We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

Perhaps you could get AMD to pay you $35 billion for the hypothetical potential of amusement later on.

We don’t boil our pancakes.

For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.

–Oscar R. Benavides

Madison Cawthorn? The gun-toting sex-pest who got caught driving without a license Madison Cawthorn?!

I got his autograph a little while back, and he had pictures of the EMH and Johnny Cab, and a few others and I said “But you don’t have any Meg Mucklebones!” and he arched his eyebrow at me as though he was disappointed I would say something so stupid and said “I have those if you want one.” Fucking Legend.

Girl Scout Cookies

Also if you grind up a Zippo and sprinkle it on top, it’ll make the meal just a little bit lighter.

My grandmother’s will said “you can donate my body to the university, and if they don’t need it then I hear the state police can use it to train dogs to find corpses, and that’s good too.”

The rare reverse-Saddam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oven_of_Akhnai?wprov=sfla1

TIL that Houndstooth dates back to at least 360-100 BC.

Good ad campaign, too.

Unihertz Jelly Star! I bought one solely to use as an mp3 player, but I got very close to it becoming my regular full-time phone.

The Plants that Would Not Die

as well as the belief that opposing trans rights “itself constitutes a form of violence towards people who identify as [trans or gender nonconforming]… or poses an imminent threat to such persons’ emotional, psychological, or physical safety

Just imagine for a moment that one were to replace “trans” with literally any other grouping of humanity and think how insane it would sound.

“I’m not a bigot, I’m just opposed to black rights!”

“I’m not an anti-semite, I’m just opposed to Jewish rights!”

“I’m not committing a genocide, I’m just opposed to human rights!”

Christ, the veneer of legitimacy is molecule-thin at this point.

Great, who’s going to go tell Richard Feynman?

Watch the original Gone in 60 Seconds, from 1974. The car stunts are absolutely insane, to the extent that they probably shouldn’t have been allowed to make the movie the way they did, but it happened and I’m glad that cameras were rolling. The Nic Cage remake was trying to make a movie safer, slicker, and more coherently, but there’s no replacement for a bunch of insane stunt drivers risking their lives and the lives of everyone around them.

But then I start to feel like

this guy, with the “real” camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I’ve most consistently got on me, because I can’t lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I’d just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.