Grif:

It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.

Simmons:

...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?

Oh, I love this one!

🎵Eeooh eeoh eeeeeeee! cghghcghcghrshhhhhh!🎶

For me it was a bit different though, because the song was kept alive in rural areas until the horrors of Hugh's Net (and Wild-Blue-Exeed-ViaSat)

I love that movie! It got bad ratings?

Technically still a touch!

You succeeded at XKCD 2184

Edit: wait, it has to have come out after 2000. You almost succeeded at XKCD 2184.

I also get annoyed at lightning fast responses. And I agree 100%

It takes no time or energy to come up with one answer to a question. I'm fact, I think most humans' brains are built for snap decisions like that.

But to weigh multiple answers against each other, poking holes in the answers you are most inclined to believe? That takes thought. And if someone is not doing that for you, then odds are, their brain is simply letting them take the discussion less seriously than your brain (or your morality) allows.

So I think you have every right to feel frustrated at such behavior.

I think if you're a right winger in the stock market who still has money (hasn't lost it all yet), you've proven yourself capable of at least enough double-think for your WORDS to say "the market is in shambles! The economy is trash! Biden is destroying America!" while your ACTIONS express confidence in all of the things supposedly doomed by our supposed dictator Biden.

Dragged, kicking and screaming, to unprecedented wealth.

What a strange world we live in.

I feel like if I ran a company, I would have folded my hand after Kellogg's and the Big Three automakers lost their respective labor disputes.

"Oh, these are your demands? Done. Better than selling my customers the media equivalent to glue-frosted pop tarts for the next two months because I can't admit I need my own workers."

I know there wouldn't be any billionaires if people thought that way. It just seems so much more sane and well adjusted.

Alternatively, it's possible cell companies like T-Mobile will lobby against these anticompetitive agreements, since it does reduce their number of potential customers. I don't like cell company lobbying any more than ISP lobbying, but in this case, let them fight.

Something tells me T-Mobile's got a little too much class solidarity to have any interest in reducing the profits of Charter Communications.

Hmm... so an approach that would have gotten Rodeo's point across better might have been to say,

"so anarchy is just another name for the purest form of democracy."

Because democracy is such a broad word that it is occasionally applied to the United States, despite the CIA's history of coups and the FBI's history of extrajudicial assassinations of citizens.

btw, I'm stealing this and turning it into a writing prompt over on Literature Cafe.

The post is here