Inflation as the average person actually experiences it (not the BS government numbers) the last few years has been 20-30% per year. This is why there is so much malaise and so many people who think the economy is doing poorly. For them, it absolutely is.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Such a great, insanely well-written show. What I like about it in particular (and this scene) is that even though everyone knows what “she” is, her looking like that still allows her to partake of the halo effect of young female beauty, but also be constrained by it as well in certain situations — that is, even being a “very scary robot” still doesn’t allow her unrestrained freedom.

Again, so well-written — e.g. the part where she turns his phrase around on him and says, “He’s not a guy, he’s a ‘scary robot.'” It helps to know the backstory of the show and Cameron’s (the female terminator) as well, but it’s clear that she is resentful of his by-proxy characterization of her. That’s why she turns his phrase back around on him like that. But it’s all done with great subtlety. Each line matters, and each one reveals something more to the viewer without either character explaining anything in the emotional sense directly. Some shows would spend half an hour belaboring what the writers managed to do there in just a couple of taut minutes. And that is pretty impressive.

That show is just full of scenes I wish I could’ve written. (Sorry for the crap resolution.)

What do dominant men want to hear during sex ?

“I can provide scores of solar systems to add to your vast and timeless empire, my lord.”

“Are 800 additional FTL laser cannons enough, or should I build twice that?”

“Should the starships I’m constructing for you have enough room for a herd of reincarnated dinosaurs?”

“We should figure out how to make armor from neutronium before we destroy the Tironian Empire. I will get started right away.”

Those are some suggestions from me, anyway. 😉

Can I go out without a bra in this crazy summer heat?

You’re an adult; you can do whatever the fuck you want. Who cares who is judging? Anyway, in the 1980s and up until the late 1990s, it was more common than not for women not to wear bras except to work and to semi-formal and above occasions. No one gave a shit.

Times are far more puritanical now, though.