As a convicted jaywalker and registered pedestrian offender I feel seen. Thanks chip!

To all the people who are about to excitedly post about the proper use of the word ‘Freon,’ and explain refrigerants, I would like to preemptively say: stfu nerd.

Soooo….

There gonna be a sequel?

Jinkies.

Except what they teach you in engineering school, apparently.

They said, “Sir, you can’t rape the 11-year-olds. It’s highly illegal.”

(Crowd booing, Trump shakes his head)

I put it in there!

(Crowd surging)

(Beaming now) I put it in twelve more of ‘em!

Well, you’ll just have to settle for knowing that he’ll never breathe free air again.

I remember that thread and the guy I’m about to mention is the same guy I talked about there…

I once played in a band with a guy who was, by all objective standards, a musical prodigy. Could play anything, wrote prolifically, was an amazing singer and overall performer. He was hilarious and fun to hang out and talk with too. Except once he got to know you and trust you, he’d let it be known that he was an unapologetic pedophile.

He had done ten years previously not just for possessing CP but for using his underage niece to make and distribute his own (that’s where the violence comes in). He was on lifetime supervision and he was convinced that making it big as a musician would be his ticket out of that and doing whatever the fuck he wanted to again. He seemed to genuinely not understand the evil of what he was doing and insisted it was a perfectly natural thing and blamed the system for all his problems.

Few years after we parted ways I found out he got caught hoarding more CP and they put him away for life.

I’d like to teach a course about Lucian (c. 120-180 CE), who was a Greek public speaker and writer, specializing in satire. Everyone talks about the big Greek philosophers; hardly anyone bats an eye at this guy.

I’d of course require as much reading as the course can fit, and use them as a catalyst for discussions about his critiques of the social and philosophical paradigms of the day, and how they compare (or can be applied) to today.

The Star Wars prequel trilogy.

There was a looooot of vitriol, especially for Ep. I. And with each release it always seem to get louder, and frankly a lot of it was toxic and inexcusable.

Nowadays I see a lot of nostalgia around them, especially from Millennials who grew up on these three films, much like the GenX kids grew up on IV, V and VI. And a lot more kindness towards the actors too, especially Hayden.

pinkpantheress is so fucking cute.

For the past several years I’ve been slowly teaching myself audio production and engineering. I worked as a professional musician for decades but never bothered to learn that side of the craft. So once in a while I’ll go down YouTube rabbit holes, watching tutorials on, say, creative uses of EQ and/or compression, or an analysis of the mix of a well-known song, or bouncing ideas and feedback off a small group of friends. Then I try to apply that to the songs that I’m working on.

The results I’ve gotten from my learning approach are decent, but I’m always comparing my own work to that of other established recording artists, and I have a lot yet to learn.

It’s a shitload of fun too.

How am I supposed to say no to this?

happy flushing noises

I’m like a public toilet that thinks.

Capsule makes contact with the water at around 20mph.

Oh I can think of lots worse.

I’m sending this to my ex next time I wanna hook up:

Never, ever try and engage these people on their terms, for example, by trying to “challenge” them with counter arguments. They already have a whole script of replies ready for anything like that, designed to drag you down to his level of bad-faith bickering.

Instead, simply call out to their face what they actually are. These are bad-faith actors there for the sole purpose of undermining social cohesion by creating a false dichotomy between science and religion. They are not the only reason we are so divided but they are a large one. Tell them that. Don’t let them respond. Don’t give them questions to answer. Just keep pressing, stating what they are, to them, and to everyone who’s stopping to listen. Humiliate them by presenting them to the public as the cancer to society that they are.

Noel Gallagher himself will show up and pee on your guitar.