Maya S. Trojan

I mean, it’s also the take of someone with a smidgen of education who isn’t deeply impressed by the philosophy or ideas that Maynard Keenan put forth in his lyrics. It doesn’t mean they’re bad, but it does mean they’re somewhat simplistic and not all that interesting, especially as you get older. So people who spend an inordinate amount of time praising it and acting like Maynard is like the coolest person alive for first year philosophy takes just seem like they’re overrating it to me. I know that makes me a bit of an elitist, but I mean, I don’t really care. I think stanning over any kind of celebrity whether it’s an artist or a movie star or movie director or fashion designer or whatever is foolish, and leads to a lot of unhealthy behaviors in our society. It’s a behavior that I can tie to actual negative social consequences, such as continuing to support an artist after it’s clear they are terrible (Chris Brown, for example, still has fans) which can lead groups of fans banning together and attacking innocents (Taylor Swift’s online army famously won’t stand for any criticism of her whatsoever without the critique being labeled “misogynist” by the fans). It can lead to genuine victims being dogpiled and abused by legions of fans. It’s just a behavior that I think leads to these negative outcomes when people put so much emphasis on a piece of art and who made it.

To an extent it’s understandable. TOOL fans basically ruined TOOL for me, the fanbase is just fucking insufferable, but that doesn’t mean the band themselves make bad music or something. I personally think it just means for whatever reason it appeals to people who are desperate to find meaning in music, and so things that have obvious surface level “meaning” become things that are easy for that subset of fans to latch onto. So especially for classic rock a lot of the interpretation of meaning has already been done so you’re not having to puzzle it out the way you do an entirely new piece of music and that baseline “meaning” is appealing to some people.

It’s a reference to this.

Of all the places I expected this copypasta, it wasn’t in a comic strip referencing They Live.

I’m one of those odd ducks who never cared all that much for Pink Floyd. I can hear the talent, but I found the music somewhat tedious.

Due to not caring for them much, I’ve run across people who actively hate them, and I heard this joke once:

Person A: Hey, did you hear about how they’re setting all those copies of Dark Side of the Moon on fire in the middle east?

Person B: Oh no! Is it a religious protest or something?

Person A: No, it’s just a shitty album.

Reminds me of when a friend of mine rented the upper-half of a tuxedo, some tighty whities, and some big baggy boxer short underwear over the tighty whities and went as “That Bad Dream Where You Aren’t Wearing Pants.” It was so well executed.

In a world with replicators, bespoke real cooked food is probably considered an extremely fun and rewarding hobby.

To be fair, maybe in a post scarcity space faring society that land is abundant on Earth as most humans live elsewhere now, allowing the Earth to heal ecologically. Perhaps he only “owns” it insofar as his position as a starship Captain for the Federation allows him to have this space to himself because no one else would use it. Perhaps the “servants” actually live in large nearby houses and this is just what they wanted to do with their lives and how they wanted to live and since they take care of all the properties anyway, why not upkeep the small portion of the property that a Captain actually lives in.

I dunno, just spitballing. Probably wrong on Earth being less populated somehow. I’m not queen of star trek trivia or anything.

Being smart enough to recognize what’s going on but not smart enough to envision the future from the present and not smart enough to come with concrete solutions on my own absolutely sucks. (There is a difference between being able to visualize the future based on knowledge of things like how poverty drives crime versus being able to actually predict specific crazy shit like the Proud Boys harassing the country during 2020-2024. I was able to envision poverty going up, not the political violence that came with it)

Turns out I was right when I was ranting and raving about how the Bush admin was basically using the PATRIOT Act to turn everyday American citizens into terrorists. It sucks so bad to have seen it all coming and have been successful at doing fuck-all to stop it even though everything went as badly (or worse) than I predicted.

I hate being smarter than the dummies and dumber than the smarties. Knowing just enough to know I don’t know shit.

Anyone else remember reddit’s r/RandomActsofPizza and how within six months of there being news stories about the subreddit that Mars Inc. had copyrighted/trademarked “Random Acts of Chocolate” and turned it into an ad campaign to convince people to buy an extra candy bar to share.

Pepperidge Farm remembers corporations co-opting communities to make a buck.

Also they explicitly call it sharing size so when people get fat as fuck from eating a whole bag they can claim it’s not their fault and that people should have more self control with their addictive sugar bombs.

https://x.com/miliondollameat/status/684877647705423872

Non-Twitter link:

https://nitter.miningtcup.me/miliondollameat/status/684877647705423872

They literally credit this tweet from 2016, ten years ago, for inspiration.

I think you’re remembering the original twitter post but somehow didn’t notice it’s actually credited already.

This comic is about ICE.

An American Tail: Fievel Breaks Bad

I hope it’s just a boyfriend and not a husband! Either way, dump his ass, Jucika!