#TheTwen2ie5 day 15:

"Sick In The Head" by Kneecap (2024)

the sick beat sincerely goes so fucking hard and the flow is so perfect that the fact that 3/4 of it is in Irish is utterly besides the point to me

Pointless bullshit, same as with the constant stream of new smartphones.

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

I think the divide here is between passive, lazy racism and active bigotry. While the former is not, like, good or anything, it is vastly preferable to the latter.

Something I don't understand is why Johnson is doing this. It's not about the Epstein thing, because two of those "218 votes" to release the records are Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert, who will do what they're told and change their vote as required. It's just letting your enemies have an easy attack.

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

The president freely admits he's using your tax money to repress you and interfere with your free choice of representatives. He's looking into the camera and telling you he's a tyrant bsky.app/profile/atru...

"a lot of people are saying I'm racist, and I'm not! I'm just stupid"

decision to use Greek yoghurt as protein base for my daily smoothie: justified

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Aw, people said don't adopt a bear and my friend did that without any problems right before they stopped answering their phone or their email and stopped showing up at work.

I have to say their Halloween diorama--bones on the front lawn--is on point.

8. Also the route to domestication will be weird because foxes aren't true pack animals like wolves; they have family structure (sometimes) but also they like solitude (sometimes)

9. Can't Stress This Enough, Don't Adopt A Fox

5. You Should Not Adopt A Fox

6. Foxes will likely not be ready for true domestication anytime soon, like maybe decades at best

7. Seriously Though Don't Adopt A Fox

3. specifically they are becoming human-sociable at a near-exponential rate, which is... a big deal, evolutionary-scientifically speaking

4. but that doesn't mean they've (yet) picked up trainable instincts, which is important if you don't want them pooping just anywhere

since this has blown up a bit, a few addendums:

1. foxes are not anywhere near domesticated *yet* thankyouverymuch, they're just kinda on the way there

2. yes I know about the Russian fox experiment, what's wild about right now is that foxes are self-selecting much faster than that experiment ran

all of these dorks look like the guy who freaks out and flips the table when he loses a game

"wow that's like Max Payne!" Max Payne is "what if HARD BOILED but game." "this reminds me of THE MATRIX!" the Wachowskis freely admit they lifted from HARD BOILED. "this is like the Scorcese movie with the corrupt cops?" THE DEPARTED, remaking INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which owes its existence to HARD BOIL

There aren't many HARD BOILED reaction videos on YouTube (because it's been scarce for so long) but there are a couple, and it's about every thirty or forty seconds where the reactor says "oh, man, that's like [a thing which was literally stealing from HARD BOILED]"

and, as many others have already pointed out, a lot of the "money" is circular, with company A, B and C transferring "fifty billion dollars" in a circle amongst themselves

also, let's all give props to Sabretooth, because they've tried to rehabilitate him as a hero multiple times and it never takes, because everybody knows the appeal of Sabretooth is that he is "what if Wolverine was just a total piece of shit"

this is something the Krakoa era occasionally touched on - the Sabretooth mini in particular, where it became clear there were different rules for Proper X-Men and rank-and-file losers, was especially good about this

I hate to have to say this again, but now - if you're of a certain age - EVERY year is going to be brutal. We're well into the boomer die-off and the early Xer deaths are starting to hit too.

oh, the fact that they are *definitely on their way* to domestication is not the same thing as being *domesticable right now*

The thing about Apocalypse is not only that he is a monstrous eugenicists, but also, crucially, he is very, very stupid - an "evolutionist" who does not understand that you can have beneficial traits that do not come with, like, long knives.