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erastus
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Books, wine, cats. Sometimes I draw.
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Because ultimately, that's what ai supporters are pushing. Not an easier life. Not a better life. Just a life where you can work more and turn your art into manufacturing.

Essentially, they're telling you to get a *real* job. Because that's how they've always felt about artists.
December 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Obamacare is based on Romneycare, which used to be the Republican plan. But because it had Obama‘s name on it, they voted against it. Now they have nothing to fall back on.
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Worth mentioning that they also make a product labeled with lowercase letters that isn’t so heat resistant. Stick with the UPPERCASE labels.
December 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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My point is that the problem with good practical governance is the same problem with vaccines. When it works too well, people stop believing they need it.

DOGE dissolving a massive amount of the federal workforce is going to open up chasms in service and competence ppl would have never anticipated.
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Ouch! So sorry. 🤕
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Honorable mention: I stumbled upon Leonard Nimoy singing at the California State Fair in 1967. It was weird.
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Bob Forsch
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I always thought they were just copying The Crickets.
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The bright colors were, at least in part, because color TVs were new (to the masses). We still couldn’t afford one, but my uncle had a color TV and he appreciated Star Trek because he felt he was getting his money’s worth. A close runner up was the Flintstones. Purple and orange!
October 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM