You keep it in the fridge and I can buy it at my local grocery store.

I’m younger than the US lying about being attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin and giving LBJ authority to bypass the Congressional declaration of war before fucking about with foreign countries, so no.

Why even have kids if they can’t be warrior-slaves for your crusade?

I didn’t think my point needed a “history of music” lesson attached. The rock bands of the 60s were taking the experiments of swing and blues musicians from the decade prior and refining them into the aggressive, over-driven and distorted arrangements. Not “rock & roll”.

I think the book and movie work best as companion pieces. Experience both, either order works but I prefer the film first for the spectacle and mystery.

Also known as “the Seinfeld effect”.

The Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, these guys were inventing the sound of rock. I think they’re fantastic musicians. But Rush and Pink Floyd stand out more to me as timeless art.

More likely than the average Joe but guiding, like teaching or storytelling, is a distinct skill. Lots of people are totally blind to their own biases and the hypothetical 4 hour opera without context would definitely make me doubt their advice.

They should already have stopped all trade and cooperation with us but they haven’t so that’s a good place to start.

European settlers hated pretty much everything about the New World and tried to replace local flora and fauna with things they recognized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclimatisation_society

Nuts? No. It’s logical when the entire system is built to the benefit of heartless capitalists. What it is is enraging.

I just have no interest in being polite, permissive, or accepting of pseudoscience.

My intuition about souls is that they’re nonsense.

Having a gun can turn that fleeting ideation into a permanent decision real quick.

Statistically speaking, buying that handgun is going to dramatically increase your odds of dying by firearm.

That’s pretty much what it is, lowbrow shock humor.

Irrelevant, unless you think the body is an essential element of a being.

Well I’m pretty sure it’s impossible technology so it’s not upending anything, but mostly I just don’t think the “self” is as rare and precious as a bunch of people seem to.

Are both versions of you equally “you?”

Yes and then immediately no. Their experiences diverge from that point to become two distinct people with a shared past. It’s entirely irrelevant which body is “original”. Continuous stream of consciousness is overrated.

I prefer “naughties”