Alright pie, I’m just gonna do this, and if you get eaten it’s your own fault.

I agree with you that a large part of the problem is that destruction is easier than creation, but it wouldn’t be hard to get a lot of progressive things in if there were the political will for it. Appoint tons of progressive judges and start putting through huge increases in wealth taxes, climate and social programs, workers/union rights, scale back police power, etc etc.

But even if there were hundreds of leftist judges waiting in the wings, the dems are too corporatist to support stuff like that, so the best they can offer is some social programs that won’t upset the status quo too much.

Splitter!

Ursa Minor!

Love that sketch

https://youtu.be/e_Z2I10pbWI

Just listening purely to the prosody Yeats stands with the best for me :)

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Wreckless Eric has a 2 chord song

https://youtu.be/qHEPHPHuNis

Basically you have someone pursuing a dream despite opposition from someone else telling them it will never come to fruition.

I’ve enjoyed him since I read his horizon poem

“I saw a man pursuing the horizon”

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never —”

“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.

This is vaguely a thing in Japan, but let’s not fall into the eastern mysticism trap, where Asian things are completely divorced from what goes on in the West. It’s sort of like saying America has the “fuck it, good enough” aesthetic worldview of accepting the imperfect things about the world.

Especially when it’s outside Zach’s usual style. I read SMBC and I didn’t recognize this as one of his.

I wonder ifhe stopped listening to Rage after they said they hated him

Elvis Crushel got me

It didn’t get great reviews but I enjoyed Pain & Gain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_%26_Gain?useskin=vector

I signed up for a gothic class my frosh year that was described as American gothic-- vampires, werewolves, all that good stuff. I dunno if the prof didn’t write the course description or if it got changed later but it was English gothic, which apart from the origins of the genre (Walpole, which ended up being hilarious because tons of modern tropes originated there, like the maiden in the castle using the subterranean staircase to flee from the mad king when a gust of wind blows her candle out) and some of the more satirical stuff (Austin), it was incredibly boring to read.

There was one called The Mysteries of Udolpho that’s this meme times 10, where during a wagon trip there are literal 30 page descriptions of tress. I get if we’d been warned that this sort of thing was largely historical and we could pretty much skip the sweeping depictions of scenery that only existed because most people in the 19th century didn’t get to travel much so it was exciting to read about exotic landscapes, but the assignment merely amounted to “Here’s a 650 page novel, go read it for next week.”

At least we got to do Frankenstein and I think there was one Poe story thrown in as well (despite being American).

Betteridge would say no, but the Star Wars holiday special exists.

Not sure why these articles are only coming out now. My work bought me a win11 computer a few months ago and I was surprised to learn that the first few things I downloaded to the desktop showed up on my one drive. I don’t really use the account I have on it for much, and it was easy enough to turn off in settings but it was still a shock.

Just another invasion of privacy by a giant corpo that none of its users asked for

I still use my s10e every day on my commute with the headphone jack plugged into a radio tuner so I can listen to podcasts

Aren’t all (or almost all) memes famous randomly though? No one expected a sort of doofy photo of a teen to be famous for years for having bad luck, for example.