I also really feel a kinship to The Life Aquatic.

I love sailing and being on the ocean, and I'm also past my prime and down on my luck in comparison to those glory days, and when reminded of some of the things I've said and done, have to agree that "that was me, I can live with that"

One of my all time favorite movies...

This has much less to do with taking a shit, than it does with sitting and quietly thinking to yourself.

This idea that you need to be constantly receiving some external input, and that just sitting and thinking is "boring", is really the primary symptom of internet brain damage.

Yes, there used to be National Geographic in the bathroom. and the people of that era weren't internet brain damaged, they were TV brain damaged.

The barrage of electronic media assaulting our senses has led to the biggest decline in individual human thought, ever.

So, go take a dump, and don't take your phone...

Obviously, us american's need to wear and use everything made from oil, because it's so safe...

Nobody else ever spent this much money to NOT have cheap power 8-/

Another shit hole of insider trading...

1/2 of all shipping, is shipping oil 8-/

Spreading invasive species is just one more way that oil is destroying our natural environment.

Transparency and constant monitoring.

To understand how to run an organization without trust, think like a capitalist.

Does a bank function because of honesty?

No, everyone is watching everyone else, all the time.

I think what you're really saying is you don't agree with OP's perspective...

That's total bullshit.

Democracy runs on the equal application of the rule of law.

Of course, no democracy is perfect. The degree of imperfection can be measured in how much they run on the honor system...

Often referred to as "The Little Book".

One still functional example exists in voidlinux's init system.

There was never any need for systemd 8-/

Except leveraging RedHat/IBM's domination of the linux user space ecosystem...

The world energy mafia, primarily petroleum, but also nuclear and coal, will not give up their revenue streams.

Carbon concentrations will continue to rise, and quite likely accelerate.

The overwhelming majority of sustainable generation is in large, regional scale projects, because this keeps the profit in the hands of the established energy utilities.

Nuclear... nuclear... I would pose a question to every bone head here who advocates it: Can we start storing the spent waste in YOUR garage?

The profit motive loves nuclear energy, because tax payers pay to build and decommission it, while industrial scale utilities get to operate it while money is popping out.

Nuclear is the most expensive form of electricity generation, by far. By very very far.

Distributed generation and storage is advocated by no one with an equity stake in the status quo.

The fundamental problem, is that the world economy is run by organized crime.

The US whitehouse has now made this explicit, however the situation has existed in this context since the invention of distributing petroleum and electricity.

> offering gravity-defying, compliant, and tactile embodiments for indoor cohabitation

The summary is so full of fluffy nonsense, I wondered if this was some April 1st joke 8-/

Maybe first, they need to invent anti-gravity?

And "cohabitation"? Are the little things going to be breeding?

It makes me thing the ACM is loosing it's shit...

Having been through 3 midlife crisis, I can speak with some authority on this...