Is your memory putting a new spin on it?

In the 70s my mother said,”When the population gets too large, they start a war or loose a disease.”

I would have gone myself, but I had to rake the forest.

Yeah, spending our entire life eclipsed by the shitty Boomers sure didn’t help

Agreed................

Reading these stories makes me realize the vastly different experiences people are having. The largest change I’ve seen in my life has been working from home. However, I work in I.T. so I still spend my days in front of a screen, and communicating with people online and via phone. We have a teenager, so childcare…

Do the giant keels help keep the star destroyers vertical?

Nice to see that Brexit hasn’t hampered the UK’s ability to export. 

A couple of points:

Yeah MMT isn’t anything new, Cheney said deficits don’t matter. You could easily have a no-tax currency system, the government simply prints what it needs to operate and instead of paying 1/3 of your cash to uncle sam, your cash gets devalued by 1/3.

I quit a part time gig I’ve had for several years over masks.

“But don’t panic; we’re not at risk of losing our Moon to the depths of space, as the Moon’s rate of escape is so slow that our Sun will destroy both Earth and the Moon before that could happen.”

I really liked this episode. I liked how complicated their desires were. It’s so easy to oversimplify this episode as two closeted gay men use VR to act out their desires - as many did when this episode was originally released, but it’s not that simple at all.

Because Prisoner’s Dilemma. It only works if everybody abstains from exploiting anything, and the more people abstain, the bigger the first-mover advantage.

I live in the suburbs. We don’t do crazy in public here. We do it in our backyard surrounded by 10 ft tall privacy fences.

The CDC site says it could still be possible for covid-19 to spread in this way, and that people should remain diligent about preventative measures like diligent hand-washing.

I’ll pay YOU to isolate me on fake Mars for the next 8 months.

“During these uncertain times, we’re all in this together...at least, until I can monetize it. Then you all are on your own.” 

Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion. 

This new format of not scrolling but instead clicking next is stupid.  I click next but then still have to scroll to see two paragraphs.  What’s wrong with scroll format??