This is my intuition, as well. If you look at the list of enemies the Archive has, it’s media conglomerates, publishing houses, paywall lovers, people wanting to erase inconvenient historical documents, the government and intelligence agencies, etc. It is a completely incoherent take to imply that the the Archive is representative of the US govt or a project of theirs. At least from my vantage point where all I see is some of the worst actors constantly hand wringing about the site as if it is some malevolent ass pimple.

13-15

I will come and visit in a couple short years. But remember how bad blockbuster video was as opposed to every other small and big video rental place, grocery stores included? Edited movies, nothing unrated or NC-17 (unless edited down to R). This was a hindrance to many small distributors. I remember at a music festival Troma had a stand and they would give you a free DVD if you cut up your Blockbuster card. Blockbuster refused to carry Troma movies, of course

Hug yourself and hug everyone around you

We drink like fish on 9/11, but our gold fish brains deny us the memory of why

I had a co-worker tell the boss “I don’t work on 9/11, it’s a holiday of remembrance for me” mentioning that he had family from new york. He was full of shit and just used it as a free day to drink.