Protip: use the Jenny phone number for any loyalty programs you don’t want to sign up for. I use 512-867-5309 as the alt ID and it works every time.

Schrödinger‘s loan.

Fusion. I think it’s our only hope of making it through climate change without massive losses.

Yep that one is true as well. Paul is a vegetarian and didn’t want a song about non vegetarian food. He didn’t have a problem with parody in general, just that specific instance. Geez, I know way too much trivia about Weird Al :)

Edit: the song was created just never released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Pot_Pie

That he does. The only snafu he had was with Coolio for Gangster’s Paradise. Apparently the label said yes but didn’t actually check with Coolio and he wasn’t happy about it. Weird Al apologized for the mixup and they made peace with it later. Weird Al said the only star that has consistently turned him down was Prince, who didn’t find the whole parody thing funny.

Nirvana famously said they knew they had made it when Weird Al did a parody of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Don’t they remember what happened last civil war?

Nice burn:

• “Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I’d suggest they find a federal prison,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat who represents part of Dulles.

GOP motto: I don’t care if I hurt myself as long as I get to hurt someone else.

“Family”

You ask for good news to help you feel better and then when I try to offer some you criticize it? You’re certainly not one of the helpers. Mr Rogers would not be proud of you. Go back to doomscrolling then.

MacKenzie Scott giving away billions over the years, most recently this: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/business/mackenzie-scott-donates-640-million-open-call/index.html

Instead of threatening to kill Trump, should the SCOTUS rule in favor of immunity, Biden should threaten to kill SCOTUS. Then they’ll sit up and pay attention.

It’ll mean all the movies are in the public domain as soon as they are released, since you can’t copyright AI work.

Nah, even my retcon explanation is a lie. I copied the quote from some famous quote website and didn’t catch the error.

See, even quotes with errors in them get upvoted before someone can come along and correct them :)

It was ever thus:

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

Gen X is miserable too, but as usual there’s not enough of us to influence anything.