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  • EZPZ. Doesn't cost a dime.

  • And that's how I met your mother.

  • Pants down and you could be donating your own turds to the park. Equilibrium restored.

  • It would be more unsettling to see people enter, but never leave.

  • Nice animation, but their burgers, at least around here, are atrocious. Really the worst of the worst.

  • There's nothing very special about him, apart from his looks. I'd argue he peaked in "My so-called life."

  • Alfred Charles Kinsey, of Kinsey Reports fame, was into sounding and at least once put a toothbrush up his own urethra... with the coarse end first.

  • me_irl

  • This reminds me of that terrific quote from "The Internet's Own Boy": "Aaron [Swartz] thought he could change the world just by explaining the world very clearly to people."
    What he possibly didn't understand was that the people in power are, indeed, perfectly able to understand the facts, but they can and will simply refuse to do so. Or, as Karl Deutsch once put it so succinctly, and I'm paraphrasing here: "Power means not having to listen."

  • They are also single frigging cells. Yet, they have nothing on the largest unicellular organisms, size-wise.

  • Yeah I'll agree with the other commenters, you came up with some good and very detailed ideas, but they'll need some honing and fine-tuning to the reality on the ground. Maybe think about joining a political party? At the local level, you can get quickly connected with the right kind of people you can bounce your ideas off of.

  • I feel like the "Swedish" pancake should be a LOT cheaper.

  • What did they train the AI on then?

  • Aaah, the 2000s. Such Rare Auld Times.

  • How do they put it on?

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    Norman Klein - Playing in Labyrinths (1998)

    Back then, this was published, in print, in a computer magazine where I first read it. Klein likens the - then emerging - internet to a labyrinth. I wonder how much of this assessment still holds true nowadays.
    Some quotes:

    • 1998 is still a dangerously nascent stage in the Internet, while a trillion dollar nest of dragons sets up shop.
    • Simulating revolt is more fun, and a better investment. This is true in casinos, malls, games, the Web. But consider what sim-revolt implies as a broader model for public life? We pretend that the labyrinth of the Web makes us free of the global corporate program that builds and owns it.
    • Recently, there is talk of voting on the Web. Is a cross between ergonomic fascism and the shopping mall the best frame of mind for making political decisions?
    • Just because we can subvert the Web by saying nasty things or engaging in cyber-sex in the margins, or downloading information cheaply, does not mean that we are subverting any core reality.