I’m loving these comments, so many great albums! And a ton I’ve never hear of and will need to check out.

I have a few of these, but two that really jump out at me are

• The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust - Saul Williams
• Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By - Lovage
• Common People - William Shatner

These are albums that you’ve just gotta let play.

e: can’t believe I forgot Shatner!

Reblog?

I went all in on it… I fully drank that Koolaid and was an early backer, got an extra controller and really thought it was going to be amazing. But their whole launch was so bungled that by the time I actually got it I was so disillusioned with the whole company that I couldn’t enjoy it. It sucked to have bought into the kickstarter and financed the project, and then see the product on the shelves at Target while I was still waiting on mine to be delivered. I had mine for a couple of months before reselling it at a loss.

Several years later when Stadia was announced I felt that little familiar glimmer of hope pop up, but I didn’t let myself get too excited for it. I did eventually get a couple of Stadia controllers and really enjoyed that service (and I still use those controllers today).

The catch is it’ll be enshittified as soon as it can.

Oh, I know … and that’s what makes it sad is because he could help to make the world a better place.

So that’s the thing… in the US even our poor are rich compared to the global poor.

But you’re right, people in the US making $50k a year aren’t really the problem. The problem is the people who have the average income of the 1%. That’s people making almost $500k a year. Which is crazy to think that the income needed to join the global 1% is so much lower than the average income of the 1%.

Yeah, fuck you too buddy!

70 million people.

That’s what it will take to rid us of the top 1%.

Of course, if we’re going after the global 1% then that will be anyone making over approximately $55k USD per year.

home canned pickles.

But… that costs money.

And the fact that the US dollar is the basis for most economies.

In fact, a new UN wouldn’t even be necessary, instead everyone would just have to stop recognizing the veto powers of any country. But, again, that comes with other consequence.

You find a generator, or solar panels, or wind mill, or water turbine, or a bicycle hooked up to a generator.

If electricity permanently goes out then we’re in a scavenger situation and it is time to start taking apart things that are no longer necessary to build the things that are.

The US isn’t part of the ICC and has veto power in the UN. The US is quite literally above the law and there isn’t anything anyone can really do about it.

You need to read The Sphinx by Edgar Allen Poe.

It’s about a man staying in the country when he sees this gigantic monster off in the distance from his bedroom window. He freaks out about it and becomes paranoid.

Turns out it was a moth on the window. That’s what this looks like too.

Turn out your lamps Lemmy or the moths will return!

This study is from 2015.

Right?

I got into brewing in the early 2000s and loved it. Made some great recipes and always had a good selection of beer on hand. Then microbreweries started popping up everywhere, it was great … until I realized that I could buy a keg from a local brewery cheaper than I could brew it. And I didn’t have to do all the cleaning.

No regrets. I still have the skill and equipment, so if I want or need to brew my own I can, and it gives me time to pursue other hobbies.

My brother-in-law has a POW / MIA license plate. He lets people know that he was a POW in the War on Drugs.

Southern Florida shows us that the only way to defeat them is with alligators.

“We know how to take them out, General. Spread the word.”

Good point.

I also want my smart glasses to shine an IR light on my face to help protect my identity from others recording me.

I would love a pair of smart glasses to augment what I’m seeing… Give me context, keep me informed, allow me to monitor things closely, yet passively, and let me do it all inconspicuously and unobtrusively! Even better if it has eye tracking navigation.

Oh, and make sure the hardware and software are open source and self-hosted. If it has all of that I’m in, 100%.