But if you earn over the threshold, you’re expected to pay taxes to the US government, no matter where you’re actually living or working, no matter if you’re also paying taxes wherever you currently are. The US is the only country in the world to assert that it has the right to tax its citizens remotely in this manner. It’s not normal.

Probably think it’s equivalent to an announcement in the paper, but a sign on the door is free.

Life in the Imperium of Man is misery on a scale incomprehensible to our human minds. Ritualistic self-sacrifice is seen as preferable to existence. They survive because they became the monsters.

Give it a year.

Pfft, shadows. If there’s ambient light hitting my skin, there ain’t no shadows can get near me. I’m so reflective, I make the Silver Surfer look like pewter.

We went from Deep Dream in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream

To Midjourney and Stable Diffusion in 2022, to AI Will Smith eating spaghetti in March 2023: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghetti

To services like LumaLabs and openAI’s Sora, coming out now/2025-ish.

This is the equivalent of the spaghetti video, for video games. This Minecraft clone being generated in real time and playable is absolutely crazy.

Zen is a fork of Firefox, supports Firefox extensions, and retains the built-in access to the Mozilla extension/theme stores from vanilla Firefox. If you go to install an addon, it even gives a popup to “Add to Firefox”.

It’s a good browser with only minor issues. I’m on Win10; automatic updates don’t always succeed, and it seems like it blocks some communication between the 1password desktop app and the browser extension because I have to sign into each separately. Otherwise, I prefer it to Firefox in pretty much every way.

Which society?

The death of local news plays into this too as it becomes much more difficult to stay informed about the people and politics of those smaller local elections.

Case in point: my county had a bunch of judges up for election and when I did my reading on them I found out about a huge corruption scandal playing out right now. Nothing that will make national headlines, probably. If I’d just read the recommendations I’d not have heard, and voted those bastards back in. Local news is super important.

He won’t, though.

For wanting to leave a legacy that will last, and a message for anyone or anything that finds it? No, that’s not insane, that’s understandable, I think.

What will determine the insanity quotient is the message you want to inscribe.