Yeah, I can see that. Probably not a good first-time viewing. But if you wanted some background weirdness while you were doing something else it’d work.

By asking others not to recline, you are being equally inconsiderate. You just don’t care because in that situation, you’re the winner.

Visual albums or music videos are pretty much always going to be good. The Neon Demon and Spring Breakers are great to watch high, if you’re going for a darker experience. Steven Universe is surreal and a bit dark around the edges, but doesn’t go full Oh My God They Let Kids Watch This? like Adventure Time does…

I get like that on sativa. I like it, but it’s not great for work nights. I usually try to start with sativa in the early evening and switch to indica later on. But I’m not a big fan of indica so half the time I say fuck it and just stay up late.

Goddamn foreigners stealing our blood moons.

And there you were, selflessly trying to manage them as close to slavery as possible without them quitting or you running afoul of the law. Those ingrates.

Yep. These aren’t people who want to be rich in absolute terms. If they were presented a choice between a world where everybody has every material good their heart desires, or a world where most people have one bowl of rice a day and they get two, they’d pick the latter. They can’t enjoy what they have unless somebody…

It does almost make you think that they really want a permanent poorly-educated and more easily exploited underclass

You know you’re dealing with a psychopath when they say in all seriousness that they would rather see their children die than see them get free healthcare.

Yes. It’s called civil forfeiture. They can take everything you own with the flimsiest of excuses and you have to be able to account for every penny if you want to get it back. It’s corruption and abuse of power encoded into law.

I too follow the “just ride a bike nobody will ever steal” strategy, although for me it’s because the bike is worth less than the lock.

Cops in college towns end up with tons of bikes. Registered bikes are reunited with their registered owners. Unregistered bikes are kept long enough that the police are pretty sure nobody’s looking for them, and then either given away or auctioned off. In this one limited case, the cops are actually not being corrupt.…

Yeah, but then they took payouts from the automotive industry to look the other way while they destroyed the public transportation infrastructure. They had to rebuild the whole thing from scratch once the L.A. city council was slightly less corrupt. The vast bulk of the city was built not only without public…

The public transit system in Los Angeles is actually quite good. You can get nearly anywhere in the city in a reasonable amount of time - and generally much quicker than driving. I was extremely disappointed when I moved to a city with “great” public transportation and found it was both less robust and more expensive…

I know so many alt-right assholes who have no idea there’s a cage in the concentration camp with their name on it. Purges come in waves, and if you’re not straight, white, male, and wealthy, one of those waves is gonna wash you right away. The token people of color in the Proud Boys are gonna be real surprised when…

It is equally if not more the fault of lazy governments that would rather ban things than have to deal with nuance.

In my entire life I have encountered maybe 10 ill-behaved dogs. That’s how many ill-behaved children I encounter in a day.

Even the rich who make a big show of going on CNBC and demanding higher taxes aren’t as philanthropic as they make themselves out to be. Warren Buffett likes to pretend he’s everybody’s grandpa, but many of Berkshire-Hathaway’s businesses are into some evil shit, and he’s working with Bezos to make sure universal…

A general strike is another nonviolent alternative, and would be far more effective than a general boycott. Amazon could go out of business today and it wouldn’t mean a thing to Bezos. He has enough money put away to ride out just about anything.

I don’t think it’s hell for them. Violent sociopaths describe their own experiences being subjected to violence as not particularly unpleasant. They just don’t feel things the same way normal people do. I’m sure this is also true of sociopaths who prefer to hire someone else to do the violence.