The way the story goes… They didn’t explicitly fuck up, some dude just though two snakes looked cooler than one and we’ve just been running with it for a few decades now. There is a story about how it was originally adopted by military personnel who transported medical supplies (along with messages so… it would kinda made sense) but the justification there does feel super cherry picked. Mostly, the accepted reasoning is that the caduceus is just a better design.

Can say the same about the forks in my house.

Because I stole them from those restaurants.

If you saw what looked like a giant ninja mask wearing anthropomorphic turtle stuffed into a trench coat, are you going to say anything?

The disguise is just a courtesy to let the average human have plausible deniability.

If you’re fighting a singular male lion on it’s own… They’re not brave without their pack and they’re way more ‘bark’ than bite. It’s just like a black bear, be as big and loud as you can. Do not ever run, this triggers an instinctual urge to chase. Alone in the face of a fight it’s not sure it can win, the Lion will want to run though. That will just buy you time, closing the gap and actually winning the fight will depend on circumstances, but you can get the upper hand in a lot of ways.

Whatever happens, be thankful you’re not fighting a Tiger.

We are the poor.

Yes, there are poorer people out there, but I think we all kinda forget how big the divide is. It lets us put ourselves in a place where we feel like we’re doing well comparatively, but I think it’s important that we remember that we’re all being taken advantage of and we all deserve better. Yeah, definitely some will need a bit more uplifting than others, but it’s Us vs. Them, and I think we spend too much time trying to further sub-divide that ‘Us’. Thank you for attending my crazy segue.

We’re all poor enough to deserve those free nugs though.

There seems to be a pretty strong correlation between the age someones parents die and the age they’re likely to die.

Trump’s dad lived until 93 and his mom live until 88. He might be here for a bit.

Ecstasy of gold is this one, Metallica played this too with the San Francisco Orchestra and it was as epic as you’d imagine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYI09PMNazw

One we’re looking for today though is this one (the main theme):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9EZGHcu3E8

Doesn’t quite have that same riff, but some of the musical themes were reused in ‘The Trio’ which finished up the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIe2znA1ao

Admittedly, it’s hard to find a song based on someone just writing out the sounds they think it makes and I feel like any Ennio Morricone score really should be thought of as a singular piece in harmony with the movie itself. This was one of his best, one of those movies where the dialogue could be optional, sometimes you didn’t even need to open your eyes to understand what was going on.

My friend, if you don’t think that’s scummy then I think you’re a little bit too acclimated to marketing scams.

Fucking podman… Oh man. I have lost way too many hours dealing with podman.

It’s frustrating, because they’ve put so much into it. It’s close enough that vendors think they can get away with saying their containers are compatible and they’ve probably really honestly tested for brief periods and it really usually is close enough that you don’t discover the differences until you’re already very well established, but then it’s just a little different and it takes you FOREVER to find out why but then the only option once you do find that out is to completely start over from scratch with docker. And, almost no vendor is going to treat them differently because if we talk to redhat, the first note we’ll get back is that everything we’re trying to do should be fully compatible and there should be no need to worry about that. And, then eventually after a few weeks, it’s docker’s fault that IT WORKS IN DOCKER AND NOT IN PODMAN. Docker needs to go fix it so it’s broken for them too, it’s not a bug for podman, the problem is with the one that’s working.

I’m a bit traumatized, not always the same, but this isn’t a singular occurrence.

I’ll thank them when they stop remaking perfectly fine utilities over minor issues then doing a shitty job with compatibility.

An adult man wandering around a playground with no kids of his own, they can find some reasons to do something at a certain point.

I still get weird looks sporadically taking my daughter to the park.

I mean shit right? Where can I get some of that tea?

I really really want to be on your side, Taco bell has gone crazy on the prices and I hate it.

But, on the other hand, it sounds like you haven’t even had the crispy cantina taco meal and that’s not a life I’d wish on anybody.

I think they’ve realized that they’ve successfully trained poor people to not know how to cook and then there aren’t any options left if they all band together.

Is that a nationwide thing? It feels weird over here, but yeah, it seems like a lot of the midrange/sit down restaurant small chains just never changed their prices.

He said something negative about China at one point, it was bound to happen.

I’m already mostly on his side, but well thought out.

Looking back, it’s so odd to think that something like that would be a political death sentence. I don’t think he even committed fraud or tried to cover it up.

There’s a bit of plastic in there somewhere probably, but the bags are usually burlap. It may also be special paper depending on where you get it from.

I don’t know if it still counts as modern times, but there was something up with Dick Cheney.

This feels like an ad written by ChatGPT.

This guy wrote a dozen paragraphs and I’m not sure he actually said anything beyond ‘work hard guys, shits changing all the time’.