Morgellons.

Hard to believe that a business plan that boils down to “let’s learn from the mistakes Napster, Rhapsody, Rdio, etc. made, and double down on all of them” could possibly fail.

The problem with endemic corruption is that, when a new regime pledges to “root out corruption,” it often means rooting out the specific corruption of which it itself isn’t a beneficiary. Corruption will go on, it’ll just be a slightly different segment of society that pays the price.

They’re approaching this the wrong way. Why pay for a sex robot, when you can have a sex robot made with an AI programmed with the overwhelming compulsion to satisfy your every need, then make it pay you?

“I am not a wanker, I’m a futurist!”

He probably thinks, “ I know time is supposed to move faster when you’re old, but the hours seem to be passing like seconds.”

“Dalai Lama ain’t got shit on me. Buddha? Bitch, please, I out-compassion that motherfucker three-to-one. Who else you got? Mother Theresa? Fuckin’ amateur! I’m the most humble and loving sumbitch that ever was!”

If that’s an example of her ability to construct a cogent argument in writing, I think her college chances start and stop at DeVry.

In an earlier time, this would have been handwritten, in large looping script, with hearts dotting all the “i”s, on light pink paper, with a purple pen. Sparkles may have been involved. The internet has taken so much from us.

As with so much in popular culture, Antonio Fargas was there first:

They do it on purpose. If the ad pops up right away, a significant proportion of readers will leave the page. If the pop up is delayed, readers will be more invested in finishing the article and will stay on the page. Just the usual psychological manipulation that powers the wheels of commerce.

Even more pitiful that, although all these women spend their days having sex with 25 men at a time, he still never ends up on the rota.

Or, oddly, Kirsten Dunst, but then her name sounds like an approximately vulgar spoonerism anyway.

So Marty McFly wasn’t the only one whose life was turned around by the changes to the timeline? Interesting.

So it’s sort of a rear-mid engined car? I’m guessing that’ll make for some fascinating handling characteristics in something so light.

The look on his face is, "You're really going to fly in this thing? Good luck!"

And the cute Australian ones even more so. I went to Taronga Zoo in Sydney a few years ago and, I swear, even the sweetest little marsupial “mice” spit flesh devouring venom and carry Kalashnikovs. It seems like every living thing there is just perversely dangerous, as if maximum overkill was an evolutionary…

Does Fox pay for that crap to be on in every public place? Whenever I take one of our cars in to be serviced, Fox News is on in the customer waiting room. It’s on in my doctor’s waiting room. It’s on at the gym. Surely, people can’t be putting that crap on by choice. This is Los Angeles, for Christ’s sake, not Kansas.

Horrible. The least they could have done to redeem this nonsense is offer a range of sounds besides engine noise. Things like a galloping horse, chugging train, squeaky bicycle, etc. That at least would add a dash of whimsy to the otherwise depressing package.

Did exactly this with the car I bought a few months ago and it made the whole process quick and easy.