I prefer Melon Husk.

One thing I always liked about the various flavors of BASIC was that nobody ever pushed that shit as a religion.

One of the most insane commercials I’ve seen lately is for Rocket Mortgage. It features some schlub walking towards his house carrying two bags of groceries while the narrator says something about how the two bags of groceries used to be four bags. Then the house starts talking to him, telling him he can turn his equity in the house into cash (thanks to Rocket Mortgage) which he could then use for groceries. The thought that there are people out there who are so financially illiterate that they think borrowing money to pay for fucking groceries is a good idea is genuinely depressing.

For good measure, one of the bags of groceries has purple heads of garlic on a stalk sticking out of it - which makes me think the whole thing was generated by AI.

Tis a sin to spill thine seed on the ground

Can’t spank it with nail holes in your hands. Jesus’ real sacrifice.

Dude/Dudette, it was just a gag comment. Not only am I not really dismissing a massive body of work just because it uses quantization, as someone who’s spent more than half his life writing software synthesis applications, I’ve literally made a career out of quantization.

That being said, music that is not quantized definitely has a more natural feel to it, although putting that “feel” into sequencing software is surprisingly difficult.

Quarter-notes lol

I mean this is true but not about the '70s as the original post states. Even by the '60s they had sophisticated stereo audio mixers - they just cost hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of running on people’s phones like today.

You mean quantized, snapped-to-the-grid instrumental music? Sigh.

jewish community fleeing inquisition

I sure wan’t expecting this.

It would have been even more if the Pope could draw a straight line …

“Onion Rings $2.95” lol. I ordered onion rings with my gyro from a local place the other day without checking the menu first and was shocked to see they were $7.95 when I picked up my order. When I got home I was even more shocked to see there were only six small rings (like 2" in diameter) in the too-large box. When I went back next time I complained about how few onion rings there were and they pointed to the menu which explicitly stated that you get six onion rings with the order.

One nice thing about COVID and the inflation is that I rarely eat out any more. I found out I can cook better food myself for way less money.

There’s a name for that: DEVELOPMESTUCTION

I learned it while at the same time learning (or really enhancing my previous knowledge of) javascript, thanks to an insane mostly-Finnish app development platform known as Qt Creator, which for no rational reason uses C++ for the under-hood-stuff and javascript for the UI front end. Just an absolutely horrible mismatch of mental states. For bonus points, the company that I worked for that used this monstrosity for its suite of apps got purchased by a huge west coast company and the apps were shut down and everybody was fired, after two years of my working on this shit.

Lol at the Photos icon. How does that in any way represent a photo or a camera? I guess it’s an iris shutter but that’s not something you notice too often on a real-life camera.

I used to take my cat to an old country horse vet. On one visit she had to get a pill of some sort and I told the vet that my cat hated pills and it wouldn’t be possible to get one down her throat. He said “son, I’ve been a vet for over 50 years and I’ve never had a cat that I couldn’t pill.” He couldn’t get the pill down her throat and had to give her a shot instead. I’ve never been so proud. RIP Martha, miss you girl.

your mass of Triscuit paste

Thanks for ruining Triscuits for me.

Anyway … here’s Wonderwall.

The real power of this kind of thought control is its ability to govern people’s thoughts and behaviors when nobody else is around.

Flying Spaghetti Monster FTW

Peer pressure is an enormously potent force in these people’s lives, as evidenced by their belief that people undergo gender reassignment surgery solely because of (liberal) peer pressure.