the dopamine fiend

I worked at fuckin’ Olive Garden many years ago, and the highlight of my shift was always when Richard Cheese would sneak onto the playlist. Whoever programmed that thing either didn’t know what they were doing or knew exactly what they were doing.

Further reading: https://qntm.org/responsibilit

Agreed, and I suppose it’s the ones we don’t hear about that are the real bad ones.

I like what Robert Anton Wilson had to say about conspiracies and their life cycles:

“[A]s far as I’ve been able to discover in all my years of being involved, more or less unwillingly, in this field, I cannot find any proof of any conspiracy that really existed, was really brought into court and convicted, that lasted more than ten years before everybody double-crossed everybody else and the conspiracy fell apart.”