Joe Max

I trust the Mayo Clinic, Johns-Hopkins and the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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“Revolution for the HELL of it.” - A. Hoffman

The swarms of Gorn “fighters” also reminds me of the old text-based BBS door game, “TradeWars 2002”. Your star ship’s offensive power was rated by how many drones you had around you. No lasers, phasers, missiles or bombs.

My wife and I did the same, straightening up the house with a manic energy.

Polestar is Swedish consortium, basically backed by Volvo. I'm cool with that.

That’s basically the plot of “Never Say Never Again” that brought Connery back for a remake of “Thunderball.”

I remember a saying that if civil engineers were held to the same standards as software engineers, the first woodpecker to come along would collapse all of civilization.

I want the cool decoder ring!

It would be just awful if this list of Elon’s DOGE staff email addresses got passed around!

On Neoreaction By Roger Burrows On the final day of the Undisciplining conference in June 2018 I was asked, at short notice, to participate in a ‘fireside chat’ session concerned with ‘defending the soc…

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Yeah, I'm sure this fuckhead has a coop in her own backyard, right? Does she have any idea how much work it is to raise chickens? Has she ever cleaned a chicken coop? It ain't easy, Brooke. And neighbors usually hate it when your rooster wakes them up at dawn every damn day.

I’m not surprised that fascism was in invented in the most Catholic country in the world, and perfected in the most Protestant country in the world.

I’m curious as to where the appropriations are coming from to pay for all these “buyouts”? Or is this another scam? I’d get the cash in hand before turning in a resignation.

"So it is with the conflicting emotions of satisfaction and pity that I say unto thee: I. Told. You. So. I told you so, said I. There be signs in the heavens and portents of doom, said I. Woe be unto he that ignores the omens, for I say unto thee, thou shalt be lost in the final reckoning." [Niven]

Good, we're going to need them for some years to come, since the US government is out of the business of reporting health statistics.

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YouTube video by jennas bb Crime - Baby, You're So Repulsive Fab Mab SF 1977

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Of course not. Actual criminals shoot back.

Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires? During the LA fires, dozens of fire trucks sat in the boneyard, waiting for repairs the city couldn't afford. Why? A private equity roll-up made replacing and repairing those trucks much pricier.

Must-read story on how a private equity group cornered the fire truck market, doubling prices, causing massive delays and leaving departments across the county — including Los Angeles — without the resources needed to combat fires.

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler.
-The Guardian

Not speculating on likelihood, just saying that it would be very funny if Trump Admin 2.0 was sincerely & legitimately terrifying for little under a week then began to swiftly implode under its own contradictions, ineptitude, and net unpopularity

Not according to the online menu for pickup in my area.

Babylon 5 - G'Kar's speech is especially poignant now.

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King