Feel better

I imagine it sounded just as crazy to have thousands of gallons of highly combustible liquid in giant vats underground that are pumped up into cars

Do you know that song by Phil Collins? In the air of the night?

it's got the electrolytes plants crave

Twenty years ago, when I was in high school, was the first time I listened to Ike's military industrial complex speech. I was a smart kid but the speech didn't have the weight it has now, in my adult life.

I think about that a lot. Same with the Robert Mueller warning. It's almost like, in both instances, these men felt they had no power to do anything beyond some ominous warnings. And unfortunately, like when I was a teenager, I feel it goes over most people and they are indifferent.

That's not wrong, just incomplete. Who wouldn't be willing to do the same job for far less when they could have the same standard of living for far less? The cost of living is reportedly anywhere from 40-75% less expensive.

I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

• Mark Twain

I can name another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf3e9Cl1-Bs

I thought it was David lynch tbh

There are only a couple on there I have actually read, a few more I've heard of. The Cormac McCarthy books I enjoyed, insofar as one can enjoy those subjects (The Road and Blood Meridian). The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin is one I'd recommend to fantasy/scifi fans. And when I was younger I didn't enjoy it, but I always find myself engaged with Hemingways stories even when I think I won't be (A farewell to arms).