I'm not sure I buy the McDonald's worker story, the whole narrative of the arrest seems really bizarre. (Not that I eat their shit food, one way or another.)

The dialog pushing AI media seems to start from this assumption that I consume media just to have colors and words and sounds enter my face holes. In fact, I consume art and media because I like hearing, seeing, and reading about how other humans experience the same world I do. It's a form of communication. I like the product but also the process of people trying to capture the bonkers, ineffable experience we all seem to be sharing in ways I would never think of, but can instantly verify.

What's funny is, due to the nature of media, it's kind of impossible to not communicate something, even if the artwork itself is empty. When I see AI media I see the communication of a mind that doesn't know or give a shit about any of this. So in their attempt make filler they are in fact making art about how inarticulate they are. It's unintentional, corporate dadaism.

At some point in my 40s I started doing that medieval "first sleep" and "second sleep" thing where my eyes just blast wide awake at 2am. I don't have to pee, I'm not uncomfortable, I just wake up. I read, take the dog out, brush my teeth again... After awhile I go back to sleep and wake up at the normal time.

I guess it is kind of nice to do a patrol around and make sure everything is cool, and the dog loves it. It's just kind of weird.

Scythes require more specific wind and moisture conditions compared to sickles (as do combines), but they do save a ton of work. My favorite scythe fact is that there is an even faster but more dangerous version called the Flemish Scythe, that is one-handed. From "The Scythe Book":

...John Gerard, in his seven- teenth-century Herball, recorded an accident wherein the mower:

made a wound to the bones, and withall very large and wide, and also with great effusion of blood; the poore man crept upon this herbe (Clownes Wound wort or All-heale), which he bruised with his hands, and tied a great quantity of it unto the wound with a piece of his shirt, which presently stanched the bleeding, and ceased the paine, insomuch that the poore man presently went to his dayes work againe, and so did from day to day, without resting one day until he was perfectly whole, which was accomplished in a few dayes.

Fucking hardcore.

If jacking off constantly at age 14 doomed a person we would never have left the Miocene epoch.

You paid for something and never got it. Initiate chargeback with your bank. Amazon may close your account for this, but fuck them.

Can you imagine? It's probably like the inside of Vincent D'Onofrio's mind in The Cell.

At this point let's just go back to manually using command line GPG/PGP.

Cops can ignore. Prosecutors can decline. Judges can "sentence" to unconditional release.

The people can nullify.

Same thing happened with honey. Suddenly Vietnam's honey exports magically increased to more than their domestic production. Of course nobody cared because it's all theater.

Wait, it's all just Arthurian legend? 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Happens to some SE Asians in North America too, because the edible straw mushroom from SE Asia resembles one here called "death cap". Amanita phalloides. What's fucked up is right before it kills you your symptoms actually improve, so people get discharged from the hospital and think they are going to be ok. I forage mushrooms but I stay away from white gilled mushrooms completely.