Ahem, and Rufus T.

Such a product does not exist, sir!

- which contrasts so nicely with the crunchy deposits of red dye #40.

I guess mergers between Big Candy are Big Agro are imminent.
Just imagine, one day Skittle Beef will be America's equivalent to Kobe.

No yellow icing?

Though I'm pretty sure I'm the only house music fan anywhere in the known AVC universe, this is my current number one wake-up and get moving motivator, the funkiest rollingest house track I've heard in good while:

If you like proper house music, hard to go wrong with any Dirtybird label output, which is invariably cheery, funky as shit and peppered with lots of UK bass flavours.

Good news everyone, our truth ration has been doubled!

Yeah, that's the likely case for us masses, but he makes a pretty good case for technological advancements leading to a real evolutionary inflection point between the haves and have-nots with in the next few millenia. Also the emergence of data worship as an actual religion. The Temple of Google. So some fun stuff in…

Considering how aligned our views on this are BB, I have to ask, have you read Homo Deus? If not, I recommend. It's an breezily accessible overview of the meeting of our primate imperatives with recent/near technological developments that dispassionately lays out some bracing probable future trends.

Again, you're right. But I reckon this is a "road to hell is paved with good intentions" scenario, at best. As much as I can agree with the expediency of the current solution, I don't think this practice ends well.

Jeez Dik, I'd really thought you'd go lead with Twink ATV.

Never has the two things meme been more apropos.

Sure, it's near Old El Paso.

The movie was entirely forgettable, but I vaguely recall it was the fault of those faceless clowns in Washington.
What a bunch of faceless clowns!

Wait, if Dik gives you a hug shouldn't you be worried about your earholes in case he tries to penetrate you aurally?

True. However, I would refer to the, ahem, information superhighway analogy. This is roughly akin to Google, existing in an environment where they control all of the highway on-ramps, leaving you with the "choices" of taking forever to get across the country by local roads, go nowhere, or take you places wherever…

"more of a bandage than a real solution"

You are bad person and you should be proud of yourself.

Considering the times in which she came up, tragically, I expect that was not true.