I heard someone say there’s a North Montenegro now. Is that true?

Make a deck and pitch Valley VCs.

I hate to admit this, but I’ve started using Reddit again. It pains me, but there is stuff I just can’t get here.

I may have an outdated sense of what a potlatch was. I was using the term in the sense of destroying value, per this kind of definition:

“A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader’s wealth and power. “

Here’s a mnemonic technique that I have found works: Nothing about Marvel movies is worth remembering.

You’re watching the dramatic equivalent of that retouched Ecce Homo painting, a mass media product constructed by Hollywood on top of the palimpsest of the creative output of young Jewish men trying to come to grips with feelings of powerlessness in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Nothing much of the original remains, and it’s not worth looking at, beyond remarking at its absurdity.

This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.

It was the spirit of Homer Davenport. Rejoice and have another slice of marionberry pie.

I never hear that show mentioned, but it’s excellent.

Serious question: How does EVE survive the arrival of AI?

That was the joke, but I trust it’s much improved by the explication.

It’s what a manchild thinks is sci-fi.

Dixon.

Def my fave of that series too.

Spore early game was fun.

Random memory, but the early Norton suite on the Mac was like this amazing Swiss Army knife; it has fallen from great heights to the pit of hell.

Yeah, it’s really stark looking back at it.

Friends was a relatively well-written show, with strong comedic actors. It didn’t need this level of aggressive laugh-tracking.

If you want to be a bit poetic: There’s a thing I know nothing of.

Yeah, the comedic utility is inverse to actual.

You could get a card that entitled you to a free battery every month.

GBR has crazy jellyfish. Otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DswPLKfi00A