I’m tired boss.

Furries keep our planes in the air and the entire Internet running, when they’re not making essential medical breakthroughs, and I think it’s about time they got the respect they deserve.

Words cannot express my jealousy.

Metallica, Donington Park Raceway, 2004. They were headlining Download festival, but Lars was rushed to hospital right before the show. Rather than cancel they brought out a rotating cast of drummers from the other bands at the festival, starting with Dave Lombardo from Slayer.

This was the St Anger tour… We were all jazzed to see Metallica, but let’s be honest, no one was particularly jazzed about St Anger as an album. Thing is though, their guest drummers didn’t know the tracks on St Anger. They knew old school Metallica; Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, the Black Album, And Justice For All. The good shit.

Better yet, the guest drummers were absolutely psyched to be there. For Metallica this could have been just another show. Huge crowd, but they’ve played bigger. But for their rotating cast of drummers this was the greatest night of their life. That kind of enthusiasm is infectious and it really showed. This was one of the most balls to the wall performances I’ve ever seen from any band. The energy was off the charts.

Especially when they got to Joey from Slipknot. The idea was that they were going to keep rotating drummers throughout the night, but after Joey played his first song, that went out the window. He was their drummer for the rest of the night. That motherfucker played his god damn heart out. Now, listen, if you’re one of those people who still thinks that Slipknot are a bad band, go listen to Vol 3 and then come talk to me. Joey is one hell of a drummer, and he showed up to play. And the whole band felt it.By the end of the show James Hetfield wasn’t singing to us… He was singing to Joey. I distinctly remember him standing with one foot up on the bass drum staring that little masked genius dead in the eyes, two guys basically performing for each other (an image made hilarious and adorable by the fact that James Hetfield is a giant of a man, and Joey is a pocket sized human being; it was like Dad brought his kid to work).

It was a once in a lifetime experience, and probably one of the best shows Metallica ever played. Pure lightning in a bottle.

Yeah, I saw the actual headline and my first thought was “What do you mean ‘secretly’?” I don’t think there’s an airforce in the world that isn’t 90% queer and furry.

We were doing DNS challenges for an isolated system and our provider didn’t support that.

Yeah, same, this is news to me but very interesting. Would have solved an issue we had at work that ended up requiring us to move our whole DNS over.

Are you… Are you actually still not comprehending that they’re the ones getting paid by the government?

Well, OK, I mean when you put it that way…

OK? Why do the companies care? They’re getting paid either way. And with the subsidies in place, they’re getting paid far more reliably.

Let them eat pork.

I’m not sure I follow your logic there. As I understand it the subsidies are paid to the health insurance companies (which I assume is what you’re referring to as “Healthcare companies”) to get people access to cheaper plans. The people who need those subsidies basically can’t afford a plan without them, so this will actually drive a lot of people off insurance, reducing income for the insurance companies.

And if you actually did mean the healthcare providers, not the insurance companies, they don’t benefit either, because driving people off insurance means they’ll take less elective and preventative care. Plus uninsured patients are a lot less reliable at paying their bills. So either way you slice it, I really can’t see how this is a win for the corporations, unless there’s something I’m missing here.

So low you’d have to dig.

Yeah, I guess to Trump it must seem super intelligent.

This is being done to fund their tax cuts for the rich. Never forget that.

Youtube’s rules are for people who aren’t the president.

100%. The few “reporters” they actually do pay will all be far-right Youtubers or guys they poached from OANN.

“Publicly owned” and “State run” are different things.

The CBC is a crown corporation (a not-for-profit company governed by an official charter). The current Canadian government has no say over what they do or do not report on or how they do it. They’re funded by public money, but they decide how that money is spent. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s a far cry from being a literal propaganda vehicle for the government.

Not a direct answer to your question, but if you’ve never read Top Ten by Alan Moore, now would be a really good time. A police procedural in a city where everyone has powers and a gimmick.

Big “Let them eat cake” energy here.