I was just reading some conversations on Mastodon about whether the antitrust ruling against Google will end up actually hurting them.
As a matter of principle, I am all for these sorts of rulings. I hope that the DOJ has a bunch more cases in the pipeline against the rest of the big tech companies. Maybe we can start making some incremental progress against the ridiculous “Monopolies are fine as long as consumer prices don’t go up” standard.
The 14yo and I went to see Metallica in Boston on Friday night. It was his first concert, and my first time seeing Metallica live in nearly thirty years.
While they are all clearly getting on in years (aren’t we all?), Metallica still puts on a great show. They started around 8:45 and played pretty much straight through until nearly 11pm, opening with Creeping Death and Harvester Of Sorrow and closing out with Seek & Destroy and Master Of Puppets. In between, they played songs from every album except St. Anger and Death Magnetic.
As a former garbageman, I love stories like this. “Everything you’re doing to cut down on waste is wrong.”
OK. So what SHOULD we do?
“There’s NOTHING you can do.”
Shut up.
Derf is right. You should listen to Derf.
It drives me kind of crazy when smug assholes try to shame people about individual changes they make in their own lives and households to try to make the world a better place.
Having watched Fire Walk With Me , Lost Highway , and Muholland Drive over the course of the last week, I felt like I needed a bit of a break before taking on Inland Empire.
We signed up for a month’s worth of Peacock to watch some Olympics stuff (I could not care less but the rest of the family is interested), so I was scrolling through their horror movie offerings. I was pleasantly surprised to find they have a pretty decent catalog.
The annual music festival that happens in my town kicks off this evening. It has been running for 30ish years and we have been attending it for the last nine or ten years.
It is relatively small as these big summer music festivals go and has always been quite family-friendly. We go with a bunch of friends, set up all of our beach umbrellas and chairs, and everyone comes and goes as they please. The one time one of my kids got lost at the festival a few years ago, he made his way to the EMT tent, gave them my cellphone number, and they called me to come get him. It’s just a super-chill event.