I was thinking about the Great Serpent Mound (also Stonehenge, etc) and the fact that so much human effort was involved that it's actually the labor that makes it really special. We know that people cared about this so much, it had so much importance to them for whatever reason, they worked and worried and suffered over it for long enough to make it happen. That's what makes it special. If the guy with a digger did it in a month it would just be a curiosity but not a monument.

It also reminds me of a game studio I worked at that hired an exec from, I don't know, Frito-Lay or some shit. He took it as a point of pride that he had no idea how games were made because he believed it didn't matter and having any sort of romantic notions about art would get in the way of the business of moving product, because anything but the fetishization of generic units was an affectation that true visionaries (like him) must discard. These are the people who can't understand why we can't be bothered to pay for AI slop.

Anyway that studio's reputation now stands in ruins.

He's also dedicated to shortwave despite acknowledging it's a moribund medium, and has perpetual dental issues. I like him. He's resigned himself to go down with the ship of whatever it is he's sailing.

He should absolutely be disbarred but also you don't have to be barred to be AG. Realistically the best case is that he only lasts a couple Scaramuccis and then this prevents him from slinking back to some chud law firm to be council, or whatever. I think being Trump's attorney already makes him a pariah amongst any clientele who care. But there's probably enough fascist lobbyists, colleges, and business to keep this fuckhead employed regardless, especially if he goes to Florida.

Edit: I just looked him up and he was partner at one of the NYC white shoe law firms that capitulated to Trump's bullying and agreed to do hundreds of millions of "pro bono" for him. Any attorney who isn't a total fascist has already resigned. If he gets disbarred in NY maybe he couldn't go back but who knows, they obviously don't give a shit about anything.

Genie cuts your head off for trifling with them because they are powerful demons and not computers.

Shit is Parkinson's in a bottle and should have been banned decades ago.

Restricted until the 30th at the earliest, I believe. Although if they already had some stock they could have dumped that.

He's wondering if shitting in the corner is still allowed there.

Gnutsak

I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants... Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?

Sorry is there an Adrian Zenz-like figure I can ask instead?

Seriously though I admire that, despite all we've done to them, he still responds with a dignity that we certainly don't deserve. Of course we're totally deaf to this as a people, but I respect the gesture.

There's no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, "bots that aren't paying us."

His health was so fucked it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin