Random Thoughts

[Fireball]

How can anyone mention Marley and Hendrix in the same sentence and not laugh maniacally? 

[arewethereyet]

How can anyone mention Marley and Hendrix in the same sentence and not laugh maniacally? 

Two types of music and I like them both.  While I appreciate Jimmy, I tend to prefer the mellow Marley mood.

I do own CDs by both.  It's a what mood am I in kinda thing.

[Fireball]

How can anyone mention Marley and Hendrix in the same sentence and not laugh maniacally? 

Two types of music and I like them both.  While I appreciate Jimmy, I tend to prefer the mellow Marley mood.

I do own CDs by both.  It's a what mood am I in kinda thing.

Bob Marley and The Wailers, "I shot the Sheriff"? No, just no. You're cordially invited to what you like, but I have no use for that.

[arewethereyet]

Two types of music and I like them both.  While I appreciate Jimmy, I tend to prefer the mellow Marley mood.

I do own CDs by both.  It's a what mood am I in kinda thing.

Bob Marley and The Wailers, "I shot the Sheriff"? No, just no. You're cordially invited to what you like, but I have no use for that.

There is much more to Marley than that one song.  It is not my favorite...not a fan of Clapton's version either.

[brewer]

Two types of music and I like them both.  While I appreciate Jimmy, I tend to prefer the mellow Marley mood.

I do own CDs by both.  It's a what mood am I in kinda thing.

Bob Marley and The Wailers, "I shot the Sheriff"? No, just no. You're cordially invited to what you like, but I have no use for that.

We need to show up to your house and counter culture your ass!  

[Angrboda]

“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow said earlier this year.

In 2022, Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.

“The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.”

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The dictionary’s committee described enshittification as “a very basic Anglo-Saxon term wrapped in affixes which elevate it to being almost formal; almost respectable”.

Without those affixes – if one were to say, for example, merely that X has got a bit shit – the deliberate degradation of the platform is erased.

With those affixes, the impression is conveyed of the platform owners tampering with their own product until the bad stuff, like guano on a rock, eclipses the original form.

Doctorow wrote that this decay was a three-stage process.

“First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves,” he wrote.

“It’s frustrating. It’s demoralizing. It’s even terrifying.”

The Macquarie Dictionary committee’s honourable mentions went to “right to disconnect”, and “rawdogging”.

But enshittification not only won their vote, it took out the people’s choice award.

“This word captures what many of us feel is happening to the world and to so many aspects of our lives at the moment,” the committee said.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024...-explained

[Angrboda]

Computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes humanity will achieve “longevity escape velocity” in just five years. The concept basically states that due to medical and technological advances, we will soon reach a point where our life expectancies lengthen by more than one year per year, effectively giving us time back on the clock.

I had the same idea in grade school, so in an essay answering the question of what I wanted for my life ahead, I said that I wanted to live forever.

My teacher gave me a "D".

[Ahriman]

They need to make a supplement that kills libido. My horny is getting out of hand.

[Silver]

They need to make a supplement that kills libido. My horny is getting out of hand.

Wait till you get older. Though at forty-five, I still have my days.

[The Valkyrie]

They need to make a supplement that kills libido. My horny is getting out of hand.

Naked pictures of Donald Trump.

You're welcome.