How do you not choose Toast?

“I’m super not worried about it”

When someone says something to me but I don’t hear them, I’ll hit them with a really aggressive “What did you just say to me?!”.

King Missile

Jesus Was Way Cool

Moon Hooch - Tubes, Number 9, Bari 3

Where’s Number 6?

That’s probably the least weird Neil Cicierega track on my playlists.

Huh, that’s a tough one. I have three whole playlists of increasingly weird stuff, so it’s hard to narrow it down to one. Maybe something by French TV or Henry Cow? I’ll have to listen through it later to find the stuff that barely counts as music.

Edit: yeah that’s a really tough one, I really like weird music. Here’s a sampler I guess, a few different varieties of “weird”:

Poo Pants - Cyriak Harris

Help, I’m a Rock - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

o (__*) - Hakushi Hasegawa

Program - Silver Apples

Kissing Toads Again - Jan Two-Sleeves

Nirvana for Mice - Henry Cow

Zhek Zhmerek Zhesh - Detieti

The Secret Life of Walter Riddle - French TV

Back to Evan - Alex’s Hand

Venin - Moriodor

Lime Jelly Grass - Renaldo & The Loaf

Nanonana - Luge

John L - black midi

The World Of Genius Hans - Moving Gelatine Plates

Adagio Ma Non Troppo - Charles Mingus

Musique Mecanique I - The Carla Bley Band

Lick My Decals Off Baby - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

I’ll Never Shed Another Tear - Stash Wyslouch

Intuition - Jon Bap

I’ve got a thing for avante-jazz.

I love the story behind that album.

What do you mean by “appealing”?

Yup, all boils down to faith in the currency. For something like the dollar, it’s backed by faith in the US government. For something like Bitcoin, it’s backed by faith in the resilience of the blockchain and the value buyers place on it. Emperor Norton minted his own currency which was accepted all around San Francisco based purely on the fact that people accepted it.

I’d say average about -5. Verbal, physical, and emotional abuse was the norm. My mom was fine, but due to the age gap she was functionally more like a big sister. My dad must’ve been going for the high score on the Dark Triad.

School was a fun one; I was regularly held out of school to the point I was nearly kept back multiple times for truancy alone, at one point my grandmother had to threaten to call CPS because I wasn’t even enrolled in school at all. Every day I’d have so many chores that homework was impossible, and that lack of structure kicked my ass in college. Bit of a mindfuck to constantly be told that school is for stupid conformists, and still get punished for bad grades. It’s a good thing I’ve got a great memory and phenomenal test-taking skills, or I never would have passed a single class.

Socialization was fun too. Between frequent moves and the pile of chores on my list, I didn’t have the opportunity to make many friends. Tried to get into Boy Scouts and sports to get some kind of social life, but those were for stupid conformists too. Combine that isolation with my dad’s attempts to turn me into his shadow, I grew up real weird and isolated. People think I’m sociable now, but that required years of focused work. And I’m still pretty weird.

Character and values, ho boy. I wasn’t exaggerating with “Dark Triad high score”. He literally tried to become a Latin American island dictator, it was a lifelong project for him. I was taught the values of doing anything you can get away with, exploiting rules, lying all the time to get what you want, emotional manipulation, and countless other Machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopathic behaviors. Fortunately, my grandparents were much more moral and ethical, so it was a bit easier to deprogram myself on that front.

I won’t even get into all the other little things, but I think anyone from an abusive household can tell you that all the little things can often have a more serious long term effect than the big ones. Daily whoopings suck, but they go away when you move out. Not so much a lifetime of being trained to treat every conversation like a competition.

On the bright side, I’m very resilient now. I joke to people that i never get stressed because my brain doesn’t produce the stress chemical, but really I just coped with so much stress growing up that none of the minor daily stresses register at all.

So yeah, others have definitely had it worse, -5 feels about right.

I’ll go further, and say the text of the 2nd Amendment implies gun owners should be members of a well-regulated militia. I think every State Guard should accept anyone who applies, and give them basic training. In exchange for being part of the reserve, and passing firearm classes, you can keep and bear arms.

If you don’t want to be part of a well-regulated militia, no guns. If you can’t pass firearm training, no guns.

Yes, I gave far finders.

The correct answer

Not really a true crime guy, but

I mean, everything is part of the universe, including our brains and the chemicals inside them that manifest experientially as happiness and sadness. You can certainly take more control over what causes those emotions in you, but you’re still part of the universe.

I’m convinced that if there’s a way to build a time machine, it’ll probably work like Primer.

Yeah “imaginary” isn’t a good name and doesn’t convey what they are. No one is learning about imaginary numbers before being familiar with the Cartesian plane, they’re literally just another number line perpendicular to the reals. Ironically, one could call them “normal” numbers for that reason. But really any synonym for “perpendicular” would be better than “imaginary”. I think “orthogonal numbers” has a nice ring to it.

Skweezy Jibbs is a national treasure