Industrial: The world is broken and has been for a while so let’s go to the abandoned husk of the inner city, throw a party, and make insane music before it crashes down around our ears.

For your listening pleasure.

Yeah, that’s pretty awful. The pandemic taught us all that enough people are gross like that.

At this point, I just assume that every airport is packed to the gills with coronavirus. I mask up, avoid eating with my hands, try not to eat much at all, and wash thoroughly. That said, I ate at a sit-down restaruant at O’hare this summer and immediately caught it anyway; my flight was delayed and i was ravenous.

No kidding. Every time I fly I wind up on the same flight with a bunch of people that hit up an all-you-can-eat chili buffet the night before. They proudly let the entire cabin know this the very instant we hit cruising altitude.

The only upside here is that not even first-class is safe. I really feel bad for the flight attendants.

It’s worth mentioning that the flatogenic index of that kind of eating is off the chart. If anyone reading this has a diet like that please, for the love of everything good in this world, get a job that is outdoors.

What really breaks my brain is that the pigment responsible for this purple hue are called anthocyanins. It literally has a root-word for blue in the name, even though that’s not the only color it can make.

Thanks for the rabbit hole. Here’s a youtube video of that screencap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJerbSVIBEQ

And here’s a (VHS quality) archive of the whole show. It includes all the advertisments too, so it’s quite the time-capsule:

https://archive.org/details/dinnerandamovierockyiii

It’s even better worse if you hear it at a dead mall, with hardly anyone around and almost no open stores.

IMO: pack as much of your day with “active novelty” as you can. Even if it’s small stuff.

Kids experience time more slowly because everything is new to them. As adults, much of our world becomes familiar and, frankly, forgettable. It’s the lack of newness that lets time just pass by in our minds since the day’s memories get pruned to hell, letting entire days just get black-holed.

So my advice is do more than just touch grass; live life fully. Don’t just follow your favorite streaming programs, engage with other fans. Get out and join a club. Go to more parks, museums, live shows, craft fairs, summer festivals. Invest in the people in your life. Host and attend more movie nights, cocktail mixers, holiday parties. Listen to new music, listen to new podcasts, read new books. Double-down on hobbies or take on new ones. Finish projects on that todo list. Engage with nostalgia, but mix it up with new things too. Find new challenges and try new things to make sure that is or isn’t for you.

Not to long ago, I was mourning the loss of the Conversatron 3000. It was a forum site that was nothing but comedy writers, using the medium to tell a flavor of joke and observational humor that could only work on that medium. A lot of it had this formula of “dumb question/observation”, “dumber retort”, “setup”, and finally “witty punchline.” Sometimes, that would just thread on for multiple rounds. Rarely, threads were open to user comments too.

Now I understand why that hasn’t come back. We don’t need it anymore.

I feel like there’s room for a youtube series about how this is all around us.

“Good Enough: how engineering works in the real world.”

Honestly, I kind of needed this. Thanks, OP.

Oh man. I was having a good day and everything.

Honestly, this is a golden teachable moment in critical thinking. Jr here is starting to ponder the implausibility of a myth. Encourage more thought, guide away from magical thinking, answer their questions honestly, and reward them for arriving at better answers. Then follow up with a big reward as they’ll probably feel a tad disillusioned when it’s all over.

This one: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

What in the actual three-ring-fuck is going on in this picture?

I know that church doesn’t have to be as solemn as a funeral, but still… unless these production levels are generating millions for charity, I can’t imagine how people are just okay with this.

I really don’t understand why.

Anti-Microsoft ideologues, mostly. Giving MS any quarter is antithetical to their chosen axe to grind. Pay them no mind.

I’m waaaaayyyyy too orange-pilled for this. Both images are wrong.

“A therapy” of goths, then?