“Piracy is preservation.”

“I want to be rich enough to not think twice about extra guac.”

Let’s Talk About Thalidomide

cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

“Itty Bitty Baby Hands and the Skipping Dipshit”

the cherry on top: regardless of who’s at fault, the cyclist gets blamed

need to educate drivers

this is one of the big ones that shows up in our car-centric worldview – just sticking to motorized vehicles: truck drivers are expected to know truck rules, car rules, and motorcycle rules – motorcyclists are expected to know motorcycling rules, car rules, and truck rules – car drivers are expected to know car rules and that’s it

when the majority of our population doesn’t know about (and subsequently doesn’t care about) anything else sharing the road with them … car drivers that are just as aggressive towards motorcyclists as they are towards bicyclists, car drivers are completely oblivious to stopping distances and momentum of big rigs …

after a 14 hour plane ride, the existential threat of transporters seems a lot less important …

even if you’re in a “legal region” you still have to use a third-party website or app to find out which service has that episode of that season of that show because no service can be bothered to carry a complete show

Trump works the fry station, holds a drive-thru news conference at McDonald’s

considering how much Finland loves rally racing …

• Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) – the background for
• Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018) – published in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017

Australia’s Carbon Capture and Storage is a straight up scam

took me a LONG time to recover from high school cafeteria’s Friday tuna casseroles (complete with canned peas)

(doesn’t help that most HVAC installers in the US are of a relatively conservative bent, no problems trash-talking heat pumps while they try to up-sell you on the latest forced-air system)

part of the multifaced aspects of fungi – cordyceps is both the zombie fungus and a performance enhancing drug

they can’t move around and communicate with us

• move around
• communicate with us

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