I think it was David Letterman who made a comment in reference to something like this about at which point are you not allowed to see her naked in photos?

Western prudishness is weird.

These days adults are acting like children, so sometimes you need to talk at their level.

One of the things that intrigues me is that, say, in the span of one of those billions of years that, say, a single photon escapes from a black hole; life, in a completely unfathomable form, may exist in or around that sngle photon -- but for "only" a few million years.

Aside: TIL I've only seen the new Mad Max.

Oh, I know. I'm not waiting for Bartertown, per se. I'm waiting until, say in the case of inequality causing civil unrest, rich people getting strung up in public by huge mobs.

You know, stuff that happens in movies but is coming to a city near you. Literally.

1. Even though I definitively know the world is beyond fucked at this point, I still think the scientists are not doing themselves any favours by making these "probably" scenarios rather than almost definite ones. As said, even though in some ways I'm looking forward to when the shit starts hitting the fan, I've lost faith in knowing when it'll actually start happening. It seems like every other week I'm told that "soon it'll really start to go all to shit". And it never really does, especially for 1st world countries.

2. Great Filter, Humanity. Humanity, Great Filter. Nice to meet you.

3. I'm beginning to want to start a pot of which terrible thing will happen first to 1st world countries (sadly, the beginning will be poor countries getting fucked and 1st world countries complaining that it now costs $30 for a single banana). Super bugs and catastrophic pandemics (maybe measles!)? Climate change? Nuclear war? Massive migrations of refugees who can't live where they are due to climate change or war? Water shortages? Wealth inequality that will implode on itself? There are so many terrible things on the precipice of happening that I don't even know what I'd bet on, honestly.

I am so uninterested in Star Wars by now that I forgot a new one was going to come out.

Dunno. Looks like a pretty shithole country to me.

In this "political environment", when everything is "political", it's really soothing to hear someone talk about something they knows a great deal about and, almost more importantly, admit when they don't know something that we wouldn't expect them to know.

Jesus, when's the last time I heard a politician say, "I don't know" rather than "I don't recall"?

That's adorable that you think that.

+1 for the dad jokes.

The best beer needs to advertise.

*canada

Oh, that question is easy: money.

Wow. Ska's still a thing. (Don't get me wrong, I still love ska).

Anyone who bikes in NY should know that you're just as likely to get over the Brooklyn Bridge as through the bike lane in Times Square. Basically, you're an idiot if you do it.

Go over the Manhattan Bridge just down the way a bit, and it's got an entirely dedicated bike lane. Granted, people coming/going from Chinatown oftentimes incorrectly take it, but they're few and far between.