I stopped watching almost entirely back in 02 when I got sick of watching planes flying into the WTC over and over. And over. And over. I also hate ads. I’ve never paid for cable or streaming, aside from YT premium.

If I want to watch a show I buy a disc, watch at a friend’s place, or I don’t bother. Is it that important, really?

I work at heights daily, climbing 100m towers. I’m also scared of heights. I’ve done some cliff dives into deep water as another way to face that fear. It takes a force of will for me to jump off more than about 10m. Sure wish I enjoyed that thrill.

I want a small home and a big workshop. A place to snuggle and a place to putter.

It might be time to start smashing all the security cameras.

It is not cognitive dissonance to understand that people wear different masks around different people Your best friend can be nice to you while secretly abusing his family. Cop can treat others like subhumans, and still be nice to you. Still a bastard.

It’s a private club that is only open to bastards. If someone stays, it’s because the group decided they belong.

Uh no. That is exactly what cognitive dissonance IS.

Oooooh, so your opinion is irrelevant everywhere else. Have fun with the leopards. I’m sure they won’t eat your face.

Oh yeah? You gonna open up to a cop? You gonna talk to him about stuff, maybe? You know, about that thing? What’s he gonna do? Is he gonna write it down later? What if he finds out about your association with a minority? Is he gonna arrest your friend because of something you let slip? Does he hide when his friends and family commit crimes? Can you trust a friend like that?

Because the fact he chose a bastard job makes him a bastard.

For what it’s worth, is there a way to still connect to my vehicle, at least for music? I’m running Sync 3.

I mean, I wasn’t sick at the time. When I was, I stayed home. I just did it to terrify her.

I coughed without a mask near an old lady ranting about liberals in a super conservative little town in Texas during COVID.

Will the regulatory body be stacked with, and bribed by auto execs?

A particularly insidious strain of Christianity trained me to resign myself to a premature death when I was still a teenager. Hasn’t happened yet, and I’m in no hurry, because I care deeply for others. While I hate religion very much, it did instill in me very little fear of death… I’m afraid for the fate of humanity so much more than my own.

I mean, wasn’t gonna.

I’d have to look at Ajit Pai.

You might want to ask Ajit Pai.

Didn’t do the eyebrow raise?

Cool. I’ve already got more books than I’ll be able to finish before I die. Might as well get back into reading. Fuck those bastards.

Oh, I agree. There are wide swaths of the country that rail cannot service. Individual homes out in the sticks, farmland, etc. they’d need a car or truck just to get to the train station.

Only where the rails went. We’d have to replace all the roads with light rails.