“I guess apparently they had made a pledge to the public at large that they would make their club a safe space for all people, and that they would ban anything they deemed transphobic,” Chappelle reacted on his “The Midnight Miracle” podcast at the time. “This is a wild stance for an artistic venue to take, especially one that’s historically a punk rock venue.”
This guy doesn't understand any subculture, does he? The punks are, historically, very anti-fascist, and the ones I know are also some of the strongest queer allies I've ever met. And this guy is surprised that they didn't want his bigotry masquerading as humour.
It was called Dodgem Logic, and it was glorious. It ran for 8 issues, was filled with articles written by Moore and others on whatever damn subject they wanted, from supernatural to philosophical, to just plain weird (a comic called Astounding Weird Penises). There were also short stories and illustrations. I have every issue and they have a place of pride in my collection for how wonderful they are.
It you've not seen it, there a fan fiction play starring Alexander Siddig and Andrew Robinson which finally addresses it. Worth a watch: https://youtu.be/3Tq8zaSObWU
I just recently moved house, had to buy a fridge freezer for the first time, I went with the cheapest, dumbest Beko fridge they had, because all I want it to do is keep food cold. The delivery/installation man said that these models last for years and years, whereas the smart ones barely last 4, in his experience. He said he's constantly replacing smart fridges, but the dumb ones are usually ancient when they get replaced. Happy with my decision there.
I'll say it again, because I think the idea is a practical solution to the issue: electricity and water usage should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive it becomes.
This would actually incentivise companies to reduce their usage, to question if they actually need that new AI data centre that will eat up all the gains in renewable electricity production and require fossil fuel plants to continue running, it'll reduce the crypto miners as well, and encourage everyone to try to reduce their usage.
The knock on effect of this is that electricity actually becomes cheaper for everyone.
I was just thinking electricity should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive each Gw is. It'll never happen, but if we wanted to tackle this issue, it's what we should do.
Thanks very much for your advice. I've reworked my CV using Open Resume and updated it on all the job boards I've been using, hopefully that gets me further.
I'm also continuing to update my portfolio website and building out apps in different languages and frameworks to demonstrate my skills.
It just looks like the job market sucks at the mo and I just need to keep trudging through.
A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I'd not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.
A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.
They won't do that. They're also greedy racist fascists. That's what capitalism is.