I think it's Rand's, shall we say, "unique" take on ethics that can be seen as irresponsible or dangerous. Selfishness isn't necessarily a bad idea. Especially when it's possible to help others selfishly.

That's actually 2 different questions: Why hasn't anybody charged less?

They have. Little ma and pop cafes charge less for more and do pretty good against Starbucks in their little areas.

Why hasn't anyone taken market share?

Because of overhead which dictates cost as much or more than materials cost. And because it takes a huge amount of up front cost to start a chain. A company would have to offset the startup costs by charging more for coffee and their advantage would.be lost.

This is the best VW (badged) car made. Congrats, drive it like a rental!

Danny DeVito is a genius. Between Taxi, It's Always Sunny and the movies he's directed I think he's hugely underrated. Maybe because he plays scuzzy assholes so well. I love that dude.

This is more of a meta philosophy question so I hope it's ok but: How do you handle the age old "philosophy isn't important" kind of remarks? The people who think all of philosophy is just "are we dreaming right now?" And "if a tree falls in the forest...." kind of questions. I've heard very intelligent people make comments like this and I usually present them with the same annoying math remarks like, "when am I going to use this?". Mathematitians usually answer that with the fact that we use math everyday in any number of applications. Philosophy is the same way. Everytime we try to determine if something is right, or good we use it. When we try to examine something unknown with objectivity we use it. When we use logic of any kind we use it to some degree. It just never seems to stick, though. At best I get a sort of, "yeah, ok hippy. That's very deep." kind of response. It's like many people think science and philosophy are at odds with one another when that couldn't be more untrue. They work in conjunction with eachother in the pursuit of knowledge. I just can't seem to get that across very easily.

My GF has an uncle who lives in this tiny little dry town somewhere in Mass. When we visited, we had to drive about 45 minutes up to Nashua to buy booze. That's the only experience I have with Mass. So while I can't speak to the people being "Massholes", that backwards little town and their laws can suck a big fat one. NH probably saved my relationship. :)

And that's the way that I want it to stay and I always want it to be that way for Lola

Cool! Thanks. I never knew the name. I don't listen to country music but I always loved that song. I just listened to it on spotify. That guy played the truck driver in Smokey and The Bandit!

Oh I wouldn't suggest either. That's actually from an old song I learned playing GTA San Andreas.

"It ain't legal huntin' gator in the Looseeanna swamp boy!"

You'll be ok. If you see a gator just knock him in the head with a stump

It would be a very sad movie if they tried to be honest. From everything I've seen and read, the guy had the mind of a child. I don't mean he was disabled or stupid, he was just very naive and didn't have a full grasp of what most people call normal life.

And if they didn't make it honestly it would just be a generic musician biopic and people would absolutely hate it. Maybe after more time has passed they could approach it realistically. A movie on all of the Jackson kids maybe.

NP! I meant it as a compliment. The execution was well done and not everyone is gonna like it no matter what you do. You read the criticism and explained your intentions with it. I wish more people were like that.

You can always tell someone who's confident in their work by how they take criticism.

I'm with you. But I'm also pretty fucking dumb so my opinion is worth nothing.

gih-gih-gih-git!

What?! Ok. So you're arguing that irony has to be some fantastic element? Jesus. Yes, a picture growing cardboard tree...I guess...would also be ironic but it can be much simpler than that. I feel like at this point, though, you're just arguing to be correct, not as part of any reasonable conversation. I think you do know what I was talking about. I made a simple, related example of basic irony and we're both correct, although yours is a little weird but that's fine.

Yes but irony is about the outcome you're addressing being opposed to the common or expected outcome. So what would the opposite of drawing a tree on paper be? We don't usually draw pictures of paper on trees, or trees drawing on...us? Or something like that? There's no opposition to the expected (or even literal) there. Cardboard is made out of Trees, so a tree made out of cardboard is at least conceptually ironic (although not unexpected, it is opposite to the "norm"). I'm not trying to be a Know-it-All dick or anything. It's just such a commonly misunderstood concept....or maybe I'm missing a message here.

Sure it is. You build cardboard out of trees. Building a tree out of cardboard could be seen as the opposite of what is expected. Textbook irony.

Irony would be something like building a tree out of cardboard. Just drawing a tree isn't. Why is irony so misunderstood?

I live in a dry climate and there are days when I get an itch on my back that makes me want to do this. It's one of the most annoying and satisfying experiences.

That genuinely looks like fun. I can't blame the little ragamuffin.

That cloud and mountain right in the middle looks like a hamster head looking up. Weird. Great picture.

You know they didn't call it a "Special Needs Camp" though.

Reminds me of Watership Down [sniffle]

Keep an eye on your candy! He's lookin' to hornswaggle some vittles!