My doctor told me I’d be getting stomach pain from worrying too much about the failure of China’s high speed rail industry (and absolutely not from all the champagne I’ve been denying myself to bemoan the definitely continuing adventures of Henry Kissinger)

I use adblock online and I only listen to public radio and watch public TV (which have no ads). The only times when I am exposed to advertisments are billboards, newspapers, shopping, and whenever I make the mistake to browse on my phone. I still feel like I’m drowning, how do people cope with this shit

In a few years, homeless people and city planners will have mutually raised their intelligence and creativity far above average by permanently having to outwit each other, in a manner similar to biological co-evolution, such that eventually every homeless person is bound to win a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal at some point and then use the prize money to buy an apartment. This is the United States’ plan to solve homelessness.