Ian Young @ianbyoung.com

Nerd. Dilettante. Daydream believer.

If you have a beef with "how much things cost to keep up with environmental regulations" you don't have a beef with "government regulators", you've been distracted from the real problem of "wage stagnation via massive wealth redistribution to the oligarchs".
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It's time, on this Fourth of July, to remember what we sought freedom from, what illegal cruelties were visited upon us, and what we did to escape the yoke of tyranny, and recall what that tyranny looked like.
www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
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"Skeets" is okay, but I feel like "Bleets" is more apropos.
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On one hand, I consider "The Last Ringbearer" to be a vile misinterpretation of The Lord of the Rings that attempts to cast an oppressive slave-owning purely-evil regime as the heroic defenders of Freedom and Truth.

On the other hand, I absolutely love "Hamilton".

...it's a rich tapestry, Marge.
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No one:
@nytimes.com: "And this is why and how it makes sense for Trump to attack Iran"
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We haven't reached the AI singularity, or even the AI Event Horizon, but we are certainly in the AI Spaghettification phase.
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Notes on Cultural Relativism:

Congee is weird. Savory rice breakfast? So strange.

Grits, however...
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The fact that we live in a world where searching for "Hello Kitty [any brand of firearm]" always returns valid results, tells us a lot about the world we live in.
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Ok hear me out: "The Bourne Accountancy".
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The terrible secret of making fresh-baked bread is that over the next two days, you will eat nothing but an entire loaf of fresh-baked bread.
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I'm reaching the point where "correcting people who are wrong on the internet" is losing its lustre. So, everyone, just believe what you want. Hot sauce regrows hair. Touching a lizard makes you grow scales. Bread crust is where the nutrition is. It's all true. Everything.
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Finally catching up on Marvel's What If?...

I did not expect the finale to be "What If... Dragonball Z?"
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Bonus shouty-bird.
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It's a bit chilly out there....
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I should like to tag @cthompson.com, mostly to use the tag feature.
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Well, that was easier than I expected, to set up your own domain name.
bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial
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