Potempkin Village Idiot

Friend of mine named his band "Luxury Teeth" after getting a particularly bad dental bill that wasn't covered by his insurance.

If the weather predictions for Tuesday and Wednesday hold, yeah.

For the record, Monte Carlo simulations and the Drunkard's Walk are not nearly as much fun as the name might suggest.

“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.”
-Terry Pratchett

Feel this. Somedays it definitely gets easier. Some days it doesn't.

“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”

-RAW

My best friend is a therapist, and he said he doesn't bother reading the news anymore because he gets recaps from his patients all day every day.

it would be very wonderful if israel were to stop bombing everyone in its immediate vicinity in the name of jewish survival right now please

My first trip to Mexico I went to Merida, and there was a Chili's around the corner from the house we were staying at. It was packed with Americans every time we walked past it.

I've been saying this for a while. It's just continuous psychic warfare.
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tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

Every day the economic experts get up and are like “we think today is the day the racists will use logic”

I think every school for adventurers should include chair throwing in their hand-to-hand combat lessons.

I worked at a restaurant where the bartender would give me a double espresso martini (2 shots each of vodka, espresso & kaluah) in a pint glass over ice as my end-of-shift drink, and I would hit the town ready to fight.

I have no idea what this is.

Celebrating Mar10 day?

Buddy, we're probably less than a mile away from each other. I got you.

Oh my GOD, yes. And it took DECADES for the music licensing issues to be resolved, so they couldn't replay it or release it on video/dvd.

Reminds me of another Russian joke:
"On average we live well. Worse than last year, yes. But better than next year, so..."

In six months we're going to find out Open AI was Mechanical Turk-ing DoD's tomahawk target selection using folks in Bangalore making $.50 a day.

A lot of it was evident during the Obama years, but the degree to which everything was (and is) just threadbare bad faith arguments and justifications has become so painfully obvious it's clear they're not even trying to pretend anymore.

a cartoon of a monkey in a jungle holding a flower Alt: Baloo, from the Disney Jungle Book cartoon movie, demonstrates how one should pluck various fruits.

Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw.

Update: last night when I put him to bed he asked me to call him T-Rex when I woke him up this morning.

Thanks for clarifying. No, I was a lone American in a room full of strangers at a hotel social event in Nairobi. There were some Brits there as well, and I think even they were uncomfortable with the dialogue. Went twice and never went back.

When I'm out of my element I keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open. It's a useful way to learn things.

I made a lot of it last year. Hope to make even more this year.
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Philip K. Dick was really cooking when he said "the empire never ended" huh?

Those are yellow ajis and a weird Romanian variety.

Just now realizing that Roger Moore is just as ridiculous of a double entendre name as Pussy Galore.

A freshly planted seedling tray.

First batch of pepper and tomato seeds started.

When I worked in Kenya, I regularly ended up in social situations as a white American w/ white S. African professionals. Their conversations *always* went like this:

Drinks 1+2:
"Yea, we're from South Africa, but we're not racists like our parents were."

From drink 3 on:
"[insanely racist shit]"