Wake me up when we get to the moon.

Exactly. You have the "right of portability" as long as you don't port it somewhere we don't like.

I took a lot of psychedelics when I was younger -- LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT. Then none for a few decades. These days I microdose on psilocybin.

To me, psychedlics are like watching a travelogue about a beautiful tropical island. It's a lovely vision, but it doesn't take you there -- you still have to do the traveling yourself. But it does plant the idea that such a place exists, which can be a great comfort, and inspire further efforts to get thete on your own.

Yup, mellowed me out so much I turned into a hippie

Not a problem for the water, just for the people.

tastes like ass everywhere. That's why we use a water filter at home. No need to buy it in plastic jugs or bottles, no up-charge for trendiness, and water that tastes clean enough that you can take a healthy swig with no aftertaste.

Why everybody doesn't do this is a mystery to me, but then that seems to be a problem with most of my opinions.

"Sex" is a word that includes a lot of different activities. There's sex with partners, which may or may not include penetration, and then there's solo sex. There's sex without orgasm, and orgasm with very little other activity. There's sex for procreation, and sex that avoids it. In fact, when you study the subject (a study I thoroughly enjoy), there's such a vast variety of ways humans indulge in sex, and their appetite for that activity, that there's no meaningful "norm."

It's too bad clickbait headlines like this perpetuate common misunderstandings, but hey, it sells.

"Another possibility raised by the researchers is that the rose scent is actually labeled as unpleasant by the brain, with the subsequent emotional regulation responsible for the PCC working harder and increasing in size."

If that's the case, then the worse the odor, the bigger the brain. Imagine the range of nootropics and smart pills that could be created!

If I was so unlucky as to end up with a boss as toxic as you, I'd be outta there so fast you'd only see a blur

Many of the people who have had problems with Hertz have not damaged their cars or done anything else out of the ordinary. Hertz is noted for reporting rental cars stolen for no reason, leading legitimate customers to be stopped and hassled by police. They're also known for using laser scanners to spot microscopic dents, and then billing the previous customer for hundreds of dollars, even though the customer had never damaged the car. If you've had no problems so far, it's because you're lucky, not because you're virtuous.

I've been sticking with Windows out of inertia, I've learned to tweak and defang it so it works fairly well, and I've got an expensive piece of multi-track audio gear that requires Windows drivers -- not only that, but the state of pro audio on Linux is pathetic compared to a rich Windows ecosystem.

But this looks like it may be the final straw. Even if I have to buy new hardware and learn to deal with Linux audio, it looks like Windows is spiraling down the drain.

It's a bit rich to hear this line coming from the company that's infamous for abandoning products after a short life span with no warning.

Well that's some nice payback for Thiel's support of Trump, and also plays into the creation of the surveillance state that the tech bros are pushing for.

They could tell because it was so well made

Sounds like this criminal genius couldn't get a job anywhere else