I’ll be taking this moment to shout out Here Comes The Guillotine.

Hilarious podcast where Scottish comedians Frankie Boyle, Susie McCabe, and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd talk to each other…hilariously.

Features some chat about the evils of capitalism, guillotine based reform, and sex worker sleeper agents taking revenge on our behalf after the apocalypse by murdering billionaires in their bunkers.

There’s this fantasy book where a badass warrior monk flashes back to when his teacher taught him how to fight:

A master monk is preparing to teach his young students the martial arts so he takes them out to the forest and says there is a war happening all around us. Who can tell me what it is? Finally one of the kids realizes and shouts it’s the trees!

And the monk says yes and explains the resource competition and how all the trees fight to secure their place in the sunlight. Then he says “Today children, I will teach you how to war for space”. And the chapter ends.

Shit was so cash. The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker

Lol inconvenient?? Bandcamp’s whole selection is like 3% of the music that exists, tops. Try to download a Jay-Z or Eagles album off there. You will surely not be disappointed.

This is the only thing I can’t forgive. I accept that it’s hard to say how long something is going to take. But when that bar reaches 100% something should happen pretty fucking snappish.

reporting back; this album is lit.

In particular “Since I left you” and “Frontier Psychiatrist” are both jams.

Big agree, they’re delicious. Definitely one of the best chain sub shops.

“tasteless garbage” is unhinged or just rage bait.

What IS this sub?? For the life of me I can’t get a handle on how the posts here fit together. Or what most of them mean individually even.

Nah bro blowjobs are definitely on the more submissive end of the scale of sexual acts. Maybe 10% of the population would disagree and half of THOSE would just be disingenuous attempts to seem more sexually progressive.

Nah this is solid advice it’s just hard to execute. Save up a little money and you don’t have to panic every time an unexpected bill comes.

NYC has rank choice??

Anyone know if Cuomo would have won without ranked choice? That’s possible to tell right, by just counting up first picks?

You could attach the parachute lines to electric motors that could quickly reel the parachute back in.

And make the parachute semi-rigid like an umbrella so that it folds in a predictable and reversible way.

And make the anchor point where the lines attach to the motorcycle moveable. When it’s deployed, the anchor point sits at the front of the bike so the chute and lines can pull the bike forward from the front. As the chute is getting close to being fully reeled in, the anchor point swings out on an arm a couple feet to the side of the bike and it gets several feet higher so that the lines and the chute are coming in from directly overhead rather than blocking the riders view.

These are just my preliminary ideas. Of course the engineering team at GM or Toyota or whoever buys this idea off me will likely want to tighten it up a bit to take into account various locale specific regulations and practical manufacturing considerations.

Nah this guy’s experience is not average. After all, ~5-7% of American citizens can expect to be incarcerated in their lifetime. The average experience is to never be incarcerated.

I stand by what I said. He’ll probably be fine. It’s not that bad. It’s not “I’ll never step foot in the U.S.” bad. Give me a break.

I live in the U.S. and just based on my lived experience so far I don’t see this type of thing as being particularly likely to happen to someone. To me it’s similar to how I probably won’t die if I drive to the grocery store. But every year tons of people die in traffic accidents so there IS a non-neglible chance that I will too. But I probably won’t. You’ll probably be fine if you come here, it’s not that bad yet.

Comedian Frankie Boyle has a funny bit about blackmail sponsorships where you threaten to say negative shit about a company if they don’t pay you. Like, you’re watching Law & Order and suddenly it’s

“Caught another pedo Sarg.”

“Oh? What was he doing when you caught him?”

* faces camera *

“Eatin Walker’s Crisps®” .

Why has the author of that article decided to sereptitiously add “white Europeans” to that quote.

Just put what he actually said. Just put the full quote. The mf said “they” in the part that was ACTUALLY quoted. Surely that “they” had an antecedent a few sentences before, yes??? So put that! I’ll decide for myself if what he really means is white Europeans.

What sort of job was it? When I was younger I did this data entry job as a temp.

Called out sick my second day. Then just… carried on working there.

Either you or the other guy is off by about 500 orders of magnitude.

lol what? Well how much danger am I allowed to put myself in before doctors get to tell me to eat shit when I turn up at the E.R.?? If I break my collarbone playing backyard football should insurance companies refuse payment because I wasn’t wearing shoulder pads?

Seems like a simple enough case that there can be a fact of the matter. Either U.S. wait time are shorter than single payer systems on average or they’re not; no need to rely on anecdotal stuff.

Is there anyone that can point to some good data on the subject?

FUCK, was this a Dark Tower spoiler??? I keep meaning to read past the first book.