Ojai's Organic Mayor

Like a lot of the problems we have is because Some Motherfuckers grifted us into losing the plot. We forgot The Why of it all.

We created collectivism because Every Man For Himself is no way to live. We figured that out by DYING NEEDLESSLY.

Individualism & capitalism are antithetical to this end.

[trying to fill the silence on a first date]

so you got a favorite type of bean?

Finally I'm bankrupt. Now I can start making real money

He is completely insane!! Somehow that imbecile can’t see who’s paying his fucking tariffs! It’s the AMERICAN CONSUMER YOU MORON! That’s why all countries laugh at TRUMP! All this time & receipt of some tariffs & DR DESTRUCTO still can’t see WE PAY THE TARIFFS ASSHOLE!

Maybe an all time @thelouvreof.bsky.social

It's just not legal to get married

A blood red sunset

Chat is it a good omen when even the sun itself seems stained with blood

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

My wife

I love the implication here because I have gotten food poisoning from a sushi place and gone back and even ordered the exact same thing as what made me sick

They should

I'm making barbecue pancakes

A lot of the time they emit an ooze.

Yeaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!

We need a Charlie Manson of the left.

For most boys, the achievement of masculine identity is not an acquisition so much as a disavowal. When researchers asked girls and women to define what it means to be feminine, the girls answered with positive language: to be compassionate, to be con-nected, to care about others. Boys and men, on the other hand, when asked to describe masculinity, predominantly responded with double negatives. Boys and men did not talk about being strong so much as about not being weak. They do not list indepen-dence so much as not being dependent. They did not speak about being close to their fathers so much as about pulling away from their mothers. In short, being a man generally means not being a woman. As a result, boys' acquisition of gender is a negative achievement. Their developing sense of their own masculinity is not, as in most other forms of identity development, a steady movement toward something valued so much as a repulsion from something devalued. Masculine identity development turns out to be not a process of development at all but rather a process of elimi-nation, a successive unfolding of loss. Along with whatever genetic proclivities one might inherit, it is this loss that lays the foundation for depression later in men's lives. Just go

Velveteria in LA Chinatown. Run by a madman. LA at its absolute finest. Only velvet paintings...how weird could it be? Museum of Jurassic Technology honorable mention

This is a real smoker movie. I don't care how many cigarettes are in it. I've never met anyone who loved this movie and doesn't love smoking

I got wounds on my wounds

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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That money should go to YOU

such world wide webs we weave

Messi looking very blank

Trying to remember someone’s name right after they told me

All this tiger balm to stop the coughing is negatively impacting my desire to drink this dirty martini

This is fun

Age verification? I own a love lost but not forgotten t shirt

Lol until your AI supplier hikes your year over year renewal by 30%

Helping my tenderhearted wife stay positive while I am bedridden with covid by playing a different George Michael song in each room of the house on our sonos

Unless you're badly infected or septic you're unlikely to be admitted into the hospital, the "textbook" function of the ED is to determine if a patient who can't see their typical doctor needs to be admitted. Thats why clinical people would say its not a reason. I'd go every time for the pain meds

Paul McCartney's mother forbade him from listening to The Beatles when he was growing up. "It wouldn't make sense," she'd say. "It doesn't make any sense.."