Fuck me running, it takes so little anthropomorphizing of inanimate tools/tech to get humans to start sputtering about “meaningful experiences” and “spirits” and “ghosts in the machine”.

Starting to think if we put googly eyes on hammers and screwdrivers, Home Depot could host a singles night.

Yeah, there’s not gonna be a “Professor Legasov” scene explaining how science, human nature and how factors known and unknown contributed to the explosion.

“They filled a swimmimg pool with gasoline drums and gunpowder cans and rolled a flaming haybale into it while every screamed ‘STOP!’”

“Phew, that took care of all the uncivilized people who should have forever remained at the breast. Now we philosophers can get to wor….what’s that? You still have some openings? Really?

*looks at the stack of books*

“Y’all start without me…I’ll be right back”

(Never returns)

How I long for the day when the tactic of making 99% of people fight over chicken bones in the arena fails….because the combatants paused for a moment, collectively turned their heads to the balcony and saw the endless trays of plump suckling pig being delivered to the 1%.

Nepo baby with a net worth of >10 million who lives in a >$8000 month apartment and owns a home:

“Mamdani, you and your wife are living in a one bedroom apartment and ONLY paying $2300??”

"I am Andrew Cuomo of the Clan Cuomo. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal."

“Im a nepo baby and a tool - observe my unforced ham-handed replies.”

Weak sauce.

I would pull over and, unable to navigate, be forced to start nomadic life.

“My cell battery is dying, honey. I must say farewell forever and take my place as a warrior of Hwy 23.”

“Da fuck? You’re like 15 minutes from the house!”

I follow the advice of Neil Postman, but GPS has me by the hip.

100%. Reminds me of the opening paragraph of Common Sense.

Downward dog, meet recumbent rabbit.

But if we don’t, we undermine (destroy) the preamble…which we often forget is the whole point of the constitution.

It’s a real shame that most folks see the amendments as the goal rather than the means to a more perfect union.

Thank you for all you do, Chris!

“Magnetic telegraph” = “generative AI”

“Princess Adelaide’s whooping cough” = “baywatch trump with exposed middle finger genitals”

Everything else can stay the same…especially “broad flapping American ear.”

It’s a fun template for most “great haste” technology/techniques.

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas…have nothing important to communicate... perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”

-Thoreau

Blowing the toy bosun whistle from a cap’n crunch cereal box into a payphone to produce a 2600hz tone and seize the trunk line to make a free long distance phone call.

Well, I never did this, but it was a real thing and man would it confuse the hell out of the young’uns

It was the books. We read too many of them.

Self reflection and critical thinking have to be developed over time, but the testosterone is injectable.

Awesome. 😑

“Sam Adams. Samuel. He invented beer - lot of people don’t know that.”

Murderbot final episode review:

-perfect
-will make you cry ugly, warm and wholesome tears

For me, it was the 1968 Romeo and Juliet movie during freshman english in High School.

I’ll never forget because the teacher was very proper and straitlaced (wonderful teacher - make no mistake).

Her reaction when she was across the room and forgot about the topless scenes….

Really need the history and philosophy departments to start eating lunch with all the other departments.

My condolences.

“NOW TO THIS BEAUTIFUL MIXTURE, WE ADD A WHOLE BLOCK OF VELVEETA!”

“Common Sense” - the pamphlet that galvanized the American colonists immediately kicks off by saying:

“The shit im about to say isnt popular. And pseudo-intellectual douchebags are going to attack it. But it has to be said - because it is RIGHT.”

(Paraphrasing, but, honestly, not that much!)

Exactly. The people who live by reading the temperature will always be behind the people who control the thermostat.

Let me try something I once learned from a fool.

Block.

To your mind. Not to mine. I say that without casting any aspersions.

Basic theory of mind comprehension question:

I just told you the point I was trying to make. So what’s the issue?

The haste, my good sir….the haste is the mistake.

“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”

-Thoreau

We never think about the goddamn consequences.

Big mistake. You have to hit the power line going 88mph or it doesnt work.