After I paid Metallica for their music, more than once in some cases, and then they went to war on us fans, been stealing since.

Blast from the past GenX!

Been stealing all my media for 25+ years. Get on my level.

Arduous?! Why you little…

In the AOL days, I got on newsgroups and hunted songs. Good luck finding what you wanted. Then I’d download 6-12 pieces and use software to tack those pieces into a single MP3. At 56K. (Really 53K, at best, and that was with tweaking modem strings and whatnot.)

I repeat: Why you little…

The German version was #1 in America. The English version was #1 in Germany.

Guess the song?

I’m 54 and had no idea what measles was until lately. See, we didn’t have that shit when I was growing up, never even heard of someone catching it.

That’s how dumb American’s have become. We’ve regressed to pre germ theory.

Economies of scale let you buy shit for cheap. Much like the device you posted this on. Or did you roll your own device from scratch?

If y’all didn’t figure that out in the first Trump Presidency, don’t know what to tell you. The largest gun buying demographic the past many years has been black, women and LGBT.

Mine are at the threshold of waking, or if I fall asleep again in the morning.

So, can someone tell us about an economic system that does not require unending growth?

For extra irony, this explanation should come from one of those people who say that predicting economics is BS and that it’s too complex for anyone to understand.

FFS y’all, this isn’t the grand revelation you think it is. I figured it out on my own at 19, before the internet existed to tell me what to think. This was about the same time that I figured out that prices will always go up, never down.

That’s me in the woods, word for word.

Also, I saw a fucking coyote for the first time yesterday!

Ah! Thought it was Jack Handey.

“I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.”

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

I’d be shooting dust within an hour.

Love how you people believe whatever lies suit your beliefs. Kinda reminds me of conservatives.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/mts/mts0924.pdf

Scroll down a page or three.

Here’s a graph from that data.

Love how plain ol’ “Government” is somehow a category.

Because it’s utter horseshit. Anyone dumb enough to believe that military spending is 57% of spending needs to go to class before commenting.

You’re not defending the GOP, you’re defending truth. I could see at a glance that this chart was utter bullshit.

If you woke up tomorrow and had full rights to the name Coca Cola™, would that not be of extreme value to you? Of course it doesn’t have the intrinsic value of a gold brick, but it’s still valuable and stock fluctuations won’t change that fact.

Bizarre. I stop at a few rural parks when bringing the kids home to Florida. They’re mostly very nice and well attended.

OTOH, I can see rural people not valuing parks. After all, we can go 1/4 mile from anywhere and be in actual nature.

Discworld brainwashed me on camels. Every time I see one I now wonder what math is going through it’s head.

“The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realized that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don’t find out about it. So they long ago plumped for a lifestyle that, in return for a certain amount of porterage and being prodded with sticks, allowed them adequate food and grooming and the chance to spit in a human’s eye and get away with it.”

“Lack of fingers was another big spur to the development of camel intellect. Human mathematical development had always been held back by everyone’s instinctive tendency, when faced with something really complex in the way of triform polynomials or parametric differentials, to count fingers. Camels started from the word go by counting numbers.”

While Vicious Brute, Bloody Stupid, and Evil-Smelling-Bugger stand around stinking, spitting and otherwise looking stupid:

“You Bastard was thinking: there seems to be some growing dimensional instability here, swinging from zero to nearly forty-five degrees by the look of it. How interesting. I wonder what’s causing it? Let V equal 3. Let Tau equal Chi/4. cudcudcud Let Kappa/y be an Evil-Smelling-Bugger (* Renowned as the greatest camel mathematician of all time, who invented a math of eight-dimensional space while lying down with his nostrils closed in a violent sandstorm.) differential tensor domain with four imaginary spin co-efficients. . .”

― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

I regret the decades I missed out on reading Discworld. I’m through it twice and I’ll never catch all the jokes and references. Some say 5 readings gets you close. Those novels are the funniest, hardest hitting, most genius fiction I’ve ever read. Laughed, cried, “better than Cats”, all that. Do not sleep on these books! (Ignore all the suggested reading order crap and simply start with #1.)

Said no one ever? Where in the world have you heard that?!

OP right now

And talk about Baader-Meinhof! Just closed a tab, seconds ago, where I was making a meme from that.