Cobb: “I’ve come back for you… to remind you of something. Something you once knew. That this world is not real.”

Can’t escape capitalism.

*Sniff*

“Darling, guess what? Blackberry jam is on the menu again.”

That 1935 piece surely seems prophetic. For example this part:

Development of the anti-scientific and anti-cultural campaign, cutting down of education

For the last five or so years, I’ve been noticing a surge of anti-intellectualism. People are not any longer ashamed to publicly dismiss “smart alecks” and “know-it-alls”.

That’s no moon.

Next-level mooning.

♪ Hinckley couldn’t shoot straight, hit a guy in the forehead ♪ :-(

TIL Self is still around.

I believe it was Marx who first observed that superfluous jobs, as well as unemployment, are inextricably linked to capitalism.

EDIT: Found a relevant Marx quote in Grundrisse:

Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as sole measure and source of wealth. Hence it diminishes labour time in the necessary form so as to increase it in the superfluous form; hence posits the superfluous in growing measure as a condition – question of life or death – for the necessary.

See also Marcuse, 1969:

The absorption [i.e. disappearance] of unemployment and the maintenance of an adequate rate of profit would […] require the stimulation of demand on an ever larger scale, thereby stimulating the rat race of the competitive struggle for existence through the multiplication of waste, planned obsolescence, parasitic and stupid jobs and services.

When I was little, I asked my parents why they don’t smoke and they just laughed. I didn’t understand why. Because 100% of the other adults I knew were smokers.

Because topless != nude in most of Europe. Hell, you can see topless women at pretty much any seashore when it’s warm enough.

First they came for the nudes, and I did not speak out. Because I was not nude.

John Lennon at home:

Yeah, it feels quite petulant and deconstructive at times.
But a lot of what you wrote is just a feature of any small online community. Then you end up with these bitter types who, if you rubbed them slightly the wrong way, get up at 6 a.m., downvote everything you ever wrote and report as many of your contributions as they can get away with.
I mean, downvotes and upvotes could be capped at -1 and +5, respectively, like on /. which has been going strong for more than 20 years with this concept, or there could be enforcement of some sort of netiquette, but that would put additional strain on the mods.

A sixpack a day keeps the anal away.

Blame it on the rain.