I’m 83% certain you’re joking, but joking about the diet that helped kill Steve Jobs isn’t cool.

I think most folks are aware that’s the diet that contributed to killing Steve Jobs. Kind of the poster child for not running Fruitarian.

IIRC that pod was largely an art installation, but it was apparently legit used just recently?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8144v9pveo

It’s an incredibly contentious topic.

Here in the states we had two states, Washington and Oregon vote on it more or less at the same time.

Washington banned it in 1991, Oregon approved it in 1994, and it was further complicated by the fact that we share a border.

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_119,Physician-Assisted_Death_Measure(1991)

The Oregon legislature referred it back to voters a 2nd time in 1997 in a “hey, are you SURE?” kind of way and we passed it again by an even larger margin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Oregon_Ballot_Measure_16

Meanwhile, on the Washington side of the border, when court cases blocked the law and it went all the way to the Supreme Court who ruled in 1997 that it’s a matter of States Rights and they can do what they want.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/521/702/

Which made it hilarious when people sued to block the Oregon law, it went to the Supreme Court in 2006 and the ruling was (paraphrasing) “Bitch, we told you once!”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Oregon

Washington later reversed their decision in 2008.

https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/health-statistics/death-dignity-act

This needs to be marked as another case in point for all the people who want to argue it’s not a genocide.

Removed, substack blogs (or any blogs, really) are not valid news sources.

I think it was cheap speakers… ahhh… apartment living…

Primer is excellent, and a great double feature with The Fountain.

The #1 thing to know about the Fountain though is that it’s super hard to get unless you read the companion graphic novel.

https://youtu.be/m8IlyFCbNZg

Eyebleach:

https://youtu.be/1wnE4vF9CQ4

Korea. ;)

Looks like the super spreader event was a rock concert at the Guggenheim. People are now blaming The Art of Noise.

Sooo… “Monday”?

Checks calendar… Yup. Monday.

I had neighbors who were deaf but their kids could hear perfectly fine. I kept having to tell them to turn down the damn music.

“Look, I’m not going to rat you out to your parents or anything, just turn it down a little, OK?”

I feel really bad for Rise of Skywalker, it was really in an impossible position.

First, Last Jedi painted them into a fucking corner. It was like nobody told Johnson he was making the middle part of a trilogy.

Second, what little structure the trilogy had was 7 was about Solo, 8 was about Luke, and 9 would have been about Leia, but then Carrie Fisher up and died. :(

They had to really scramble on the 3rd one and losing the original writer/director didn’t help. Abrams had to come in after 8 shit the bed and Fisher died and tried to make the best of it…

Removed for transphobia and misinformation.

When you become a moderator, you get access to a queue of all the posts and comments that are reported for the communities you moderate.

Unresolved reports show up like unread messages:

In Boost -

You’ve been given the definition of genocide once already, continued denial earns you a temp ban.

What KINDS of drugs though?

An elephants worth of weed is way different from phanty fenty.

I’m trained in literary analysis and criticism, so, yeah, I’ll sit there thinking “well, lets see how they explain this…”

The best fiction actually does.

This comment was reported for denying the rape allegations, but whoever reported it does not seem to be aware that many of the rape allegations are completely fraudulent.

Good article covering that aspect here:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-2-debunked-accounts-of-sexual-violence-on-oct-7-fueled-a-global-dispute-over-israel-hamas-war

It’s likely rape was used as a weapon, but there is no evidence for it.