Also, for the record, just because people have *ACCESS* to a company’s IP, that doesn’t mean they can do whatever the hell they want with it — that IP is still legally protected. It’s more about artificially restricting access to manipulate the labor value of the services customers need. And for anyone who might be…

I don’t recall him being in either season of Iron Fist

Did you send him the invitation? Because he has to, like, know about it first. I’m pretty sure his appeal would drop off dramatically if he started showing up at random people’s door with cookies and weed, uninvited and without warning.

I didn’t say I believed it would. I said I hoped it would. A fool’s hope, maybe, but that’s all we’ve really got these days.

Here’s hoping WV knocks the ‘moderate’ bullshit from its ranks and puts a legitimate democrat (or, heaven forbid, an actual progressive) in the senate. Because things certainly aren’t going to get better by going the opposite route.

It’s pretty impressive, isn’t it? I mean...wait, I think we’re talking about completely different things....

But not all of the work is going to *be* creative in nature, nor does all of it necessarily have to be either. If it’s in support of the production of entertainment — which is a pretty broad selection of professions and skill sets — then it’s still relevant.

Maybe, but how much of ‘people being unsuitable’ for that kind of economy is a *product* of the modern economy itself? I mean, a similar notion about the ‘limitations’ of women existed until somewhat recently, but that was (and still is) nothing more than a product of the system in which they were raised and educated.…

Entertainment is as old as human civilization, which might be why it’s also one of the few ‘commodities’ that weathers all sorts of economic instabilities so well. In fact, as we continue the push towards more automation and more economic upheaval, the question of ‘what do we do with all the increased free time’ could…

Except it wasn’t the first time a serious coldsnap happened. ERCOT was informed that the system was primed for critical failure. And in response to the near-disaster, they did fuck-all to address anything. So a critical failure happens, as predicted, and in response to that disaster earlier this year, they also did…

Do they really qualify as ‘waves’ if they never stopped in the first place? It’s more like fire hose or a flood.

I did the math on the cost of a can of tuna vs a can of cat food once — the cat food actually came out to be a small amount more expensive than tuna, per ounce. I thought I must have miscalculated and did the math again, but it came out the same (hard to get the simple math wrong, but I was willing to entertain the…

Well, it *IS* Amerca’s deathcult. Gotta get those children to sacrifice on the Altar of Profits somewhere, ya know.

Because the convergence of the anti-mask and anti-vax crowd represents the most honest and trustworthy of human beings....

But then I’d have to be in Florida, and getting to feed otters feels in exchange for being in Florida seems a bit like getting a taste of icecream in exchange for being in hell.

Another day, another video demonstrating widespread ‘totally-not-racist’ law enforcement actions. I’m shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you...

Because he can genuinely mean what he says, that he values his queer fans. But it’s what he values *MORE* than them that is determining his political leanings — power-crazed, greedy corruption.

The unfortunately reality of America’s political landscape is that some issues that are at least partially important to you will be sacrificed to some other issues that are *MORE* important to you. So the question isn’t whether Scott cares about his queer fans, it’s a question of what he cares about *MORE* than them.…

Yes.

Because we should totally trust pipeline operators to maintain the integrity and safety of their systems with zero supervision or oversight. After all, they’ve *NEVER* failed before or lied about it....