Napster was a godsend, as I couldn’t afford to buy music. I installed it on the school computers, and I had a sneaky little hidden folder with my mp3s. I’d plug in my headphones and listen over lunchtime. I eventually figured out how to use multipart rar files to put them onto floppy disks, so that I could get them back home and listen on my parent’s computer. I was eventually able to buy a portable CD player that played mp3s on CD-RW, which really opened up the possibilities. Without piracy, I don’t think I would be into music in the same way - I simple never would have had the opportunity to listen to most stuff.

I’m almost 40, one of the “remembers Reagan” millenials. My political evolution has been “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a Marxist-Leninist by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”.

My grandparent and great-grandparent’s farms in the great lakes region literally DID have train stations within 10 miles of them, and they walked to them. Rural transit service isn’t a pipe dream, it’s something that actually existed.

That said: cars and trucks are obviously very useful in rural areas, and so I can imagine they will still be quite ubiquitous even in a future where rural areas are well served by transit. My grandparents did eventually buy cars, but they used the train service for long distance trips.

Not content to burn down every tree in the world, they proceeded to dig up every tree that had ever fallen and burn those too.

I think some people think of HOAs as an example of why local democracy can’t work. But I think it’s more of an example of how democracy can’t work in the context of a bunch of land owners who’s asset values are in large part affected by the behaviors of everyone else. They incentives of that situation drive a person to madness.

You don’t take our word for it.

This is cultural genocide

We won’t stop until every peepee is chopped off!

Biden croaks, the Clinton machine yoinks the nomination from Harris, we get another Trump vs Clinton. Bonus points if Trump croaks in October and still fucking beats her.

The Owners understand Marxist thought intuitively. A reserve of unemployed labor is necessary to keep wages suppressed and maintain profits.

This is why exists.

Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.

Every day, we discover new types of guys!

He speaks to the heart of affluent liberal suburbanites.

“It’s a complicated issue. On the one hand, I am credulous enough to swallow the bait of this wedge issue hook-line-and-sinker. On the other hand, I actually am bigoted but don’t want to admit it.”

Rule 13: Never become a FBI informant

We Must Return To Tradition: tacked on multiplayer modes with zero balance testing and nearly unplayable performance. I still get quite a bit of 4 player couch multiplayer play on my N64, just because so much of it’s library had goofy tacked-on multiplayer.

Real talk, though: Balloon Battle on Mario Kart 64 is some of the most legit multiplayer action ever.

Sabine’s heel turn has been really discouraging. I think her commentary on the stagnation of progress in physics has been influential and important. And while she’s definitely riding the Contrarian wave with her science communication videos, they are often a really good supplements to new science stories in mainstream media, going into much more depth.

She’s now on the classic Intellectual Dark Web glide path, which starts with producing commentary about wider social issues, and in the process just regurgitating the same reactionary shit that gets clicks. The algo with reward her, and she’ll just coast into screeds about whatever weird reactionary niche ends up speaking to her heart.