mock-possum

Two stick figures, left and right, and right has what appears to be an elongated animal head and ears - or a hat

Guess we’ll find out next year?

It’s a very silly poorly written letter.

I can imagine him sitting around with his buddies, taking turns reading it out loud, barely able to make it through a sentence without cracking up laughing until everybody was crying.

Spotify on iOS has been actually literally unusable more often than not for me lately.

So grateful to have Wyden in my corner. Especially for the last decade or so it sparks joy to fill his bubble in on the ballot.

I’ve always wondered if if fate better than most, mentally, at that job - but for $2/hr I’m hardly willing to find out.

Well you’re not just listening to music, you’re also watching a performance. Seeing someone’s fingers on the guitar, touching the keyboard, gripping the drumsticks, watching the expressions on their face and their body posture - none of that adds to the art for you? It’s performance art, and seeing it live gives you something visceral that you can at best imagine or recieve second-hand from a recording.

So yeah I guess a little controversial, haha

Honestly if you’re not into it you’re not into it and that’s fine - but for sure, if you’re going to a concert expecting a pitch-perfect recital of studio-produced tracks, then… you’re kind of just setting yourself up for disappointment. That’s the wrong expectation to go into it with, imo.

I think that’s definitely part of the sauce that his many imitators are lacking. It’s really hard to find anything that hits that high bar - have you had any success finding other artists releases that measure up? Moderat has a few - rusty nails, versions maybe

It is literally crazy how many people, (particularly women, just an observation) have told me that they are some sort of special case, where eating less food will not make them lose weight. Earnestly told me to my face that “calories in, calories out” is simply not true for everybody. “Where do you think the matter that makes up your body comes from??” I ask incredulously, already knowing that this is just going to get me into trouble.

Obviously there are dozens of completely legitimate social and physiological complicating factors, but at the end of the day, you are what you eat; but there is a certain segment of the population who refuses to believe it. They hold sacred the food they consume and the weight they gain.

I do not care for phone calls

Making very tiny thin slices of chicken very slightly transparent using *the dye most commonly found in dorito dust

I mean this is fun, but let’s be honest, they didn’t exactly crush up a bunch of Doritos, shake chicken breast in the dust, and create some sort of clear chicken meat

You need enough money to be able to afford to retire, for starters…

Well I mean - I don’t think it’s so much that you’re needed to hit “enter” - anybody who’s used an agent on full auto has already experienced that lack of need.

What is needed is a human at the beginning, to decide what needs to be done - and a human at the end, to decide whether it’s finished.

For a while at least, specialized knowledge will be a huge asset, if not necessarily strictly necessary, for the beginning and end.

Possibly even that might pass away - but I m a little more skeptical there, because a fully automated proceeds of choosing what to work on is really a whole different world altogether. It’s not just one where humans aren’t required to do menial tasks, it’s one where humanity isn’t required period - at which case, what’s the point of any of this.

I don’t see us getting to that point within my lifetime.

Brother Tesla has been in decline roughly in tandem with Musk’s decision to stop masking

(To stop masking and start ‘musking?’)