When I was a kid I lived in section 8 apartments where in the back of the buildings there was a big fence keeping us out of a wooded area. We cut that open and went back there a lot. Built sketchy tree houses and dropped stuff from them, played with fire, that sort of thing. At some point the land owner came by in the…

I like the idea in theory but I think practice might be more difficult. How do you identify political content? Suppose something like that had been in force when Kaepernick was protesting. Would the sports radio guys have had to ignore the controversy or get yanked off the air? Could they report on it but not offer…

I believe the issue is that the interference from electric motors makes AM signals difficult to receive properly. So an auxiliary AM radio wouldn’t solve the problem unless you were to get away from electric motors. Which could be an issue if EVs becomes more popular.

Strange how stuff like that happening can make people lose empathy as well as gain it and I’m not even trying to be funny or contrary. Some people suffer until they don’t care if anyone else does or can’t see anything other than their own pain.

But is time spent equivalent to money or is time yet to come? Everyone wants to be paid for their time but when the end comes they’ll pay to add more time to the clock? So who’s richer, a newborn or a centenarian.

Thanks, that is what I thought and I appreciate the sacrifice of your time watching this guy so I don’t have to. It seems like there are at least two separate positions being presented simultaneously here. “Monetizing tragedies is bad” and “reaction videos are bad”.

I doubt anyone is catching flak for reacting to history videos on Vietnam and WWII that contain live war footage. This streamer seeming to be a garbage person aside, where’s the line? Is reacting to live tragedies simply off-limits and, if so, for how long? Does the amount or quality of the commentary/analysis matter?

I think YouTube should have a way to have viewers of reaction videos see a live feed of the content being reacted to so the creator gets the views/likes and add a button to subscribe to the content maker. Then split the revenue between the creator and the reactor.

I always thought of the "Nevermind" album cover as kind of making fun of rockers putting nude or nearly nude young girls on their covers. Like they put a naked kid in the least sexual situation possible. Unless we find out someone in Nirvana was a pedo, that would change things.

Clearly a fake. That's a VP position on the org chart.

They mean using it to the limits of the vehicle’s capabilities. Which, in a car that powerful, is something almost no drivers do off of a racetrack.  Unless they're psychopathically unconcerned with the safety of themselves and others or willing to go out to the middle of nowhere and risk being stranded and without…

Current AI can’t do any physical work without very expensive specially built robots. If we have a universal income how do we get people to do the often unpleasant jobs that cannot be automated in a cost effective manner? I suppose if they demand premium wages for their labor that would change the calculation as to…

I don't even think you could get away with this in Florida. If the government didn't stop you the Florida Men would. How is it possible in New Zealand, a civilized country?

Oh it was pretty funny to me at the time so I didn’t think it was bad, it was just noticeably weird even to a kid how this cynical version of a sitcom was now on to Scooby Doo adventures.

The later seasons must be where the episode that takes place in a haunted castle in England happens. I think they’re messing around with ghosts, trying (and failing) to break the Bundy family curse. I remember seeing that on the original run and wondering what in the world had happened to the show.

Got to love the people who think a couple of paragraphs of incoherent abuse on a celebrity’s social media will somehow move the needle of progress forward. I swear some of these people live according to the ideas of sympathetic magic. I’m pretty sure that’s what “vibes” are. I think we’re descending from our behavior…

Easy to say for an octogenarian but those of us who don’t have to wear Depends prefer not to start just to watch an entire movie.

Your father was lucky enough to be involved in a political situation in which the US saw a benefit to every Soviet defector they could get to the States. For propaganda purposes in the Cold War, not because of any perceived value in human lives. Current asylum seekers do not have that advantage. Every time the…

Off-brand? Abominable Snowman's "Frosted Flakes" and "Yeti Love" are classic bangers to this day.

We tend to see people who are 80+ and doing well going about their lives. The “doing well” part is key. Many people that old are not doing well. Because one actor can continue working into their senior years doesn’t mean anything about anyone else. People are different and age differently. Even knowing nothing about…