I don't see why there isn't a 100% tax on all earnings over... I dunno. Somewhere in the hundreds of thousands per year? A million?(Plus a general wealth tax). I think most Americans should pay little or no income tax.

Direct Air Capture is an absolute joke. The cheap "solution" we're going to go with is solar geoengineering if we do anything at all. That's the worst kind of delay tactic I can think of and it turns into some real Hollywood end of the world shit if we ever stop.

Murder in Mississippi is very out of the mold for him, but seeing it made me think about him differently and get more out of his work. It bugs me that people think of him as schlocky Americana.
(And his composition is amazing)

While I'm at it, the dark crystal series was unwelcome, as bad as I feared, and diminished one of the greatest works of the 20th century.

People who earn less money have to spend a greater percentage of it on stuff they need to live, whereas the wealthy can keep most of it in savings. So even if all tariffs does is increase prices across the board it affects people with less money more.

Planescape. Oooh.

It isn't.

I meant to train him to fall asleep to Subrosa, I bet I still can.

I think some of what people think of as good music for babies is just them unconsciously training their babies in their own cultural norms and responses.

Only in the last couple of months. If there's any pattern at all it's what we play when we are hanging out with him and in a good mood, and what we played for him in the third trimester. Powermetal, dirgey and melancholy post punk, 90s/00s industrial, synthpop, and a weird smattering of other stuff.

Jon wins this round, folks

I've got a forum you can join, but it's not a ton of people. I started it for games I'm working on.

Also my hair didn't used to be as good

I like it as a reminder that I've grown and should stay humble because I'm probably doing stuff today that I will look back on and cringe at.