I love that song. Every time I follow a link, I listen to the while thing.

It’s a great song.

Oh, wait, Friends? Yeah, not a fan of the show, so the intro music has no meaning for me.

Hmmm… Do I subject myself to another ear worm? Is it worth it?

Never heard it.

No.

It does if you do it a lot and then resell it. Which is what happened to a bunch of people in the days of Napster, and is exactly what these fuckers are doing.

Arrests? Like for other copyright violators?

Oh, lordy. This is a fight I really hope happens. Meta vs the combined DMCA lobby.

Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease

I’d take it. I’d love to be able to play this with someone, just once.

It’s The One pronoun in the Matrix, and it knows kung fu.

That’s because she defined it as a male sport: Sk8er Boi

Instant classics. Money well spent.

Nice. It’s going just about how I expected it to. Privatization of the CA electrical utilities was a similar astounding success story /s

One of my favorite aspects of human nature: the bell curve of self-awareness about how much you think you know about a subject, plotted against how much you actually know. It’s a fascinating metaphysical concept, the idea of having a generally accurate idea of the magnitude of what you don’t know about a subject.

Base 12 is the GOAT base. Of course kittens would use that.

sigh I can agree with this sentiment.

Ok, you convinced me. I’m in.

And you might not believe in it, but the French of utilized this method to much success. Honestly, we did to way back when if you want to throw in the revolutionary war.

There are many more examples of revolutions that did more harm that good, than vice versa. It may be there only viable avenue left, but I think it’s grossly ignorant to think it won’t sweep up a whole lot of innocents, with a good chance of ending up in a defacto brutal dictatorship for a few decades.

Those are heavy dice to throw. If they’re the only dice, then so be it, but I really hope not.

Well, insofar as violent revolution increasingly appears to be there only tool remaining, but I have more faith that The Rich will be able to successfully manipulate the masses into slaughtering each other, a-la another civil war, than that the masses will be able to accomplish anything lasting. But, then, The Rich are few and control all of the media, and masses are by nature not intelligent constructs. If we’re really lucky, we’ll just have a limited civil war; if we’re not, we may end up with a Khmer Rouge, which won’t be fun for anybody.

I agree with you; I think you have the meat of it.

There are two problem here: first is that “rich” isn’t clearly defined. When the billionaires are all dead, are the millionaires next? Where doors it stop? Maybe that fucker in the house that’s bigger than your’s deserves to get her bullet too? How about anyone who’s rich enough to own a house?

Second, kill the rich and we still have a system that enables consolidation of wealth. We’ll just get a new group of 1%ers, only they’ll probably be more dedicated to repressing the public to ensure that what happened to their predecessors doesn’t happen to them.

Maybe the biggest problem, for me, is that I don’t know what’s better than what we have. Probably a limited capitalism, maybe modeled after one of the Nordic countries? Semi-socialist? I don’t know. I’m pretty sure a huge part of the problem is the stock market (if not specifically, then the economic model that enables it), and laissez-faire economics is a shit-show fantasy that doesn’t exist, but which the striving for causes all sorts of issues. But beyond that, I don’t know how to limit consolidation of wealth, and outcomes like Citizens United.

So, people can kill all the CEOs they want; I don’t expect it to improve anything.

Oh, yeah. Ima take up smoking again when I turn 60. Statistically, something else will kill me long before I develop cancer if I start at that age.

I’m not opposed to better quality fried food, but there’s something comforting about being able to dig into the freezer and pull out something to shove in the oven, without having to make a trip out, wait for for, and/or eat in public.

Maybe you haven’t aged enough. There’s an awkward period in your 30’s ~ 40’s where your brain is confused and forgets what delicious looks like. Don’t worry: you get it back in your 50’s.