Are there actually people out there not paying attention

Have you ever been to a Costco?

“Real men don’t put cream in their coffee.”

No, real men don’t give a shit how others drink their coffee, Stanley.

I can’t believe you’ve done this.

Space Oddity Wellerman

It’s what it’s.

I said it loud too while watching it: “that shit’s over 100°C… and they’re going right in?”

From the article:

A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”

Orwell:

Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. […] The original figures were as arbitrary as the rectified ones, and in any case, the Party had control of all records, and they themselves created reality. The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.

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They’re letting the terrorism button cool off a bit, considering its basically not been let up since September 2001.

This is the plot of The Village by M Night Shyamalan. Good movie.

At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Put them back.

You were programmed to say that because I’m the only one that’s real.

Well, there’s the NASCAR driver Richard Trickle…

There is a fairly misunderstood tax rule which lets US persons working abroad for more than 330 days per year to exclude a reasonably large chunk of income: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion

LoFi Girl if you’re looking for real downtempo background noise. Lived on it when I was doing Uni.

If you’re the patient and organized type, you can download their entire library from their main site. The advantage here is that the livestream gets a little repetitive after a while.

Been listening to Soma.fm for a long time. Groove Salad and Indie Pop Rocks. Sometimes they play really strange stuff on one or the other, so that’s about when I will switch channels.

“I’m being evaluated for terminal cancer. I’m gonna have a great time.”

Except Sacramento is the capital of California, Debbie gonna struggle

Focus follows mouse.

Takes some getting used to, but it’s really nice once you’re tracking it.