I spent some time yesterday exploring the Mexican music scene to discover that The Warning is the tip of the iceberg. Mexico is crawling with good bands, playing everything disco to punk.

Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion.

The story that won’t die continues…

The Hunt for the Nord Stream Bombers

I think a lot of things that used to be verboten in language are not nearly so objectionable.

When I was a kid, back in the pre-Watergate Nixon years, to use “ain’t” meant you were an uneducated bumpkin or lowlife from the wrong side of the tracks. Today, outside formal situations it’s totally okay to express “isn’t” in a more emphatic…[Read more]

RichRaelian wrote:

Hi! I won’t pay attention to you if you swear every other word that comes out of your mouth.

I’ll say “noted”, but since there’s no policy against it here, and objections are rare (if I ever even saw one in several years), I don’t think there’s a remedy. Personally, I only curse sparingly, because I feel it loses impact when u…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:

Which is the source of much of my apathy regarding political and economic affairs these days. We’re going to keep propping up a broken system pretending like it adds up when it doesn’t. Working within it is like deciding if you want death by hanging or death by guillotine. It seems collectively humans would rather embrace a fam…

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Which is the source of much of my apathy regarding political and economic affairs these days. We’re going to keep propping up a broken system pretending like it adds up when it doesn’t. Working within it is like deciding if you want death by hanging or death by guillotine. It seems collectively humans would rather embrace a familiar agony than…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:

We absolutely could cut labour dramatically and still manage to have what we need and then some. But that would require a) more cooperation than we’re used to, and b) upsetting current power structures reinforced by our current economic systems. And because we won’t do either, people suffer and even die.

Two things I think even you…[Read more]