Maybe a bit of both. Could be an intellectual form of Hanlon’s razor. Don’t mistake obscurity for intelligence.

Folks in the US are both comfortable enough and unsteady enough that they will not move. It was Zizek about a week back who said it, people are not desperate enough yet to get to this stage. *** sniff! ***

The thing that saddens me isn’t a headline like that, it is that there will be more like him afterwards. :(

Turns out I just posted this further up the page with different wording. 🙃

Once is a mistake, twice is a pattern.

There is someone who works a new stand. Everyday an elderly man walks up to the stand, looks at the news papers and the walks of in disgust.

Eventually the worker stops the old man and asks him “Why do you do that every day?”

The old man says “I am looking for a specific obituary.”

The worker says “But the obituaries are in the back on the new paper.”

The old man says “Not this one.”

Is Kramig the next Blahaj?

A thousand times this! It isn’t the popularity that is the issue, it is the economic model of exploitation.

I am in Melbourne, Australia, things are still ticking along fine enough BUT we can see the wave coming.

There was a book from 1957 called ‘On the beach’, it was about Melbourne being last city on Earth that has survived a nuclear war and how we would surcumb to the same fate as everyone else. It is starting to feel like that but in economic terms.

A few years back there was an ad campaign for a construction company, they put it on the side of buildings under construction, it merely said “Hey ChatGPT, finish this!”.

Find jobs they cannot automate and massage therapist is a great one. best of luck for the future from a random internet stranger.

I love and completely hate just how much of a dint Liz Truss did in for 40-something days. Made the history books in the worst way.

Currently, there are a fair amount of people trying to convince us that Iran is the enemy. Yes, their culture has its issues. But it doesn’t really work when the 5 Iranians I personally know are some of the nicest people you will meet.

Our differences are far smaller than the things that unify us.

High ambition is over rated. Those that hustle have the same mentality as a cat chasing its own tail, they can never arrive. All there is is now.

Not just Nuclear, Coal and Gas plant use loads of water as well. A typical 1,000 MW plant consuming up to 2.5 billion liters of water per year, mostly for cooling.

Regardless of how you heat water, you need water.

Hmmm… yes, I will listen and act on this unquestioningly.

That’s cool, different tastes for different folk.

It was a few years back there is the group King Gizzard, the sub-reddit started to have a lot of tier lists for their albums because they had a decent back log by then and they spanned a wide range of genres. It was fascinating seeing how wildly different people ranked these albums. Some that many considered a classic would hit the D tier list on others. Very cool to see.

Some see Pink Floyd as S-tier, other could barely muster a D-tier. Just how it goes.

I will make a broader statement with the addictions. Try to minimize dependence in all its forms. Not just chemical, but social, physical and economical. Easy to say, difficult to do but it is worth it.

Something I find fascinating about a lot of 80’s tracks is how tastefully subdued they are. Like they could have gone far harder but knew to keep it restrained in just the right way.

One that always comes to mind is ‘Slave to the Rhythm’ by Grace Jones. I masterclass in playing it cool.

I will forever associate crunk with like 2 minute appearance of ‘The Crunk Clown’ on the show Flavor of Love.

“But my convenience!” 🤮