Sometimes I wonder how many of other people’s photos I’m in without knowing it. But for me that’s just a wistful idle thought - I really don’t get why so many people get super upset about cameras. Cameras have been around for more than a century. People have been taking home movies and videos for at least half of that time. Why the recent surge of outrage, and where does expecting privacy in public even come from?

They Live - constantly hailed on social media as one of the greatest films in cinematic history, if not the greatest. The concept is fantastic, and the reflections on real-world propaganda and other forms of mind control are thought-provoking, but they certainly don’t provoke any thought among the characters. The only part most viewers remember and talk about, by a longshot, is the 6- or 7-minute alley fight about putting on sunglasses. My favorite scene was in a big room with a giant screen showing a galaxy, where business people were stepping onto a platform and apparently being teleported into space. What was the deal there? It looked like wealthy earthlings were doing business with a galactic civilization. But it was just a quick throwaway scene. I wanted to see where they were going. I mean I’m not saying it was a bad movie, just that it could have been a hell of a lot better.

Microsoft Outage - heck yeah, that’s their new flagship product!

Quite an underachiever compared to the Earl of Blowjob.

The Earl didn’t even do that, other people named it after him.

Of course not, he’s just the first person known to popularize it, and it’s well known that he didn’t even come up with the idea. He was famished after a long session of gambling and told his cook to bring him something quick to make and easy to eat. So the cook slapped something between two slices of bread and shoved it in front of him.

Change it to, “Friends, Neighbors, Total Strangers who wandered in off the street…”

I see what you did there and I admire the subtlety.

I dunno, maybe observe that there are millions and millions of seemingly healthy cats eating cat food all their lives, and living 15-20 years, and just call it good.

Same with beer if you think about it.

Seems like every corporation should have a designated group of upper execs who assume responsibility for illegal corporate actions. I know they can sometimes be found guilty of knowingly making decisions that break the law, but the complexity of business makes placing blame on an individual extremely difficult. It should be a more straightforward liability they accept with the job. Some of these people make so ridiculously much money from their positions, they should bear a corresponding degree of responsibility.

Virtue signaling off a plane crash - classy move!!

After many years I finally believe reincarnation is the most likely scenario after death, and it has pretty much eliminated my fear of death. Now I just don’t want it to be horribly unpleasant. In the words of Woody Allen (I know, an unmentionable name, oh well), “I’m not afraid of dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

When the sounds come back to you after many years it will confirm you’re normal.

^ ^ ^ ^ Take this advice! I can still hear the sounds of a terrorist decapitation video I watched at least 20 years ago.

What about absolutism?

How dare you! Small mistakes and the OCD battles they spawn are responsible for 46% of off-season popcorn sales!

Darmok at Miami, his wings gone.

Having been a little kid in the 1960s, I’m constantly on the lookout for smugglers and quicksand.

Srsly, unless you grow all your food and make all your possessions, you’re constantly supporting billionaires. I mean sure, run your own LLM, but don’t let it create a delusion of ethical purity.