Just do that once in a while. You don’t need to subject yourself to ads every time you watch YouTube. I would say, once a week do a watch session without an ad blocker if you want to be in the loop.

Bring a backpack. I keep real toilet paper in mine.

On the flip side, I used to know this man who had very flat features in person. I saw a recent picture of him at the time and it was like looking at someone else. His face had contours and depth and looked quite good. I don’t know if it was some sort of illusion created by my brain looking at a 2d picture but it was weird.

He was actually GenX.

Blink, blink…

Wonder how that all worked out in the end?

I wonder which manufacturer it is?

Yeah, see all this stuff happening between now and inauguration day. See, we did something. Too little, too late. If there are ever free and fair elections in this country, and the Democrats return to power, they better get their fucking shit together. The dismantling of the Federal government will be almost impossible to reverse.

Maybe there is a German word for it. Or that could make one up

I go out but I do most of my big shopping as delivery. I just can’t bring myself to go to Walmart very often. Most of my little shopping is at dollar stores. You know, the little things we used to get at what we used to call “milk stores.”

I read it in my 20s and liked it well enough. It isn’t great literature but it was a fun read.

I read it again in the last few years, I’m now in my fifties, and I had to skip the Iceland parts with the Air Force Lieutenant and the woman. My god, Clancy must have been an insufferable misogynist.

Someone should rewrite the book and remove or change that part.

This will be the last presidential election.

It’s not the speed, it’s the acceleration that kills you. Or deceleration, if you’re unlucky.

I don’t know. I don’t read Le Monde.

How long before the first Sleepshop opens?

Exactly what I thought. I’d love to sit a young person today in front of that blank blue screen with the blinking cursor. Now, I have to go take my pills before bed.

How will this work at an enterprise level? I can absolutely say that the company I work for cannot allow that kind of information to be harvested. Our clients would have a conniption. I also can’t see our cyber security insurance covering that.

I’m surprised this was published in Foreign Policy.

Yeah, not being able to communicate during a school shooting is a deal breaker for me.

What is the name of this game?