This guy wades

Also Robin Hood

Worth reading

Enjoy your home OP. May you live out many happy years under its shelter.

Banana as Veblen good

Maybe I’m just old but the old memes were built to last. These newer memes fall apart after a few days.

The playing field is not equal so it isn’t reasonable to hold people to the same standard of making an impact.

Work will set you free

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Nicely done

That’s very un-dude, dude.

And Mr Rogers too

Poor Freddie is not prepared for the modern world.

Is that a cougar?

USA has always been an ambivalent place, both committed to equality and liberty in an idealized manner and also committed to perpetuating inequality, particularly across racial, ethnic and religious lines. A child of the 1970s I like the version of America I was taught about in-between Saturday morning cartoons via School House Rock. No more kings!

Edit: before anyone else points it out, the video depicts racism against native americans and the colonists were crazy religious zealots. But it’s also about rejection of the English king. So all the ambivalence seems to be there.

No need to let pesky reality intrude on your idealistic utopian daydream I guess.

Very Hyperion

Uncle Milton and his cat 5 anaconda …

It is said by the Eldar that in fast food restaurants there lives yet the echo of the Cheeseburger of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the ads on the Television, and yet know not for what they hunger.

If you work really hard you might be able to dissociate too and experience the wonders of dpdr