Yes yes yes. I love NK Jamison; the Inheritance Trilogy has been on a 6 month reread for me. Fifth Season and Obelisk Gate are a cut above Inheritance Trilogy.

This. I am undergoing my second career change and haven’t been able to land a job in 5 months in my new field...which is IT, where the streets are supposed to be paved with gold. The advice I keep getting is to take an unpaid internship for a year so that I get enough experience to qualify for entry level work. LOL? I…

Stella Artois is just the teeniest, boringest tip of the grand Belgian beer-berg. So much good beer. However, there is so much good beer in the USA now that Belgium isn’t the siren song it used to be. But they still have amazing chocolate, too. Mm, chocolate.

Obvious troll. Smash, Hulk. Smash. Go get ‘me.

I know a couple of dudes in the Navy who are dedicated Nazi memorabilia collectors. One doesn’t have much interest in politics - I don’t quite understand why he is so into it. I suspect the other is all over Daily Stormer and etc. I also will be completely unsurprised when he is revealed to be a serial killer.

It’s a one-word bozo filter.

She is luscious, old-Hollywood style. That can be tough to style on a young person because we are so accustomed to seeing those looks on older women. She’ll grow into it and will be magnificent.

Whoa, this is important. Are there any major new outlets doing this story?

College kids have more energy than money. Is there a local or regional donation center they can staff? If you are in a fracking state there are probably similar efforts trying to keep frackers from poisoning wells.

This. Every single day, a different shill non-answering even the softest of softball questions. So disappointing, and yet NPR is still the best broadcast news that I know of. I hope in 2017 they ban all “political strategists” from their news programs.

I as reading Naked Capitalism’s analysis of Uber this evening and I kept thinking “but but but cabs are terrible.” While I have not taken as many Uber/Lyfts yet, so far the experience is far superior, on par with the livery vehicle service I sought out when I had one too many hair raising adventures in taxis.

Not then, but The Eyes Of My Mother would like to have a word today. Has anyone seen it? It seems like artsy torture porn, so it’s not on my will watch list. Worth it y/n?

Where would she be today without his firm guiding hand? /s

I saw Monster, the movie about the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, on Valentines Day with some friends. Completely packed theater. All of the couples around us landed there because every other movie was sold out. I can’t even imagine — like, go get ice cream or something instead. Soooo many walkouts that night.

This was my thought, too: Would they have done the same thing if Brando was assaulting a 19 year old guy?

Most people carry with them glowing information boxes that should be making us the most well-informed humans ever. Instead we are petty, distracted and dangerous to ourselves and others. We have the technical and neurobiological answers to creating a proper information ecosystem, but we don’t have a money answer. I…

Trump hasn’t specifically said that he would kill or change social security. He has stated that he would not touch it, kind of. Instead, he has said that the way to save SS is to burble burble his tax patter b/c lowering taxes increases revenue and that stabilizes social security (it is magical thinking). Paul Ryan…

Also the Legend was Tom Cruise IIRC.

That is some excellent Santa face being served up by Santa Larry. My shriveled heart is having a feeling.

Second this. Check out the cotton fisherman’s sweater.