Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

• Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man, 1988

That was an interesting read, thank you!

Heh, haven’t seen the bash forkbomb in close to two decades… Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)

An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world’s population is about 80 million people.

You’d have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.

Biggest problem with it is that it lies with the exact same confidence it tells the truth. Or, put another way, it’s confidently incorrect as often as it is confidently correct - and there’s no way to tell the difference unless you already know the answer.

1. “Blam, blam, stop!, blam, police!, blam”…

BizTalk was (is?) a solid and also quite impressive product. That said, I’m happy I haven’t had to work with it for years 🙂

I’ve always been partial to “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can really hurt me”.

Dopesmoker by Sleep clocking in at a nice 63:29 minutes 🙂