As John McCain said of them: “they know no depths”.

Ah, so that’s where “Heritage Foundation” comes from.

The Dune soundtrack was done by the soft rock band Toto, which was something incomprehensibly weird to me at the time, but makes some sense when you realize that one of the band’s members was the son of composer John Williams. It’s actually good, standard orchestral music with the exception of the guitar power chord moment you linked to, which actually made me laugh out loud when I saw/heard it in the theater for the first time. Personally, I would have preferred this as the soundtrack; it was created by the band Jade Warrior as an attempt to get the gig for Lynch’s movie.

The only part of the movie which made me laugh harder than the guitar was Sting’s appearance. Just wildly out of place in a movie that was at least a visual masterpiece. And you can’t go wrong with Joergen Prochnow.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t stand the sight of my coworkers any better than the sound of them.

I retired from programming because of that “open floor plan” shit, with the added bonus of no permanent desks. It’s so insane to inflict that bullshit on programmers in particular, because our productivity (or mine at least) requires a quiet, distraction-free environment.

Where can you take a $3 Uber? If I took an Uber to my next door neighbor’s house it would be more than $3.

When I was a kid I volunteered at the local recycling center. My hippie parents were so proud of my environmental consciousness lol.

I deal with one of the big companies that supplies these workers and the vast majority of their personnel are “bodies.”

InfoSys. My issue with these folks is that generally speaking they go into programming because it’s a lucrative career, not because they have even a mild interest in it as an activity. I’ve encountered a few exceptions to this in my career, but they’re extremely rare.

Reminds me of Fans Against Gordon.

It’s not that shitty, maybe. In the district where I work, we get $31 an hour (for about 5 hours a day), health insurance (the main reason I do it) and eventually a small pension. The break in the middle of the day is great since I can go for a bike ride and have lunch and a long nap, and I can take my elderly parents to doctors’ appointments as necessary. In other districts it does suck though, since the pay can be much less (more like $18-22 an hour) with no benefits.

Thompson had a “focus on keeping premiums low,”

Lol premiums are literally their entire source of revenue. The CEO of an enormous publicly-traded company had a focus on keeping revenue as low as possible? If this were actually true, the people most likely to have killed him would be everybody on the board and everybody else in the c-suite.

That is difficult to believe.

This is libelous. The Russian penthouses are in NYC.

I actually really like short-format videos for recipes so you don’t have to watch somebody chopping onions for ten minutes. Also, Ronaldo highlights set to Brazilian phonk are kinda cool. Other than that, the format seems pretty worthless.

one of the primary motivators for a woman to be with and stay with a man

I think you meant “female” lol.

I love reading Melon Husk’s claim that he works 100 hours a week. He’s the CEO of five companies, which means even if his claim is true, being a CEO is a 20-hour-a-week job.

making millions of peoples lives harder

And literally killing some number themselves. Denial of coverage for treatments can and does lead to death in some cases.

I have to object to your use of the term “defenders”

Might as well use the same sleight of hand that we use in the US: they’re not “defending Israel”, they’re “defending Israeli interests”.

Well, I am a Prodigy at that sort of thing!

just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good

That’s a great Maxim.