My mom is in a rehab facility for a couple weeks but it's the kind of place people die in. The music playing throughout the facility at one point today was The Cure's "A Forest." Seemed kinda strange. Oh my god - I am so sorry. I hope that she is back on her feet asap. Thanks, she won't b...

Gramsci wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 4:00 am I completely forgot about the weird religious aspect to all of this in the US...

So fucking weird, dude.

I dunno if this is helpful but when I was looking for work a while back I signed up with temp agencies not to get jobs, but just to practice interviewing.

My mom is in a rehab facility for a couple weeks but it's the kind of place people die in. The music playing throughout the facility at one point today was The Cure's "A Forest." Seemed kinda strange.

seby wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 7:38 am Spoke about AI on a panel today to hundreds of lawyers. My socks matching the backlit stage steps was a nice touch.

Very cool! What was the scope of the talk?

Wow, actual footage of Tragic Mulatto from 1990.

I try to be a nice man when I use a public restroom. Put the seat up to piss, put it down when done. To that end, can you people who attend to public restrooms in fancy coffee shops and the like muthafuckin please make sure your toilet seat actually STAYS UP?! Fuck.

It wasn't so much that I support the menthol ban, because as much as I hate smoke, the poor bastards have already been relegated to the furthest rubbish bin in the middle of winter with a $15 pack, and frankly I feel sorry for them. If there is one advantage of private healthcare, it's the complete...

Anti-smoking, my ass. Menthol ban is just a new way to allow harassment of black people by law enforcement. You can't hassle people for weed anymore, after all. "After I stopped them, I detected the aroma of Newports." Fuck that shit. I don't think that's how a menthol ban would work. Thi...

Here's the Dick Slessig Combo show at Zebulon Cafe in Los Angeles last Friday. Dick Slessig Combo is Mark Lightcap of Acetone, and two other guys. Lightcap's son was also on guitar this time. They only do covers of songs they enjoy, and they make them long and drawn out, and slow them down. Computer...