it’s been said before and it’s not even close to the worst thing but it sucks how our current robber barons are such philistines. like these guys aren’t even building libraries or concert halls. they can’t even pretend to enjoy art, and they don’t see any value in signaling that they appreciate art

this current batch of the fithy-rich is BORING. They're BORING. Oh you have a yacht that's bigger than anybody else's yacht but functionally no different from one of your fancy houses? BORING. You have yet another fast car? YAWN. You ate a burger but like, a special burger? whatever. FUND AN OPERA ABOUT ANOTHER RICH GUY YOU HATE, DIPSHITS. How about you put a concert hall with your name on it in every city in the US and fund their operations for the next decade, if you're so rich????? unless you're too poor to afford that????? How many people do you, personally, directly employ, and what are their salaries? Do you pay well enough to command the loyalty and willing service of any masters of their craft? It would be so easy to win the absolute love and adoration of the masses in this climate but no, they wanna build bunkers and play politics in order to save a few more miserable nickles.

What always sticks out to me is that Elon Musk has never used his wealth to found, bankroll, or buy up a video game studio. This man makes loving video games core to his identity. Before he was a dot-com boom millionaire, he was a small-time video game programmer and co-founded(?) a games company in the mid-90s FMV boom. You would imagine that such a man, given unfathomable wealth, would have set it towards the goal of getting other people to make whatever half-conceived dream games he's got in the corners of his mind a reality at some point or another in the last two decades. But no! The only time he's ever even floated the idea of a video game studio in the past quarter-century that he's been fantastically wealthy... has been when he said some never-gonna-happen bullshit last year about how he was going to start an AI video game company to churn out rudderless slop. No taste, no imagination, no culture, just trying to circumvent human labor out of a contemptuous disinterest in artcraft. Like, the closest we get is how Jeff Bezos' Amazon Studios keeps running even at a loss just because he wants to play the bigshot movie exec and schmooze with the Hollywood elite. But then, he's old-school like that. In that his wealth actually was founded on selling tangible goods at a profit, and also in that he's always looked old. Rest in peace Ted Turner, seemingly the only super-rich guy to come up in the last like 50 years who really gave a shit about funding good art.

had a dream that i brought a used paper towel roll back to the store to pay for it again because it was so useful. cashier was like "most people don't do this. you're a good person" true

It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again

this is all because we failed to make tumblr the new pdf

(wrinkled and dying from laying eggs) tbhhhh dubstep was better in 2009 (lays another egg) there has honestoy not been another producer like Benga (stress from that last egg makes me go blind) my eggs , where are my eggs

The bar for what a normal post is on this site is so fucked compared to everywhere else

And it doesn't even have to be a literal gun, either! It's so unfair.

i have a false tooth filled with a placebo in case i'm ever captured and need to be a control subject

ice cream truck blasting gymnopedie no. 1 while a bunch of really forlorn children chase after it

they should serve eggnog year round as a controversial milk

meant an alternative milk .

It’s uncomfortable how the cutting board and cabinets split the picture in halves.

It's meant to symbolize the division created by the eggnog