a lot of research and medical progress comes from america, financed by medically bankrupt americans
The real beneficial research is financed by taxpayers. The medically bankrupt finance the obscene profits of health care corporations and pharmaceutical companies, who do not spend much at all on primary research. The “research” they invest in is how to productize and market drugs.
I just gave it a listen today on my bike ride. It’s pretty good - not what I expected but not surprising, either. I’d characterize it as Kate Bush meets Dead Can Dance meets early ‘70s King Crimson, and since I like all three of those acts I like Gibbons’ album as well. I was surprised to see that it’s her first solo album.
Put money in your 401k! Nothing else really matters as much.
So cynical … what makes you think “a startup aiming to broker paid licensing deals between publishers and AI companies” can’t be trusted implicitly?
Based on fossil records we’ve estimated that homo sapiens sapiens emerged about 200k-300k years ago.
All of the estimates of when modern humans “emerged” (originally called the “Out of Africa” or “Mitochondrial Eve” hypothesis) are/were based on population analyses of samples of modern DNA (mitochondrial or otherwise) and are/were presented as being in opposition to conclusions based on the fossil record. The original such estimate was 100,000 years ago subsequently revised to 200,000 years ago (both in the mid-1980s) and since then these estimates have been all over the place, ranging from 50,000 years ago to 500,000 years ago. The fossil record shows no significant changes even within this wide time range: bipedality appears in the fossil record for our lineage around 5 million years ago, while our brains enlarged from chimpanzee size to modern human size between 2 million and 1 million years ago.
you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones
Pretty specific - I guess that closes the “get them high” loophole.
As Moses said, “fuck the Cowboys”.
nor his manservant, nor his maidservant
“Slaves” in the original, but of course we can’t allow any hint of three thousand year old shit not being strictly relevant any more.
If George Lucas had directed Spinal Tap, he would have already gone back and made Stonehenge orange.
No … Wingdings.
They literally live on peat.
Nigel Powers saw what they did in the Congo.
That was Belgium - which TBF is just a bunch of French-speaking dutch people.
fighting the communists in Korea and Vietnam
I would add dropping most of the bombs left over from WWII (literally!) on Vietnam’s neighbors because reasons.
The only other imperial power that would compare is England up until WWII.
This is underselling Spain which wreaked havoc in the Americas (and elsewhere - like the Philipines) for centuries before they got supplanted by us in the havoc-wreaking department.
“Baby’s Got a Temper” is also a banger, but it’s a bit of a tough sell when you’re singing about how great Rohypnol is.
“There’s the fake abs, then Donald … jiggly Donald, and then … abs.”
He is selling himself as the new messiah.
Aka being weird in front of religious people.
I’m a school bus driver, and one of my weirder experiences is listening to a middle-school boy ripping on some middle-school girl for having “only” ten thousand followers.
Charlie, poison, voodoo people and of course Keith’s firestarter.
First Prodigy song I ever heard was “Their Law” and that’s still their peak IMHO.
He’s been killing the same ratty mouse toy with a broken wand for years.
My cat kills actual mice, then eats the front half of them and leaves the back half on my pillow next to my head while I’m asleep. I’m totally used to this now, but when she first started doing it I would wake up and scream like the movie mogul in The Godfather who finds his favorite horse’s head in his bed.
She is at least nice enough to lick the back half clean first.
This is the most basic fact that people in the US need to be made aware of: we spend literally twice as much per person on healthcare as the rest of the developed world. Twice as fucking much!