The leaders of Western society have been corrupt assholes since day one, and the whole miserable project keeps trundling along anyway.

"Ignore the corpses and human misery, look at these made up numbers" is old hat for them at this point

Gorbachev legitimately deserves to be remembered as one of the great villains of the 20th century.

Will check out Collapse.

If I had to pick just a couple, then Twin Peaks and The Prisoner. Both have interesting styles, both keep you asking questions rather than spoonfeeding answers, both were ahead of their time.

Batman: TAS was and is dope. The entire DCAU is the best adaptation of comic books to date. There's a reason Alan Moore was happy to give his approval to For the Man Who Has Everything.

Shout out to Dwayne McDuffie too. Passed too soon.

Bob Barker ran me over, and when I cried out for help, he backed over me, shouting "Mess with the Barker and you'll get bit, baby!"

The Baron was a lot more fun in Lynch's Dune as well.

Janet Yelling about some bullshit again, more like.

I'm pretty much always some kind of wasted. I suspect we're fairly similar wrt addiction based on what you've said.

And yeah, it's pretty much destroyed my life and cost me most of my relationships outside of my immediate family. It's cost me jobs, career opportunities. It's wrecked my health, physically and mentally.

Mad respect to you for quitting, but I can't do it. I'm too committed at this point. Plus, I think you need hope for it to really stick, and all my experience of life tells me that things get worse until you eventually die, usually miserably.

Best of luck to you.

Life is a lot easier sober.

This is an absolute lie and I refuse to believe otherwise (because I don't want to quit)

How?

Yeah fair enough but what if you just want a bunch of besuited men to rub their hands over you and tell you what a special boy you are? Are people not allowed to get off anymore?