The most capable technocrat, to be sure. And competence is very reassuring. Still, I despise the man, and yet I support him fully today.

I would be very interested to see a Canadian who doesn't support the PM today.

Like, I wanna see it, in person, and verify that it is made of flesh and not taking money from Russia.

Hey there, GenX here, first became conscious of Fonzie around age 4 and grew up in front of those boxes until around the mid-aughts, when I finally jettisoned all dish/cable services and went straight Internet.

I spend more time than I oughta, thinking about the specific experience of Television in its historic milieu, and wondering if there is really an equivalent thing anymore. Essays upon books could be written about the sociological aspects, like, when you would go to work, a discussion of the previous night's episodes of popular shows would be a way of creating bonds with your coworkers; this mechanism no longer exists, unless you and your coworkers can all find daily entertainments that you agree on, which is way less certain than a TV show was, when TV was the rule.

Anyways, you've probably seen humor of one kind or another about Infomercials, which ruled the overnight cable stations, hawking spray-on hair, food processors, horrific beer brewing machines, etc. But before commercials became show-length, such products were already being advertised in the usual commercial breaks. Along with the Ginsu knife and weird S&M Weight Sets, selling nostalgia to the WWII generation was big TV Commercial business back then, and the primary form of that in the 70s and 80s was recording compilations featuring pre-Rock'n'Roll artists who seemed just awful to my Kiss-fan eyes and ears, but I wish I had every one of those compilations and commercials available to me now.

I'm infodumping, sorry. But it really fascinates me, how this stuff evolved, cause in the 70s you'd see the compilation was available LP, Cassette, or 8-track. By the early 80s, 8-track was dropped, and by the early 90s it would generally be CD or Cassette. But somewhere in there, probably early 90s, Videotape sets of early TV comedians became a thing, and that's where I learned about Red Skelton, whom I never saw on any comedy history shows or anything, that I can recall. Just a mid-level funnyman from old times.

Never saw any of em, but I expect if you've got a taste for naive 50s comedy, and are able to enjoy it on its own terms (at least, where it's not insanely racist or misogynist - expect both on anything from that era, just sayin), find yourself a VHS and give it a watch, while thinking about the people in your family that you might have known, who were around in the 70s or earlier. Nowadays, that's what I get out of watching old stuff like that - I think about the Great Grandparents and Grandparents that I grew up with, laughing at people like Peter Sellers, and it feels like hanging out with them again, a little bit.

If there's a long game that we might like here, one thing for certain is that we will see zero sign of it until after the treason referendum has happened, and failed. So expect no joy from this PM until November at the earliest.

We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn.

Transplants are incredibly strict about you not just wanting to live, but doing everything you can in order to live. It is good that the transplant went to someone with a sense of self-preservation. Utter waste on the likes of her.

Entirely possible the joint had something expensive added.

It is no surprise at all to me, that the folkloric heroes who take from the rich and give to the poor, a merry band of men of the people for 1000 or more years, perhaps as mythically relevant as King Arthur as a fundamental statement on the morality of rich people and their scumbag cop soldiers,

no surprise at all, that Hollywood, which cannot stop itself from telling stores of Rich People Who Are Actually Just Like You And Me, they spend millions (billions?) a year on pushing this "rich people are not evil" narrative,

it is no surprise that the ultimate enemy of the rich is being recast as a psychopathic villain in this ahistorical culture. The fucking poster straight up says "He was no hero," as though a movie poster is capable of rewriting centuries of folklore.

Nobody gives a shit, for damn sure, and everyone involved should have "useful idiot" tattooed on their foreheads.

Sorry dude, he was Paypal mafia. He has never been anything but a rich kid playing with money - it has just been a very congenial environment for the already rich for some time. I know it's hard to accept that you were just colossally taken in by a huckster, but that is really what happened.

Never has it been more clear what Capitalism is. It has fuckall to do with freedom and everything to do with sharecropping.

GenX here. Have never felt more middle childish.

I don't get excited about headlines, even if I have no reason to believe they are false.

That said, 9% seems... big. But I don't really know.

I don't have a firm position on this one that I feel is stable or fully defensible. I suspect this might be a case where a scumbag has to go free because as they say, prosecuting him does seem to set a pretty horrific precedent that you know damn well will be misused against everyone if allowed to be set.

At the same time, fuck this stooge, fuck him with a broomstick. I'm no loyal Democrat but he absolutely, without question, picked a fucking side and did everything he could to serve that side's interests at a crucial moment which did successfully result in years of chaos and irreparable damage to American society. Accelerationists get fucked with your "better to burn it down and start over" year zero Khmer Fucking Rouge Horseshit. I remember the day he pulled that shit and reading his smug statement like he was taking some historic stand for truth or whatever, and I have laughed my ass off when I think about him pacing back and forth in a room for years.

He currently has the life he deserves, whether they ever bother to prosecute, and that doesn't bother me a whit. In no real sense is he a journalist, he's an activist misusing a vulnerable social construct ("the press") for his own agenda. What actually is/was that agenda? I don't have a clue, other than some vague notion of Being A Powerful Man, maybe. He's a stooge for people who use the worst tactics to attain power. I would not piss on him if he was on fire.

They threatened children with guns.

The fiction of the last 30 years is revealed to those with eyes to see.

All this time the capital class and their lackeys have been saying "Russia is a our superfriend now and China wants to be democratic so we are helping them by using their slave labour and don't you feel guilty for questioning our supremely good intentions here!"

And meanwhile it's the same old global power struggle, but you can make SO MUCH using slave labour, it was just too tempting to send every bit of our labour - even our high tech - over to their factories.

Good thing they got rid of all those pesky regulations or the poors would be using the power.

This is just... wow. The breathtaking arrogance of it.

It's not often these swine can actually get a visceral reaction from me anymore, but wow. Time to get back to work on that Novelty Giant Cigar Chopper I'm working on.

Once I was in my teens and handing my money over to the tobacco industry because that made me very badass, I had a lighter, and what you would do is, first, you hold the flame up to the point where the spoon meets the stem and then yank the stem off so you get a long skinny bit of plastic off it. Then you'd snap off the "M" at the top, hold your lighter up to it until just starts to melt, and then stick it onto the upside-down spoon thing.

Toy mouse!

There was a time when Lifehacker was a place you could go for neat little things that could be accomplished with objects at hand to make life easier. There was such a time for many, many places on this great Internet of ours.

When the first NES came out I was over there with my C64 and my shoebox full of disks with games I hadn't tried yet like, lol suckers.

I wish I had seen this, there might have been a moment when we could've shifted some parental money from Nintendo to Commodore with the right campaign, and kept the Amiga going...