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Go home comrade, you’re drunk.

If you want low rent, you have to live where no jobs are available.

Even Chinese people buy some stuff. Robots don’t buy anything. You gotta wonder about the vision of businessmen who are out to destroy all their customers.

And look at what stays expensive: Necessities. Rent and groceries keep spiraling upward as paychecks remain flat or even drop, while our chief export is jobs. But no worries, man. When you get hungry, just eat your ipad. Right?

Anybody who says that Syrian refugees can “just go home” should just plain fuck off. Or better yet, be forced to go there themselves.

Considering that Russians had slaughtered tens of millions of Russians in their Civil War, Collectivization, and purges before Hitler even took power, it seems fair to describe the Russian attitude towards the taking of human life less as “tolerance of” than “enthusiasm for”.

Tell, you what, dude. Go to China and breathe deep. Then come back here, and notice the difference in air quality. If you’re still whining about regulations after that, go back to China and keep choking.

Funny, but wage slaves in places like China, India, and Mexico make, far, far less than the Americans who formerly did the same jobs. The things they make have gotten a little bit cheaper, but mostly, corporations have gotten a fuckton more profitable, and CEOs and the stockholder class have gotten very, very richer.

I always thought the best thing a time-traveller could do would be to go back to early sci-fi conventions just to fuck with the writers by pitching implausible story ideas about real events:

This is wicked cool, and my respect for Ike, which was already pretty high, just went up a few notches.

Radio has been comatose ever since every FM DJ had to be a Howard Stern clone, while every AM talker had to be some variation on Rush Limbaugh.

OK, here’s a favorite story of mine you might enjoy. I met a guy one time who told me about this job he had answering phones for some giant global insurance company. From his board he could transfer calls to any extension in the company, or literally any number in the world. If people were nice to him, their call went

Morning radio is the kind of thing that makes me think of a global pandemic that kills of 99% of humanity as a blessing.

I wouldn’t characterize listening to Howard Stern as being immature, but it’s definitely a sign of bad taste, and for me it’s not just a Red Flag but an automatic Deal Breaker.

You’ve got to be squidding.

I knew cilantro was green. I did not know it was Soylent.

From your keyboard to Jeff Bezos’ screen...

Glad to know there are still some Anthony Weiner fans out there.

I was going to vote for Bernie already, but if Susan Sarandon or any other hotties want to send me cleavage pics, that’s ok, too.