*especially if you’ve got nothing to hide.

“And, of course, this podcast is sponsored by the Claymore Corporation! Remember folks, Claymore Landmines: fuck the person directly in front of you!”

The granddaddy of science fiction and futurism channels is Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. The channel has content for days about all kinds of shenanigans humans could be getting up to in space and beyond.

A close second is futurist and science fiction author John Michael Godier. His voice will either weigh your soul down to the core of the earth or you’ll find it grating… there’s really no in-between.

Worse case scenario… you get a horse.

Living on the Southern Atlantic seaboard here, a lot of our homeless are from New Jersey and Maryland… usually get a big wave of them come winter; local governments in the northeast shipping them down so they don’t die from exposure in the colder months.

Dunno. I’ve got it on Blu-ray… that’s… 4k…? I’m not sure.

I’m registered unaffiliated because I’m an anarchist. Still voting though.

“Alien” (1979) still gets me every time I watch it. The slow build, the pops of horror, the delectable suspense of the Big Chap hunting. I know every scare, every moment of terror, every death by heart… but it still gets my circulatory system going. All other home invasion/haunted house movies can go home, Alien nailed it.

Who cares what MAGA adherents believe… you don’t try to get the hard-core, brainwashed followers, they’ve already committed themselves. However, the undecided voter will see it as the GOP floundering, unable to govern.

Please shut the government down… please, please, please… while your party controls a mere one half of one of a branch of the government, please shut the government down during an election cycle. Please, please, please do it.

Well, they can, but the cost will get more volatile… super oversimplified, it’s the difference between drinking at home booze you bought at wholesale prices and keeping a running tab with a local bar/pub. You’ll be subject to the bar and any price changes they (read: the currency markets) want to make.

This… JMG is the best. Him and Isaac Arthur…

https://youtube.com/@isaacarthursfia?si=os9gCpAVxKe1igNo

LDS Church in 2079: “Okay, okay, God is trans actually.”

JFC. They literally stood there while he struggled. What the actual fuck?

I’m okay with ads (just like on broadcast TV), but only if I’m not paying for the streaming/VOD service (just like on broadcast TV). Like, I’m okay with ads on a YouTube video, but I got rid of Netflix when they cancelled a series I liked and, now that they’ve started talking about adding ads, I’ll probably not go back.

Micromanagement and the need to take credit for work other people do. Of all the incompetent bosses I’ve had over the years, micromanagers are the worst and all of the micromanagers for whom I’ve worked have been men.

It’s like, dude, you hired me because I know more about doing this task than other people (including you). Stop hovering over me, when I need your input I’ll come get you. Just let me fucking cook. I know what I’m talking about and what I’m going… you employ me specifically because I know what I’m talking about and what I’m doing.

I guess their thought process goes: if I’m not hovering over this person at all times, the company might figure out I don’t know 100% of 100% of everything my employees do day to day… even though that’s insane. What company would require a manager to know absolutely everything about how their employees do their jobs; a manager obviously shouldn’t be completely in the dark about operations but also it’s crazy to think they’d want them to be an expert on everything.

I’ve got a working Intellivision which was originally released in 1979. Mine was fresh off the factory floor in 84, I think that was the last year it was made.

In other news, meteorologist says the sky is blue.

Also, when someone shows you who they truly are, believe them the first time. I’ve become a person for whom respect is not earned, it is only ever lost. Everyone I know and meet, I try to respect the same as I would any other person… but, once you’ve lost that respect, I find it truly hard to give the benefit of the doubt and restore that faith.

PACs are not allowed to coordinate with candidates or their campaigns, which is how they’re allowed to raise unlimited amounts of money.

If anyone doesn’t get that stuff like this is always said with a nod and a wink… they don’t understand how truly broken our campaign finance system is in reality. The Citizens United case is blinding proof that this Supreme Court has been in the bag for conservatives and reactionaries for decades. Project 2025 is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wealthy, empowered by Reagan era Neoliberalism, attempting a fascist takeover of the United States. It’s the Business Plot (or “Wall Street Putsch”) of 1933, but in super slow motion.