collectively. It can’t be reformed so it must be destroyed.
And by immediately shut it down, I mean I’d send hundreds of agents to show up at data centers and offices, herd the people out the doors, bar the buildings, destroy the servers, and be done with it all tout de suite.
I don’t need to be a fuckin scientist to know that beef is more nutritious than plant-based substitute.
I was vegetarian for 10 yrs. I was anemic & skinny fat even though I worked out every day. Supplements didn’t help.
Red meat cured anemia, incr muscle mass & overall health https://t.co/AwSx1skwFR
— Jamie (@badjamjam) April 25, 2019
Exactly. There is abso-fucking-lutely no way I wold’ve been able to gain 10 pounds of muscle and double my strength in a little over six months on a vegetarian diet.
I would’ve made next to no progress at all because a vegetarian diet is hardly good enough for sitting on your ass, much less busting it every day on the weights. Supplements don’t really work and eating phytophilically means you are missing out on the best source of nutrients out there.
It’s cute to watch the 28 year old container people reinvent tech we had working perfectly well 25 years ago, but that they just didn’t understand how to use or find “old.” Their reinvention is never better, but it is often vastly more complex and more failure-prone.
Some parts of it are admittedly useful, though, like autoscaling. That’s the the only good tech I’ve seen come out of the container obsession. The rest is pretty poor.
Does anyone else feel that they basically lucked into a high paying career because their interests randomly aligned with scarcity and a rapidly growing field, and that it's nowhere near as hard, or as societally valuable as what teachers, medical professionals and care-givers do?
— Colm MacCárthaigh (@colmmacc) April 24, 2019
Absolutely. I happened to be interested in computers and that led me to a career in IT. I don’t think what I do is even as valuable as what a janitor does, but I was in the right place at the right time with the right set of skills. That’s all.
If I’d stayed in journalism, my original career choice, my life would’ve been much different — and worse. I didn’t switch through any real wisdom or because I knew journalism would basically die (this was in the 1990s), but because I liked goofing around with computers better.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I do provide value and I am very good at my job and improving all the time. I just think what a janitor or a teacher does is more valuable though compensated far less.
Thank the heavens my dad was obsessed with computers. That really changed everything for me.