I'm so thankful we have such healthy, focused, and competent leaders deciding the fate of millions in this country 🙏 🤡

how could someone view this as anything other than dystopian?

You are not wrong. There seems to be a similar level of responses too.

But how can he reach maximum productivity if he's sitting down ?!

I was able to quit cocaine, cigarettes, and alcohol and of those 3, cigarettes was the hardest to quit, with alcohol being a close second. I don't want to get into a discussion about the roles of behavioral addiction vs. chemical addiction when trying to quit something, but sugar has been just as difficult as alcohol and nicotine, if not more so. It doesn't help that it is seemingly everywhere and included in all the food. It's not as easy as "I'll just stop having ice cream", of course anyone can do that. If you start paying attention to all the foods sugar is added too and try to avoid those foods, you really have to completely rethink your whole approach to food (where to buy, the role it plays in your life, i.e. why you eat) and spend a lot more energy trying to find "healthy" foods.

I think you're probably right, but a world where robots do art and humans do the tedious manual labor sounds eerily similar to the world we live in. At least, it is not outside the realm of possibility.

Basil Hayden, Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek, Angel's Envy, Old Grandad, Bulleit are all great choices.

Basil Hayden or Woodford would definitely be my first choice though.

Not sure if this counts as brutalist, but the post made me think of this example from Portland

Examples?

Oh well, at least I can rotate between behavioral addictions for constant distraction

Speak for yourself! I'm just replying to random comments and upvoting whatever I want! I didn't even read your comment!

Zardoz Clause!

This sounds like a description of empathy, which, as far as I know, cannot be taught, unfortunately.

Because of the nature of time, the universe is in a constant state of becoming something else. Everything is changing all the time. But, because of the Laws of Conservation of Energy and Mass, there is always part of what was before persisting in what is now. For example, a fire burns logs, releasing the kinetic energy as heat, water vapor, carbon dioxide, etc. The heat dissipates because the atmosphere is very large, but it doesn't dissappear, it just gets diluted. The water vapor is released into the atmosphere, and those molecules become moisture in a cloud and turn into rain, continuing in the water cycle. In a metaphorical sense, your past selves have "burned" and "released" what you are now. You may consider your past selves dead, but the molecules that made them continue to exist as your current self, even if those molecules are rearranged or are slightly different (we eat food and excrete waste, so our molecules are regularly being exchanged with other molecules in the environment). Those same molecules were once inside the sun. Before that, those molecules existed at the beginning of the universe. So, in a way, yes we are constantly dying and being transformed, but the stuff that we are made of can never die. We are just constantly changing, along with the universe, because we are part of the universe.

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

Laraaji & Brian Eno - Ambient 3: Days of Radiance

Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again

Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero

Christian Fennesz and Jim O'Rourke - It's Hard For Me To Say I'm Sorry

PBK and Jim O'Rourke - Unidentified Again

Oreb Ambarchi - Grapes Of The Estate

Golden Retriever - Light Cones

Kassel Jaeger - Swamps/Things

Growing - Color Wheel

Most of these are probably considered more "experimental" than ambient, but whatever, genres are weird

Edit: formatting

I think you overcorrected there a bit

real men have stinky pee

ah, the "Shane Gillis" approach

:(

And when those people eventually get caught, they would be dealt with by the populace. Consequences for people's actions is the same deterrent that currently "stops" people from stealing shit all the time (i.e. people still steal shit with the existence of police)

Dead Milkmen - Big Time Operator https://youtu.be/5C_41X_PepI

Ween - Booze Me Up And Get Me High https://youtu.be/pXNbUHTJBrM

Ween - Put The Coke On My Dick https://youtu.be/R04no_4G14w

The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray https://youtu.be/53F5nY68cBM

classic Garry

Moistboyz - 1.0 (Fuck No) https://youtu.be/BRKIkUsn1V0

lol stay brown out there!

Life on the outside ain't what it used to be...

Are you one of those people who needs an authority figure to tell you what you are experiencing?

🤌

really hard to say, but the first one that jumped to mind is Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro

"head"

This band will always put me in a good mood, especially anything from Eat Your Paisley, Bucky Fellini, or Beelzebubba. I can be in the darkest, most depressed mindset and this band will never fail to cheer me up.

I think it might be a reference to the theory/allegations/fact?/whatever that cops put out pallets of bricks during BLM protests which led to people smashing windows, which led to riots and then the "discrediting" of the message of the protests.

There's just something about them

I've been making this cucumber salad a lot recently. It's a good summer dish.

Ingredients: Cucumber Celery Pickled Red Onions (done with apple cider vinegar, garlic, cardamom pod, coriander seed, cumin seed, black peppercorn) Garlic/Rosemary infused Olive Oil Sunflower seeds Fresh cracked black pepper