Ah dang. The movie Unbreakable has Samuel L. Jackson as a character with similarly fragile bones who goes by Mr. Glass.

Any plans to open a comic book shop and do evil deeds?

“That’s some good work Lou, you’ll make sergeant for this."

The communication ideological state apparatus, in Althusserian terms, a form of violence and repression in a kinder, gentler package.

Greenville, NC in a Walgreens, around 2013. A man who looked like, or could well have been Gary Busey, in a leather jacket, in a pile of talcum powder on the floor, was picking up handfuls of powder and snorting them.

Don’t forget that the ACA also stipulated they had to send overage checks out to members if they spent more on marketing, bonuses, etc than on services. Getting refund checks from Blue Cross/Blue Shield at the end of the year because they spent too much money on everything but healthcare wasn’t exactly reassuring.

Feed my family? What about feeding my coke habit?

Thoughts and prayers are considered “out of network” on this one my dude

Let’s hope it’s from Tesla and can’t be extinguished.

He’s awfully sure that tower points towards Canada, and not at the guy who put up signs threatening the Feds in his driveway.

“They say nothing but good should be said of the dead. He’s dead. Good.”

It’s like Ben Dreyfuss minus the ambien in there.

I don’t know if it’s “weirdly” relaxing given how chill it’s supposed to be, but Joe Pera Talks With You is perfect.

It’s not so much that they don’t give a damn, but that they can’t tell. I taught some basic English courses with a research component (most students in their first college semester), and I’d drag them to the library each semester for a boring day on how to generate topics, how to discern scholarly sources, then use databases like EBSCO or JSTOR to find articles to support arguments in the essays they’d be writing for the next couple years. Inevitably, I’d get back papers with so-and-so’s blog cited, PraegerU, Wikipedia, or Google’s own search results. Here’s where a lot of the problem lies: discerning sources, and knowing how to use syntax in searches, which is itself becoming irrelevant on Google etc. but NOT academic databases. So why take the time to give the “and” and “or” and “after: 1980” and “type: peer-reviewed” when you can just write a natural-language question into a search engine and get an answer right away that seems legit in the snippet? I’d argue the tech is the problem because it encourages a certain type of inquiry and quick answers that are plausible, but more often than not, lacking in any credibility.

US, had Verizon for $170/mo (2 lines) with a lot of extras on an “unlimited” plan they’re actively trying to kick people off of. Switched to Visible (aka different flavored Verizon) on a discount for $35 per line (normally $45) for up to two years, basically the same unlimited phone plan but no extras. The only benefit for the extras was locking in a price on subscription services until Verizon started monthly surcharges to keep up.

Second 2FAS, at least on iOS devices. I switched from Authy after Twilio got motherfucked the first time.

It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood!

Some palates are just set on boot.

“Hand us your money and us MBAs promise it’ll eventually get somewhere safe” is not reassuring even before the lie.