https://youtu.be/VGRQGm4-A4k?feature=shared

Possibly NSFW if your boss is a dick.

Wobinidan is probably not widely known. It might not be amazing but it’s somewhat different from most music and has a cool raw indie quality: https://youtu.be/lrwDMkf-0lo?si=h_UjKIao0zx_hMnj

If you haven’t heard of Lovers, they’re genuinely awesome. Listen to all of it, but The Modern Art Museum of the Modern Kiss Goodbye is memorable in many ways: https://youtu.be/lrwDMkf-0lo?si=h_UjKIao0zx_hMnj

EDIT: Almost forgot about this difficult to find glam gem from Magnolia Blvd. I love this song; I don’t know why. I found it during the Napster days, always forget it exists then have to do an arcane Google search to dig it up again: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-961325120/stormy-eyes

Proving you can’t isn’t very convincing.

“How do speech bubbles work?”

I generally like Edgar Allan Poe, but this meme is why “Sonnet - To Science” is a bad take. (EDIT: Sorry I can’t figure out how to format it correctly here)

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!

Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.

Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart,

Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?

How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,

Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering

To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,

Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?

Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,

And driven the Hamadryad from the wood

To seek a shelter in some happier star?

Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,

The Elfin from the green grass, and from me

The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?

Just vote harder.

Thievery touring member Frank Orrall is also the lead singer for Poi Dog Pondering, which has a totally different take on world music. Their Pomegranate album is absolutely great, and a notable song from it is Complicated: https://youtu.be/-KLZMKNs7qY

For a cover, they have an awesome version of That’s the Way Love Is: https://youtu.be/k7iaA7x9oc4?si=aHd5ZJsR7KbqFy7o but I haven’t found a high quality audio YouTube version of it.

everyone*

*Exceptions may apply

It’s always good to have life on your team.

Gen AA

The particulate matter, specifically heavy metals, go through the roof.

There’s also a bunch of paperwork involved in removing those measurements from the pollution data sets with a rule that gives a pass for fireworks.

Yeah. Gen Z is getting boring.

Can we divide out the next generation already so we can make the same claims about them we’ve been making for 500 years again?

I agree with all this but want to gripe about the misconception that flat Earth is medieval.

People have known Earth is round since at least 350 BC when Aristotle wrote On the Heavens. And he didn’t come up with it there, he was explaining how others knew it.

In medieval times they had not lost this knowledge and it was still widely understood that Earth is round. Flat Earth has been a fringe lunacy for thousands of years. In the 1800s it became popular for religious reasons and most flat Earthers today are actually creationists trying to dress up their beliefs as science.

I made the point. You can’t tell because you can’t read.

I said that already. You can’t tell because you can’t read.

You won’t be able to understand this either because you can’t read.

That last line is truly icing on the cake.

And for those wondering, it’s just a very slightly better version of Bud and only then if it’s really fresh. After two weeks on the shelf they’re equally shitty.

TikTok references will be lost on me. Is that why you never learned to read?

Time up to days isn’t even that bad - it’s just base 60 because we get that part from ancient Mesopotamians who liked base 60 for the same reasons people like 12 (but maybe went a little overboard?). Since 12 is a factor of 60, going to base 12 would make hours-minutes-seconds jive better with other numbers. Only changing to base 12, a half day would be written as 10 hours, full day 20 hours. An hour as 50 minutes. A minute as 50 seconds.

I think there’s no helping higher than that - there’s no relation between months and days or months and years - they’re separate cycles that we just smushed together one day and refuse to separate. And days and years aren’t related in a convenient integer. Some things would coincidentally work out - 2 years could be written as 20 months - but for the most part there’s no way to line it up nicely.

Yeah. The picture definitely shows driveways big enough for a car, where some housing doesn’t have that.

Given that I’m pro bike, and very anti-park-your-car-wherethefuckever-when-you-can-park-on-your-own property, I’m for the bike lanes.

This is where the French messed up not using base 12. We could have had the best of both worlds.