Labor Day is just the US version of International Worker’s Day. It was put on the 1st weekend in September to separate it from the Haymarket Affair (Which happened on May 4th during a protest for the 8 hour work day.) It was believed putting it on May 1st would help strengthen socialist and anarchist movements and…

This is what you get when you build an entire economy around debt spending, parasitic taxation scams, and ‘investment’ pyramids — ie a giant house of cards — one little nudge is all it takes to bring the whole thing crashing down.

Only look! It’s Binary Assumption Guy!

Please, for the love of god, play Astrobot right now. If there is any single game I would have purchased my PSVR for, it is Astrobot. It is an incredible example of how the medium (VR) can elevate a gaming experience we’ve all had (platformers) through clever and novel design considerations. I felt like a kid playing…

No. We don’t go down this road again. We don’t grow attached to Aerith again. 

It’s always the dicks and misogynists who resent that they can’t be fucking assholes anymore, and then overstate the degree to which society is somehow “punishing” them.

> I had the biggest crush on Louise Post

Volcano Girls rocks so god damn hard.

N. Gordon et al., “Volcano Girls,” Eight Arms to Hold You, bridge (1997).

I definitely dismissed this band despite “Seether” being an inoffensive hit. My memory of things is that they came up around the time second gen copycats like Bush were flourishing commercially and I had lost interest in a lot of what I was hearing in stations like Live 105 in SF. I’m sure I missed out on some gems,…

Volcano Girls is much better than Seether IMO. But this whole story makes me happy because this era of somewhat sloppy, garage-y guitar rock running from the late 80s to early 90s is among my favorites.

And pushpins and string.

Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?

Nothing makes you feel old like realizing that Commander Riker now looks like Admiral Riker.

I ask that of all my prey. I just like the sound of it.

The fact that her parents and physicians simply allowed her to die when they could have saved her is important

Right because “The family had tried many kinds of psychiatric treatment and Noa Pothoven was repeatedly hospitalised;” - sure sounds like she was just being ignored. Troll. 

you know, the cropped presentation of the padres logo is just a little... off. 

Certainly is the second-most Teenage Engineering-looking thing I’ve ever seen

This seems more like a performance piece than a product.