Hi, I'm 49 years old and just learned that orcas and orcs come from the same root en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus 🤦
"...ascendant theories of tech talk around the fact that something else deep inside, innermost, is being harvested too: our self-worth, or, rather, worthing.
"We are not giving away our value...we are giving away our facility to value. We’ve been cored like apples, a dependency created, hooked on the public internet to tell us the worth.
"...When we scroll, what are we looking for?"
You've got your credit cards
And you thank your lucky stars.
But don't forget the ones who foot the bill.
You've got your grand piano.
And you don't even play piano.
I'm the one who plays piano.
You don't even play piano,
But you part the waters.
recorded sometime before 1993
Early #caturday ... I'll forget to post tomorrow if I wait
"the minivan will still be trammeled by its fundamental purpose. It is useful because it offers benefits for families, and it is uncool because family life is thought to be imprisoning. That logic cannot be overcome by mere design. In the end, the minivan dilemma has more to do with how Americans think than what we drive. Families, or at least vehicles expressly designed for them, turned out to be lamentable."