Mogwai.
Been a fan for decades but finally started to listening to their albums one by one. I can't believe I used to think Fear Satan was their best track. I mean, it's a great song but some of their others (Scotland's Shame, Remurdered, Dial/Revenge, Take Me Somewhere Nice for example) blow it out of the water.
I was going to a house party in a nearby coastal village.
The house was a bit like the TARDIS. From the outside it was just a normal Scottish home, but on the inside had an infinite number of rooms. At this party was EVERYONE. Every human alive, every human that had ever lived, and even every fictional character.
My usual social anxiety was miraculously gone, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time socialising with all manners of folks. I ended up with the stoners from Dazed and Confused, getting high in a bedroom.
All of a sudden, from the corridor outside the bedroom came a scream. Me and the stoners run out to find a girl, who had opened a door to discover a squid-like monster in there. I open another door, and it's basically the weapon loading screen from the Matrix, with every weapon ever made by humanity in there. For some reason, I pick an elephant gun, point it point-blank at the monster and pull the trigger.
And that very moment, there is a earth shattering roar from outside. We run out, to see a HUMONGOUS version of the monster I just killed coming out of the sea.
The mother of the baby I just murdered locks its massive eyes on me.
I wake up.
100,000 years or so, in various forms
Homosapiens have been around for 300,000 years. Homos (lol) have been around for millions of years. Homo erectus was around for just shy of two million years alone.
And for the vast majority of that time we weren't engaged on a free market economy.
Captain Picard and his brother were sent off to an old fashioned English boarding school by their luddite father that didn't allow them to transport home in the evening or weekends, thus their English accents (my head canon).
Picard's brother became indoctrinated into the same fucked up luddite philosophy and didn't even allow 24th century fire safety technology in his home, leading to the death of him, his wife and his son due to a fire (actual canon).
Is having children a requisition for growing up?
Giving into your base animal instincts is a sign of maturity now, is it?
Fun fact, medieval serfs, despite only being a rung or two above being actual slaves, had anywhere from 100 to 150 days off every year.
When we call ourselves wage slaves, honestly it's only a wee bit hyperbolic.
My latest account just got its first warning.
There's a pretty horrific story this week in the UK about a guy with a severe mental disability who threw a child into a crocodile pen at a wildlife park.
Someone said they think anyone who does that should be put in front of a firing squad.
I replied that we shouldn't be shooting disabled people. I got a warning for implying exactly the opposite of what I was arguing, while the original comment (which I reported after getting my warning), is still up 48 hours later.
The status quo is a helluva drug.
Whilst we're at it can someone explain;
A) a photon travels at the speed of light because it is massless, right? But doesn't E=mc² teach us that mass and energy are somewhat interchangeable? How can a photon have energy but no mass?
B) I'm willing to accept it as fact when smarter people tell me that FTL is impossible because, amongst other things, it will break causality. It makes perfect sense to me that the universe needs to have some unbreakable rules for things to remain consistent. But I've never been able to grasp exactly why it would break causality.
I'm coming to you if there's an EMP attack.
It's s all Star Trek-y.
Ironically, more than one Trek episode would only be five minutes long if they had all encompassing surveillance on Starfleet ships.
Well of course we're only going to follow the parts of religion we actually agree with.
How else am I going to be homophobic yet get to wear mixed fibres?