Eddie was only 21 in this film? I rewatched it recently, such a classic. I believe Jamie Lee was 21 also. She recently stated in an interview that the nude scenes made her very uncomfortable but she wasn’t pressured into them.
This is a pretty devastating development for a country founded on equality for all. The bittersweet irony is that this was set in motion by the insane woke liberal mobs of the last few decades and their blatantly racist and sexist DEI policies.
Using an AI-generated image as the header for an article about people losing their jobs to AI is a supremely cunty move IMO. Why does Yahoo even still exist?
Gambling seems to have exploded over FAANG this year. The majority of ads I see on YouTube are for gambling companies. I was in the UK last month and it’s 100x worse there. A sure sign of decaying economies.
I remember discovering McKenna in the late 90’s when I first got internet access at home. The comparison with Alex Jones is a good one: he was initially very interesting, sparking the imagination that whole worlds existed out there that I didn’t know about. But quickly it fell apart and I understood it was just horseshit, a form of fantasy.
I’ve never tripped but it sounds similar to fever dreams I had a few times when I was sick as a child, running high temperatures. Why anyone would choose to experience that is another question.
Reading that McKenna was just another for-profit bullshit artist at the end of the day is the sad part. Exploring ideas and possibilities is a noble pursuit, but only if you can admit to mistakes and failures. Deciding to carry on to make money is weak and undermines everything. His legacy could have been as someone who dedicated his life to understanding psychedelics and gave an honest, well-researched evaluation at the end of it all. Money and celebrity status ruined all of that.
Austin, TX had a reputation for being very vegan friendly until COVID hit and many small businesses shut down. Now it’s as bad as anywhere else.
I went on a hike at a national park in Scotland a few months ago, and they had a small cafe there with limited options for everyone. Even they had solid vegan options though. Blows my mind that this cafe was more welcoming than the majority of restaurants in a major liberal city.
I spent 2 weeks in the UK recently and they are light years ahead of the US in terms of veganism and cruelty free products. I was actually quite shocked about how many options the grocery stores had and how almost every restaurant had a vegan option, or even a vegan menu.
The trend in the US has been to hide the word ‘vegan’ from consumers and bury it in their website somewhere. Not so in the UK. Brands seem super happy about showing which products in their selection are vegan. No list of ‘secretly/accidentally vegan’ products over there, they happily let you know right in the packaging.
People there are generally more aware of veganism too. No need to explain what it is like I constantly do in the US. ‘Can vegans eat eggs?’ What part of ‘no animal products’ don’t you understand?
The government is one giant taxpayer-funded scam after another. Not that I like Trump in any way, but I’m somewhat thankful that he’s so brazen with the corruption and shedding light on everything.
There’s not a single respectable politician. Obama was worth $1-2M before he became president, and is now worth $70M+.
Personally, I haven’t bought a physical game in maybe a decade. Digital is so much easier. No swapping out discs. The fear of games vanishing isn’t unfounded but overstated.
Used game stores have long ripped off gamers and cut into Sony’s profits. Get rid of the resale aspect and you’ll likely see sales increase.
That being said: I wanted to play Left 4 Dead on my Series X the other day and it’s not available for purchase on the Xbox store. You need a physical version. Which I luckily have.
If Sony, Microsoft etc want to promote digital sales over physical, they need to sort out the licensing. I don’t know of any issues like these with Steam sales. You buy it, you own it. Period.
‘He (Graham) told CNN in 2015 that Trump was "a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot", and during the 2016 campaign he posted on social media: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it."
A ‘brief and sudden illness’ right after he visited Ukraine yet again to push sanctions on Russia? I think the Kremlin did the American people a solid.
Back in the 90's, a friend of mine purchased a new stereo receiver that had a blue LED power indicator light instead of the standard red. The envy of everyone who saw it. Thanks, Shuji!
Pretty ballsy, and dumb, to mess with Apple like this. AI companies are really riding the 'too big to fail' ship close to the edge.
'The lawsuit claims that Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan, a former Apple vice president who spent 24 years at the company, asked Apple job candidates to bring physical components for "show and tell" sessions during interviews. OpenAI employees would also ask candidates for prototypes and information about vendors, the complaint alleges.'
Apple, like all FAANG and adjacent/copycat companies, have such insane hiring processes, all to make sure they get the best people. Yet were constantly seeing headlines like these: highly paid engineers and top execs doing the unthinkable. Tang Tan's total compensation at Apple was likely well into the millions and that didn't stop him asking interviewees to steal trade secrets. Amazing.