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I feel like a chump every time I tip the sales guy at the weed shop down the street. Gosh, thanks for telling me that a sativa is gonna be a more cerebral, energetic high and an indica more of a relaxed body high. I'd never heard of marijuana before today and my phone doesn't have Google.

I'm old, I'm grumpy, and when I was young and stoned off my tits doing customer service, I crushed it every day. Be better or you will not get my $6.75 next time, sir.

I feel like a chump every time I tip the sales guy at the weed shop down the street. Gosh, thanks for telling me that a sativa is gonna be a more cerebral, energetic high and an indica more of a relaxed body high. I'd never heard of marijuana before today and my phone doesn't have Google.

It's a different guy every time I go in (not often), but the experience is always the same.

Explaining to the children that when I was a kid, there was only one Halloween song, Monster Mash—until 1983–84, when Thriller and the Ghostbusters theme changed everything.

@michaelstipe.bsky.social, I just found out about your upcoming solo album. If you still need a title, I generated this list from my brain (did not use AI): My Stipe of Guy Stipe-A Personality Stipe O Negative Revert to Stipe Stipe Dreams Stipebeast Don't Believe the Stipe (cont.)

You Know the Stipe Stipes Rich Pageant That's Me in the Corner … Now The Protostipe Stiperbolic Stiper-Man: Brand New Day Immerse Me in the Melancholy

We're more than halfway through the month. Have you listened to October yet?

Proud enough of this to share it:

Julia put on Moby's Play to cook. Neither of us has listened to it in years. It is still engraved in our brains. Do not ask us for the name of any song besides "Southside."

I will never remember that the title is "Natural Blues," only that it definitely isn't "Ooh Lordy (Trouble So Hard)."

Not loving some of the things she said to the kids, but still impressed.

Ah this bodes well

Thanks for getting that out there, Nancy. Or fuck you, who can say.

Maybe other people actually don't feel like this at all, but I've always assumed human beings have an incessant desire for magic, that a lot of folks want proof there's More Out There, and a superintelligence has the vibe of what they're looking for. That's kind of restating the question, though.

Like other replies say, that craving for magic is primarily a childish wish to abdicate responsibility. So many folks would love to feel like a near-omnipotent entity that can fit in their pocket has things under control.

This story from the start of the school year makes me feel better about our superintendent, but worse about his or anyone else's ability to fix anything.

News on the internet is so fucking stupid. Oh, hey, I'm two grafs into reading this article your reporters and editors worked so hard on—time to hit me with a pop-up in case I'm so impressed that I need to subscribe to yet another newsletter.

It's all fundamentally a problem of trust, and even the most popular president can't restore trust at the scale necessary from Washington DC.

News on the internet is so fucking stupid. Oh, hey, I'm two grafs into reading this article your reporters and editors worked so hard on—time to hit me with a pop-up in case I'm so impressed that I need to subscribe to yet another newsletter.

This is the same thing, even if it doesn't seem like it. Our existing political structures are totally inadequate in a world where everyone is online. At some level, Democrats are always going to be focused on getting back to business as usual, but "as usual" is over.

News on the internet is so fucking stupid. Oh, hey, I'm two grafs into reading this article your reporters and editors worked so hard on—time to hit me with a pop-up in case I'm so impressed that I need to subscribe to yet another newsletter.

Love to design news sites as if we know nothing about how people read news and then complain about how people don't read news.