Like seriously, what if folks on the Willamette River downtown PDX were like:
HOOOOOOOOOONH
WOO yay!
HOOOOOOOOOONH
Oooooh ahh
HOOOOOOOOOONH
applause
This “All Kate Bush” episode of Crap From The Past was my soundtrack on loop during some workshop tinkering today https://archive.org/details/cftp-2022-06-03
Also hey I wonder what ever happened to the folks in Psykosonik? Oh, d’oh, one of them is Vox Day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day
Talked to a lady who works for the tax authority yesterday. Based on her job experience, her take on the welfare state is something like this:
"Of course there will always be freeloaders. So what?! This is about dignity. Everyone has a right to a good life and to be supported when they're struggling. If you want that, you've got to live with the freeloaders. Leave them be. That's the price you pay for a society where everyone is taken care of. It's not like they're doing any damage in the big picture - I've run those numbers more than once. You'll always get more out of it for society at large when you're incentivising good performance than when you're punishing people."
That album’s from 1993 and I don’t think I’ve thought about that song within at least the past 10 years. Weird, brain
…so now I’ve had “Down on the Ground” by Psykosonic stuck in my head for 4 days because it has the line “we need a leader now, our Richelieu” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3197oUWxv8g
General politics / 3 drinks in
I am very tipsy and have a political opinion I feel like posting: much of where I think I differ with “conservative” folks is in what constitutes acceptable spoilage. Like, as in grocery store or industrial spoilage.
I don’t care if money is wasted. They don’t seem to care if humans are wasted.
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