That was always one of the main goals. They’d rather light a mountain of cash on fire than give anyone a thriving wage

Arr it drives me nuts

Two, three decades ago, it was just another snake cult. Now, everywhere.

I keep seeing this conversation happen. The eternal contest of “who can connect the dots back the furthest without sounding ridiculous” must have occurred in nearly every conversation among learned people who have had the occasion to bemoan present circumstances, which has been almost continually - presumably even in the public baths of Mohenjo-Daro.

On the strength of that observation, I have a new hypothesis to put forward: history has some degree of self-similarity. Sort of like Nietzsche’s eternal return, but in a more fractal sense rather than a repetitive sense. Things don’t merely repeat, events have a self-similarity and causal intercourse can be apprehended at many levels simultaneously. People have often said “history rhymes”. But I find history less like a song and more like some kind of a fractal crime scene, and the culprits are always legion.

At least this way we might have these discussions (repetitively, I note) without having to feel churlish every time we connect another dot, nor aggrieved by having been one-upped. Time is not a flat circle, it’s a Mandelbrot set.

Nobody here is out to excuse the man, it’s just a compelling hypothesis

They sound exciting.

Illuminatus!.. At the age of 11.

Adolescence felt pretty straightforward after a book like that.

I found out that they’re called “bed pissers” in the Netherlands and now I only call them that

Moved away from the states about half a decade ago to the UK. Was excited to drop imperial units, but then I found out the English still measure body weight in rocks. That one took a hogshead of wind out of my sails.

I’m still getting used to Celsius and hadn’t come across this temperature range. Had to check. It’s 113°F.

I’ve never been anywhere that warm outside a sauna.

It’s a hard one to gauge for me. I’m pretty sure I found it via stumbleupon back when that was really great. I read the whole thing in close to one go, and I never hear anyone else talk about it.

High five, fuck yes. Cool person detected. I think you’re the first one to spot it, too.

I wish I had that series in print. Might be time to look into that

• Working class: retirement vegan
• American: healthcare vegan
• German: humour vegan

My god, it’s unstoppable

Ah yes, that good and just world they keep insisting exists

How insane would it be to find out that a living creature with a nervous system cannot know its own suffering?

If you’d just spent your entire evening on a teams call with a lawyer about all the scutwork that needs doing on two claims with the same screwy attorney playing games with medical bills and how it’s all your problem and a top priority with over half a mil USD on the line amid financial uncertainty with the client, you would know humber.

That’ll sort it. Waltz in with no solutions, reveal your deepest fears to the stroppy little devils, then dance on out of there. The status will be so quo.

By treating the problem at its source, right?

By treating systemic economic inequality, right?

Fucking insane

Ah, I miss it. Just me, an offset serrated knife, a bag of onions the size of a child, a slippery floor, a nearby open flame, music that hurts my ears… And not an email in sight.