This all started long before Citizens United. The “southern strategy” used in the 1950s was probably the start of it. Reagan cozying up to the evangelicals was a big step. The Koch brothers had a vague roadmap that looked a lot like project 2025 in the 1980s. Starting in or around 2000, the republicans made a strong push to win state and local elections and pack the judiciary with conservative zealots. The explosion of the internet and social media let them put their propaganda machine into overdrive. The truth died of COVID-19 but it was terminally ill for decades before that.

What a terrible, wasteful idea. Cracking hydrogen out of water at home will waste so much electricity that you may as well just drive a damned car.

Idiotic propaganda probably paid for by the fossil fuel industry

To hell with accessing it. I want to get rid of it, permanently. I hate everything about it.

With a nice chianti?

Your penultimate statement is an absolutely textbook example of survivorship bias.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/03/01/do_household_appliances_really_not_last_as_long_as_they_used_to_1093575.html

The average lifespan of a washer has declined a little but the frequency of use during that lifespan has increased measurably.

Survivorship bias is a heck of a drug.

They’re not ignoring it, they’re suppressing it.

* mother shucker

For me it was Gina P, in kindergarten, 1971.

Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana.

I use freetube and/or smarttube every day, sometimes for pretty long periods, and I’ve never experienced more than brief hiccups.

I would bet this tracks fairly closely to percentage of pickup truck owners

so a typical weekday, eh?

Also, “the rhythm is gonna get you.”

I have no rhythm, so that explains a lot.

Six books are £5.00

Edit: oops

Unfortunately the massive “sin” tax on tobacco means governments are just as addicted as users. On the bright side, it’s still not quite as bad as it is in countries where the government has an ownership stake in the biggest tobacco company, like India and Japan (at least they used to).

I haven’t bought the game and probably never will, since I don’t like the Dune-iverse at all. I have friends who play it and it’s a 100% online game. I’m sure you could pretend to play solo but you’re still connected to a remote server.

It’s a Moderately Multiplayer (forced) Online game

Crawling by Linkin Park, live with Chris Cornell

https://youtu.be/sAOLJVsk9mA

Don’t Give Up by Peter Gabriel, with Kate Bush

https://youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc

Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee

https://youtu.be/z0qW9P-uYfM

E B Farnum’s monologue in Deadwood. It was completely unexpected from both the actor and the character. It was a genuinely amazing piece of acting.