i'm warning you all now that when the Second Reconstruction comes (inshallah) and politics seems slightly less existential i am going to become an incredibly annoying econ guy who complains about corporate taxes
A smart person knows there are better patterns than a for loop.
A wise person knows to just use the damned for loop.
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Also the same guy who posted the bizarre video about ai games being so incredible
Creating with constraints exposes craftsmanship.
Side note, when Taylor Swift released an album called 'Mayhem' last year and it started tending, I was confused as hell for like 20 minutes.
It's always nice when you can find a black metal band that aren't fascists, only murderers.
I've always thought of them as 'Angry History Loving Dad Metal' personally.
Hot take:
I think some happiness in life comes from enjoying the mundane.
The making dinner, sweeping the floor, cleaning the gutters kinda thing.
`path-exists`, a package that runs the built-in `fs.access` in a try catch
130M/week.
Can we talk about the Haitian Olympic uniforms? I’m tired and it’s almost midnight but dang Stella Jean said fuck you the Olympic committee and I’m so here for it?
And some people are made to read, not sit there while a video host makes self-referential small talk and doles out the main point(s) in dribs.
I want news, not a RELATIONSHIP.
WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today
Accuse Noam Chomsky all you want, but nothing will ever diminish his enduring legacy as a trusted advisor to a child rapist and valued consigliere to a sex trafficking ring.
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
Torn between my disdain for the product and my love of prefacing things with "Boostin'".
you're a senior engineer when this makes you happy
Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.
This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.
The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.
Happy Black History Month.
If I was a billionaire I would give people $1,000 if they could tell me why they deserved it without using the letter 'e'.
Middle aged if he's gonna live to 130.
I would go so far as to say that STEM education which becomes unmoored from any connection to the humanities loses its own way and starts becoming a cult that is disconnected from the idea of truth.
Louder for the anti-humanities crowd in the back: MATHEMATICS IS ONE OF THE HUMANITIES. It's an esoteric fine art dedicated to the pursuit of the aesthetic principle of "elegance." It's only useful by accident.
You could also grab a Switzerland domain if you wanted tomhomanisabit.ch
A photo of Sal with various Marvel characters behind him.
Good covers by Sal. Avengers #71, The Defenders #9, Sub-Mariner #37, and The Spectacular Spider-Man #200,
R.I.P. Sal Buscema.
Drake meme but it’s Abe Simpson shunning “Choosing between realism and surrealism” and excitedly pointing at “destabilizing the concept of "real"”
Totally agreed
I like that Sunn O))) put a Rothko on the cover, two artists that aren't exactly my thing but I appreciate for making history for their respective art forms
If you hated Alien 3, you should watch the assembly room cut and hate it in a different way.
