BarneyPiccolo

True story: When France refused to let us fly through their airspace during the Iraq War, the Congressional Cafeteria changed the name of French Fries to Freedom Fries.

So I guess we'll be seeing Freedom Dressing on the Congressional Cafeteria salad bar.

MAGA are virtuosically ignorant people who literally think the Truth is simply what they declare it to be, no matter how delusional that truth is to everybody else in the world.

So let me get this straight: You went to war to make things worse?

Yeah, for MAGA, that tracks.

"No they didn't, they're obliterated. We're going to obliterate them again today."

"I don't think that world means what you think it means."

Thats exactly what happened back in the "Home taping is killing music" era of the 80s. The record companies were insisting on high taxes on blank tapes, which they wanted to collect to compensate for lost revenue on mix tapes and such.

So they funded a study to prove their case, and the study found that those who did the most taping were also the ones who bought the most music. These people loved music so much that after they spent most of their disposable money on albums, they spent the remainder on blank tapes to get even more music.

Home tapers turned out to be the strongest music fans, and biggest customers, and unsurprisingly, they discovered the same thing decades later with downloaders.

That kind of kills their rationalizations for the draconian punishments they were demanding.

These guys may not care about God, but they sure do invoke him a lot. Hegseth and other commanders are catching a LOT of complaints from officers and troops about the constant barrage of religious rhetoric coming from the top. And Israel and Iran are doing everything they're doing in the name of the same God as us.

So it's good that Pope Leo is speaking out directly against those hypocrites. I don't believe in any of that hogwash, but Pope Leo has a lot more credibility as a man of God than any of those other psychopaths.

Why 8 tracks? They always sucked, even when they were in their prime. Cassettes were always the far superior format in every way.

The only advantage an 8 track might have is that it was on a loop, so it would repeat by being on a single hub, and, spooling out from the center, and regathering on the outside. That required a dry lubricant on the back of the tape, that would eventually wear off, and the tape would jam up. It was even more prevalent with longer than average albums, like double albums (White Album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, etc.).

I guarantee that that 8-track loop jammed up decades ago.

I just assumed that, after seeing them clobber Gaza. Israel is genocidal.

I was referring to the Napster case, where Lars fully cemented his reputation as a complete dickhead.

I'm a carnivore, but I respect reasonable vegetarian/vegans. I'll take a rock star taking a stand like that over Lars attacking music fans because they love music too much.

I hear ya...

I just want to say that I know people who have known Paul for many years, and every single one of them have nothing but good things to say about him. He knows people want to catch him doing jerk behavior, so he bends over backwards to be polite and respectful to EVERYBODY. He's a Righteous Dude.