Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.

That kind of makes sense, since those areas probably have not prioritized state or local green initiatives. There is probably more opportunity to make a difference there when you are looking at the whole country objectively.

To be fair, I think extreme everything is messing with children’s mental health.

I’m sure that’s not how they’re being presented though.

Money is a helluva drug.

Somebody please double check the door bolts.

https://www.wired.com/story/dubai-flooding-uae-cloud-seeding-climate-change/

Not caused at all by cloud seeding. Just trying to deny climate change.

Yes it works great for that.

LOL at these people who think it matters how it tastes if there’s no caffeine.

This is me with the last few “redesigns” of chrome. Stop adding dead space to my fuckin bookmarks!

But “he died mid-orgasm while doing skydiving sex on a tornado chase” would look cool carved into granite.

I really don’t want “he died of Bird Flu” on my grave. Maybe I need to take up some reckless hobbies before the next global panini.

The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is today.

Hype machine announces new thing they can hype to make money, at least until the next thing

Some of them are also looking for money.

I like the cut of your jib.

Is this really the biggest problem in the US right now? Can the justice department maybe spend some time on gun violence, climate denial, misinformation, dark money in politics…. Like 1000 other things that are literally killing people before we worry about this? Or is this just because it’s an election year and they think it will be popular…

I deleted every comment and post I had made and then deleted my account when they locked out Apollo. But it sounds like I missed out on getting the secret email and making the investment of a lifetime! /s 

Can we just roll it all up in a big ball and shoot it into space on a rocket? That worked great in Futurama… 😉

If I’m reading an article on espn.com for free, there has to be some value exchange. I either need to pay to read the article or I need to be willing to be included in future advertising to people who have read that article. We haven’t come up with a better model to support free content on the Internet than advertising.

I would be willing to pay 5p to read that article if there was an automatic and easy mechanism to deliver that transaction to espn.com.  I want their journalists to get paid and I want the content to keep existing. But I’m also not such a dedicated fan of that site that I’m ready to subscribe monthly. The last thing we need is an Internet full of subscription paywalls.

So in the meantime, if the fact that I read an article on espn.com about rugby scores puts me in an audience of people who like rugby and this complicated web of advertising is going to show me rugby ads and ESPN is going to make money from that and that is going to keep the articles free … sure, whatever they gotta do I guess. I’m not sharing anything personal or private with espn.com so if they want to pass that along to 1600 other places so I can keep reading for free… whatevs.  It’s not the model I would’ve chosen but I don’t have a better plan to keep ESPN in business.