If you’re American and don’t have health insurance, you can often find amateurs who will give you an exam for a couple of drinks.

Night soil

Steve Buscemi

I knew a woman who thought pecan trees just naturally grew in a perfect grid pattern because that’s what she was told as a little girl and had no reason to believe it wasn’t just a cool fact of nature.

The US government is stupid.

But the need to keep an eye on this guy anyway.

Trump and MAGAtrash are routinely portrayed as simultaneously weak and strong too. It’s just the nature of propaganda.

Iran has always had mandatory military service for men 18+. You can buy out if you’re rich, but they’ve been drafting for years.

And Iran is arguably the #3 major player ahead of Israel who wants to keep their military action at home.

Hasn’t russia been conscripting for a couple of years now?

If anyone is interested, this is one of the best things on the internet ever

All the flavor is in the head.

Here comes the airplane.

For most of my lifetime, any American screeching about the President arming NATO allies in order to prevent Russian expansion into Europe would have been seen as a traitor.

Lead poisoning is a helluva drug.

I like being spoiled.

And I baked a crusty loaf of sourdough bread this morning.

You and your dance instructor should hang out and take molly together.

Hit the Pause Button on Medicare for a couple of years. Literally pay nothing. And a lot of our old people problem will disappear.

Don’t get defensive about this.

AI will gobble up all intellectual property and shit out something similar. Over and over over.

Stopping it isn’t an option. And it isn’t society’s job to protect intellectual property owners from new technology in the first place.

Living creators will be able to make a humble living through live appearances and physical media, the same as they have for the last couple of centuries.

This isn’t about your ego, peanut. Your position is the wrong one.

Nah, you’re wrong. Fuck protecting creators from AI. Let the internet become a circlejerk of bots gobbling each other’s digital cum.

When a good comedian comes along, I’ll go see a live performance. The same goes for musicians, painters, novelists, whoever. Anyone old enough to remember the internet of the '90s will tell you what a derivative shithole it has become already. It’s only getting worse. Artists will adapt and monetize things that AI can’t ruin the market for.

Analog human culture can be fun in ways that no chatbot will ever know.

Does she own the rights to his work by chance?

Excellent point.

I listened to the first five minutes, and it’s pretty similar to Carlin’s later work.

I’m not clutching my pearls about this any more than Steamboat Willie going into the public domain.

Intellectual property rights are silly, and protecting dead entertainers’ legacies is a waste of time. If a Carlinbot makes a good joke, good for the Carlinbot. What I heard wasn’t very impressive.