Semi-Hemi-Demigod

I remember when iTunes was called SoundJam MP and that was much nicer than iTunes. I still miss its eclipse visualizer.

Hopefully this works out better than the time they made iTunes for Windows

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Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with

I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.

I was a teenager who wanted to be a 1337 haxxor so I found out what warez were, and then wanted to play a bunch of games for free.

The Kinks are better than The Beatles

I remember those days. Except back then you had the added challenge of finding space for it on your 1.2GB hard drive

I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers

The closest thing I have to a worst enemy is the mother of my children, but my kids also really love my cat so I don’t know how I’d answer.

So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.

Get back to me when it figures out The Question.

If black people had gone back to traditional religions after emancipation I imagine the Reconstruction would have been even more filled with racist violence. Assimilating into the dominant culture is a survival strategy.

See also: The Sikh family who lives near me who had to take the symbol of their religion off their car after having it vandalized for being “Muslim.”

Third-person perspective

Monkey’s Paw: You are also paused. You cannot move to unpause. You are trapped in your own consciousness forever, as is everyone else.

But would we remember between quicksaves? Would other people? If my boss quicksaves before our meetings and then I quicksave and honestly tell him what I think about this job, whose quicksave would take precedence?

I heard somewhere that the reason people want flying cars is the same reason they wanted flying horses.

I have to go to Dayton for a week at the end of the month and if I could sleep in my own bed I’d hate it a lot less.

Chemistry is just messy physics.

Biology is just messy chemistry.

Physics is just messy math.

One should always be drunk, that’s all that matters.

So as not to feel time’s horrible burden

That breaks your shoulders and bows you down

You must get drunk without ceasing.

But what with?

With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose.

But get drunk

“Be Drunk” by Charles Baudelaire, as interpreted by Liam Clancy

You totally didn’t read the first sentence