This coupled with the not my idea caption of “I want to leave” (riff on xfiles, “I want to believe”) would make a solid shirt.

RoboCop is my go-to New Years Eve movie. If you press play at 22:58:25 on the Director’s Cut, you should get within a second or so of synchronizing Clarence Boddicker’s digital hand grenade countdown with midnight.

Well, they donhave door to door salesmen.

I’ve done it, I’ve reached the plummit! And now I begin my decent.

Right? Isn’t today the deadline for his little extra judicial passion catastrophe?

Heart of gold by Neil Young.

Bam Bam by Sister Nancy.

The Weight by The Band.

Courtney Barnett in general.

We’ve been “walking past” this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.

Wisdom is intelligence applied. Or perhaps, wisdom is the synthesis of intelligence.

Will Hunting starts out the movie with mad intelligence and little to no wisdom, and the movie is the story of him shifting from one to the other.

Indeed. I’m pretty sure whatever is being communicated is probably interesting, but I can barely grasp it.

Connection between the human development index (HDI) and total fertility rate (TFR)

The human development index has three components -GDP per capita is one of them, life expectancy is the second and the education level - the third. As all these factors are negatively correlated with fertility

Well they shot both Martin and Malcolm, and their methods have only become more sophisticated. So peaceful or not, its us versus billionaires, and believe it or not, you can’t just shoot the right guy and fix all the problems, ask Luigi.

So says our media anyhow. I guess the protesters that have been shot were playing baseball or some shit at the time.

Even more dangerous for the animals? The whole place is purpose built to kill them. I think it’s already pretty much peak danger for the animals. I think rather, what these workplaces are becoming is more cruel.

He was in the process of his considerations when Kruger calls him into the office to inform him that accounting noticed that the human fund doesn’t exist. George just didn’t have enough time before getting caught to adequately convince himself to cash it.

Depends. If you’re streaming Dire Staits on a $250,000 stereo. You’ve probably missallocated funds approaching a moronic level from a functionality perspective. However, if you’ve got half a billion in the bank, I’d say it’s a far more wholesome idiocy than for example, real estate. Money inherently means less to rich people. The difference of a few thousand to tens of thousands are, bewilderingly, fairly inconsequential to many people. I’d just assume they put that money into listening to music rather than super pacs or something. Hell, maybe they’ll actually hear what the musicians are saying and they’ll actually grow a little.

The issue with audio is the same issue with all hobbies. Spending a lot doesn’t make you an automatic expert, let alone even know what you’re doing. An expensive bat doesn’t make a bad player good, an expensive stove doesn’t make a bad cook good, expensive clothes doesn’t make an ugly person beautiful, an expensive running shoes don’t make an out of shape person healthier.

I find shitting on audiophiles particularly annoying because it’s smugness on both sides of the equation. The people who buy in think they’re better than everyone just like the people who see the con think they’re better than the rubes. If I had to pick a side though, I’d honestly pick the audiophiles, because at least they’re having fun.

The end of your comment was quite the ride for me:

There were two openly gay performers at the Superbowl

They’re probably talking about Brandi Carlile

(Billy Joe, and Ricky Martin),

Oh, I didn’t know Billy…

and one openly bisexual

Oh now they’re talking abou…

(Gaga).

Hmm

Why?

I don’t know why I thought of this, but they make telescoping poles for wasp spray. I wonder if any other type of aerosol can would fit in them, or why you would even want to do that?

I did limit my hopes to “some”, but I agree, introspection is woefully lacking in a America. Peer pressure should also help, though.

As a song, it’s just ok. But you know a huge percentage of ice agents like Bruce, he’s too popular for there not to be, and I have to imagine the surreality of having a truly iconic artist write a song about you has to have an impact. It’s getting harder for these guys to just go through the motions and not think about what’s really happening. Things like this song gives me hope for some of them having a Mitchell and Webb type, “are we the baddies” epiphany.