Yeah, I’ve read my Asimov. Love that guy. I knownsome haven’t, so Im glad you’ve included them. It was a student of mine who got me to read Caves of Steel for the first time. I thought they were excellent.

Strangely, I’ve only seen the 2004(?) Will Smith version of I, Robot. But, I digress.

The prompt for that post moved me. To think that we could break human affairs down to just three laws is enticing. I took a swing at it. That was what I had off the top of my head. I’d read a list — years ago — of Dene Law (it’s a PDF, sorry). Those were also an inspiration.

I’m pretty happy with this answer to what the three laws would be if I made them.

It’s not my top response, but it is short, sweet, and to the point.

The moment where Picard says, “we have no law to fit your crime.”

Picard on the first duty.

I came to put this scene in. But this comment informed me. I know of the IWW, but had never made the connection. Top notch comment, this.

Ah. Ok. Well, the rest stands. And, hopefully, you’re able to smooth things with Greg.

You are in a very messy, very confusing stage of life. You will make many, MANY mistakes and piss some people off. I’m twenty-26, and I still make mistakes.

You’ll start to understand what makes you who you want to be, and stop listening to all you’ve been told. You rebuild yourself out of your life experiences. Constantly. Forever.

You’re human. Not perfect. None are. What matters is what you do next.

As was said above, no one who questions their actions or who admits their need for mental health support is all bad. It’s the people who strategically, purposefully manipulate people with no regard for their well-being who are bad. The people who pathologically lie, cheat, steal, and remorselessly exploit others who are bad.

If you have the means, get assessed. Take no diagnoses from the Internet or people on message boards.

If you have the means, apologize, and commit yourself to treating Greg better or even neutrally. He doesn’t have to accept your apology. You have to make your peace with that. Also, he introduced you as a “boyfriend.” You had a reaction to that. You’re allowed. Again, it’s all about what you do next.

I think that Banksy’s couch gag broke something in me. I stopped watching the Simpsons about then.

The best part about it is the subtlety. Tiny shifts across a season. Few changes in visuals across the entire run.

It is the most lovely theme song I’ve heard.

The Bourne films.

There is no other answer than this.

M-I:2 was a miss on so many levels.

John Woo tried his best. That script couldn’t be saved.

I say this as a person whose guilty pleasure is a rewatch of any M:I movie. But, I can’t give any time to this turd sandwich.

This develops into the toddler who —after you’ve given advice, demand, direction, instruction, or other adult support — looks you dead in the eye, does the exact opposite, and acts like it’s your fucking fault.

They perfect trolling.

Hopefully, by the time they’re four, they come to understand that trolling your family is not a great survival strategy. Some people grow out of it. Some are just trolls to ‘others’, outside their established ingroup.

There are some people who’d sell their own mothers on a lark. Or, reneg on a friend just to see them squirm. Or, impose tariffs on allies and inflame every enemy but one. Those people, they’re behaving like toddlers.

Literally ignore them. They are no more than tourists. No official interactions. No preferential treatment.

Via UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Article 4(2)© of the Statute provides that genocide can be committed by “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”.[1]

When you blow up a cancer hospital, you’re the baddies, now.

This sounds like a plot point from the OA.

As captioned by Euronews:

Prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. El Salvador presidential press office via AP

Photo credit emphasis is mine.

Nope, this is the quotable quote:

“When I got to know everyone else in there, and heard all of their stories and how long they were in there, I was like, ‘OK, I’m not allowed to feel sorry for myself at all, because every single person in here is in a way worse situation than me,’” she said.

Meanwhile, in Canada, I paid $9.50 for 30 brown eggs at a local farm. I should start a cross-border pipeline.

If stores are charging US$6.50 a dozen and exchange rate is CAD1.44 to USD1, then gross margins are about 146%. Hell, at $3.75 a half dozen, the gross margin is 184%. Margins any higher, and you’re really just describing highway robbery.

Now, tell me again how US egg producers are not just gouging the entire country. Someone, somewhere, is selling Canadian eggs to Americans, paying the tariff, and still making lots of money.

Domestically-produced eggs that wholesale at $5/dozen is extortion. The article shows that avian flu doesn’t explain it either.

I’ll just leave this TikTok and m/or YouTube here. Bread is more salient as an example to Canadians, but still, it works.

Yeah, I’m still a fan of the group. Not too attached to their host.

I stand corrected.

I knew they were on late night with one of the Jimmies. The band they are is not tied to how they pay the bills. Funny thing is, I can imagine Fallon’s face, but not Kimmel’s.

The band they are is 1987 - 2007 for me. The last album of theirs I picked up was Undun in 2011.