What a funny way to spell “shine on you crazy diamond” 😉

“Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby”

Plenty of philosophers over the centuries have thought long and hard about the free will problem, and not all of them have come out on the side of it existing. David Hume, for instance, had to resort to religion to solve his issues with it (God made us have free will), and several contemporary philosophers have come down firmly on the “deterministic but complex enough to look non-deterministic” side of the fence. in essence, that free will is an illusion, but a good enough one that we still feel like we have it.

They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn’t work all that well :)

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

• Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man, 1988

An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world’s population is about 80 million people.

You’d have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.

1. “Blam, blam, stop!, blam, police!, blam”…

BizTalk was (is?) a solid and also quite impressive product. That said, I’m happy I haven’t had to work with it for years 🙂

I’ve always been partial to “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can really hurt me”.

Dopesmoker by Sleep clocking in at a nice 63:29 minutes 🙂

Also why life on earth is dying off as well…

Well, it was Zippo lighter fluid, so I guess my second mistake was calling it “gasoline” 😉

Watch out with that, I did it for years but eventually had to stop because I got sore skin from the gasoline in the Zippo. And I quit smoking so didn’t need it any more 🙂