@flexghost I’ll play! And represent my early 20s while I’m at it. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Deltron 3030. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty.
I’m drinking Winking Owl chardonnay because I’m broke (again) and just wanted a cheap high. The puppy dog who made me broke (this time) is curled up next to me fast asleep.
The Matrix 2.5: Regurgitations. Agent Smith clones break into a genetics laboratory and create hilarious variations of themselves, including Bat Smith, Brainy Smith, Spider Smith, Brawny Smith, and a pointlessly man-crazed lady Smith named Smithette.
The intro video for the new all-electric Boston Dynamics Atlas uses the language of horror movies, particularly movies featuring a robot or doll, in the way the bot is shown unnaturally rising off the floor and rotating its body parts 365° to face the viewer.
Is BD rubbing it in our faces that they are building robots for the defense and police industries that will become instruments of terror?
Or are they oblivious to the connotations and just thought it looked cool?
I get frustrated when I see leftists saying that if only Democratic politicians took a hard left turn, they would have no problem winning elections.
I wish that were true just as much as you do, but if you think it is true, you need to spend more time talking to people who arenʼt like you.
Conservatism — social and economic — runs deep in this country, and not just among economically comfortable white men. We have a lot of work to do on the culture front.
@Mrfunkedude It's funny how that’s a standard observation on the left because we’re focused on economic justice issues, but of you ask someone on the right, they will tell you the Democrats have gone so far left they’re off the rails, because the right is focused on identity politics issues — on which the party has definitely moved further left (good!).
"I think rich people who don't agree [with taxing the rich] just don't want to grind, and would prefer to play life on easy mode. Skill issue tbh." - Sydney Sweeney
Despite lasting only seven years, the 90s had an outsized influence on the culture of the great American butthead. White men in knee-length jorts and patchy goatees remained a frequent sight at combined KFC/Taco Bells in the subsequent decades, the sounds of Nu Metal wafting from their portable CD players. Tips continued to be frosted at an alarming rate.
There was a span of time when it seemed like every kid was named something like Jaxyn or Brynleigh but I haven't seen those types of names in a little while so my best guess is that they all died doing dumb TikTok challenges.