This guy, I bet he even reclines in his airplane seat.

Mr Burns got shot.

• hey, my name is _____, what’s yours?
• are you looking for new friends?
• great I do _____ on ______ days, would you like to join?

You see a baby on the second floor in a burning building. It’s crying. Its screams trigger your fight or flight response. Though you know going into that burning building will harm you, your will to act compels you to go save that baby and end its suffering.

You go in, the flames all around you, but you can barely feel them because you are so concentrated on reaching that baby.

You get to the baby. Your flight response now kicks in. You jump out the window. You break your ankle, but you can’t feel it, because your sense of duty and accomplishment of saving that child and the cheers from the community overwhelm your own internal nervous system.

That’s empathy. When your feelings for others override your feelings for yourself. When the extrinsic reward from the community can override your intrinsic experience.

Granted, an extreme example.

Gregorian chant can be very relaxing in the right moment.

Blathering Blatherskites!
Great Scott! Great Googly Moogly Narf! Blech Hot Dog! Hot diggity! Salad! Biscuits! Corn Nuggets! Nerfherder Awoooguhhhh! Ballyhoo Farfegnugen To the mattresses! What in tarnation? Shoo whee

• Get some catfish and some cornflour and an egg. Cut the catfish into nuggets. Dip in the egg wash. Roll lightly in the cornflour and salt/pepper mixture. Fill a pan with oil. Deep fry. Yum!
• Get some mahi mahi. Place on some tin foil. Add a pat of butter on top of each. Grill it up until flaky but not dried out. Salt to taste. mahi is so mild, like no fish flavor. Delish!
• Get a tuna steak. Soak it in a bit of ponzu sauce. Get an iron skillet nice and hot with a little splash of oil. Toast some sesame seeds on it. Put those to the side. Then get your tuna and sear it on all sides. Add a dash of salt (if you want, the ponzu may be salty enough) and the seeds. Enjoy.
• if you like spicy, get a good blackened seasoning, it can help mask the fish flavor
• also, try sushi, but like from a good place. Rolls will hide the taste much better than sashimi, which is meant to showcase the fish. Fresh sushi (yellowtail, salmon, tuna, mackerel) has almost no fish taste. Eel has a steak like taste, but can be a bit fishy. Do not go for urchin, it’s like a straight up fish umami bomb.

• welcome to nightvale - if you like kooky off the wall sci-fi stories
• We’re alive - Long form zombie survival podcast. I recommend starting from the beginning before moving to the newest stuff
• Alice isn’t Dead - mystery sci-fi trucker podcast
• Fictional - classical novels read with a bit of snark - new season coming soon
• That time that Planet Money read all of The Great Gatsby
• 99% Invisible’s book club synopsis of The Power Broker by Robert Caro
• The Truth
• What’s Ray Saying

Throw some blues in there and baby, you got a stew going.

Same as it ever was.

• Until AI can do it, they need warm bodies to do their bidding.
• Until AI can do it, they need warm bodies to fight their wars.
• The dumber and more obedient, the better.

They want to rule, not participate. Same as it ever was.

It also has a chance of being a million dollars.

How does this not curdle?

Do you want nationalism? Because that seems like a good way to get it.

I wonder if they ever thought that maybe the crew was short on time because they were too busy separating all of those M&Ms.