The other day I found out by accident why Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley's guitar sound has always been so awesome. He doesn't just pick the strings, he also gives them a swipe with his thumb. That maneuver doubles the impact and seriously fattens the sound.
But take heart, all you guitarists who couldn't write a cool guitar solo to save your mother, this is what Ace looks like now, even after plastic surgery, hair plugs, etc., that's right, he looks like a Hells Angel Beanie Baby.

Reason #34,591 that it's not a good idea for America's government to continue treating citizens like disposable garbage and consistently failing to meet their basic needs.

Countries with free college: Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Mexico.
In the US, A 2021 mental health survey indicated 1 in 14 borrowers experienced suicidal thoughts in response to the financial stress of student loans.
I'll take any questions.

Clarence Thomas wouldn't even be on the SC if Joe Biden, then a Senator, hadn't tried to appear "fair to both sides" and appease his "GOP colleagues." That sort of waffling - and his recent lukewarm attempt to "take responsibility" - has made it near-impossible not to view Biden as simply the current leader of what labor organizer Jane McAlevey terms "the inequality party" when referring to both sides of the duopoly.
For the record, Biden voted against confirming Thomas.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-joe-biden-hasnt-owned-up-to-about-anita-hill

I think that when experts go on TV to discuss science stuff that every citizen really, really needs to know, their mic volume should be lowered while someone on voiceover translates all their advanced-degree-speak into normal English that isn't meant to impress other experts.

The new Evil Dead movie is the closest any Saw-era movie has ever come to truly terrifying. It's still predictable, but I spooked the hell out of my wife a couple times during breaks. The worst was when I started crawling upside down on the ceiling with my head turned backward

I think one reason Elmo bought Twitter was because he was forced to delete a tweet that threatened Tesla workers that they'd lose their stock options if they unionized.

He's just another greedy right-wing billionaire who wants cheap labor like all the others, that's all he is.

Big whoop, the Hollywood writers' strike. Hollywood could do movies about tons of cool stuff, like something about the last few barbarian nomads who showed up claiming to be the son of God before Jesus wandered in from the desert, or some 1812 naval battle. A live action film based on the Gundam anime series. There are literally a million things they could do aside from Paul Blart III, but they don't. Why? Because Hollywood is a good-old-boy system and doesn't reward innovation.

Lol, you know something, I'm at the point where I believe only like 1% of the animal rescue stories on those Dodo ads on FB. Suuure, you were riding your bike across literally the entire world and happened to see an abandoned kitten *in the mountains* and you just happened to have a can of puss food to give to her, and then the kitten "followed you everywhere" while you were on a bike doing around 15 mph, until you finally couldn't stand it anymore and adopted the totally non-feral kitten.
No.

Donald Trump is reportedly worth $2.5 billion, but he's just a glorified nepo baby. His father gave him $413 million or so during his lifetime through various schemes and frauds.

If Trump had simply put that money into a low-cost S&P index fund, he would probably have somewhere around $10 billion today.

Great businessman, eh?

Blackrock CEO Larry Fink has been a major donor to the New York City Police Foundation, an organization that supplies equipment and surveillance technology to the NYPD, which has targeted black and brown communities in the city for decades.
You have to wonder what he's worried about from his fellow citizens. The cops get enough equipment from the Pentagon as it is, including armored vehicles and such, thanks to the War On Drugs effort.

#DefundThePolice
#PoliceViolence

I don't know how single parents with only one kid do it at all. I *think* I'd have the strength not to get my grade schooler (I don't have one) involved in every single logistics or purchase decision but I don't know and don't want to find out. I could definitely picture an exchange where the kid asked me "What percentage of the electric bill can we pay this month" and I'd just be like "All of it, which is why you need to go watch CNN Business Report or Blues Clues or whatever you usually do."

According to journalist Jane Mayer, 80% of dark money is in the hands of right-winger billionaires, and 20% of it is in the hands of liberal billionaires.
The punchline is that George Soros doesn't like labor unions.
We've been on our own the whole time.

#ClassWar
#EatTheRich

Believe it or not, only 10.7% of workers are unionized, even though 48% of workers say they'd like to belong to a union. That must mean there's a lot of people who're completely disgusted with the oligarchs who've been trying to destroy organized labor for over a hundred years, doesn't it? 🤔

#UnionStrong
#UnionsForAll
#EatTheRich

Was chatting with someone and the subject of folks dissing religious people came up.

I don't care what people believe. I'm agnostic, but as a labor supporter, there's no way to avoid the fact that black churches are essential to the labor movement, and have literally been the only force pushing back against things like gentrification.

Video is for an amazing tune I heard once while driving and having nothing available other than Christian rock radio.
#Christianity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYm654wkofI

Mood.
Always loved this tune for some reason but it's really hitting the spot today. Listen to the end if you feel like unlocking some crazy-insane-drummer points.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhp-s9G9APA

Uh oh, those French are no dummies, they trashed the Blackrock office in Paris! Blackrock is one of the largest companies buying up mortgages in bulk and jacking the prices to Neptune to keep people hopelessly unable to buy homes. As well, their AI system, Aladdin, which is used by, well, all the fund management companies, could crash the entire world's economy if it made an error or got hacked.
Viva la France! 😍
#EatTheRich
#ClassWar
#ParisProtests
#Paris

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/business/blackrock-office-stormed-paris-protests/index.html

The Proud Boys never really cared about Trump's winning or losing. They're all just mentally ill people who want a race war. That's all they want.

And there's not a lot of them at all. It's irresponsible on the part of the mainstream media constantly to react as if they're a massive force that people should fear rather than a tiny fringe group. That fearmongering makes a small percentage of people afraid to vote. And that may be all it takes next time.